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 …
Titled ‘Looking Forward to Looking Back,’ these works are generated by the temperature ranges on 13 key dates of the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK. These pieces relay exactly what the country was experiencing environmentally through key turning points of the pandemic. The journey expressed through the collection, explores the early stages of the UK’s …
The context of the artists’ creative practice focuses on richness of Welsh culture, heritage and language. She collects objects to capture information about past and present. By referring to these objects in her making she creates a personal response to their context and its history. Using the medium of glass, the unpredictable nature of the …
Wendy is a former athlete and her understanding of sport and what it offers us has evolved over the years. Wendy once interviewed volunteer coaches about their motivation and one claimed it was his way of upholding the human right to be the best we can be. Here are people of Shipley being that: performing …
Catherine both hand-builds and throws her pottery. She often incorporates elements influenced by nature or kitsch diving belles; adding additional pieces used as handles or knobs. Made to be joyful and uplifting, playful yet practical. Once leather hard she sprays or sponges on colourful slips and hand decorates. He pieces are high fired so suitable …