Klara Repas is a Leeds-based gingerbread artist of Hungarian origin. She obtained a master’s degree in chemical engineering at the University of Pannonia in Hungary and a Certificate in Botanical Art and Illustration at the New York Botanical Garden. Her gingerbread creations are artistically recognized by the Hungarian Heritage House in Budapest. Klara is deeply …
Caroline creates botanical casts from plaster using flowers and foliage. Casting preserves the natural beauty of plants enabling the form and structure of the different parts to be really seen and appreciated. Details are picked up by the clay into which she presses the plant material to create a mould for the plaster. She works …
1 Salts Mews hosting work by Ry Gibson place of the advertised artist Jo Walton, who due to unforeseen circumstances, is unable to exhibit in the Open Village. Thanks to Ry for stepping in at the last minute! Ry’s moss work is inspired by their observation of community, connection and infection throughout the pandemic. They …
Final year, level 3 Art and Design students at Shipley College have been creating work across a wide range of contemporary craft disciplines – including printmaking, bookbinding and ceramics. Linocuts inspired by the surrounding Yorkshire landscape, screen printed designs inspired by nature adorn artworks and tote bags, handmade decks of playing cards and ceramic bowls …
Hannah is a local art and textiles facilitator, miniaturist, and visual artist, known as HanMade. Hannah has worked with people of all ages and abilities, from Forest schools to Well-being sessions in art centers to focussed workshops in colleges, providing individual tutorials to planning and running community group projects. She has experience in archiving, curating, …
Rachel Morrell creates abstract and semi-abstract work in acrylics, oils, textiles and mixed media. Her inspiration comes from the textures, strata and patterns of the coast, moorland, abbeys and former industrial ruins in North Yorkshire. She has a particular interest in the way nature will return and take over derelict buildings given little or no …
Winston Plowes makes environmental art (land art) with natural materials that come to hand. His art responds directly to his surroundings, evolving from a random incident or growing from a seed of thought or preparatory sketch. His art owes its life and death to a light breeze, the onset of rain or simply the passage …
Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, Jo will no longer be able to exhibit at 1 Salts Mews. This venue will now host work by Ry Gibson- Moss Artist. Jo’s work is rooted in the elements. She creates abstract sea/colour-scapes focusing on horizons, using gold, silver, copper leaf, and oil, playing with steel, rust, wax and …
Kate works in several media, including printmaking, India ink, pen and paint. Her inspiration comes from the natural world and the human form. Kate is a zoology teacher by trade and finds beauty in the function of nature and the environment. The way that the body reacts to the environment ad is also fascinating, using …
Inspired by small scenes and nature in the everyday, Zosia’s work centres on flora and fauna with elements of richly textured gold leaf. Bringing tactile organic surface together with multiple layers of gilding, the paintings are a celebration of the decorative object.