The Exhibition will be launched on the evening of Weds 13 Nov and will run from 14 November 2024. On show will include a selection of the many artists who have exhibited through the year, some more of our regulars plus some new faces, Artists include ; Josie Barraclough, Tony Dexter, Kawa Saed, Kath Bonson, Marilyn Brophy, L.Amy Charlesworth, Jane Fielder,, Sarah Light (Seven Hands Design), Karen Rowley, David Starley, Jeremy Taylor, Judith Levin and Heather Swain
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. 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 JB49 The Lakes-Derwent Water Series 2 Oil 60cmx60cm £375
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
Josie Barraclough JB50 Venice 60cmx85cm Mixed Media £575
Tony Dexter
Tony is a Wharfedale artist painting original contemporary images in acrylic on canvas. A regular exhibitor, 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.
Tony Dexter TD38 ‘Sheep Shed’ acrylic on canvas 30x30in £360
Tony Dexter TD39 ‘The Bay’ acrylic on canvas 30x30in £355
Tony Dexter TD40 ‘Reflections on a Croft’ acrylic on canvas 30x30in £365
Tony Dexter
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.
Marilyn Brophy MAB05 ‘Hewenden Viaduct’ 20x16n £150
Marilyn Brophy MAB02 Here Birdie Birdie’ 16x20in £150
Marilyn Brophy MAB03 ‘Did I Do That’ 16x20in £150
Marilyn Brophy MAB04 ‘Sit Still Big Boy’ 20x16n £150
Marilyn Brophy MAB06 ‘Saltaire circa 1880’ 20x16n £150
Marylin
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 AC138 ‘Hurry up will you! everyday I have to wait for you’ oil 88.5×69.5cm £575
Amy Charlesworth AC124 ‘Brace for Landing’ oil 60x51cm £260
L Amy Charlesworth AC139 ‘The Invasion’ oil 61.5x80cm £530 (framed)
L Amy Charlesworth AC140 ‘It’s a Polar Bear’ oil 60x80cm £480
L Amy Charlesworth AC141 ‘Coal Tit on a Blossom Branch’oil 90x40cm £360 (framed)
L Amy Charlesworth AC142 ‘Two Blue Tits in Conversation’ oil 90x40cm £ 360 (framed)
L Amy Charlesworth AC147 ‘Just a Nice Quiet Day’ oil 25x25cm £75
L Amy Charlesworth AC143 ‘I Made It!’ oil 47x48cm £230 (framed)
L Amy Charlesworth AC144 ‘Gordon Benett! it Happened Again, Another Murder!’ oil 42×42 £125
L Amy Charlesworth AC145 ‘Crow Mist’ oil 50×50.5cm £150
L Amy Charlesworth AC146 ‘Hewenden Viaduct, Sky Reflection’ oil 51x76cm £280
L Amy Charlesworth AC148 ‘I’m Actually A Very Keen Gardener’ oil 25x25cm £75
Heather Swain
Heather, who works from her home studio in Baildon is passionate about printmaking, with lino-cutting as her most common technique. Subject matter varies from careful studies from nature through to more abstracted works. Although the prints are produced as small ‘limited editions, her tendency to experiment and vary colours and techniques during printing often results in subtle differences within editions. Please be aware that the ctual pprint may vary in colour and intesity from the images below.
Heather Swain pic
Heather Swain HSW01 ‘Saltaire Aire’ Linoprint 50.6×40.6cm £75
Heather Swain HSW02 ‘Moorlands 3’ Linoprint1of1 Framed to 55x45cm £120
Heather Swain HSW03 ‘Voges Landscape’ Linoprint 50x40cm £85
Heather Swain HSW04 ‘Koi Pair’Linoprint 50.6×40.6cm unframed £85. Also HSW05 8of10 framed £120
Heather Swain HSW06 ‘Sea Washed’ Linoprint40x30cm £60
Heather Swain HSW07 ‘Be Water’ Linoprint 40x30cm £60
Heather Swain HSW08 ‘Silverdale’ Linoprint 6of12 40x30cm £60. Also HSW09 9of12ve
Heather Swain HSW10 ‘The Air in Saltaire’ Lino print 5of7 framed to 46x36cm £100. HSW11 7of7 unframed £70
Heather Swain HSW12 ‘Hirst Woods’ Linoprint 40x30cm Framed £100
Heather Swain HSW13 ‘Soft Pool’ Linocut3of10ev 40x30cm framed £100 HSW14 unframed £60
Heather Swain HSW15 ‘Seven Shells’ Linoprint 2of8 40×30 £60
Heather Swain HSW16 ‘A River’s Disguise’ Linoprint 5of12 £60
Heather Swain HSW17 ‘Sweet Peas’Linoprint on monoprint 40x30cm £65
Heather Swain HSW18 ‘And Red Brought Joy’ Linoprint 3of15 35.5×28 unframed £55
Heather Swain HSW19 ‘Pine Cone with Border’ Linoprint 4of5ve 35.5x28cm £55
Heather Swain HSW20 ‘Red Grass’ Linoprint 1of5 25x20cm £35
Heather Swain HSW21 ‘Robin Windermere’ Linoprint 3of22 25x20cm £35
Heather Swain HSW22 ‘Stag’ Linoprint on Monoprint 25x20cm £30
Heather Swain HSW23 ‘Yorkshire Curlew’ 1of18 Linoprint 25x20cm £45
Heather Swain HSW24 ‘Japanese Garden’ Linocut 1of10 25x20cm £40
Heather Swain HSW25 ‘Kyoto Tree’ Linoprint 2of10 ve £40
Judith Levin
Nobody can quite conjour up the atmosphere of our upland moorland like Judith. We have a good selection of her work in our big downstairs gallery and just a couple up in the front-room Christmas Show
Judith Levin in Studio
Judith Levin JL75 30x40ins Waterfall £1,850
Judith Levin JL82 ‘Early Evening’ Oil on Canvas 100x75cm £1700
Jane Fielder
Jane Fielder used to run the gallery and still plays an important part in it’s direction. We always have a good stock of her work and a few will undoubtedly make their way into the Christmas show
Jane Fielder
Jane Fielder JF822A ‘Bringing Peace and Love’ mixed media. Framed to 7x22in £350
Jane Fielder JF525K Golden Cats Oil. Framed to19x19in £390
Jane Fielder JF54L ‘Mum in a Million’ oil on bard. Framed to 18x24in £390
Jane Fielder JF53L Happy Kitchen watercolour. Framed to 16x10in £250
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 Nov 23 1 lr
Sarah Lyte (Seven Hands Design) SL24 ‘1st February (Harden)’ Wet felting & embroidery. Framed to 53x43cm £275
Sarah Lyte (Seven Hands Design) SL27 ‘1st February (Harden)’ Wet felting & embroidery. Framed to 53x43cm £275
Sarah Lyte (Seven Hands Design) SL25 ‘Summer, Whitby’ Wet felting & embroidery. Framed to 51x38cm £275
Sarah Lyte (Seven Hands Design) SL26 ‘Ilkley Moor’ Wet felting & embroidery. Framed to 50x40cm £275
Karen Rowley
Karen Rowley was one or the original members of Aire Valley Arts back in 1995. This christmas show feaures some of her characthterful animal portraits.
Karen Harmen KRO10 ‘Club Tropicana’ oil 20x20cm £85
Karen Rowley KRO04 ‘What the……’ 8x8in oil on Canvas £85
Karen Harmen KRO12 ‘Holly Golightly’ oil 30cm £120
Karen Rowley KR08 ‘You and I Against the World’ Oil on Canvas 20x20cm £85
Karen Harmen KRO11 ‘You are so Beneath Me’ oil 30cm £97
Karen Harmen KRO13 ‘Side Eye Sam’ oil 20x20cm £85
Karen Harmen KRO14 ‘Club TropicanaWhen You’re Smiling’ oil 20x20cm £85
Karen Rowley KRO03 ‘It Wasn’t Me 2’ 8x8in oil on Canvas £85
Karen-Rowley
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
David Starley ds696 ‘Stone Rose. East Riddlesden Window. 30x30in £450
ds615 Twelve Apostles, Ilkley Moor 30x40in £850
Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor, well know, particularly 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
Jeremy Taylor JT23 ‘Box of Sunflowers’ Oil on Canvas. 24×12 £200
Rachel Hinds
Rachel was one of our first artists at the Gallery and although her genre of art has shifted direction in recent years, she still occasionally treats us to one of her misty atmospheric works
Rachel Hinds CA40 ‘Sunset Boats Offshore from a Castle’ 76x76cm £350
Rachel Hinds at work
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.