Our Christmas Show is always something a bit special; a selection box for people to pick their favourites. Many of our regular exhibitors have prepared new work, some of the highlights of this year’s exhibitions have been brought back and a little space has been left for new artists whose work has caught our eye during the year.
The exhibition runs from 16 November until Christmas Eve then 30th and 31st December
EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL 7 JAN 2023
Josie Barraclough
Josie Barraclough, born in Scarborough and a former Head Of Art at Bradford Grammar School is showcasing her latest work at the Bingley Gallery, during the Christmas Show (November:December). Her work has evolved from a fascination with colour and texture, experimenting with different elements of oil paint and mixed media, predominantly on canvas. The work on display at Bingley is a small sample of new work, which continues her expressive attitude to content and colour and reflects her emotive interpretation of subject matter. For over twenty years Josie Barraclough was able to inspire her students as well as provide an example by working with them as well as alongside – developing young talent to create vibrant and emotive work. Travel has also inspired her work, from her time living in Australia to her travels in Europe and of course closer to home, in England. Landscape, nature, the built environment and animate subjects, sketched or referenced on location are then vigorously interpreted in her Liversedge studio.
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Josie Barraclough JB35 Riomaggiore 60cm x 85cm Oil and Mixed Media £600 lr
Josie Barraclough JB39 ‘Jug with Honeysuckle & Cosmos’ 60x60cm Oil and Mixed Media £450 lr
Josie Barraclough JB36 ‘Shelduck’ 60x60cm Oil and Mixed Media £450 lr
Josie Barraclough JB37 ‘Groote Dok Hellevoetsluis’ Oil 50cm x 70cm £480 lr
Josie Barraclough JB38 ‘Derwent Water’ Oil 60x60cm £450 lr
Tracey Waddington Drawing
Among new artists showing this Christmas is Tracey Waddington. She draws exquisitely in graphite, pastel charcoal and often embellishes the final work with gold leaf. Her goddess series explore female beauty and power, whist the studies of ravens magnificently capture these characterful birds, bringing to mind their role in ancient mythology.
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Tracey Waddington TW01 ‘Asteria 1’ pencil charcoal carbon pastel gold leaf 41x29cm £450 lr
Tracey Waddington TW02 ‘Lilly’ pencil charcoal carbon pastel gold leaf framed to 58cmx45cm £450 lr
Tracey Waddington TW03 ‘The Visitor’ pencil charcoal carbon pastel framed to 58cmx45cm £450 lr
Tracey Waddington TW04 ‘Curiosity’ pencil charcoal carbon pastel framed to 58cmx45cm £450 lr
Bonehead
Bonehead grew up here on Park Rd and attending local schools, ‘cared only for his art, graphics and design technology grades’. Going on to art college, he hoped, would lead to a creative career, but jobs on offer to a youngster were poorly paid and in frustration he walked onto a local building site – the First School he’d attended – and was offered a job labouring. The combination of hard graft combined with creativity in restoring and developing property worked well until ‘my back fell out of with the building trade’.
Attending night school to learn autoCAD, he came across a laser cutting machine, ‘an amazing bit of kit’ and bought his own to be able to offer signage alongside other building work. Not content with the serious stuff, mark, a fan of street art and graffiti art, put the cutter and spray-paint to work on some art work influenced by this, then brought them down to the Bingley Gallery where proprietor, David Starley immediately offered the chance to put them in the next show.
Having come full circle, he reckons it’s ‘pretty amazing’ to be back in Bingley doing art and playing around like he did as a young lad. He’s even adopting his schoolboy nickname ‘Bonehead’ as his artist’s name.
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Bonehead BH37 ‘Born to Love’ (Mother Mary) stencil art 30x30cm lr £60
Bonehead BH33 Angel white background 42x27cm £75
Bonehead BH007_Small Flamingo 15x37cm £70
Bonehead BH30 Pin up 22x40cm £75
Bonehead BH34Angel small turquoise bg 36x13cm £45
Bonehead BH35 Angel small yellow lips 36x13cm £45
Bonehead BH38 ‘Born to Love’ (Mother Mary) stencil art 30x30cm £60 lr
Jane Fielder
Jane Fielder, the Gallery’s previous owner continues to be a favourite and whilst her ‘Janescapes’ are a regular feature of the gallery, she’s always happy to try something new for exhibitions. These new works include Three ‘Heavenly Journeys”, based on images collected on a recent trip to the Dales “We spent a precious few days with our family and grandchildren in a house in Litton in the Dales, surrounded by the most beautiful countryside. One day we went to Langcliffe to see the salmon jumping. We were not disappointed. It was a heavenly day walking, waiting and watching. Even the drive home was magical”.
We also have plent of Jane Fielder related gifts on sale: Calendars, place mats, coasters,mugs christmas cards and even a jigsaw.
Jane Fielder.2. 805A Washing Line with Birthday Chrysanths. ufs28x33 SOLD
Jane Fielder.3. 262B Heavenly Journey 1 – Langcliffe to Litton. ufs 15×36 £TBA
Jane Fielder.7. 518K The Awakening. ufs 56×76 £TBA
Jane Fielder.1. 362JS Heron in the Hawthorn. ufs 40×101 £TBA
Jane Fielder.6. 73E Ready to Party. ufs 30×30 £TBA
Jane Fielder.5 264B Heavenly Journey 3 – Langcliffe to Litton. ufs15x36 £TBA
Jane Fielder.4 263B Heavenly Journey 2 – Langcliffe to Litton. ufs 15×36 £TBA
Jane Fielder 356JS ‘Woman with Red Hair, Bingley’ acrylic 19×19.75cm
Jane Fielder Beautiful Bingley2024 Calendar 2024 £10
Jitterbugs
Sally Marsden creates fantastic mini sculptures from the sort of items you’d find in your grandfather’s shed. I first saw these at Art in the Pen in the summer of 2023 and knew I had to include some in our Christmas show. Despite taking time out to do a long distance walk in western Australia, she pulled out all the stops to get these ready for our show.
Jitterbugs JIT01 ‘Old Jalopy ‘ recycled items £95 lr
Jitterbugs JIT02 ‘Steampunk Ballerina ‘ recycled items £100 lr
Jitterbugs JIT03 ‘Steampunk Ballerina ‘ recycled items £95 lr
Jitterbugs JIT04 ‘ La-La’ recycled items £85 lr
Jitterbugs JIT05 ‘Pixie ‘ recycled items £62 lr
Jitterbugs JIT06 ‘Old John Bull ‘ recycled items £62 lr
Jitterbugs JIT07 ‘Long Legged Jelly Tot ‘ recycled items £60 lr
Jitterbugs JIT08 ‘OXO Man ‘ recycled items £38 lr
Jitterbugs JIT09 ‘OXO Man ‘ recycled items £38 lr
Jitterbugs JIT10 ‘Jet Pack Tin Man ‘ recycled items £120 lr
Jitterbugs JIT11 ‘Portly Pete ‘ recycled items £145 lr
Jitterbugs JIT12 ‘PY ‘ recycled items £85 lr
Jitterbugs JIT13 ‘ Long Legged Bobbit’ recycled items £64 lr
Jitterbugs JIT14 ‘Bifocal Ben’ items £100 lr
Jitterbugs JIT15 ‘Bibby ‘ recycled items £50 lr
Jitterbugs JIT16 ‘High Priest’ recycled items £72 lr
Jitterbugs JIT17 ‘Pee-Wee ‘ recycled items £72 lr
Jitterbugs JIT18 ‘Jelly Tot ‘ recycled items £50 lr
Jitterbugs JIT19 ‘Jelly Tot ‘ recycled items £50 lr
Jitterbugs JIT20 ‘Ziggy ‘ recycled items £75 lr
Sarah Light (Seven Hands) Embroidery and Felting
Sarah, who is now based in Wilsden, uses free machine embroidery over a wet-felted base to create vibrant, expressive work. Her work is inspired by of Yorkshire and the environment. Apparently, her trading name, Seven Hands, comes from the hand paintings found in the Lascaux caves in France. “The early artists used to put ochre in their mouths, work it into a liquid and then spit it around their hands creating a silhouette. I just love the family group of hands, it’s like artists reaching across time, all of us leaving our mark”.
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Sarah Lyte(Seven Hands Design) SH14 ‘Saltburn by the Sea’ Upcycled Collage and free motion embroidery. Framed to38x48cm £300
Sarah Lyte(Seven Hands Design) SH17 ‘Church Lane, Wilsden’ Wet & needle felting & free motion embroidery. Framed to 60x48cm £300 lr
Sarah Lyte(Seven Hands Design) SH16 ‘Sunflower’ Wet felting & free motion embroidery. Framed to46x42cm £175 lr
Sarah Lyte(Seven Hands Design) SH18 ‘Salts Mill’ Upcycled fabrics & free motion embroidery. Framed to 28x26cm £80 lr
Jade Marczynski – Hand Embroidery
Jade is a Textile Crafts graduate from the University of Huddersfield. Her work focuses on the architecture in and around her home city of Bradford, particularly of local, independent businesses which make-up the traditional high street. Using photographs as a starting point, she hand embroiders pieces in an illustrative style, focusing on the quicks and individuality of the buildings and businesses.
Jade Marczynski JM07 ‘The Inn Plaice, Bradford’ hand embroidery £300-lr
Jade Marczynski JM11 ‘Blooms Florest, Bradford’ hand embroidery £300 lr
Jade Marczynski JM08 ‘The Fox, Shipley’ hand embroidery £300 lr
Jade Marczynski JM09 ‘Sollys, Bradford’ hand embroidery £300 lr
Jade Marczynski JM10 ‘The Odeon Tower, Bradford’ hand embroidery £300 lr
Tony Dexter – acrylics
Tony is a Wharfedale artist painting original contemporary images in acrylic on canvas. After studying and gaining a fine art degree in sculpture in the late 1960’s his art ‘took a back and it was only in 2015, with retirement, that he took the opportunity to restart his creative work-and for the very first time started to paint. Tony’s work is vibrant merging figurative and abstract elements to create highly colourful and visually striking paintings. His work, often inspired by wooden fishing boats, old barns, the sea and Scottish crofts give a unique and vivid perspective on a scale that has impact, has contrast and is bright and distinctive.
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Tony Dexter TD31 ‘Beside the Sea’ Acrylic on Canvas 76x76cm £385
Tony Dexter TD34 ‘Broken Barn’ Acrylic on Canvas 76x76cm £485
Tony Dexter TD32 ‘The Old Barge’ Acrylic on Canvas 76x76cm £375
Tony Dexter TD33 ‘The Log Barn’ Acrylic on Canvas 76x76cm £485
L. Amy Charlesworth
Amy is based in Bradford, has a BA fine art degree from Leeds Metropolitan University and works in oils on canvas. She covers a diverse range of subjects, painting whatever appeals to her, whether it be an old pair of gym shoes, or a complex spiral staircase. Her style is hyperrealistic. As Amy says, she “likes things to look like they look”.
For more of Amy’s work click here
Amy Charlesworth AC131 ‘Owl Portrait’ 51.5 x 52cm £260 lr
Amy Charlesworth AC135 ‘Back Straight, Chest Out’ 32 x 39.5cm £120 lr
Amy Charlesworth AC125 ‘It’s Whitby!’ oil 109x79cm £950
Amy Charlesworth AC123 ‘Winter Wonderland’ oil 51.5x52cm £275
Amy Charlesworth AC134 ‘Robin Among the Twigs’29.5 x 25cm £85-lr
Amy Charlesworth AC136 ‘A Yorkshire Winter’s day’ framed to 70x55cm £260
Amy Charlesworth AC124 ‘Brace for Landing’ oil 60x51cm £260
Amy Charlesworth AC128 ‘Ribblehead by Dusk’ 81 x 57cm £375 lr
Amy Charlesworth AC129 ‘Brace for Landing 2’ 60 X 51.5cm £260 (Framed)lr
Amy Charlesworth AC130 ‘What you doin’ 41.5 x 30cm £150-lr
Amy Charlesworth AC132 ‘I Feel Pretty, OH So Pretty’ 20 x 27.5cm £70lr
Amy Charlesworth AC133 ‘Little coal Tit’ £70 lr
Amy Charlesworth AC136 ‘This is not as Comfortable as I Thought it would be! 24 x 34.5cm £80 lr
David Starley
David, the proprietor of the Bingley Gallery, first studied art at Sydney University whilst working in a steel foundry, but then chose to follow a career in archaeology, before becoming a professional artist. He is a member of the Aire Valley Arts Group. David’s subjects explore the natural landscape of Yorkshire and beyond, with trees as the central focus of much of his work. Whilst trees are familiar objects in our environment, they are too easily passed without attention. By portraying the forms and character of individual trees, or groups in woodland, the viewer is led to a greater appreciation of these living structures – changeless yet changing, strong yet vulnerable, never to be taken for granted.
Oil paint is very thickly applied (impastp) with a painting knife to produce a three-dimensional, almost sculpted, image. This not only adds great depth but produces a surface that responds subtly to the changing light of the environment in which the work is displayed.
Find more of david’s work here
ds673 Malham Cove 30x24in 2023 £450
ds668 Thornton Viaduct, Winter. 36x24in 2023 £480
ds645 Cofa Pike Cumbria after a photo by Phil Lawler 30×24 2022 £450
ds679 Haworth Moor and Top Withens 48x24in 2023 lr
ds664 Three Peaks from Burn Moor 60x30in £980
ds615 Twelve Apostles, Ilkley Moor 30x40in £850
Janine Denby Collography
Janine Denby trained in Graphic Arts at Leeds Metropolitan University and obtained a MA from Bradford University. She currently divides her time between teaching, running print workshops and printmaking in her studio in Halifax.
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Janine Denby JD08_’Ingleborough_Late Summer Breeze’ Collagraph 1of1. 37.5x11cm Unframed £120 lr
Janine Denby JD09_’Valley Below Twin Peaks’ Collagraph 1of1. 43.5x58cm Unframed £440 ‘lr
Janine Denby JD11_’Moors Above Hutton le Hole Collagraph TP2. 36.5×25.5cm Unframed £150 lr
Janine Denby JD12_’Rainbow Mountain_Penyghent’ Collagraph P2. 23x23cm Unframed £80 lr
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Janine Denby JD13 ‘Noor-Hill Night Flight Collagraph 2of10. 22.5×22.5cm Unframed £90 lr
Judy Sale – Oils and Mixed Media
Judy Sale is an internationally acclaimed artist, born, and brought up in the United States with a BA degree in Art from an American university. She has lived and worked from her home/studio in Haworth W. Yorks for the past 14 years but has previously lived/worked in 7 other countries and travelled to many more. Her artwork is non representational but is nevertheless often inspired by her knowledge, experience and found objects collected from other cultures. She prefers to work on a large scale with her customary bold colours and contrasts but today often works smaller to accommodate clients and space available in her working environment.
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Judy Sale JSA01 ‘Blue Reflection’ mixed media on board, framed, 53cm x 73cm £275
Judy Sale JSA02 Home Work Series, ‘Winter Home 2,’, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 2018, 50 x 20cms £320
Paul Hudson
Paul Hudson is a member of the Aire Valley Artists Group and ‘Inkers’and , printing, weaving, painting and ceramics are amongst his repertoir. The two pieces in the Christmas Exhibition use the first two tequniges to creat art in response to the Bradford Textile Collection. Paul explained “Starting with the way a weaving is noted down in the work books I imagined how to relate those patterns into an actual weave”
Paul Hudson PH11 ‘Intentions to fabric I’ Print and Weaving (Primary colour Warp threads) 21x33in £375
Paul Hudson PH12 ‘Intentions to fabric II’ Print and Weaving (Secondary colour Warp threads) 21x33in £375
Fran Elliott
Based in Silsden, West Yorkshire, Fran is a fine artist working in watercolours, inks and acrylics. After completing an Art History Degree, Fran graduated in Paper Conservation at Camberwell School of Art and began her career as the Egyptian Papyrus Conservation Officer at the British Museum. Largely self-taught, she pursued her creative studies privately, alongside a Civil Service career before completing an art foundation training at Leeds College. Fran has become known for her painterly works of florals, figurative works of animals, landscapes and beach scenes. Drawing on her original works, she also designs surface patterns for the fashion industry.
Fran-Elliott-FE02-‘Zebra’-Acrylic-30x30cm-framed-to-44×38.5cm-£295
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Fran-Elliott-FE01-‘Blue-Tiger’s-Head’-Acrylic-51x61cm-framed-to-69.5×79.5-£395
Fran-Elliott-FE03-‘Chaffinch-in-the-Roses’-Acrylic-30.5×25.4cm-framed-to-44×38.5cm-£160
Daniel Metcalfe Oils
Daniel’s oil paintings tend to be inspired by nature and landscape. Paint is used in a fairly loose manner and the work can move either towards realism or abstraction depending on the subject matter. He is particularly interested in finding satisfying ways of applying paint so that patterns and shapes are emphasised. Previously a Bingley Resident, he now lives in Thornton.
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Daniel Metcalfe DM05 ‘June Night’ oil on paper 31x29cm
Daniel Metcalfe DM06 ‘Cloud Shapes’ oil on paper 21×17
Daniel Metcalfe DM07 ‘Thornton Field’ oil on paper 23x22cm
Daniel Metcalfe DM08 ‘Summer Dreaming’ oil on panel 25
Nina Wright Ceramics
Nina produces a wide range of ceramics, often functional but beautiful, wheel-thrown work intended to enhance everyday routines. In the gallery we routinely have just a small selection of her unglazed porcelain tea-light holders. The incised designs and ‘torn’ edges of which become evident through the translucent ceramic when the light is burning. For the Christmas show Nina has brought along a selection of platters and large bowl in bold designs.
Nina Wright NW01-6 Tea Light Holders £20-£30
Nina Wright NW07-08 Tea light holders £30
Nina Wright NW09 Large ceramic bowl yellow blobs on blue- £100
Nina Wright NW10-Large ceramic -bowl light blue squares on darker £100
Nina Wright NW11 Large ceramic bowl multi coloured swirls-£100
Nina Wright NW12 Large ceramic bowl blobs and strings on darker £100
Nina Wright NW13 ceramic platter yellow and blue on darker £85
Nina Wright NW14 ceramic platter multi coloured swirlsr £100
Nina Wright NW15 ceramic platter pale strings and blobs on blue £85
Liz Brooks
Further colour is brought to the gallery by Liz Brook’s fused glass. It seems only recently that she was first experimenting with this medium, but she’s now competing with the best artists in the field.
Liz Brooks LB03 Triskele knot of sunne and waeter. Fused glass on Honister slate base h35cm £300
Liz Brooks LB05 ‘Stratified’
Liz Brooks LB06 Sun lightLight on sea Ht46cm
Liz Brooks LB07 Light on the water Ht46cm
Liz Brooks LB08 The Play of Light on Water Ht40cm
Liz Brooks LB09 Ripples Ht36cm
Daniel Shiel –
Photographic Artist & Writer
Daniel’s photographic work is put into context by his career in archaeology. He traces his preoccupations back to childhood holidays in Wales and Cornwall; walking in landscapes scarred by past mining and the ruins of agricultural change.
Daniel continues to walk, explore and look and, through photography, collects the rich textures and patterns he sees in everyday objects both natural and artificial; details often overlooked at first glance. These images provide the ‘materials’ or ‘palettes’ with which he explores and develops themes associated with the past, absence and decay. He considers his work as psycho-geographical adventures into the marginal and semi-abandoned areas that lie at the edge of the urban environment and the countryside.
The landscapes and objects he photographs have ‘minor histories’; from creation through decay to final abandonment, with repair and recycling further enriching their ‘history’ and increasing the complexity of their appearance. The resulting structures may have a surrealist quality; becoming landscapes that are the settings for a questionable and unsettling narrative.
Daniel’s latest project combines photographic editing and collage with writing. His new book, set in the village of Thornton, West Yorkshire combines alternative history, fantasy and humour.
Thorntichronicon: A History and Guide to a Yorkshire Village and a Parallel World
Daniel Shiel DAN25’The_Arch_of_the_Sails’ Digital Photo on Dibond._54x54cm 2of25 £195. Aso as card mounted print 50x50cm £120
Daniel Shiel ‘The_Arch_of_the_Flags’_DAN26 Digital Photo on Dibond 0cm £195
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June Russell Printmaker
June is a printmaker who trained at Bradford College, and now works from her studio at South Square in Thornton. She uses a wide range of traditional and contemporary printmaking methods, but is currently concentrating on etching and drypoint etching, producing very small editions in which each print is subtly different.
Her work is based on observation and drawing and is always about places – real, imagined or a mixture of the two. She is interested in the glamour and fascination of landscapes, and in the hold that even very ordinary places can have over our imagination. Subjects that particularly interest her include: the domestic city scene, urban and industrial landscapes, walls and hedges, paths and power lines; in short, the landscape in use.June uses a wide range of traditional and contemporary printmaking methods, but is currently concentrating on etching and drypoint etching, producing very small editions in which each print is subtly different.
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June Russell JR49 ‘Snowmelt’ 8of10 etching and aquatint 38x48cm £120
June Russell JR52 ‘From North Street Carpark’ 010_NC Drypointetching £48×38 £95
June Russell JR59 ‘blowy days’ etching and aquatint unframed 38×28 £50
June Russell JR50 ‘Autumn Chimneys’ Linoprint 42x25cm unframed £75
June Russell JR51 ‘Line Landscape’ Drypoint Etching 42x25cm £75
June Russell JR54 ‘The Brow’ Etching and aquatint AP 26x30cm unframed £60
June Russell JR55 ‘After Rain’ Colour Etching 4of6 28x36cm unframed £80
June Russell JR55 ‘Crummock’ Drypoint Etching AP 38x48cm unframed £75
June Russell JR57 ‘Cautley Crag’ Etching and aquatint 2of10 40x38cm unframed £65
June Russell JR57 ‘Holme Moss’ Etching and aquatint 2of10 40x50cm unframed £80
June Russell JR58 ‘Forest Floor’ Drypoint Etching 1of4 34x40cm unframed £75
Dianne Cross -Ceramics
Riddlesden based ceramicist makes hand built ceramics which aim to evoking a feeling of the sea shore and coastline. Imagined seascapes/marine landscapes encouraging the viewer to see their own ‘picture’ rather than illustrating a specific view. Boxes, vases and vessel forms feature washes of cobalt and copper with occasional ‘pops’ of yellow over a matt white glaze. her Latest series ‘Moorland and Garden Work feature turquoise and lilac glazes.
Dianne-Cross-DC10-Large-cylinder-Vase-£100
Dianne-Cross-DC11-small-cylinder-Vase-£55
Dianne-Cross-DC12-small-angled-vase-£55
Dianne-Cross-DC13-small-lidded-box-£65
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Dianne-Cross-DC15-Large-Oval-Shallow-Bowl-£75
Dianne-Cross-DC16-Open-oval-Vessel-£45
Dianne-Cross-DC17–Large–Vase-£55
Dianne-Cross-DC18–Small–Vase-£25
Dianne-Cross-DC19–Small–Vase-£25
Dianne-Cross-DC20-21-23-small-footed-ovals-£20
Tim Tudor -Ceramics
Holmfirth based ceramicist.
