ARTISTS
| An exciting collection of original prints by some exceptional printmakers and featuring a solo show by Mychael Barratt. | ||
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| Jenny Allinson Jenny studied in Newcastle and Munich, developing work that comes from a passion for materials and their interaction. She happily blurs the boundaries between the applied and fine arts in the development of her intricate and beautifully made creations. The jewellery she makes demonstrates her ability to make lovely things from everyday objects. | ||
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| Anja is a printmaker, whose work combines collagraph and etching techniques to build up multilayered imagery with rich, textural surfaces. Her prints utilise both representational and abstract elements, to produce images that portray her experience of the landscape. She is fascinated by the different atmospheres that light creates in both our rural and urban environments. Her compositions aim to combine different moods of light, with contrasting space and surface qualities. Anja enjoys working with a variety of etching techniques, including aquatint, ‘soft’ ground, ‘white’ ground and burnishing, which result in subtle tonal differences within her imagery. Rarely starting with line, Anja instead focuses on the highlights within an image, and thus creates the composition by blocking out the areas which will remain light, instead of building up the image with dark line and shading. Anja is a printmaker, whose work combines collagraph and etching techniques to build up multilayered imagery with rich, textural surfaces. Her prints utilise both representational and abstract elements, to produce images that portray her experience of the landscape. She is fascinated by the different atmospheres that light creates in both our rural and urban environments. Her compositions aim to combine different moods of light, with contrasting space and surface qualities. Anja enjoys working with a variety of etching techniques, including aquatint, ‘soft’ ground, ‘white’ ground and burnishing, which result in subtle tonal differences within her imagery. Rarely starting with line, Anja instead focuses on the highlights within an image, and thus creates the composition by blocking out the areas which will remain light, instead of building up the image with dark line and shading. | ||
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| Born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, Anthony studied art in Manchester and Wolverhampton. He moved to the Peak District some years ago, and considers himself fortunate to work in a studio on the edge of one of our loveliest national parks. As a keen climber and fellrunner, Anthony cites the beauty of Britain’s more remote landscapes as his chief source of inspiration. | ||
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| Clifford’s work is steeped in the tradition of English romantic landscape painting and in a contemporary battle between representation and abstraction he uses modern acrylic paints on traditional watercolour paper building thin layers suggesting surface and depth. Clifford works outside as well as in his studio based on the north east coast of England. His paintings are to be found in private collections all over the world and Clifford has shown at the Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters and the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. His work has featured in magazines such as Art of England, The Artist, Yorkshire Life and others. | ||
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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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| Romey lives near York and is inspired by its big skies, endless vistas, the changing colours and light through the seasons. Her exquisitely coloured monoprints, made in acrylic painted on glass and transferred to paper have been tremendously popular. These are now complemented by the large expressive oils in vibrant colour interpreting the natural world to which Romey has returned recently – some of these are currently on show here. | ||
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| Gareth Buxton was born in Derbyshire in 1967 and until recently was unaware of his creative side. He discovered his latent artistic talents by chance, after trying evening classes in photograph, drawing and briefly watercolour painting. He then moved to painting landscapes in acrylic paints, preferring the spontaneity and looseness of this medium. A near fatal road accident late in 2004 was the catalyst for him to become a professional artist. For Gareth painting is a process of filtering and interpretation so each painting is a unique snapshot and emotional representation at the time its created. He is an established professional artist with paintings in many collections throughout the uk. | ||
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| Colin Moore was born on the Clyde Coast of Scotland in 1949. He studied architecture in Glasgow, and following an international career in architecture and design, has worked mainly as a painter and printmaker since 2002. He has lived in Spain and Venezuela and currently lives in London, England. He has written a book, Propaganda Prints, a history of art in the service of social and political change, which will be published by London publisher A & C Black in August of 2010. Colin is a member of Greenwich Printmakers Association and Southbank Printmakers Association both of which regularly exhibit his work. | ||
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| John trained as an Art teacher at Doncaster and in Drama at Derby University. He teaches art and drama, acts professionally and sings with a band. He produces paintings that can be enjoyed by not just the ‘seasoned art collector’ but anyone who has an appreciation for the arts. He has a keen interest in landscape painting. The vast sweeping horizons of the Derbyshire Peak District, the rugged terrain and ever changing light over Cumbria, North Yorkshire Moors and the shorelines of Pembrokeshire and Cornwall all provide him with a rich variety of subject matter. He works mainly with acrylics but sometimes mixes media using anything and everything that is permanent, to achieve the desired effect. He uses a variety of found materials, making marks and interesting textures with anything at hand. He scratches, scrapes and sometimes flicks or throws the paint onto the canvas to create runs and dribbles that suggest waves or interesting cloud formations. | ||
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| Barry specialises in creating unique glass pieces. He is a self taught glass designer and has won numerous awards for originality and creativity. Barry offers an excellent design and manufacturing service producing unique pieces for clients alongside his 'ready to buy' collection. Should you wish to commission a piece contact us and we will make arrangments. | ||
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| Toby makes jewellery inspired by insects and sea creatures. Specializing in unique, one-off pieces, his work celebrates these fantastic creatures, imagining new species of arthropod evolving around the human body. He graduated from Staffordshire University with a BA in Design: Crafts in 2002, and since then has exhibited his work across the UK, Ireland and the USA. His work develops from sketches and photographs, evolving on the workbench using traditional silversmithing techniques. Forged silver forms, often articulated with handmade mechanisms and hinges, are combined with gold, ecological resins and natural colors to create lively, humorous pieces of wearable sculpture. | ||
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| Chris is a self-taught artist who has developed a large body of work painting allotments. He has been featured on Gardener’s World and his paintings have proved to be very popular both at home and abroad. His trademark features of bold colour, ordinary everyday situations and quiet humour strike a chord with keen gardeners and art lovers everywhere. | ||
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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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| Sam has always had an interest in painting and began to do contemporary landscapes whilst living in Spain, as well as portrait commissions. On returning to England in 2005 he became inspired by the Peak District and more importantly its inhabitants! Since discovering the beauty of cows Sam has been branching out to painting other animals. He believes there is a comical element in much of nature and he tries to highlight this in many of his paintings. | ||
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| Norman creates lovely decorative objects using a fascinating technique involving using sticks and twigs encapsulated in resin of various colours. The resulting blocks are then cut and polished to expose the grain and patterns in the wood. | ||
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| Adrienne has worked as artist since graduating from Leeds University in 2000. Her work over the last few years has been concerned with interpretations of landscapes, based on observations and memory of time spent both in the northern areas of Pakistan, travels in Ethiopia and more recently Spain and Italy, but also walks on the North York Moors and Dales throughout the year. | ||
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| Clare studied at Bradford and Cleveland in the late eighties and moved back to Yorkshire from Ireland and worked in the design industry until 2010 when she resigned and started to paint fulltime again. Her inspiration to paint comes from a fascination with the raw landscape and the way the weather affects its mood. The sky plays a crucial part in how the landscape comes alive through light, shadow, moisture and movement. She paints in oils, and loves the way the paint responds to her imagination. Sketching and drawing initially with the brush, she builds up the momentum for the bolder strokes. For Clare, fulfillment comes from the viewer connecting with the painting whether through a mood or memory, or an appreciation of the painting as a visual artwork in which to escape. | ||
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| Originally from California, I have moved slowly eastwards, spending 25 years in North Carolina and then, 5 years ago, moving to England. It has been an interesting journey for me, coming to live in West Yorkshire after many years in the American South. My paintings have often been landscapes, some real, some imagined, but were always with vivid, sun-drenched colours, glowing. Here, the light is so different, the palette of colours totally different. In response I have had to find a new way to paint, a new way to see the beauty. It has taken a dog and many hours of walking on the moors in the rain, the snow and the sun to find it. I have begun to explore a new way of mixing colours - the colours are softer, yet sometimes there is still an intensity of light and of colour that draws me. | ||
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| Hannah studied zoology at Liverpool and natural history illustration at the Royal College of Art. She is a wildlife illustrator, mural painter, photographer and printmaker. Her art draws inspiration from her travels as an expedition leader on a small cruise ship that specialises in polar regions. Lino and woodcut printmaking has become her medium recently. | ||
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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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| Helen Hanson is a professional Printmaker who shows her work in galleries throughout Britain. She exhibited with Greenwich Printmakers for many years and was a founder member of South Bank Printmakers before moving to Deal. She is a member of the Society of Botanical Artists and in 2008 received the President’s Award. Helen’s contemporary landscape etchings use pattern, texture and mood to give a sense of place and the local plantlife is always important. Her etchings are on copper and make use of a range of traditional and innovative processes. Each plate is inked individually in several colours and printed by the artist on hand-made paper in an edition of 50, 100 or 150. Individual plant colours are added later in watercolour. | ||
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| Winifred Hodge's paintings are set in places she knows intimately, has wandered over, explored and enjoyed many times. Throughout her life Winifred has loved being outdoors, keenly observing and exploring the fleeting transitions of light colour and contrast on land and sea. She constantly seeks to capture scenes that give a feeling of immense space and the effect the forces of nature have had in shaping it. Her work is fluent, dynamic and exciting. | ||
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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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| Ian’s wonderful prints have an unmistakeable style and his creative use of textures and a limited colour palette single his work out from the crowd. Living and working in mid-Wales, Ian has built up a substantial collection of linocut prints focusing on the Welsh landscape. Most of his work is completed as series of images based around observation of a long distance footpath or a particular area. | ||
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| Caroline studied at the Harris Art School in Preston, Falmouth School of Art and then at the Central College of Art in London studying under such illustrious names as Cecil Collins, Colin Cina and Paul Huxley. Caroline’s work leans towards the urban and the architectural, yet she is equally happy with landscape, portrait, still-life and the nude. She now divides her time between Brittany in France and the North West region of England. | ||
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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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| From a very varied background from a degree in modern languages, retail management, and being a social worker, Mandy eventually trained as a primary school teacher. A period of soul searching following a move to Leeds persuaded Mandy to study Three Dimensional Design specialising in Ceramics from 2000. Supply teaching has allowed Mandy time to develop her sculpture. The work is a dynamic exploration of the human form in motion, using a unique mixture of different clays and paper the result of which is to enhance the twisting and stretching movements of the body in various activities including football, rugby and dance. The figures are combined with panels of glass. | ||
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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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| Pete Marsh was born on the outskirts of Birmingham in 1956. He graduated from Sheffield in Fine Art (Painting and Printmaking) in 1982. During the following years he produced paintings and original prints, worked part-time at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and between 1987 and 1990 taught Art to adults in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Pete stopped painting and printmaking for almost 20 years sometime around 1990. Pete has spent many years teaching Design and became an Advanced Skills Teacher in 2001. In May 2009 Pete underwent surgery on a shoulder injured whilst mountain biking. During his convalescence he decided to look up some old friends from art college. Pete had not seen or heard from two friends for nearly 25 years. He had lost touch with two others sometime around the year 2000. He has since been able to re-ignite his friendship with some old friends but was devastated to learn that his friend, Garry, died in October 2008. These renewed contacts and the discovery of Garry’s death compelled Pete to express himself through his art and he started painting and printmaking again in September 2009. After a gap of 23 years, Pete has started to exhibit and sell his work again. Pete’s work is representational comprising largely of landscape and figurative work. He uses “plein-air” sketches, studio sketches, photographs and occasionally digital manipulation techniques to help to produce, not just a facsimile of what he sees, but something that expresses what he and (hopefully) his audience feels. Pete attributes his love of landscape to his hours of mountain biking and walking through the north-west Pennines. He feels his work is perceptual rather than conceptual, emotional rather than intellectual and he prefers expression over realism, subtlety over sensationalism, substance over novelty and intuition over reason. He endeavours to express something beyond visual verisimilitude. Pete’s work is held in private collections in the U.K., Canada and Australia. | ||
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| Stella was the winner of the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year competition in 2011. Her paintings of animals in their natural habitats are wonderfully lifelike and evoke beautifully the time and place in which the animals are pictured. Combining photographic reference of the wildlife and direct observation of trees, grasses, snow and the textures common to all landscapes in her locality, the paintings ooze quality. We feel that they should be viewed ‘in the flesh’ to be fully appreciated. We feel very proud to be exhibiting Stella’s work. | ||
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| Catherine was born in Ireland and brought up in West Yorkshire. She retired from teaching languages in 2005 and has been enjoying spending time indulging in her passion for painting. She is inspired by Gauguin and Matisse, loving the rich, vibrant colours, strong lines and textures which are reflected in her own work. Catherine paints mainly in acrylics, incorporating collage and impasto techniques into her work. | ||
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| John is a sculptor who creates cast frogs and geckos in brass. His work is quirky and characterful and comes in a variety of sizes. | ||
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| Mychael was born in Toronto, Canada but thinks of himself as a Londoner since arriving for what was meant to be a two week stay twenty years ago. He has that immigrant’s zeal for his adopted home and includes local settings that have a personal resonance in much of his work. He is a narrative artist and anecdotal incidents from his day-to-day life which he gathers like a magpie are at the heart of his paintings and prints. Mychael was recently commissioned to write a book on intaglio printmaking for the publishers A & C Black and decided to try out all of the techniques that he wrote about. His print O for a muse of fire based on the work of William Shakespeare is the culmination of those experiments as he has created a 26 plate etching which includes every intaglio technique from drypoint and engraving to mezzotint and aquatint. | ||
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| Tony worked as a graphic designer before studying fine art at Sheffield University gaining an honours degree. A successful one man show at the Ginnel Gallery Manchester followed, along with regular exhibits at the annual Manchester Academy exhibition at the City Art gallery, and the Multiple Images exhibition. He freelanced as a portrait and figure painter, but undertook a full time job for nineteen years, painting when he could. He is a realist working from life and usually on a small scale, placing emphasis on draughtsmanship, form, and subtlety of colour. Artistic influences include Caravaggio, Chardin, Degas, Titian, Velasquez and Vermeer. He has been exhibiting now for nearly three years at the American Art Gallery in Clint Eastwood’s home town of Carmel, California and is currently exhibiting at the Raw Sienna Gallery, Knutsford, Cheshire. Forthcoming shows include the Wensley Gallery Ramsbottom and Sheffield University. He has work in private collections in the UK, Italy, Sicily and the U.S.A. He recently won first prize in the 2010 West Lancashire open art competition. | ||
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| Nigel was born in Doncaster in 1952, He has an extensive background in the Arts field, including a BA in Fine Art Painting and Drawing and was formerly the Head of Art & Design at Benton Park School in Leeds. Since leaving college Nigel has continued to develop his passion for Landscape and Seascape painting and now paints professionally from his studio based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. | ||
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| An exciting mix of new works by established gallery artists and artists new to us. For more images please see the individual artist's listing. | ||
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| Phil's love of drawing landscape and natural objects is well demonstrated by his collection of densely worked etchings. | ||
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| Lionel currently lives and works in the upland village of Garrigill, near Alston in the Cumbrian North Pennines where he farms and hunts the hills,valleys and skies of upper Tynedale, Weardale and Teesdale for painting ideas. His current practice involves drawing on location with found materials such as peat, clay, shale and soil and producing imaginative evocations in paint of his experiences of the landscape be they from driving through it or walking in it. In 2007 he designed and built a large studio and gallery/office as an extension to the house called Rose House Studio in order to make the creative life more efficient and productive and to reduce his carbon footprint from driving. The studio has 2 large windows facing Rotherhope Fell just 8 miles on the Pennine Way from the summit of Cross Fell, the highest point in the North Pennines. Current work is an exploration of the contemporary landscapes of the North Pennines and the northern Lake District with its jets, delivery vans, ruins of long closed mines and struggling sheep farms. This is a managed landscape like most of Britain as a look at Google Earth quickly demonstrates, with a history going back to the Romans and beyond, but when you are up in the Access Lands it feels closer to the wild than most. | ||
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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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| The latest collection of fine art original prints in our popular annual show. | ||
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| Steve grew up in Cornwall and the coast has always been a huge influence and inspiration to him. He was fortunate enough to have Cornish Painter John Piper as his art teacher at school and through him gained a place at Falmouth School of Art in 1987. He then went on to spend over a decade in the advertising and design industry, working in London and Amsterdam, before returning to the coast in 2003, to Dorset. Another great influence on Steve’s work has been the artwork associated with travel posters from the 1920’s and 1930’s where typically, detail is kept to a minimum, and the use of flat colour and strong shapes which are created by light and shadow. His limited palette of earthy hues add to the deceptive simplicity of his paintings. | ||
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| Richard has a long and varied experience of printmaking and is shown regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. His large woodcuts are always a joy to see. | ||
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| Sheila Tilmouth has been a practising artist for more than 30 years and has exhibited extensively throughout the UK. She is a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy summer show and is a gallery artist at the Alresford Gallery, Hampshire. She studied art for seven years attending Hornsey College of Art and the Byam Shaw Schools. She travelled to Finland for a year on a British Council scholarship and studied at the Finnish Academy, Helsinki, visiting Lapland and Leningrad. She is a member of the Lime Press printmaking studios and Linden Mill Arts in Hebden Bridge. Sheila Tilmouth has taught art as a visiting lecturer at Rochdale, St. Helens and St Catherines College Liverpool. She has taken workshops with artist, community and adult groups in painting and printmaking. | ||
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| Dona is a self taught artist based in Yorkshire. She works mainly in oils and is inspired by the local landscapes including the built environment. She has exhibited mainly in Yorkshire for the last ten years. | ||
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| Stuart’s work is inspired by the rhythm, forms and patterns found in the natural environment. From the abstractions of light, shade and cloud patterns on the landscape, to the ripples spreading across a crystal clear river caused by a trout rising to take a fly he draws and paints images of places he has a strong affinity with, many through association having lived and worked there. The main focus of Stuart’s work is linocut printing using the reduction method, cutting all the colours from a single block, then handprinting the edition using a traditional baren. | ||
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| Sue Platt lives in Saddleworth. She has a 1st class Honours degree in the Visual Arts and a PGCE in Art and& Design. She spent a number of years teaching predominantly printmaking at various colleges including the former Bolton Institute (now the University of Bolton), Oldham College and at Gallery Oldham. Sue's printmaking is also quite eclectic. She works mainly with the monoprint and collagraph techniques, whilst incorporating etchings and linocuts into them. She also uses a process called Chine Colle, which involves embedding fine handmade Japanese papers into the body of the print. | ||
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| Susie went to the London College of Printing in 1963-1967, and then worked as a graphic designer in the 60s and 70s. In 1984, She started full time as an artist, specialising as a printmaker in etchings, line and aquatint. She also taught print at the LCP and for the Outreach programme of Dulwich Picture Gallery's Education Department. Susie loves aquatints for the range of contrast possible, and for the velvety effect it gives, especially with darker colours. Much of the work is made using multiple plates, which are laborious to create, but give wonderful luminous colours in the prints. Almost all of the prints on show are aquatints. | ||
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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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| Gareth works primarily in watercolour to paint semi-abstract landscapes which evoke mood and atmosphere rather than record topographical detail. The images have a timeless quality in which blocks and planes of soft colour blend and shift to reflect light and space. | ||
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| Jane makes constructions using driftwood and piano parts. She was trained in 3D design and has exhibited widely in the Midlands. She is fascinated by nature of pattern and pattern in nature and uses the materials she finds as her palette, giving her work a painterly and tactile quality. Major influences on her work are Louise Nevelson and Eduardo Paolozzi. | ||
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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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