Josie Barraclough<\/h4>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JB Gallery” gallery_ids=”6401,6396,6400,6397,6398,6399″ posts_number=”10″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”TW Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n
Tracey Waddington Drawing<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”TW Gallery” gallery_ids=”6429,6430,6431,6432,6433″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][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=”4776,6368,5991,5693,5993,5996,5997,6369″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][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. These new works include Three ‘Heavenly Journeys”, based on images collected on a recent trip to the Dales\u00a0 “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”.<\/p>\n We also have plent of Jane Fielder related gifts on sale: Calendars, place mats, coasters,mugs christmas cards and even a jigsaw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JF Gallery” gallery_ids=”6405,6406,6410,6404,6409,6408,6407,6091,6569″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”JIT text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Jitterbugs [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JIT Gallery” gallery_ids=”6462,6463,6464,6465,6466,6467,6468,6469,6470,6471,6472,6473,6474,6475,6476,6477,6478,6479,6480,6481″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”SH text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Sarah Light (Seven Hands) Embroidery and Felting<\/strong><\/p>\n 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. \u201cThe 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\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”SH Gallery” gallery_ids=”6419,6059,6490,6489,6491″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”JM Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Jade Marczynski – Hand Embroidery<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JM Gallery” gallery_ids=”6420,6424,6421,6422,6423″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”TD Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n 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\u2019s his art \u2018took 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”TD Gallery” gallery_ids=”4585,6425,6428,6426,6427″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][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=”6508,6512,6438,6434,6511,6517,6435,6505,6506,6507,6509,6510,6513″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][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>\nBonehead<\/h4>\n
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Jane Fielder<\/h4>\n
<\/strong>Sally Marsden creates fantastic mini sculptures from the sort of items you\u2019d find in your grandfather\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nTony Dexter – acrylics
<\/strong><\/h4>\nL. Amy Charlesworth
<\/strong><\/h4>\nDavid Starley<\/h4>\n