ARTISTS
| 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 pieces she makes often invite the audience to join, complete or play with the works – ‘Winter Flowers’ is a set of kinetic objects that can be primed and exploded like a bomb. They have her trademark contrast where cold polished surfaces meet with seductive velvet, and light reflects off a perfectly finished surface. | ||
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Geof has been directly involved in the arts in Yorkshire as an art teacher for thirty-five years and he has been involved in promoting the work of artists, colleagues and students for over thirty years. He now concentrates on the production and promotion of his own work; dividing his time between his home in Yorkshire and his home in the Scottish Borders, to which he and hiswife are shortly to move. | ||
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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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| David is a Hebden Bridge based artist, who studied in Wigan and Chester and has exhibited widely in and around the North West of England. His inspiration is drawn from organic forms and he is very influenced by textures and tones, colour, shadow and light. He is know for his organic stylised contemporary work as well as fine portraiture. David is a Hebden Bridge based artist, who studied in Wigan and Chester and has exhibited widely in and around the North West of England. His inspiration is drawn from organic forms and he is very influenced by textures and tones, colour, shadow and light. He is known for his organic stylised contemporary work as well as fine portraiture | ||
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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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| The human figure has been the most prominent inspiration for Brian’s sculptures but he has also created many outdoor pieces based on natural form of plants and found objects. He uses a wide variety of materials including ceramics, plastics, glass fibre, non-ferrous metals and recycled wood. Several of his sculptures are an imaginative combination of these materials. Brian does not work to commissions, preferring always to pursue his own inspiration and exploration of different media thus it is difficult to predict the direction future work will take. Through this approach Brian’s work avoids repetition and remains fresh and distinctive. | ||
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| Born in the Lancashire mill town of Accrington, in 1952, Trevor lives in the picturesque village of Sabden nestled in the historic witch country of Pendle Hill by the Ribble Valley. He is a professional artist, tutor and demonstrator of his preferred medium of watercolour. Trevor's characteristic economy of detail, use of a limited palette and vigorous brushwork gives his paintings a sense of ambience and an fresh immediacy that captures transient light effects and movement wonderfully well. His work is collected nationally. He is inspired by the post war English artists Edward Seago and Sir William Russel Flint, and over more recent years by the renowned artists Trevor Chamberlain, John Yardley and Ken Howard. | ||
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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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| An exciting mix of work for the new season including pieces by several artists new to the Gallery. | ||
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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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| 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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| An eclectic mix of high quality original artists' prints for the 2009 Summer season. | ||
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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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| Allan has always had a passion for sculpture and still gets an enormous amout of pleasure and satisfaction creating it. He particularly enjoy work that involves the human figure. | ||
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Graeme Willson is a leading contemporary artist whose work is well known to a wide audience, thanks in part to a distinguished track record of public art commissions. Major projects include work in York Minster, the Leeds Corn Exchange and other sites throughout the UK. He has exhibited in London (National Portrait Gallery, Serpentine Gallery) and abroad and has been the recipient of numerous national awards, including the Sunday Times/Arts Council Prize for 'Art into Landscape', the Arts Council Award for Public Art, the Royal Academy Award for Mural Painting, the RSA Award for Art and Architecture. He is currently negotiating a commission for a mural painting at Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club, adjacent to Centre Court. Graeme was the founder of the pioneering Yorkshire Mural Artists' Group (1978-88) His most recent large-scale project was the millennium commission for St. Margaret's Church in Ilkley, unveiled by the then Archbishop of York, Dr. David Hope, in 2004. Graeme lives and works in Ilkley. | ||
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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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