The Bingley Gallery\u2019s Summer Exhibition will run 13 July to 24 September with 20 artists including Leyla Murr, Suzanne McQuade, Jade Marczynski, Saray Lyte (Seven hands Designs), Gabrielle Hall, Josie Barraclough, Kawa Saed, Dan Metcalfe, Paul Hudson, Nina Wright, Bonehead, Dehlia Barnard-Edmunds (The Merryweather Artist), Baldev Mehta, Tony Dexter, David Starley. L. Amy Charlesworth, Jane Fielder, Kate Lycett and Liz Brooks.<\/p>\n
DO JOIN THE ARTISTS FOR OUR LAUNCH: 7-9PM WEDS 12 JULY [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”JB Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Josie was actually born on the coast at Scarborough but her life as a painter, illustrator and teacher has taken her far afield and she\u2019s now based in West Yorkshire. Using oil paint on a collage of printed clippings, her work literally incorporates layers of meaning but her work remains fresh and appealing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JB Gallery” gallery_ids=”3968,6045,6046,6047,6048,6049,6050,6051″ posts_number=”10″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”BH Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Bonehead grew up here on Park Rd and attending local schools, \u2018cared only for his art, graphics and design technology grades\u2019. 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 \u2013 the First School he\u2019d attended \u2013 and was offered a job labouring. The combination of hard graft combined with creativity in restoring and developing property worked well until \u2018my back fell out of with the building trade\u2019.<\/p>\n Attending night school to learn autoCAD, he came across a laser cutting machine, \u2018an amazing bit of kit\u2019 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.<\/p>\n Having come full circle, he reckons it\u2019s \u2018pretty amazing\u2019 to be back in Bingley doing art and playing around like he did as a young lad. He\u2019s even adopting his schoolboy nickname \u2018Bonehead\u2019 as his artist\u2019s name.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”BH Gallery” gallery_ids=”4776,5992,5991,5993,5994,5996,5997,5693″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”SMc Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Suzanne is a watercolor painter in the classic tradition who aims to capture the peace and tranquility of favorite locations, and to convey these emotions to the viewer. Suzanne admits that the medium of watercolour is a tricky one; its unpredictability can be frustrating at times, but serendipitously rewarding at others – allowing light to shine through the translucent elements of the paint.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”SMc Gallery” gallery_ids=”4571,6052,6053,6054″ posts_number=”6″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”SH text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Sarah Light (Seven Hands)<\/strong><\/p>\n We’re very pleased that Wilsden-Based Sarah is back for the summer show with her free-motion embroidery on wet-felted fabbric. Her hand-built up-cycled wood frames hugely enhance Sarah\u2019s beautiful artistry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”SH Gallery” gallery_ids=”6060,6059,6055,6056,6057,6058″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”DBE Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n \u00a0Dehlia Barnard-Edmunds \u2018The Merryweather Artist\u2019 is new to the gallery. Her lino cuts focus on the natural environment and literally down to earth views of people on their allotments.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”DBE Gallery” gallery_ids=”6061,6062,6063,6064,6065,6066,6067,6068,6069,6070,6071,6072,6073″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”JM Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n I saw this series of hand embroidered vignettes of some of Bradford\u2019s long-standing and well-loved shops at The Saltaire Art Trail and immediately thought they’d go well in our summer show. There’s a balance between refreshingly originality of subject matter and a very long tradition of samplers brought up to date.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JM Gallery” gallery_ids=”6074,6075,6076,6077,6078,6079″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”LM Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n 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, provided by British and European tutors, 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”LM Gallery” gallery_ids=”6081,6082,6083″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”TD Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Ilkley-based Tony uses acrylics to create visually striking acrylics.\u00a0 Many feature boats, in particular the famous cobles of the east coast<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”TD Gallery” gallery_ids=”4585,4543,6084,6085,6086″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”AC Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n 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 \u201clikes things to look like they look\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n For more of Amy’s work click here<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”AC Gallery” gallery_ids=”6087,6088″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”JF Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Jane Fielder, the Gallery\u2019s previous owner continues to be a favourite and whilst her \u2018Janescapes\u2019 are a regular feature of the gallery, she\u2019s always happy to try something new for exhibitions. For this one, she admits to having got quite excited by a new medium: “A new set of Fluid acrylic drippy paint markers prompted this ‘burst’. It felt like the old days. It was so exciting sitting in the kitchen painting, my favourite cloth, \u00a0a beautiful white hyacinth, the toaster, ancient cannon gas grill and the tiles that had been there 30 years when we arrived and 30 years since. I painted on a beautiful \u00a0hand painted grey canvas that a neighbour generously gave me.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JF Gallery” gallery_ids=”6089,6090,6091″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”DS Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n 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<\/a>. David\u2019s 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 \u2013 changeless yet changing, strong yet vulnerable, never to be taken for granted.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nJosie Barraclough<\/h4>\n
Bonehead<\/h4>\n
Suzanne McQuade<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Dehlia Barnard-Edmunds\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Merryweather Artist\u00a0<\/h4>\n
Jade Marczynski Embroidery<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Leyla Murr
<\/strong><\/h4>\nTony Dexter<\/strong><\/h4>\n
L. Amy Charlesworth
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Jane Fielder<\/h4>\n
David Starley<\/h4>\n
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