Ian paints mainly coastal and industrial subjects. He visits places that have a history of working people and past glories, industry on the wain and the re use of post industrial land and structures. He uses bold colours and angels to give a monumental feel to often basic or faded subjects. The fishing industry, it’s …
The weather and its impact on the landscape plays a significant part in Paula’s work. She likes to play with combinations of colours, textures and expressive marks to create mood, atmosphere, drama. When Paula starts a painting, she has no end point in mind. Painting intuitively, focusing first on the desire to work with particular …
Working in acrylics and with gold leaf, Zosia paints landscapes, interiors and small scenes, finding inspiration in everyday environments. She works from a mixture of found photographs and her own excursions, combining tactile textures with the painted image to make objects to be measured.
Based in North Yorkshire, Kimberli works expressively and intuitively in acrylics, watercolours, pastels, oil pastels, collage, embossing foil, encaustic wax, found objects, and ink. Kimberli’s self-taught painting technique focuses on spontaneous creativity and not being tied to any one particular outcome. Her many-layered paintings emerge as bursts of spirited energy and colour. She is inspired …
When Debi looks at a scene, she immediately speculates about what is going on. She is fascinated by the ways people relate to each other and the world they live in. The wide-ranging mixture of Yorkshire’s industrial and rural landscape provides endless scope for visual storytelling. The artist may direct attention with colour and tone, …
Koot is the brush name for a rock and punk album cover designer. He now combines that rock ‘n’ roll imagery with imaginary creatures that inhabit a human world. These are produced as airbrush and oil paintings and as lino-cut prints on paper and t-shirts.
Nina is an oil painter, Saltaire Art School founder and a pianist. Nina’s work is an unapologetic celebration of femininity. By placing delicate and powerful brushstrokes on canvas and blending the boundaries between figurative art and abstraction, Nina’s paintings are speaking directly to the subconscious. *NOTE: This location is open on Sunday 28 May 2023 …
Rachel studied photography for 3 years before studying Fine Art, and currently studies on the MA Fine Art course. Rachel’s simple, powerful and poetic pieces represent many aspects of being a woman, being alive, and experiencing all parts of life, good and bad. Desire, fantasy, lust and love. All incredible experiences. Both beautiful and destructive, …
Jill is a student on the MA Visual Arts course. Working with the faces and places she knows, their foibles and features, the funny and the sentimental, their struggles and emotions, her work is knowingly kitsch, is concerned with the longevity of imitation, of meme, and of dysfunctional nostalgia. Using the limited palette of mid …
David is a professional artist, living in Saltaire but working from the Bingley Gallery. His aim is to evoke an emotional response to our environment through his art. Oil paint is applied thickly with a knife to produce an almost sculpted image. Subject matter includes the landscape of Yorkshire and beyond, with trees as the …