By walking in all seasons and weathers, Murniah experiences local landscapes changing over time. In her paintings she distills these scenes into simplified images of form and colour. Recently, her work has evolved into a more abstract style. For purchases, please contact Murniah via Instagram. Murniah has lately exhibited at the Saltaire Art Gallery and …
Adele’s process involves scanning 19th century photographs and extracting the characters that she finds waiting for her in the past, then relocating them to new surroundings. She intertwines her subjects with creatures and adds in delicate foliage and detail creating a timeless, dreamlike picture. Images are brought together using Photoshop, (including her own drawings and …
Ian has developed a personal style of collage making over the past four years. His artwork mixes materials from different sources, old photos, scraps of discarded paper, packaging, painted papers and more. The work ranges from fully abstract to imagined scenes. Each collage evokes a feeling, a hint of narrative, a personal story. He has …
Bev Morton is a mixed-media artist and creative workshop facilitator who lives in Thornton. She is a studio holder and a member of the Gallery Upstairs artists collective based at South Square. She is also one of the founders of the Thornton Arts Trail which takes place in the middle of June. Inspired by nature, …
Rachael is drawn to red and blue and uses those colours through lines and forms to create a visual language that she can communicate through. She enjoys using a range of mediums to express her ideas: some ideas are better communicated through a textile piece and others through a painting. She sees patterns everywhere from …
Nicola is a recent graduate from Leeds Arts University with an MA in Creative Practice. Latest artworks explore her industrial working class identity in relation to today’s natural world. In this series she uses the high rise to epitomize the limitations she felt growing up in a restricted built environment. The flora and fauna represent …
Aishat Arowosegbe merges digital precision and traditional techniques to interrogate identity through a lens of cultural resilience. Her work, rooted in Yoruba textile motifs and diasporic narratives, challenges beauty standards and erasure by centering Black women as regal, unapologetic subjects. With meticulous attention to light and shadow, she renders darker skin tones in vivid warmth, …
Emma creates fun and exciting, unique plushies of monster friends that appleal to people young and old. Emma’s monsters are fullof personality and come with a hand drawn mini bio, so you can get to know a little bit about their personalities and what to expect when they come to live with you. Through her …
Dionne’s work is currently a combination of paintings and mixed media relief pieces that combine embroidery, paper clay, precious metal clay, paper, watercolour, ink and found objects. Each piece is accompanied with a poem about and as a response to the physical work. Dionne pursues the experimentation with these varying objects, movements, textures, techniques, lines, …
Emily applies the traditional craft of marquetry in abstract form to express her creative vision. The colourful, sometimes conceptual, pieces are inspired by her love of Industrial Yorkshire. The interplay between the natural environment and human-made structures, is communicated through the choice of material and thematic elements. Emily loves experimenting with challenging colour combinations and …