Lisa Metcalfe, a Yorkshire born artist, works from her garden studio in Cross Hills creating vibrant, intuitive, contemporary art. Lisa works mainly with acrylic paint and mixed media. Pencil marks, acrylic ink and collage elements often feature in her work, building layers of interest and a subtle tactile quality. Colour plays a vital part in …
Adele is a York based Digital Photomontage Artist. Her ever growing collection of 19th century photographs is where she chooses her characters and brings them back to full colour, intertwining them with delicate foliage and rich pattern, she creates images both sophisticated and playful. It is ultimately the love of the Victorian era that drives …
A collection of very fine pen and ink pieces on paper, illustrating Edwina’s own poetry and taking influence from global iconography, myth and legend. Music is also a very strong influence in Edwina’s work. The work itself is sometime described as reminiscent of illustrated manuscripts. She will be showing a range of work that includes …
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 …
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’ …