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Zac Cummings art
Zac Cummings is 14 years old, dyslexic and a brilliant artist! Zac has always loved to draw and is very visually aware. In the Autumn of 2009 Zac applied for a grant from Leicestershire County Council, ‘Find Your Talent’ team. He was awarded £250 in January 2010. With the support of his friend Community Artist Winsome Ruddock as mentor Zac has gone on to produce a fantastic body of work. Using acrylic and ink on canvas he has developed what he calls DROODLING which once his background colour/s have been applied involves manipulating the paint whilst wet and then, once dry applying ink.
The journey for him has been amazing, building his confidence daily! His School, Hastings High, Burbage has been very supportive and Zac has even taken classes and shown other pupils his techniques.
He has submitted, and has had accepted 3 pieces at the Ten 2 Gallery in Hinckley for their Summer Exhibition (5/6/10 to 13/7/10) and will have his own solo exhibition at The Gallery, Hinckley Library, Hinckley Leicestershire LE10 0AT. This will run from 5/7/10 to 13/8/10 and Zac will be present for a ‘meet the artist’ opportunity on Thursday 8th July 5.30 to 7.30 (Hinckley Mayor has confirmed her attendance) and for a family interactive day on Saturday 10th July. Zac has come up with the idea of producing a ‘Community Canvas’ on the Saturday encouraging others to have a go at his style of art! there will be other activities too!
Also on 19th July 2009 Zac will be attending and displaying his work at The British Dyslexia Association’s Open Day in Leicester. They have also asked if he will display his work at a special exhibition of dyslexic artist’s work in November to promote National Dyslexic Awareness Week.
He has arranged to have his ’skull’ image screen printed onto t shirts, and a Born Extreme, Hinckley, has agreed to take them for sale.
To think 6 months ago he had not put any paint on a canvas ever, and that all of these images were within him is incredible — he is truly an inspiration!
Zac also Volunteers for the Hinckley Charity SNIPS, helping young people with learning and social disabilities. He is an awesome drummer too!
Zac has featured in the Leicester Mercury, Burbage Advertiser, Hinckley Times.
ITV Central News and BBC East Midlands News are filming him in July 2010. Check out Zac on the BBC website,
or buy Zac’s “Why So Serious” art on a T-Shirt at Born Extreme in Hinckley, or from there website HERE for only £14.95
Born Extreme
Women haven’t been left out either with sporty numbers like the Side shore, to fashion designed watches like the Animal Mooji watch.
We have managed to get hold of 2 more K2 Jibpans 156. These boards originally PRE-sold before they even made it to the shelves.
Check the spec on this bad boy!!
JIBPAN – THE WEAPON OF THE FUTURE IS HERE
If you crushed it on your WWW for the past few years, the Jibpan is the next step in park dominance.
Slaughter parks and rails in hyper automatic, the ultimate park weapon
just got better. The Jibpan get’s an upgrade with the addition of K2
Jib Rocker which gives you that that slippery, press love, creative
license to do things that you’ve never done on a board in the park. The
addition of Harshmellow cushions your stomps and our WH4 Core and ICG
20 pairs a forgiving flex and yields powerful pop while remaining
playful. The improved Jib Tip design allows you to drop down 5cm in
length which drastically improves swing weight and maneuverability
without sacrificing the stability of a longer board. Need we say more?
jib_rocker
jibtip
harshmellow
Born Extreme has linked with sno-age Ltd to offer there privilege card members great offer and discounted snowboarding equipment. Sno-age Ltd are always working to get there members great deals on snowboards, holiday and insurance, plus keeping them up to date with the latest equipment, demo days, reviews and news.
As usual it rained all week on the conference’ ‘eyes on the prize’ tour, but this is what i was able to capture when not photographing. This edit consists of 3 tour stops, the boardroom in leicester in conjunction with www.bornextreme.co.uk Hinckley skate shop and Slamm Jamm.
