Our new exhibition at The Bingley Gallery takes as its theme the telling of secrets. The artists are all members of Aire Valley Arts. The West Yorkshire group aims to be adventurous in their creativity. One of their ways of encouraging artists to step outside their normal genres, and comfort zones, is to set an exhibition title or theme to which all have to work towards. After several, often frivolous and soon abandoned ideas, the theme of \u2018Telling Secrets\u2019 was settled on. \u2013 a decision that led to much uncertainty as to how to paint, stitch, weave, print or mould the process of conveying confidences. The result is a remarkable variety of offerings.<\/p>\n
The Exhibition will run from 2 may to 2 june 2024 with 14 artists ; Kath Bonson, L. Amy Charlesworth, Martin Cosgrove, Jane Fielder, Caroline Hardaker, Paul Hudson, \u00a0 Anne Marwick, Karen Rowley, Judy Sale, Helen Shearwood David Starley, Susan Strange,\u00a0 Kate Stewart, Jan Whittock.<\/p>\n
DO JOIN THE ARTISTS FOR OUR LAUNCH: 7-9PM WEDS 1 MAY [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”KB Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n 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\u00a0 containing Kaths chosen Ted Hughes poetry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”KB Gallery” gallery_ids=”1427,7338,7337,7336,7335,7334″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”LAC Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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 \u201cI like things to look like they look\u201d. 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.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”LAC Gallery” gallery_ids=”7340,7341,7342,7343″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”MC Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Under the brush of Martin Cosgrove, even a bowl of pears take on a conspiratorial air. Martin can trace his roots in Bingley and Harden back to the 1700\u2019s and so has a long attachment to the region, but he\u2019s not primarily a landscape artist and prefers to work around concepts often re-working masterpieces have attracted and mystified himself. Euan Unglow\u2019s \u2018In the Shadow of the Cyprus\u2019 and the colour field works of Mark Rothko are amongst the art that receive this treatment in the current show<\/span>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”MC Gallery” gallery_ids=”7345,7346,7347,3445″ posts_number=”6″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”JF Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Jane Fielder\u2019s quirky and atmospheric watercolours are instantly recognisable, even if her usual washing line is missing, the location for her \u2018Secrets works\u2019 is Five Rise Locks, near her home in Bingley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JF Gallery” gallery_ids=”7348,7349,7350,7351,3474″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”CH text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Caroline has taught Art, ceramics and Life Drawing in schools and at Bradford College, but restricts tuition to a few adult art classes. Her work tends to be focused on landscape, particularly moorland, with its changing moods and seasons and fascinating textures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”CH Gallery” gallery_ids=”7352,7353,7354,7355″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”PH Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n An ex-art teacher in Leeds, Paul Hudson continues creating and showing his work with Aire Valley Arts. For the telling secrets exhibition he will have number of pieces on show ranging for Etching, pen and ink and paint. The great title of the show was in face harder to satisfy than as first thought. Who\u2019s secrets, who are the tellers, eventually the themes used were archeology, storytelling, the birds and the hidden stories from pages of books.<\/p>\n Ravens, collect secrets in the day and share them in the evenings when back at their roosts, take care when in the garden or near an open window what you are saying.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”PH Gallery” gallery_ids=”7356,7357,7358,7359,7360,7361,7362,7363,7364,7365,7366,5600″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”AM Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Anne is a Ben Rydding based artist and a member of the Aire Valley Arts Group.\u00a0 Her works often feature painted paper which is cut into strips and woven to produce bright geometric forms. Recently the complexity of the works has been increases adding folds to the weaving and painting.<\/p>\n For this show, Anne’s produced 3 paintings The work is done in oil pastel and gouache.She was interested in how the listeners hear our secrets in this 1st painting.Then the relief that comes from unburdening ourselves after shedding secrets. Finally the 3rd one is secrets that remain hidden.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”AM Gallery” gallery_ids=”7367,7368,7369″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”KR Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Karen Rowley was one or the original members of Aire Valley Arts back in 1995. For this exhibition she has delved beyond human secrets into an exploration of communication in the animal kingdom. focusing on the unique ways animals convey hidden messages to each other as well as to humans. As she explained. \u201cIn some cases, our pets\u2019 faces reveal secrets they would rather not tell!\u201d Two of these, \u2018It Wasn\u2019t Me\u2019 features dogs whose expression suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”KR Gallery” gallery_ids=”7370,7371,7372,7373,7374,7375″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”JS Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Born, brought up and educated with a BA in Art in the USA, Judy is now a British artist who has lived\/worked and exhibited in 8 different countries and travelled to many more.\u00a0 The past 15 years, Judy has lived\/worked in Haworth W. Yorks. but her artwork can be found in public and private collections across the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n Talking of her drawing \u2018The Monk is Drunk\u2019 ….<\/em> As an abstract painter, I have never been particulary interested in figurative work.\u00a0 But feel\u00a0 it is always good to try something new outside one\u2019s comfort zone. \u00a0One day,at a life drawing class a model dressed as Santa Claus holding a wine glass, which reminded me of a monk in flowing robes.\u00a0 In years past I worked\u00a0 amongst monks in Cyprus when I formed a foundation to restored an ancient monastery with the intention of making it into an international art centre. One elderly monk in particular had a bit of a drink problem which he liked to keep secret.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JS Gallery” gallery_ids=”7376,7377,7378″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”KSText” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Manningham based Kate Stewart\u2019s truly exquisite work combines watercolour and embroidery on fabric. She is a great observer of people and the way they communicate and has three studies of conversations in the show. \u00a0Do these concern long-held secrets? We\u2019d like to think so.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”KS Gallery” gallery_ids=”7379,7380,7381,7382″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”HS Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Helen is a British\/Australian artist with a 20+ year background in design, fascinated by the transformative effect a shift in perspective can make, having discovered beauty in the most unexpected of places at a time she believed there wasn\u2019t any left, anywhere. Helen photographs ordinary everyday objects like lampposts and rubbish bins, marvelling at the way they transform<\/span> into vibrant abstract art when viewed in a new light, tangibly demonstrating the power of looking at things in a different way. These photographs form the basis of her art in which she explores various media and themes, including the power of perspective, the beauty in the ordinary, the psychology driving our behaviour and the freedom to be found in questioning labels and seeing with \u2018new eyes\u2019.<\/p>\n Currently based in Western Australia, Helen joined AVA when she spent three months in West Yorkshire in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Images coming shortly<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”HS Gallery” gallery_ids=”7428,7423,7424,7425,7426,7427″ posts_number=”10″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)”]<\/p>\n <\/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. 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”DS Gallery” gallery_ids=”7383,7384,7385,7386,3212″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”SS Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Several of Sue Strange\u2019s paintings are based on overheard conversations, but otherwise she was keeping tight lipped about the thought process behind her work \u2013 a secret indeed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”SS Gallery” gallery_ids=”7404,7405,7406,7407,7408″ posts_number=”10″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”JW Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Jan has recently been exploring the printmaking techniques of collagraph and gel printing.\u00a0 The collagraphs have been produced using stiff card, which has been cut iand added to, with different textures.<\/p>\n Gel printing, provides the opportunity to build up images using many layers of pattern and colour with acrylic paints.\u00a0 Some of the resulting prints, for example, the figures, have been left as they were made.\u00a0 Other pieces have been cut up and added to the collagraphs to build up collages.<\/p>\n “The title of the exhibition is TELLING SECRETS and I\u2019ve tried to think of ways that we use the idea of secrets in the titles. For example, A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also chosen to use gold ornate frames, as well as gold leaf on some of the finished pieces, to convey the idea that secrets are often precious.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JW Gallery” gallery_ids=”7394,7395,7396,7397,7398,7399,7400,7401″ posts_number=”10″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″ custom_padding=”31px|0px|30.8167px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row background_color_1=”#000000″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Intro” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″] Our new exhibition at The Bingley Gallery takes as its theme the telling of secrets. The artists are all members of Aire Valley Arts. 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<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nKath Bonson<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
L. Amy Charlesworth<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Martin Cosgrove<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\u00a0<\/h4>\n
Jane Fielder<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Caroline Hardaker<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Paul Hudson<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
Raven, Raven telling secrets, Words foretelling future strife.
Raven, Raven telling secrets. Often deaths but sometimes life.
Raven, Raven telling secrets, listen as they roost tonight.
Raven, Raven telling secrets; whispers in the failing light.<\/p>\nAnne Marwick<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Karen Rowley<\/span>
<\/strong><\/h4>\nJudy <\/span>Sale<\/span>
<\/strong><\/h4>\nKate<\/span> Stewart<\/span>
<\/strong><\/h4>\nHelen Shearwood<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
David Starley<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Susan Strange<\/span>
<\/strong><\/h4>\nJan Whittock<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n