ARTISTS
| James Alderson combines the tradition of British landscape painting with contemporary issues in art. The results are colourful explorations into the relationship between paint and the farming landscape he grew up in. James works in oils and acrylics, usually on heavy linen, from his studio in Todmorden, he has exhibited widely across the U.K. and in 2005, graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a Masters in Fine Art. | ||
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| Terri’s pieces are gentle and often humorous evocations of women, that have echoes of an art Deco past. Her sculptures and plaques are first sculpted in clay, from which moulds are taken. The finished pieces themselves are cast in a variety of media, such as ciment fondue and mixtures containing marble dust. These are rewarding and evocative pieces on a domestic scale. | ||
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| A local artist whose work is inspired by landscapes as varied as the Venetian Canals, to Scottish Islands and the contrasts between the Hebden Bridge valley and the tops in terms of atmosphere, light and climate. She paints semi-abstract pieces with simple structures to create a feeling of space but with hidden details to hold the eye. Her rich and varied colour palette aims to be both soothing and vibrant simultaneously. | ||
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| Noel is a professional modelmaker and sculptor. He has extensive knowledge and experience of the commercial modelmaking world, and a growing catalogue of private sculpting, painting and other commissions. His work is individual and imaginative, blending the pragmatism of a sheet metal apprenticeship, the creativity of a graphic design education and the versitility of a career in modelmaking. | ||
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| After a degree in Surface Pattern Design, Jane has developed the use of plastics and polymer materials. Through this medium, she incorporates colour, light, transparency, structure, layering and entrapment. At the Calder Gallery we stock a number of Jane’s creations including some of her Mixed Media Perspex Panels, Wall-hangings and also Jane’s Vessels which won ‘Outstanding Design’ award, by British Interior Design Association in 2003. | ||
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| A local artist, Rachel has a varied creative background in art and photography. Her bold screenprinted imagery is derived from the buildings, landscape and sheep of Hebden Bridge and its surrounding hamlets. The images are screened onto canvas and then stretched onto frames. | ||
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| Tony Chisholm has been a teacher and lecturer in art education for thirty five years working in a number of schools, colleges and other settings in various parts of the country. He works in a variety of media, including drawings, paintings, collages and card constructions. The oil paintings based on rocks and quarries currently on show reflect an enduring concern with landscape. | ||
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| Gilda studied as a mature student at Manchester Metropolitan University and graduated with a first class degree in 1999. During her studies and since she exhibited widely in the North West of England, including a very successful show here. Tragically, Gilda died in a motoring accident last year. Gilda’s daughter has since organised commemorative exhibitions of some of Gilda’s output of passionately committed landscapes. Working directly in the landscape, mainly in the Rossendale Valley and the moors of the surrounding areas as far afield as Hebden Bridge gives her paintings particular strength with their naturalistic wholeness. Her favourite time to paint was just before sunset during the Winter months. She worked in oil paint, often using cork tiles as a base for the smaller paintings, enjoying the textures that enhance her own direct and vigorous style. Gilda’s most recent award was the Millennium Prize at Bury Art Gallery in 2006. Her work found a ready audience wherever it has been shown, and the Calder Gallery is delighted to be involved in making Gilda’s work available again to the public. | ||
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| Her wonderfully original shoes are inspired by her passion for vintage finds, clay and shoes. Her designs mix and match different periods, creating a fusion of eras. She chooses a mixture of materials; often antique jewellery, lace and brocades, to create unique shoes in which scale and proportion are frequently distorted. Reina writes a descriptive label to go with each shoe that reveals a mini story. “I try to create an illusion of lost items from the past with hidden memories”. | ||
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| Philip is a former architect and now designs and produces furniture and bronze vessels. He uses the sand-casting process to create vessels forms that use the qualities of bronze as a material in its own right. Varied patinating techniques are employed to colour and finish each piece whilst the all-important rim is usually polished to expose the inherent beauty, natural colour and solidity of the bronze. | ||
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| Alison Hill was born in 1955 in Lancashire, England. Having shown an interest in and talent for art from an early age, she was in 1974 offered a place on the BA Fine Art course at the University of Leeds. She gained a BA Hons in Fine Art, followed by a PGCE in Art Education in 1980 and spent several years teaching art in colleges of further education in the North West. In the summer of 2005 Alison returned to what had been her earlier ambition of becoming a professional artist and began to spend much of her time in the studio working prolifically to produce a whole range of paintings and drawings including portraits of her family and paintings inspired by her love of plants and gardens. She works in a variety of media including acrylic, gouache, oil and coloured pencil. | ||
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| Annie is inspired by the northern landscape and its dynamic contradictions. She seeks equivalents for the energies and spirit of a place at a given moment. Her work is full of the tension between huge, rocky outcrops and delicate linear rhythms of walls, paths and water courses. The sky and light play a crucial role in revealing new ways of seeing and interpreting the landscape. | ||
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| Helen Juste has been working as a sculptor since graduating in 1994. Her work is mainly figurative, with the human figure being a fundamental point of reference. Each artwork is taken through a process of abstraction in order to reach a point where the essence of the relationship and form is dominant. Each sculpture works on many different levels, concepts such as society, individuality and the nature of the human condition being basic ideas being explored in her work. Helen works mainly in clay and plaster, with the evolving artwork being cast into bronze or contemporary materials in small editions. She also works to commission. | ||
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| Ed works using traditional medieval techniques such as egg tempera, illumination and leaf metals on gesso coated wooden panels. He draws his inspiration from early religious paintings, historical British design and early maps. He aims to abstract traditional and ancient forms of representation through the use of colour, pattern and surface texture. | ||
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| Patricia's vibrant and colourful still life paintings are a refreshing addition to the Gallery's stock of images. Domestic sized and most attractive, these works play with design and perspective in a controlled yet spontaneous way. | ||
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| Susan’s work combines methodical and structured approaches with intuitive and spontaneous reactions, She works in a variety of materials from plywood, steel and plaster to ink, foils and paper. Her pieces refer both to the toughness of urban/moorland environment and the delicate aspects of nature and the human spirit. | ||
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| Kate’s colourful, rich and highly detailed images of Hebden Bridge have proved to be very popular. She collects beautiful things and tries to create beautiful paintings, striving for sumptuousness and opulence in the finished work. The influence of surface pattern and her background in textile design are always present, and her current work incorporates elements of embroidery as she turns townscapes into patchwork quilts of ornate colour and texture. | ||
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| Patricia McAllister has lived and worked in West Yorkshire for many years. Her elegant figurative sculptures in a variety of media are held in many collections in this country and abroad. Her work shows the influence of her African upbringing, being a wonderful mixture of European and African influences. We have two of her pieces on show at the moment. | ||
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| Chris McLoughlin is a contemporary British Artist living and working in the North West of England. Chris considers himself to be an Landscape and Abstract Painter who chases the relationship between paint and our natural environment. His work explores the fundamentals of nature’s persona sometimes in the most dangerous and extreme places. He describes his work as a balance of understanding between nature and paint, employing bold expressive brushwork to chase the landscapes’ individuality and hopes to communicate the beautiful and fragile balance of nature. By exploring diverse subject matter, from hostile mountain ranges to the peaceful British countryside, he uses visual imagery to develop the relationship between location, painter and spectator. Through this he hopes to trigger the audience’s memories, endeavoring to capture the essence of personal experience. | ||
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| A selection of work by new and familiar artists to the Gallery. | ||
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| A trained artist, printmaker and silversmith, Helen is represented here by her highly skilled, whimsical etchings of animals and birds. Her subjects strut, prance and hop in a variety of amusing poses that are enhanced by Helen’s skill with applying colour and texture to the plate before printing. The impact of these creations is increased by the way that the shape and forms are cut from the plate with a piercing saw to follow the sweep and thrust of the outline of the animal or bird depicted. The embossed outline serves to accentuate and frame the image. | ||
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| Kate’s sculptures have evolved from her interest in Greek myths and legends and her time spent on Rhodes, where she still spends some time each year. Her beautifully modelled and cast bronze resin sculptures command much attention and close inspection of their detail and finish is highly recommended. Amongst them are wall-hung pieces that draw on the Icarus legend of the boy who flew too close to the sun, as well as intertwined figures that evolved from studies of eroded rocks. She also produces a series of grotesque heads that represent the Seven Deadly Sins, that share the same high quality modelling as the bronzes. | ||
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| Mick paints watercolour and acrylic seascapes in response to the changing weather, scudding clouds and the roll of the sea. His more textural pieces take their inspiration from the shoreline. It is an opportunity for experimentation with inks and watercolour on a gesso base. | ||
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| Gill's exuberant personality shines through everything she makes. Her quirky and witty sculpture made of paper pulp and finished with acrylic paint and varnish are are a delight! | ||
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| John Prescott John’s amazing and intricately decorated wooden “treasure chests”, carved, inlaid and polished are wonderful to see. The tiny dovetailed drawers, shaped mirrors, mother of pearl and exotic woods inlaid into the shaped carcasses combine to give a mystical and almost Oriental feel. In his Southport based workshop John spends hundreds of hours creating these modern wonders, each a masterpiece of patience and skill. | ||
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| A lively exhibition exploring the varied styles of artist made prints. Not digital reproductions, but original works produced by the artist in a variety of techniques. | ||
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| David Quirke has lived and worked in the North of England for over thirty years. His closely observed and beautifully executed works, landscapes and portraits, are held in many public and private collections internationally. “The landscape and figure form an integral part of my work. I hopefully encapsulate a vision which is often overlooked.” Davd exhibits nationally on a regular basis including at The National Portrait Gallery, The Barbican Centre and Harewood House. | ||
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| Fine artist and illustrator, Christopher's food paintings are bold and fluid, conveying the colours and textures of his subject brillintly. The composition of the paintings is often idiosyncratic, often being as much concerned with pattern and rhythms as with the portrayal of objects. | ||
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| Based in Washington, Tyne and Wear, Allan specialises in figurative sculpture in a variety of media and in a wide range of sizes. His large-scale plaster figures are witty and powerful pieces whilst his smaller plaster and bronze figures and portrait busts show a sensitive and skilful approach. The small bronzes add another dimension often featuring mythological subjects | ||
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| Eve Shepherd Eve is a figurative sculptor, who despite her youth, has a massive amount of experience in modelling the human form. Apprenticed at eighteen to the well known animal sculptor Anthony Bennett, she latterly attended Chelsea college causing a stir when she re-introduced clay and figurative sculpture. Her work has been exhibited world-wide and to quote Tony Stone, ex-President of the Society of Portrait Sculptors, “In my opinion, Eve Shepherd will be one of the greatest sculptors of her time.” Don’t miss her range of gallery sized works that are being cast in small editions of 12, some of which have already sold here and others being still in stock. | ||
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| Helen’s work combines a passion for painting and drawing with a love of gardens and the landscape. She regularly sketches in pencil, ink and watercolour, recording things briefly glimpsed or felt and things carefully observed whilst out walking and cycling. Drawing and painting directly from elements of gardens and the landscape is an important part of her creative practice. The changing seasons, weather, memories and emotions all come into play in her artwork. She often develops paintings in the studio, working on several images at a time. She paints with a variety of media including: watercolour, acrylic, acrylic ink, collage and oil. | ||
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| After his training as a furniture designer and maker, one of Duncan’s first commissions was from a local interior design company to make a series of metal animal sculptures from scrap metal. From this beginning, Duncan has become an expert in the creation of fabulously evocative and appealing animals, birds and insects in mild steel. His work is widely held in public and private collections. | ||
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| James was born in Glasgow and trained at Glasgow School of Art before moving to work at one of Yorkshire’s largest carpet manufacturers and becoming one of the UK’s leading carpet designers. With colour and composition being so important in his life, James allowed this to flow naturally through the subtlety of hue and texture in his landscapes. His work aims to mix ‘memory and desire’ in his interpretation of the light and atmosphere of the landscape. He draws inspiration from visits to Scotland, the Lake District and most of all the magnificent Yorkshire scenery. James has had many successful exhibitions in the north of England and was regional winner of the Laing Landscape Prize in 1991. | ||
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| Trained at Goldsmith's College, Richard spent the first years of his career working mainly in sculpture in London. His work has been shown in the Hayward Gallery, the Serpentine Gallery and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Since returning to West Yorkshire in 1991, he has returned to painting and printmaking. The paintings and prints are emotive and sensitive expressions of his feelings towards his family, friends and the English countryside. | ||
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| Phil is the gallery’s resident artist – literally, as he lives above the gallery! Phil’s work is inspired by the landscape, and especially by the infinite variations of skies that are the main focus of so many of his paintings and etchings. Working in traditional materials and techniques with a contemporary edge Phil produces oil paintings, watercolours and etchings. He also paints very popular semi-abstracted acrylic pieces based on beaches and skies. | ||
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| Jim's work predominantly focuses towards the light source, catching the brilliance of the light reflected off the land, and the defusion of light through the atmosphere. He also has a deep passion for the sea which can be keenly felt in his most recent works, a series of semi abstract wave paintings, which harness the movement and explosive vitality of the water. | ||
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