Welcome to the Biggest and Busiest Show of the year. 19 artists and over 90 pictures (not to mention 3D)
The Exhibition will run from 4 July to 8 September2024 Artists include ; Josie Barraclough, Kath Bonson, Marilyn Brophy, Pam Bumby, L.Amy Charlesworth, Ann Davies, Darren Davies, Alison Deegan, Jane Fielder, Louise Garrett, Andrea Hobson, Sarah Light (Seven Hands Design), Suzanne McQuade, Leyla Murr, Karen Rowley, David Starley, Jess Swift, Jeremy Taylor, Rob Thomson, Stella Verity.
Kath Bonson
After many years working in a family business, Kath studied Fine Art at Bradford College, graduating in 2010. During these studies, she rediscovered her schoolhood love of ceramics. Since then, she has developed her own characteristic style and her work has been successfully shown across the country. The work is inspired by the upland landscape of Pennine Yorkshire. New works for the show include box forms containing Kaths chosen Ted Hughes poetry.
Kath-Bonson
Kath-Bonson-KB2471-Mill-Memories-vase-£75
Kath-Bonson-KB2532-Landscape-Round-vase-£15
Kath-Bonson-KB2589-The-Mill—sculpture-£250
Kath-Bonson-KB2606-Mill-Village–sculpture-£150
Kath-Bonson-KB2608-Round-Horse-and-Wall-vase-£65
Kath-Bonson-KB2615 Horse-vase-£30
Kath-Bonson-KB2621Dog-Walker-vase-£30
Kath-Bonson-KB2623-Two-Cows-vase-£30
Kath-Bonson-KB2649-Landscape-Curl-vase-£15
Kath-Bonson-KB2654-Small-Curl-vase-£12
Kath-Bonson-KB2663-Partitioned-set-of-4-sculpture–£120
Kath-Bonson-KB2665-Sheep-and-Barge-vase-£75
Kath-Bonson-KB2668-Landscape-Wall-Curl-vase-£55
Kath-Bonson-KB2694-Landscape-Curl-vase-£65
Kath-Bonson-KB2736–Moorland-Curlew-and-Wall-vase-£95
Kath-Bonson-KB2749–Large-segmented-curl-vase-£85
Kath-Bonson-KB2765-sculpture-resurgam-1-£65
Kath-Bonson-KB2766-sculpture- resurgam 2 £65
Kath-Bonson-KB2772–flying grouse curl vase-£65
Josie Barraclough
Scarborough born Josie, attended Batley Art College followed by Huddersfield and Leeds Universities before pursuing a full-time career in illustration and graphic design. Her art was further developed during extensive travelling and working overseas including Australia and the Far East. Josie who is influenced and energised by light and colour creates pieces that are a direct response to her surroundings. Inspired by experiences whilst travelling her subject work draws mainly on naturalistic elements landscapes, botanical and still life – finding that it’s often a tiny item of information which spurs a series of paintings.
Her work has developed in an expressive style in a variety of media – predominantly oil on canvas sometimes overlayin collage, and is powerful both in subject matter and colour. . Josie Barraclough paints mainly at her West Yorkshire studio and teaches art.
Josie Barraclough JB44 ‘Robin Hood’s Bay’ Oil and mixed Media 60cx60cm £450
Josie Barraclough JB45 ‘Iris and Honesty’ Oil and mixed Media 60cx60cm £450
Josie-Barraclough-at-work_detail
Marilyn Brophy
Marilyn Brophy has been a visual artist for most of what she says was a ‘a very full life’. Admitting that these combined both painful circumstances with joyful experiences, her art has followed through these paths, taking imagery from sublime to distorted perceptions of emotion whilst work has taken her from Guyana teaching teachers to embrace education for students with special needs to running Marin’s tearoom /gallery in Haworth. Under grey Yorkshire skies she ‘found’ colour and has held onto it, believing that colour is synonymous with life. For ever finding new themes to explore, her work on show in this exhibition features cats behaving badly…. in vintage surroundings. Asking about the origins of these, she proved elusive – not even liking cats due to their impact on her garden. In ‘It Wasn’t Me’, I just love the inclusion of Munch’s ‘The Scream’ in a domestic interior, passing silent comment on a black and white cat’s misdemeanor.
Marilyn Brophy MAB02 Here Birdie Birdie’ 16x20in £150
Marilyn Brophy MAB03 ‘Did I Do That’ 16x20in £150
Marylin
Pam Bumby
Pam is, a former art teacher and a real ‘painter’s painter’, is inspired by the effect of changing light on the landscape and by how it affects atmosphere and colour. Her compact oils glow with warmth, colour and light. There are just two new works in the exhibition room, but more can be found elsewhere in the gallery.
Pam Bumby painting at Roxby Beck Staithes
Pam Bumby PB14 ‘ Pocket Money, Please Mum’ oil on board 8x10in framed to 13.5×15.5in £230
Pam Bumby PB15 A Winter’s Walk, Five Rise Locks, Bingley’ oil on board10x12 framed to 15x17in SOLD
L. Amy Charlesworth
Amy is a Bradford born painter with a BA fine art degree from Leeds Metropolitan University who has worked and exhibited her hyperrealist paintings in Bingley, for many years, building up a reputation as a distinctive and original artist.
Working primarily in oils on canvas, Amy covers an amazingly diverse range of subjects from landscapes to botanical, architecture to animals and birds, figurative to industrial machinery, and pretty much anything in between. Her work is highly representational. As she puts it “I like things to look like they look”. This does not mean that the work is without her own twist. Frequently a more dramatic feel is brought out by the use of strong shadows and light, but the resulting work is always instantly recognisable as hers.
Amy Charlesworth – painting
L Amy Charlesworth AC037 ‘Fifth Wheel’ £190
L Amy Char;lesworth AC098 Who Can Say No to a Viking?’ £380
WHO CAN SAY NO TO A VIKING
Amy Charlesworth AC128 ‘Ribblehead by Dusk’ 81 x 57cm £375
Amy Charlesworth AC124 ‘Brace for Landing’ oil 60x51cm £260
Ann Davies
Ann Davies studied Graphic Design at Bradford College and is a painter with a particular obsession with glass structures including, victorian crystal palaces, shopping arcades and greenhouses. The latter have inspired paintings and drawings from wonderful formal gardens to the humble allotments at Beckfoot in Bingley. “I never tire of the link between the formal structure and the plants that grow and are nurtured within”. A wide range of media including pen and ink, drawing ink, watercolour and acrylic combine in her work to make pictures that reflect her love of man-made structures and natural forms.
Ann Davies AND02 ‘Lost Greenhouse Harlow Carr’ Watercolour acrylic pen and collage 40x33cm framed to 61x55cm £245
Ann Davies AND03 ‘Cacti, Ripley Castle’ Watercolour and pen. 23x36cm framed to 43x53cm £195
Ann Davies AND04 ‘Derelict, Hirst Wood’ Watercolour pen collage 39x29cm framed to 53x43cm £195
Ann Davies AND05 ‘Greenhouse, Beckfoot Allotments’ 26x39cm framed to 43x53cm £195
Darren Davies
Raised in the Black Country but then moving north, Darren studied Modern Art and the Philosophy of Art and a BA (Hons) in Classical Studies at university. Careers in both cartographic surveying and teaching have provided a lifetime of experiences that have shaped hi art practises. The subject of his art is predominantly nature.
Darren Davies DAD01 ‘Proud Pheasant’ Acrylic on canvas 16.5x12in £190
Darren Davies DAD02 ‘Hunting Barn Owl’ Acrylic on canvas 16.5x12in £190
Darren Davies DAD03 ‘Fallow Deer’ Acrylic on canvas 23.5×23.5in £295
Darren Davies DAD06 ‘Startled Hare’ Acrylic on canvas 12×16.5in £190
Darren Davies DAD07 ‘East Riddlesden Hall’ Acrylic on canvas 16.5x12in £190
Darren Davies DAD08 ‘Sunderland Point Evening’ Acrylic on canvas 16.5x12in £190
Alison Deegan
Professionally Alison combines her artwork with a career as a landscape archaeologist.
Her understanding of the landscape as a sequence of layers formed over millennia is reflected in Alison’s artistic practice. She uses lino cuts to express the structure of a landscape either through bold, single-colour prints or builds up layers of colour and texture to create more complex and intricate images. For Alison, printmaking is a release from the accuracy and objectivity demanded for her archaeological work and the physical process of lino cutting and printing is an escape from the digital workspace. Work in the Summer Exhibition features new work incorporating collage.
Alison Deegan AD37 ‘Long Tailed Tits’ Monoprint collage 49×39 framed to 53x43cm £200
Alison Deegan AD38 ‘A Crowd of Sanderlings’ Mono print lino print Collage’ 44x32cm framed to 53x43cm £160
Alison Deegan AD39 ‘Gannets at Bass Rock’ Monoprint collage 49×39 framed to 53x43cm £200
Jane Fielder
Jane Fielder’s quirky and atmospheric watercolours are instantly recognisable, even if her usual washing line is missing, the location for her ‘Secrets works’ is Five Rise Locks, near her home in Bingley.
Jane Fielder Secrets in the Moonlight Five Rise Bingley’ Watercolour and Pastel. 38x54cm £390. Also available as a Ltd. Edn. Print
Jane Fielder JF813A ‘Secrets on the Locks, Five Rise, Bingley’ Watercolour and Pastel. 56.4x46cm £390
Jane Fielder
Jane Fielder JF776A Playing with Pylons 1 framed to 53X43cm £150
Jane Fielder JF777A Playing with Pylons 2 framed to 53X43cm £150
Louise Garrett
Louise is both a plein air painter and urban sketcher both of which challenge her to create art in direct response to the location. Subsequent studio work develops from these initial field sketches, paintings and photos. More recently Louise has increasingly shifted towards more expressive mixed media – work that creates both visual excitement for her and a means to communicate an emotional response to the viewer.
Louise Garrett LG47 ‘Bingley Allotments’ Acrylic on paper 27x25cm framed to 42x41cm £200
Louise Garrett LG48 ‘Bridge at Roundhay’ Acrylic and collager 40x30cm £180
Louise Garrett LG49 ‘The Mansion, Roundhay’ Acrylic and collage 40x30cm £180
Louise Garrett LG50 ‘Loom 1 (brown)’ Acrylic and collage 42x59cm framed to 46×63 £300.
Louise Garrett LG51 ‘Loom 2 (blue)’ Acrylic and collage 42x59cm framed to 46×63 £300
Andrea Hobson
When my new next door neighbour in Saltaire, Andrea Hobson and her partner opened their house for the annual Art Trail I discovered that she was a wonderful artist, working in acrylic paint, to give a lovely bright, clean and summery treatment to views of our local parks. Also, that she’d been a winner of the Art Battle Manchester contest. In her words “Most of my work tends to focus on landscapes. My most recent series looks at urban parks. These wonderful, sky filled, spaces bring me close to nature and give me a sense of peace and comfort. Perhaps, because they have over decades been slowly shaped, tended and cared for, they emanate calm and tranquillity.
Andrea Hobson AH02 ‘ Saltaire Park 2’ Acrylic on Card 56x39cm framed to 76x56cm £350
Andrea Hobson AH03 ‘ Park’ Acrylic on Card framed to 90x70cm £375
Andrea Hobson AH01 ‘ Saltaire Park 1’ Acrylic on Canvas 100x100cm £550
Rose Jollands
Rose Jollands is a multi-media artist for whom visual art has always been a part of her life, but in the past ten years has focussed on painting. One aspect of her dyslexia is a naturally short attention span, which she has managed to turn into a creative asset- using her phone as a sketchbook, to save fleeting moments which otherwise fades quickly from memory. The images are transformed into artworks, overpainting old picture frames from charity shops adding paints, powders and pigments to conjure an image from raw materials like a magician or an alchemist, seeking ways to render not only the photograph but her memory of that moment.y.
Rose Jollands RJ07 ‘Myrtle Park’ Mixed Media 32x67cm £225
Rose Jollands RJ12 ‘Off Park Road Bingley’ Mixed Media 20x20cm £140
Rose Jollands RJ09 ‘Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Crossflatts’ Mixed Media 36x31cm £180lr
Rose Jollands RJ10 ‘Old Main Street, Bingley’ Mixed Media 25x30cm £180lr
Rose Jollands RJ08 ‘Mill in the Mist’ Mixed Media 24x30cm £180lr
Rose Jollands RJ24 ‘Bingley in the Sky’ Mixed Media 36x46cm £275lr
Rose Jollands RJ14 ‘Yard Near gasoline Alley, Bingley’ Mixed Media 20x20cm £220lr
Sarah Lyte Embroidery and Felting
Sarah, who is now based in Wilsden, uses free machine embroidery over a wet-felted or fabric collage 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”.
Sarah Lyte (Seven Hands Design) SL17 ‘Church Lane, Wilsden’ Wet & needle felting & free motion embroidery. Framed to 60x48cm £300
Sarah Lyte (Seven Hands Design) SL23 Buttercup Fields framed to 21x17in £300
Sarah Lyte (Seven Hands Design) SL15 ‘Saltburn Poppies’ Wet felting and free motion embroidery framed to 36x47cm £250
Sarah Lyte Nov 23 1 lr
Suzanne McQuade
Suzanne’s art is Inspired by the beautiful and diverse coast and countryside of our region, in particular those places where she experiences peace and tranquility. Her aim is to convey these emotions to the viewer through her painting; allowing them, to take a moment to explore the scene and gain the feeling of space which she has experienced.
Suzanne is a watercolour painter in the classic tradition, but despite her many years’ experience still has respect for what she describes as ‘a tricky medium’. The process starts with washes of paint on wet paper which allow the paint to move and merge – it’s unpredictability can be frustrating at times, but serendipitously rewarding at others – allowing light to shine through the translucent elements of the paint. As the work progresses, the artist gains more control, building up the intensity of colour before finally painting in the fine details.
Suzanne McQuade SM33 ‘Top of Malham Cove’ Watercolour 50x50cm framed to 70x70cm £425
Suzanne McQuade SM34 ‘Reflections and Hunmanby’ Watercolour 40x40cm framed to 62x62cm £325
Suzanne McQuade SM35 ‘Living Stream’ Watercolour 30x30cm framed to 50x50cm £250
Suzanne McQuade
Karen Rowley
Karen Rowley was one or the original members of Aire Valley Arts back in 1995. For this exhibition she has. focused on the unique ways animals convey hidden messages to each other as well as to humans. As she explained. “In some cases, our pets’ faces reveal secrets they would rather not tell!” Two of these, ‘It Wasn’t Me’ features dogs whose expression suggests otherwise.
Karen Rowley KRO03 ‘It Wasn’t Me 2’ 8x8in oil on Canvas £85
Karen Rowley KRO04 ‘What the……’ 8x8in oil on Canvas £85
Karen-Rowley
Karen Rowley KR06 ‘When You’re Smilingr’ Oil on Canvas 20x20cm £85
Karen Rowley KR08 ‘You and I Against the World’ Oil on Canvas 20x20cm SOLD
Karen Rowley KR09 ‘Water baby’ Oil on Canvas 20x30cm £175
Leyla Murr
Leyla is a predominantly abstract artist, working both from her Eldwick home and The Dockfield Road Creative Arts Hub in Shipley. Originally from Zagreb, Croatia, her artistic training allowed her to turn professional 15 years ago. Not surprisingly her work has an international appeal and can be found in collections across the world.
Leyla Murr LM64 ‘Summer Vibes’ Acrylic on Canvas 150x100cm £1650
Leyla-Murr-Painting-June-2024
Jess Swift
It may only be a few years since Bradford-based Jessica Swift completed her fine Art at Leeds Arts University, but she has already had four solo exhibitions of her contemporary abstract paintings and sculpture. Interested in the methods of making, she aims to make the viewer to think about the process behind her work, rather than just the finished piece as a whole. This stems from her preferred way of learning, being dyslexic herself. Jessica’s love of bright, often contrasting, colours is evident in her painting work. For example, one of the pieces she is showing, ‘Harmony In Contrast’ uses colour to symbolise a unity between different textures and tones, the aim behind this piece was to create a composition in which the brightly coloured background (her past) becomes nothing more than a backdrop to the commanding colour -in this case purple- which represents a strong consciousness of change in her life.
Jess Swift working clay
Jessica Swift JES01 ‘Fragile 1’ Acrylic Emulsion Ink Oil Pastel and Chalk Pastel Canvas 40x30cm £70
Jessica Swift JES02 ‘Static’ Acrylic on canvas 50x50cm £100
Jessica Swift JES03 ‘Harmony in Contrast’ Acrylic Emulsion Ink Oil Pastel and Chalk Pastel Canvas 61x75cm £170
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. Oil paint is very thickly applied (impasto) 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.
David Starley is an artist who frequently paints woodland. In one impasto oil painting a tree reveals its own secret; it is the home for a tawny owl. His other paintings draw on his earlier career as an archaeologist and feature monuments and finds that have stories to tell about our distant ancestors.
David Starley
ds680 The Colourful World of Shipley Wharf 36x24in 2023 £480
Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor, fondly remembered as the tutor of numerous art classes around the Bradford region, is continuing his return to painting after having to take extended time out.
Jeremy Taylor JT27 ‘To Grass Wood’ Oil on Canvas. 24×18 £450
Jeremy Taylor JT26 ‘Winter Afternoon Bolton Abbey’ Oil on Canvas. 20×16 £500
Jeremy Taylor JT24 ‘Box of Daisies’ Oil on Canvas. 20×16 £200
Jeremy Taylor
Rob (Tom) Thomson
‘Tom’ is an example of someone who came to art later in life, after retiring from his career in architecture he was able to concentrate on painting in both watercolour and oils. As you might expect, many of his works include buildings in urban and rural environments, and the laws of perspective come as second nature
Rob Thomson RT21 ‘Bingley Old Market Hall’ watercolour £240
Rob Thomson RT22 ‘Halifax Tram’ watercolour £210
Rob Thomson RT23 ‘Robin Hood’s Bay’ watercolour £210
Rob Thomson RT24 ‘Whitby’ watercolour £210
Rob Thomson RT25 ‘Cuba’ watercolour £210
Rob Thomson RT26 ‘Staithes’ watercolour £210
Stella Verity
Stella only started painting after being “persuaded” to join by her partner, Rob (Tom) Thomson at a watercolour class at Shipley College. “I was hooked after my first visit! I realised that, even after taking art at O and A level, although I knew a lot of techniques and theory, I had never been taught how to paint. Jeremy’s classes were wonderful, enlightening and rewarding as well as entertaining”! Stella is a keen gardener and cook and this is reflected in her subjects usually of flowers fruit or vegetables. “I love the vibrant colours and the amazing patterns of the natural world and try to replicate the beauty and variety in my work. I have recently tried my hand at collage and really enjoyed the process.”
Stella verity SV23 ‘Box of Peppers’ Watercolour £170
Stella Verity SV22 ‘Sunflowers’ Watercolour £300
Stella verity SV21 ‘Red Poppies’ Paper Collage £200
Stella verity SV20 ‘Thornton Force’ Watercolour and pen £170
