Welcome to the Biggest and Busiest Show of the year. 19 artists and over 90 pictures (not to mention 3D)<\/p>\n
The Exhibition will run from 4 July to 8 September2024 Artists include ; Josie Barraclough, Kath Bonson, Marilyn Brophy, Pam Bumby, L.Amy Charlesworth, Ann Davies, Darren Davies, Alison Deegan, Jane Fielder, Louise Garrett, Andrea Hobson, Sarah Light (Seven Hands Design), Suzanne McQuade, Leyla Murr, Karen Rowley, David Starley, Jess Swift, Jeremy Taylor, Rob Thomson, Stella Verity.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/div>\n [\/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 containing Kaths chosen Ted Hughes poetry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”KB Gallery” gallery_ids=”1427,7848,7849,7850,7851,7852,7853,7854,7855,7856,7857,7858,7859,7860,7861,7862,7863,7864,7865,7866″ posts_number=”30″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”JB Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Scarborough born Josie, attended Batley Art College followed by Huddersfield and Leeds Universities before pursuing a full-time career in illustration and graphic design. Her art was further developed during extensive travelling and working overseas including Australia and the Far East.\u00a0 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 \u2013 finding that it\u2019s often a tiny item of information which spurs a series of paintings.<\/p>\n Her work has developed in an expressive style in a variety of media \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JB Gallery” gallery_ids=”7769,7770,7771,7772,7773,7889″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”MB Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Marilyn Brophy has been a visual artist for most of what she says was a \u2018a very full life\u2019. 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\u2019s tearoom \/gallery in Haworth. Under grey Yorkshire skies she \u2018found\u2019 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\u2026. in vintage surroundings. Asking about the origins of these, she proved elusive \u2013 not even liking cats due to their impact on her garden. In \u2018It Wasn\u2019t Me\u2019, I just love the inclusion of Munch\u2019s \u2018The Scream\u2019 in a domestic interior, passing silent comment on a black and white cat\u2019s misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”MB Gallery” gallery_ids=”7774,7775,7776,7777″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”PB Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Pam is, a former art teacher and a real \u2018painter\u2019s painter\u2019, is inspired by the effect of changing light on the landscape and by how it affects atmosphere and colour. Her compact oils glow with warmth, colour and light. There are just two new works in the exhibition room, but more can be found elsewhere in the gallery.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”PB Gallery” gallery_ids=”7778,7779,7780″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][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=”7343,7897,7898,6505,6435″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”AD Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Ann Davies studied Graphic Design at Bradford College and is a painter with a particular obsession with glass structures including, victorian crystal palaces, shopping arcades and greenhouses. The latter have inspired paintings and drawings from wonderful formal gardens to the humble allotments at Beckfoot in Bingley. \u201cI never tire of the link between the formal structure and the plants that grow and are nurtured within\u201d. A wide range of media including pen and ink, drawing ink, watercolour and acrylic combine in her work to make pictures that reflect her love of man-made structures and natural forms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”AD Gallery” gallery_ids=”7781,7782,7783,7784″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”DD Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Raised\u00a0in the Black Country but then moving north, Darren studied Modern Art and the Philosophy of Art and a BA (Hons) in Classical Studies at university. Careers in both cartographic surveying and teaching have provided a lifetime of experiences that have\u00a0shaped\u00a0hi art practises. The subject of his art is\u00a0predominantly\u00a0nature.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”DD Gallery” gallery_ids=”7785,7786,7787,7788,7789,7790″ posts_number=”8″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”AD Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Professionally Alison combines her artwork with a career as a landscape archaeologist.<\/p>\n Her\u00a0understanding of the landscape as a sequence of layers formed over millennia is reflected in Alison’s artistic practice. She uses lino cuts to express the structure of a landscape either through bold, single-colour prints or builds up layers of colour and texture to create more complex and intricate images. For Alison, printmaking is a release from the accuracy and objectivity demanded for her archaeological work and the physical process of lino cutting and printing is an escape from the digital workspace.\u00a0 Work in the Summer Exhibition features new work incorporating collage.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”AD Gallery” gallery_ids=”7791,7792,7793,7794,7795,7796″ posts_number=”8″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][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=”7349,7351,3474,7916,7917″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”LG text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Louise is both a plein air<\/em> painter and urban sketcher both of which challenge her to create art in direct response to the location. Subsequent studio work develops from these initial field sketches, paintings and photos. More recently Louise has increasingly shifted towards more expressive mixed media –\u00a0 work that creates both visual excitement for her and a means to communicate an emotional response to the viewer. <\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”LG Gallery” gallery_ids=”7797,7798,7799,7800,7801,7802″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”AH Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n \u00a0When my new next door neighbour in Saltaire, Andrea Hobson and her partner opened their house for the annual Art Trail I discovered that she was a wonderful artist, working in acrylic paint, to give a lovely bright, clean and summery treatment to views of our local parks. Also, that she\u2019d been a winner of the Art Battle Manchester contest. \u00a0In her words \u201cMost of my work tends to focus on landscapes. My most recent series looks at urban parks. These wonderful, sky filled, spaces bring me close to nature and give me a sense of peace and comfort. Perhaps, because they have over decades been slowly shaped, tended and cared for, they emanate calm and tranquillity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”AH Gallery” gallery_ids=”7804,7805,7803″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”RJ Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Rose Jollands is a multi-media artist for whom visual art has always been a part of her life, but in the past ten years has focussed on painting. One aspect of her dyslexia is a naturally short attention span, which she has managed to turn into a creative asset- using her phone as a sketchbook, to save fleeting moments which otherwise fades quickly from memory. The images are transformed into artworks, overpainting old picture frames from charity shops adding paints, powders and pigments to conjure an image from raw materials like a magician or an alchemist, seeking ways to render not only the photograph but her memory of that moment.y. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”RJ Gallery” gallery_ids=”7614,7619,7616,7588,7615,7631,7556″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”SL Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n 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. \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\u2019s like artists reaching across time, all of us leaving our mark\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”SL Gallery” gallery_ids=”7806,7807,7808,7809″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”SM Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n \u00a0Suzanne\u2019s art is Inspired by the beautiful and diverse coast and countryside of our region, in particular those places where she experiences peace and tranquility. Her aim is to convey these emotions to the viewer through her painting; allowing them, to take a moment to explore the scene and gain the feeling of space which she has experienced.<\/p>\n \u00a0Suzanne is a watercolour painter in the classic tradition, but despite her many years\u2019 experience still has respect for what she describes as \u2018a tricky medium\u2019. The process starts with washes of paint on wet paper which allow the paint to move and merge \u2013 it\u2019s unpredictability can be frustrating at times, but serendipitously rewarding at others – allowing light to shine through the translucent elements of the paint. As the work progresses, the artist gains more control, building up the intensity of colour before finally painting in the fine details.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”SM Gallery” gallery_ids=”7814,7815,7816,4571″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][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. focused 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=”7372,7373,7375,7810,7811,7812,7813″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][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 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=”7817,7818″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”JS Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n It may only be a few years since Bradford-based Jessica Swift completed her fine Art at Leeds Arts University, but she has already had four solo exhibitions of her contemporary abstract paintings and sculpture.\u00a0 Interested in the methods of making, she aims to make the viewer to think about the process behind her work, rather than just the finished piece as a whole. This stems from her preferred way of learning, being dyslexic herself. Jessica\u2019s love of bright, often contrasting, colours is evident in her painting work. \u00a0For example, one of the pieces she is showing, ‘Harmony In Contrast’ uses colour to symbolise a unity between different textures and tones, the aim behind this piece was to create a composition in which the brightly coloured background (her past) becomes nothing more than a backdrop to the commanding colour -in this case purple- which represents a strong consciousness of change in her life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JS Gallery” gallery_ids=”7819,7820,7821,7822″ posts_number=”10″ _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. 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=”3212,7053″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”JT Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n \u00a0Jeremy Taylor, fondly remembered as the tutor of numerous art classes around the Bradford region, is continuing his return to painting after having to take extended time out. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JT Gallery” gallery_ids=”7827,7826,7825,7824,7828″ posts_number=”10″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”RT Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n \u00a0\u2018Tom\u2019 is an example of someone who came to art later in life, after retiring from his career in architecture he was able to concentrate on painting in both watercolour and oils. As you might expect, many of his works include buildings in urban and rural environments, and the laws of perspective come as second nature<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”RT Gallery” gallery_ids=”7829,7830,7831,7832,7833,7834″ posts_number=”10″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”SV Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stella only started painting after being \u201cpersuaded\u201d to join by her partner, Rob (Tom) Thomson at a watercolour class at Shipley College. \u201cI was hooked after my first visit! I realised that, even after taking art at O and A level, although I knew a lot of techniques and theory, I had never been taught how to paint. Jeremy\u2019s classes were wonderful, enlightening and rewarding as well as entertaining\u201d<\/em>!\u00a0 Stella is a keen gardener and cook and this is reflected in her subjects usually of flowers fruit or vegetables. \u201cI love the vibrant colours and the amazing patterns of the natural world and try to replicate the beauty and variety in my work. I have recently tried my hand at collage and really enjoyed the process.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”SV Gallery” gallery_ids=”7839,7838,7837,7836,7835″ posts_number=”10″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ \/][\/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″] Welcome to the Biggest and Busiest Show of the year. 19 artists and over 90 pictures (not to mention 3D) The Exhibition will run from 4 July to 8 September2024 Artists include ; Josie Barraclough, Kath Bonson, Marilyn Brophy, Pam Bumby, L.Amy Charlesworth, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Kath Bonson<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Josie Barraclough<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Marilyn Brophy<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Pam Bumby<\/h4>\n
L. Amy Charlesworth<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Ann Davies<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Darren Davies<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Alison Deegan<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Jane Fielder<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Louise Garrett
<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\nAndrea Hobson
<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nRose Jollands
<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nSarah Lyte <\/strong><\/span>Embroidery and Felting<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Suzanne McQuade<\/span>
<\/strong><\/h4>\nKaren Rowley<\/span>
<\/strong><\/h4>\nLeyla Murr<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/h4>\n
Jess Swift
<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\nDavid Starley<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Jeremy Taylor<\/span>
<\/strong><\/h4>\nRob (Tom) Thomson
<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nStella Verity
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