Nina (MA in Fine Arts) is an oil painter, art teacher and pianist. Her slow-paced life on the edge of the river in Yorkshire resembles much of the philosophy she’s exploring. In her work, Nina presents her own spiritual reflections of a female as sacred and sensual energy. Celebrating women for their magnetic being, the …
Mark creates work in cast bronze, steel and mixed media painting. He casts his own work and often harnesses chance by using thin wax originals, or wood which is not fully burnt out. This creates imperfect and fractured pieces that make a solid permanent material seem fragile and in the process of disintegrating. He uses …
Annie Fforde has over 20 years of printmaking experience. Living and working in céret in france, from 2001-2018 running a printmaking centre, tutoring and organising national and international exhibitions for around 40 members. Since returning to uk a tutor with artworks, halifax, inkers printmaking group and freelance. Exhibitions of prints with inkers and individual in …
Louise regularly walk in her local area, responding to the shapes of trees moulded and distorted by weather, age and disease. She uses on location photography, sketching and plein air paintings to inform mixed media studio works that capture her response to the way trees change, their shapes when growing in proximity to each other. …
Catherine Hill is an award-winning artist from Lancashire, based in the UK. Easily recognised for her creative use of embroidered text, she has been invited to publish work in several publications most recently in Embroidering the Everyday: Found Stitch Paint by Cas Holmes. Her work combines vintage red thread and cotton cloth to create unique …
Pink and grAy (Sylvia Causer and Andrea Freeman) are a Live Art/Performance Art Duo based in the North of England, who describe themselves as two mature women doing daft things, seeking to explore deep social issues often through humour. They develop performances specific to locations and for event based work including festivals and exhibitions. ‘Toil’ …
Mark’s work often takes the form of strong portraits with a close focus on the human face and expressive use of colour rather than an attempt to render a photographic likeness. Abstract compositions are often small-scale and are usually inspired by music. He responds in the moment with marks and colours which will often be …
CatchLife is slow photography, each image the result of researching ancient maps and roaming the old footpaths, bridleways and turnpike roads, seeking out the remains of bygone settlements and workplaces that form the social and industrial heritage of the Pennines. Each site is revisited many times, across the seasons, using long exposures to capture the …
Amanda Lomas has worked across a range of medium for many years including: collage; printmaking and papier-mache. Creating mosaics is a further extension of this exploration into line, shape and colour. She is interested in representing landscape as well as creating beautiful house number designs from partially recycled materials. Mosaic workshops available (dates will be …
Michaela’s work is an exploration of growth, form and deterioration in the real and imagined natural world; what is interior (hidden) and exterior (visible): the weirdness of it and the wonder of it. Roots, shoots, pods, seeds, skin and husks have been constant motifs for 25 years. Processes of layering, adding and subtracting, are employed …