Kate works in watercolour and textiles, using transparent fabrics like watercolour washes to build layers of complexity. She uses both hand and machine embroidery to provide line and density. Her work is largely figurative and she uses a variety of formats from framed pictures to hangings. She has a liking for shiny fabrics and favours …
Rose paints over old picture frames, building layers of pigments to create a tactile surface full of atmospheric shades. Overlaid are impressions of local views and dramatic cloudscapes, sourced from photos she takes while walking about West Yorkshire. The images flicker between representation and imagination, rendering fleeting light effects through complex mark making. After completing …
Al Jones is a hydrogeologist based in Saltaire. As an amateur, he has slowly built up a collection of paintings during the last 15 years of living in Shipley and Saltaire. His work focuses on interiors, Northcliffe allotments, and curious objects he owns such as the roots of a 4000-year-old bog oak.
Andrea Hobson’s art focuses primarily on the landscapes she encounters in her day-to-day life. She works with acrylics in a semi-abstract style and her recent works lean towards Fauvism, in their use of strong colours and bold compositions. Her paintings showing in Saltaire Arts Trail have all been made since she moved to Saltaire in …
Wu Kong China Art Crafts is based in West Yorkshire founded by the Chinese artist Su Yao, with original hand-painted traditional Chinese ink paintings. All the artwork is unique and represents traditional and ancient Chinese culture.
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 …
Matt’s work is a love letter to where he lives: Meltham, Holmfirth West Yorkshire. Living on the edge of and regularly commuting through the Peak District, he has developed a huge appreciation for the natural beauty of the local surrounding area. Matt works in acrylic, watercolour and ink. On holidays he loves to return to …
Di Payne is a contemporary landscape painter based in Cheshire. Her work is rooted in a love of the British landscapes. She captures the essence of the places that inspire her practice, capturing and reflecting the feel of the environment, from the barren windswept moors of Dartmoor, Devon to the Scottish Highlands and quieter evenings …
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.
David’s work is characterised by heavily applied oil paint which gives a considerable physical depth to his painting. Subject matter includes the landscape of Yorkshire with trees often as the central focus of his work. By portraying the forms and character of individual specimens, or groups in woodland, the viewer is led to a greater …