I haven't done a newsletter for quite some time, so this one, issue 13 is 16 pages and stacked with photos from a few events. This includes PAOS, Flux exhibition, Reflections & Shadows exhibition plus more. Also features artist Process Smith with his solo exhibition 'Concrete Soul'.

1. NEWSTony Nero’s Art
The really random newsletter all about my art
#ArtofTonyNero January 2017 issue 13
l Flux 3 Exhibition
l Peterborough Artists
Open Studios
l Featured Artist
Process Smith
l Most recent works
l What’s on!

2. Mini Art Workshop
Welcome to the 13th issue of my
newsletter. I must say although
it’s supposed to be random,
I haven’t done one of these
newsletters for quite a while. Its
been a crazy year, with so much
going on but pleased to be finally
giving you an update to some of
the things i’ve been up to.
What initially looked like being
just one main exhibition for me
this year, turned out to be a
series of back to back
exhibitions. At one point I
found myself showing at three
different venues in the same
week. Now that’s some record for
me.
It was also exciting to be invited
this year to judge a couple of art
and photographic competitions.
With huge thanks to Keely Mills,
the Green Backyard and the City
College I was able to take part in
a couple of Mini Art Workshops at
the Green Backyard. The work-
shops took place in May and June
with the first one being a small
group but a much larger group the
second time around.
It was great fun working outside
but we almost got blown away
by the wind. It was more cozy
working in the hub for the second
event. I think everyone enjoyed
themselves as they were asking
when were the next sessions.
Cover Photo
This issue’s front
cover shows
the painting ‘A
moment in time’.
This painting was
spicifically created
for the Flux Mini
Masterpiece collection and shown
at Flux 3 exhibition in Novemver at
the Old Truman Brewery in London.
Welcome

3. Faces of Change
So I managed to sneak a few new
pieces into the ‘Faces of Change’
exhibition at the Norman Cross
Gallery. When Derek Lopez, the
owner of the gallery asked me to
drop off two pieces for this new
exhibition...excited, I thought ok
cool!
But seeing that I love a challenge I
decided to try and do a new piece
for this exhibition. This resulted in
two new pieces plus a charcoal
drawing of Usain Bolt, of which I
had just finished a few days
before.
Also exhibiting at this exhibition,
artists included Gilson Lavis,
Francis Reynolds, Melissa Lopez,
Davina Brett & HMP Prison Artists.
The gallery itself is a beautiful
space tucked away in the quiet
grounds at Norman Cross House.
The Exhibition begun on 24th
September and was due to finish
on 31st October but was extended
to the end of November.
Find out more about the gallery
visit www.normancrossgallery.com

4. Did I hear you say #FLUX
Wowza! What a super experience
and such fun meeting so many
cool people. Thanks goes out to
Charron Pugsley-Hill for draw-
ing my attention to the first FLUX
event and a massive thanks to
Lisa Gray for accepting my work
to such an exciting exhibition.
The exhibition Flux 3, held at The
Old Truman Brewery in the heart
of Bricklane, is the sort of event
that you really have to experience.
It’s not for the likes of me to write
about it to try and do it justice.
These are just a few pictures to
give you an idea of the spirit of
Flux and the great time we had.
My work looking kinda cool on the walls
Fellow artist Pedro Sousa Louro and his work
Robert Adam and Rosso Emerald Crimson.

5. Lisa Gray (the force behind Flux) with hubby Phil
I wasn’t involved in FLUX 2, which
was held at The Royal College of
Art in December 2015. I was really
chuffed to be involved with FLUX
3 and as this event has rapidly
grown in strength, I can only wait
in anticipation to see what Lisa
has up her sleeves for FLUX 4.

6. Such an exciting time showing at
this exhibition, especially sharing
the space with lots of cool friends.
The Yarrow Gallery boast an
upstairs balcony which lends itself
to the mood of the space. I always
say that what ever you hang on
these walls will always look quite
impressive, because of the feel of
the gallery.
With 16 artists showing, there
were so much variety of art to see,
as well as live demonstrations.
Reflections & Shadows
A huge thanks to Caroline Kisby
and Caroline Hawkins for all their
hard work, putting this project
together and making it a success.

7. It’s always a pleasure sitting in
the hot seat, chit chatting to (Mr
B) Brian ‘The Lion’ Watson, on
City Buzz, over at Peterborough
FM. But this was Brian’s final
show as he signed off to fulfill
other commitments.
And what a send off it was... it
was like a party in the studio,
with lots of other guest and
some cool live music. Also with
other presenters popping in, and
of course tea and cakes.
Farewell City Buzz Tony’s Shout Out!
Sue said ‘I want something she
will look at every day and be
thankful to nature’.
I’ve really enjoyed working on
this lovely oil painting, entitled
‘wings of Love’
Recieving the finished painting
Sue said ‘I can’t begin to tell you
what’s in my heart, I can’t put it
into words, just looking at it has
made me feel very emotional.
Thank you so much my friend’.
In this issue my shout goes out
to a dear friend Sue and her
family. During the last year one
of her daughters was expecting
twins, but then miscarried at 5
months, while she cared for her
mum who at the time was fight-
ing with cancer. I was asked to
do this commission as a gift to
celebrate the birth of the new
baby.
Baby now older as pic from over a year ago.
Jo Feather & Doc Mason
Laurette Evelyn, Chris Watson and Brian.

8. What an exciting and progressive
year 2016 turned out to be for
PAOS. A new website, early in the
year, up and running in time for
Open Studios. The annual launch
in Cathedral Square, a second
helping of the winpaos competition
and a variety of group exhibitions
at prime locations. This included
the launch of Art in the Heart’s
Peterborough Artists
Open Studios 2016
Ophelia collection, City College,
Black Cab Studio, St Mark’s
Church and John and Jerome at
Stamford Arts Centre. Last but no
means least, the icing on the cake
was an exhibition held at the City
Gallery, with 36 artists and over
100 pieces of work. Great to see
new members taking part in Open
Studios and shearing their work.
Display at City Gallery
Preview evening at City Gallery Exquisite mosaic table top by Muni’s Mosaic

9. PAOS 2016 in pictures
Jerome Hunt at Stamford Arts Centre
Jaroslaw Jacek Sokol’s garden
Jim Tovey
Ophelia display at Art in the Heart
Ann Belamy’s
At René Viner’s
At Sue Shields
City College

10. It’s always intriguing visiting other
artists’ studios or workspace, not
only do you get a feel for how they
work but you sometimes leave
feeling inspired to create some
work. In this case visiting Process’
studio, while he worked on final
pieces for his exhibition Concrete
Soul, I just felt like moving in.
With a cheeky smile on my face I
went in with the killer question, the
one we always get asked, ‘what’s
your inspiration?’ He could have
chucked a spray can at me at that
point but I guess he didn’t want
to spill his freshly made cuppa.
Being curious about his choice of
materials for this exhibition, we
Featured Artist
Process Smith
went on to talk about his personal
experiences of skateboarding and
grafitti art, since the age of 15.
While working on an earlier project
and exploring materials, he realise
how exciting concrete was as a
material to produce art. So with
his inspiration being concrete,
skateboarding, grafitti, colours and
the urban landscape, he set about
producing work for this exhibition
over a period of just 60 days.
Process’ philosophy of art is
‘engaging in the world in a
thoughtful way’.
Visit his exhibition at the City
Gallery, open 13 Jan to 25 Feb.
Concrete
Soul

12. So I met this well cool graffiti artist
Janey Jane (Pixie) some years
ago at a Blok Collective Arts Jam
at the Green Backyard. After we
got chatting I found out that she
Body & Soul
Smiles 4 Miles with Janey Jane
Fri 14 to Fri 28 April 2017
Stamford Arts Centre.
27 St Mary’s Street,
Stamford PE9 2DL
Solo exhibition by
Tony Nero
Pieces of a Dream 2
Exciting exhibition featuring
figurative works from
Prue Pye
Davina Brett
& Tony Nero
4th to 25th March 2017
Norman Cross Gallery
Norman House, Norman Cross,
Peterborough, Cambs PE7 3TB.
www.normancrossgallery.com
was living next door to my mum
and pops in London. Great to
catch up with her again recently at
the Green Backyard’s Christmas
fair, promoting her Smiles 4 Miles
book.
The books are a collaberation
of 40 professional artists from
all over the world, filled with 45
exciting child friendly drawings to
colour in. Each book cost £5 and
half of that money goes back into
buying other books and crayons
for refugee children.
For further info, to buy a book or to donate, please jump on the
weblink http://smiles4milesbooks.wixsite.com/refugeeaid

13. In full Christmas spirit, I decided
to run a little competition, to give
away a painting, to one of my
lucky supporters. It was nice and
easy, participants only had to
post their best Christmas joke
on my facebook art page, for a
chance to win the lil fella below.
This is what lucky winner Neville
Roberts had to say, ‘Your paint-
ing arrived this morning, made
me very emotional and humbled,
had some losses over the last
few years and believe this was
sent from our loved ones.
Thanks again, much love Nev
and Dawn.’
Christmas
Competition Winner
Here comes the Judges
Great fun earlier in the year with
some arty pals judging the
#rethinkyourmind art competition.
Huge thanks to the Peterborough
Regional College for inviting us
on to the judging pannel and for
the cool entry in the PRC Yellow
Book 2016.
It was a tough one, but a pleasure
to be on the judging panel for the
Peterborough Cathedral at Night
Photo Competition. An excellent
response with entries and a great
selection of photos, followed by a
lovely exhibition.
Pictured: Kathryn Wells, Charley Genever,
Tony N, Anne Welton and Lauren Irving.
Other judges included Barry Devereux,
Ruth Campbell and Keely Mills.
Alexandra Carton, Jonathan Baker, Matthew
Roberts and Mark Edwards.

14. Most recent works
It’s been another busy year producing new works and here are some of
the most recent offerings. The above pieces were created for various
exhixibitions. Faces of Change, Flux 3 and Reflection and Shadows.
The ones below were for recent Christmas commissions.

15. In the picture!
Gerry Warren comes face to face with himself.
Charcoal drawing on paper
Frank Vernon with a print of the Springbok, an
old pic but worth a mention.
Jasmine Kelly-gobuiwang met
‘Colours of Jasmine’ - Photo
by Josephine Kelly
Izzy Brown with his Christmas
portrait. Thanks to Lynette
Mees for this super pic
Lovely pic sent in by Jenny
Dahn after receiving her Xmas
surprise drawing of Prince.
Samantha Creedon-Gray looking pleased
to see her portrait. Started this at the PAOS
launch event in Cathedral Square in May.
Sam Gowans looks real chuffed with this
pencil drawing of his mum and dad.

16. Photo of the day
In this issue my picture of the day
is that of myself and the great poet
Benjamin Zephaniah. This was
taken at a poetry event curated by
poet laureate Charley Genever.
The event ‘Freak Speak’, took
place in October as part of Black
History Month, and was held at
Radius Club in Peterborough.
A huge thank you to Charley for
inviting me to show my Black
Heroes collection of paintings at
her Freak Speak event. It turned
out to be an exciting evening of
spoken words and entertainment.
An added treat having Benjamin in
the audience.
l Concrete Souls:
Solo exhibition by Process Smith
at the City Gallery, Peterborough
Museum, Priestgate PE1 1LF
13th Jan to 25th Feb 2017
l Stay in touch with Art of Tony Nero
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l Exquisite Heritage:
Exhibition featuring artists Faye
Gagel-Panchal, Liz Hunt & Lynne
Collins at Stamford Arts Centre.
27 St Mary’s Street, Stamford PE9
2DL. 28th Jan to 12th Feb 2017
l Body & Soul:
Exciting exhibition featuring
figurative works from artists Prue
Pye, Davina Brett and Tony Nero.
Norman Cross Gallery, Norman
House, Norman Cross,
Peterborough, Cambs PE7 3TB.
4th to 25th March 2017
l Pieces of a Dream 2:
Solo exhibition by Tony Nero at
The Stamford Arts Centre. 27 St
Mary’s Street, Stamford PE9 2DL.
14 to 28 April 2017
Next Issue: Whisper Through The Trees
ESC Artists exhibition
What’s on