ARTISTS
| An exciting collection of original artist prints featuring many well known printmakers. A sample of each artist's work is here - please refer to the artist under out main list for more images. | ||
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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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| 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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| 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 have now been developed into lino prints. | ||
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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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| Corinna Button started out in Sheffield, studied (BA Hons) fine art at Leeds and then Post Graduate Advanced Printmaking at Croydon school of art. She has exhibited in both solo & mixed shows not only across Europe ; Hungary, Denmark, Germany & Luxembourg but also in New Zealand and Korea. She exhibits and sells her work regularly in galleries throughout the UK. Corinna works in mediums including; Mix media; painting, etching, woodcuts and, collagraphs. Her work can be found in many private collections internationally. Work in public collections include the BBC, The university of Aberystwyth and the Ashmolean museum in Oxford | ||
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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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| Frans grew up and trained in Holland. People are central to his work, which is also based on the close observation of the natural world. Often his paintings, etchings and stained glass tell a story. Frans is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen. | ||
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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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| Since 2004 Toni’s work has involved depicting mainly British domestic rural animals. Primarily using a limited palette of sepia tones but sometimes engaging the use of bold colour in a statement piece, she works in oils mostly on box canvas. Cattle have now become a very prominent feature in her work and Toni continues to experiment with different perspectives and angles to emphasise different features. These themes often combine metaphors and “plays on words” so that the title of the piece can play an important and sometimes essential factor. | ||
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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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| Through drawing Helen ‘gets to know’ a plant – she sees and learns how individual parts connect and grow. She discover the line, shape, and pattern that describe their form. Ideas for designs evolve in response to the organic qualities a plant offers – each gives something different of beauty or interest. With printmaking Helen tries to capture both the intricacy and simplicity of organic forms. She searches for the unusual and peculiar amongst the ordinary and familiar. Hedgerows provide her with an endless source of inspiration - the plants she finds there have a special appeal as ever changing, living sculptures. Helen enjoys the challenge of translating pen line to print without the use and distraction of colour or subtle shades. She hand cuts a design in relief using lino as the printing surface. The combination of material and tools gives her the ability to create designs having the precision of sharp- edged lines, and the inclusion of shadow and detail. | ||
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| Hester Cox graduated from Harrow School of Art and Design with a BA(Hons) in Illustration in 1994. She lives and works in Masham, North Yorkshire. Working as a printmaker, she designs and makes relief and collagraph plates which are then printed in layers to form one richly coloured and textured limited edition print. Currently she is exploring the possibilities of photopolymer printmaking (solar plate). By using the sun and transparencies made from drawings and her digital photographs an etching or relief plate can be made that adds another layer to the resulting image. Her inspiration is often derived from the natural landscape, the plants and wildlife that inhabit it and the stories, myths and symbolism associated with them. She uses multiple plates and techniques to echo the layers of meaning and metaphor in the images. | ||
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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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| Kate’s colourful, rich and highly detailed paintings of Hebden Bridge have always been very proved popular. She has now branched out into printmaking, and these new works retain the influence of surface pattern and her background in textile design combining as they do disparate elements into a rich and decorative image. | ||
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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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| 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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| Michael is a printmaker who creates limited edition etchings, linoprints and books from his Scarborough studio. His images are figurative, narrative and located in the Yorkshire countryside where people are foten dwarfed by the landscape. Images evolve from brief outline sketches made in sketchbooks whilst back in the workshop the image is refined/altered to fit the narrative adding or subtracting elements. | ||
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| For many years Sandra worked from classical sculptures visiting the British Museum for inspiration. These paintings were adapted from classical sculptures but were painterly in their execution referring to mythology for colour sourcing. She focused primarily on the eroded surface of stone, marble and bronze enhanced by the effects of attrition, After receiving an Arts Council grant in 2005, Sandra has moved her source material away from museums and into public gardens, still using the figure as a main focus. Visits to stately homes using a journal and camera to capture sculptures amidst the surrounding landscape, have produced emotive images which can then be worked into sketches for prints or paintings. Recently, she has concentrated efforts into producing a series of water-based screen prints adapted from the journal and photographs. The colour is often accidental, sometimes symbolic, yet poignantly reminiscent of the places visited. | ||
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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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| 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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| 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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| Helen lives and works in Wakefield, in the heart of West Yorkshire. Her 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 Helen’s 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. Helen 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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| 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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| 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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