Judith Levin<\/h4>\n
Judith explained that she’s spent the past 24 months, primarily solitary, painting variations on a theme. This exhibition is about the beauty of the natural landscape of the region, especially when the moors are full of purple heather, the changing light, the distant mists, surprise brooks and waterfalls, walking through cloud.<\/p>\n
Her medium is oil on canvas, but with huge differences in size, from miniature to wall size. The landscapes are predominantly of the moorland for which our region is famous, but further canvases include few still lifes: orchids, peonies and wild heather, in the same colour palette.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The Rustic Route<\/h4>\n
The First of our new stars are the two Matts who work together under the name of ‘The Rustic Route’ in nearby Eldwick. Between them as Joiner and Electrician they produce items decorated with Fractal Burning – dendritic patterns charred into the wood by sending high voltages aross the wood’s surface . They stress that all timber is from local sources, seasoned in their own woodyard. The technique is undoubtedly dangerous, but the effects are beautiful. Just don’t try this at home!<\/p>\n
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Richard Gibson
<\/strong><\/h4>\nOur second new exhibitor is Richard Gibson, who works under the banner of Wold Wire Sculptors. He’s not the first person we’ve come across working humble chicken wire, but few can match his abitity to infuse life into the media.<\/p>\n
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\nKath Bonson
<\/strong><\/p>\nAfter 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.<\/p>\n
Traditional techniques, refined over centuries, are combined with experimentation \u2018to push at the boundaries of what clay can do\u2019. Pieces are hand-built from stoneware or porcelain-based clays and Kath\u2019s own paperclays which allow her additional freedom to develop the forms and structures. Individual pieces may have up to a dozen different glazes, created by Kath, layered together such that firing at a temperature of 1200\u00b0C causes them to interact and create additional texture. Kath\u2019s \u201cimage\u201d pieces incorporate screenprinted photographic images, to which oxide pigments are applied, to add colour and further texture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\nGavin Edwards
<\/strong><\/p>\nHaving previously worked as a Cartographer, Field Archaeologist, Archaeological Curator and finally as Museum Collections Manager, working with wood is Gavin\u2019s latest career choice. An unconventional background perhaps but, having always enjoyed working with wood, he took the opportunity to explore where his love of wood might take him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an intrinsic beauty in the fine detailing of the internal structures that are created as the tree grows, with many variations in grain quality and colour. It is this finer detail that really attracts my attention and which I hope to enhance through the way I prepare the surfaces, and by using very simple forms\u201d<\/p>\n
Gavin uses a wide range of native and non-native woods, birch plywood and reclaimed wood. In most cases the design element of his work is intended to showcase the character and quality of the wood itself. It is sometimes an unusual feature in the wood that provides the inspiration for the design.<\/p>\n
Surfaces are hand sanded to a very fine level, then finished off with wood wax, rather than varnish, to allow items to develop their own character over time. Stains or paint, are used only on baseboards and designs. He believes it is the quality and appearance of the wood is that matters most.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Mike Bentley Wood turner<\/h4>\n\n\nMike Bentley is a traditionally trained wood turner with over forty years experience, Mike first took up turning as a teenager to meet his mother\u2019s demand for lace bobbins. Initially these were produced using a lathe attachment for a Black and Decker drill!\u00a0 Mike estimates that he has now made in excess of twenty thousand bobbins for customers across 4 continents.<\/p>\n
Mike particularly likes working with British native timbers, hand working each piece of this natural material to reveal the beauty within the wood and letting its shape and form suggest the design of the finished piece. Mike predominantly uses either reclaimed or locally sourced timber and his pieces are hand finished using natural waxes or oils.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jane Hurford Ceramics
<\/strong><\/h4>\nJane is a tutor at Hive community arts charity in Shipley and seems to turn her hand to a range of styles of work, often with an element of fun. Many of these are designed to be weatherproof for outdoors display.<\/p>\n
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The Gallery will be launching its traditional Christmas show on Tuesday 16th Nov (7-9pm) which will then open ever day until Christmas Eve. It is always something a bit special; a chance for regular exhibitors to prepare new work, the past year\u2019s soloists to return with potential Christmas offerings and to give space to new artists who have caught the eye during the year. The front exhibition space in the gallery may have as many as 20 artists work on show. There is always a little uncertainty as to what turns up on installation day, but an eclectic mix can be expected, with no themes, no tonal co-ordination- and a huge range of media- a true Christmas Variety Show, with something to suit all tastes. With concerns over the global supply chain in the run up to Christmas, it is good to know that locally produced goods are still available, with the additional benefits of minimal, transport-related, carbon emissions, support for local producers, and the survival of independent retailers. The Bingley Gallery, has been based on Park Road, Bingley for the past 15 years, originally under the ownership of Jane Fielder and more recently by David Starley. Both are artists themselves, and both continue the tradition of supporting many other talented artists that work in our region by providing exhibition space and marketing for them.<\/span><\/div>","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstarleyartist.com\/bingley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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.<\/p>\n Traditional techniques, refined over centuries, are combined with experimentation \u2018to push at the boundaries of what clay can do\u2019. Pieces are hand-built from stoneware or porcelain-based clays and Kath\u2019s own paperclays which allow her additional freedom to develop the forms and structures. Individual pieces may have up to a dozen different glazes, created by Kath, layered together such that firing at a temperature of 1200\u00b0C causes them to interact and create additional texture. Kath\u2019s \u201cimage\u201d pieces incorporate screenprinted photographic images, to which oxide pigments are applied, to add colour and further texture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”Kath Bonson Gallery” gallery_ids=”6302,6303,6304,6305,6306,6307,6308,6309,6310″ 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=”GE text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Gavin Edwards Having previously worked as a Cartographer, Field Archaeologist, Archaeological Curator and finally as Museum Collections Manager, working with wood is Gavin\u2019s latest career choice. An unconventional background perhaps but, having always enjoyed working with wood, he took the opportunity to explore where his love of wood might take him.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is an intrinsic beauty in the fine detailing of the internal structures that are created as the tree grows, with many variations in grain quality and colour. It is this finer detail that really attracts my attention and which I hope to enhance through the way I prepare the surfaces, and by using very simple forms\u201d<\/p>\n Gavin uses a wide range of native and non-native woods, birch plywood and reclaimed wood. In most cases the design element of his work is intended to showcase the character and quality of the wood itself. It is sometimes an unusual feature in the wood that provides the inspiration for the design.<\/p>\n Surfaces are hand sanded to a very fine level, then finished off with wood wax, rather than varnish, to allow items to develop their own character over time. Stains or paint, are used only on baseboards and designs. He believes it is the quality and appearance of the wood is that matters most.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”GE Gallery” gallery_ids=”2190,6279,6280,6281,,,” 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=”MB Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Mike Bentley is a traditionally trained wood turner with over forty years experience, Mike first took up turning as a teenager to meet his mother\u2019s demand for lace bobbins. Initially these were produced using a lathe attachment for a Black and Decker drill!\u00a0 Mike estimates that he has now made in excess of twenty thousand bobbins for customers across 4 continents.<\/p>\n Mike particularly likes working with British native timbers, hand working each piece of this natural material to reveal the beauty within the wood and letting its shape and form suggest the design of the finished piece. 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<\/strong><\/p>\nMike Bentley Wood turner<\/h4>\n
Jane Hurford Ceramics
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