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 …
A self taught artist and maker from a young age, Joolz creates a variety of work across several media. Her imaginative portrait paintings are in a naïve style. Joolz’ mixed media canvas pieces incorporate a variety of collage, found items, photography, texture, and mystery. She also makes quirky whimsical creatures. Her work is inspired by …
Amanda Glanville is a Maker of Tiny Glass Stuff. Discovering the meticulous art of flame-worked glass in the mid 1990’s she’s been on a mission ever since to reclaim the tradition of making kitsch ‘little glass animals’, reinventing them for the present day as quirky, affordable collectables. She has become well-known at Designer Maker events …
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 …
Ian Burdall paints marine subjects mainly on the Yorkshire coast. He paints in oils concentrating on working and post industrial settings. This includes lost and broken objects, places and people. His aim is to reflect their former worth, dignity and purpose in a changed environment.
Lauren’s practise looks into themes of hedonism and nostalgia. This is mainly explored through the medium of film photography, and digital drawing, with some experimentation in collage and photo editing. She uses the colour pink in a literal way making reference to rosy retrospection, to highlight the way some people recall their past more fondly …
Drawing on feelings and memories of place, the weather and its impacts plays a significant part in Paula’s work. She plays with combinations of colours, textures and expressive marks to create mood, atmosphere, drama. “When I start a painting I have no end point in mind. I paint intuitively, focusing first on the desire to …
“Just the clothes on their backs: bear witness” is a clothesline. Pegged on the line are panels of silk fluttering in the moving air. Full size images of clothing are printed on the panels and, on the clothing, images of migration. Many migrants travel with ‘just the clothes on their backs’. Imagine the clothes could …