Chris Farrow
email, 01538 267007
I love simplicity and the strength of composition that must be found within simple images. I strive to create images that reflect the emotion of a remembered moment, images that are 'complete' in their composition.
The use of colour is important to me, whether strong vibrant colour, muted pastels or simple monochrome, colour is a vital part of my work in reflecting the emotional memory of the moment.
Tony O’Connell
Photographer
email, 01274 641527,
I am fascinated by the transient nature of reflections as they come and go with changes of light. Avoiding mirror images, I prefer reflective surfaces that distort,obscure,combine and rearrange.
Gus Wright
Ceramics
email, 01274 552180,
"I have always sought to create forms, whether in ceramic or soapstone, that are pleasing to the eye without the need for deep analysis and I feel I know when a shape or form ‘works’ as a sculpture."
Artist: Janet Yau
07821 867527, website
I combine innovative as well as traditional jewellery making techniques to create subtle textures with simple yet striking forms. I am drawn to the qualities of the precious metals and the compliment these with a combination of freshwater pearls, gemstones and coloured metal mesh.
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EXHIBITORS 2010
Barbara Cassell
Textiles
email, 01423 501311,
Developed her skills in particular to metal work and jewellery making combining textiles, metal and wood. Inspired by nature she combines all these elements in the making of jewellery, hats and wall hangings using their texture and colours designed by nature
Jane Carlisle
Silk collages
email, 01423 858806,
"As an artist I specialize in hand-painted silk collage, discovering places whilst walking and recording images with photography from which I can develop stylized designs. Having always been a silk painter I developed the hand-painted silk collage medium as I found it enabled me to lift a simple composition with vibrant colour and a crisp line.
Jane Carlisle
Silk collages
email, 01423 858806,
"As an artist I specialize in hand-painted silk collage, discovering places whilst walking and recording images with photography from which I can develop stylized designs. Having always been a silk painter I developed the hand-painted silk collage medium as I found it enabled me to lift a simple composition with vibrant colour and a crisp line."
Julia Borodina
I am a Fine Artist Painter educated in Russia and Britain. My main themes are landscapes and townscapes. I greatly enjoy working outdoors asd it gives me an opportunity to develop suitable compositions and experiment with light conditions.
In my work I am always searching for beauty. I am always trying to capture a unique moment of life, which on its own is telling a story.
Angela Barrow
Textiles
I am inspired by details and textures in the world around me and especially by the detail found in nature. I have always liked to include recycling in my work from items found in the home to objects found on the beach. Added to this I am increasingly working with British wool fibres.
Della Clark
Jewellery
email, 07782 109507
My aims are to create ‘real’ jewellery. Like to create simple contemporary designs with some emerging and developing
My work is wearable everyday jewellery and are indicative of my personality. Keeping things simple and uncluttered so people can see quite clearly the design
Eryl Fryer
“Small enticing holes to look in and discover hold a strong attraction to the inquisitive. Thrown in Porcelain, singularly, they are beautiful and fragile but when assembled in multiples they take on a spontaneous power which is even more beautiful and compelling. This meditative environment suggests the expansion of space.”
Kirsty Hopkins
Mixed Media
Kirsty Hopkins is an artist living and working in the Yorkshire Dales. Her recent work focuses on flowers and mushrooms, inspired by her trips to Plumpton Rocks and Harlow Carr. She uses mixed media textile techniques bringing together various textures to slowly build up pictures. She has recently opened a studio/gallery at the Kings Street workshops in Pateley Bridge. This allows her to run courses and demonstrate to visitors her techniques. She has work throughout the U.K., U.S.A., South Korea and Australia.
Duncan Pearson
I try to observe everyday things and put them onto canvas although that naturally can’t be done all the time. When this hasn't occurred I let my imagination take charge and base the paintings on sketches I've come up with. I normally have about 8 paintings on the go at once so even when one feels a bit dead and needs a bit of thinking about I can swiftly move on to another and keep on working.
Sophie Burns
As a painter, I believe the making of an image is each time a reinvention of the way we see the world. Through my scene paintings, I render little bits of this life, through sketches of people and places that I transform using my own sensitivity in colour and choice of subject.
Roger Bell
Sculpture
I regard myself as a sculptor making work to fit into a domestic setting, but with aspirations to produce work on a grander scale. My inspirations are eclectic and include the jigsaw form, architecture, metal cans from the first half of the 20th century, abstract sculpture, and furniture. My main material is fired clay but pieces may be on wooden or slate plinths and incorporate wire, textile or other materials.
Artist Ann Rogers
My atmospheric lighting is produced from top quality, highly translucent stoneware porcelain. The clay is rolled to a crucial, even thickness, timing is important here as porcelain is renowned for it's quick drying properties. Once rolled, surface patterns are applied to make the t. lights. This may be rolled on as in fabrics and lace or pressed in like buttons and stamps.
Joanne Rothwell
Every person, I believe, has the ability to express themselves through the Creative Arts when given caring support and guidance. It is through my own life experiences that I am able offer learners a rounded, supportive and a well-informed view to teaching and learning. This I feel I deploy in all my sessions.
I am in a privileged position, in that I practice my love for creating art and I have the skills to pass that passion on to a wide range of learners.
Vanessa Graham
email, 07841517201,
"Using mainly weave and braiding I push the boundaries and test the viewer’s perceptions of the techniques. Inkle weaving is the main method I exploit to translate my ideas, having developed a system of weaving bands of text."
Alison Carthy
My work explores the relationship we have with the natural world, and investigates ways of nurturing that connection, a search for a healing processthrough keeping in touch with the green.
I question our culture of instant gratification our insatiable need for more and the pace at which we are consuming the worlds resources.
Jackie Stonehouse
Jackie’s works are bold in composition and vibrant in colour. whether they are landscape, still life or figure drawing. Working mainly in acrylic and mixed media her approaches are as varied as her subjects
Elizabeth Helen Spencer
01756 752345
I discovered my passion for felting in 2003 after experimenting with a range of different media. I have worked hard to develop my skills and techniques. I am inspired by this media and believe that my approach and style has developed as my work has progressed. I continue to be excited and driven by the creative possibilities I can achieve through felting.
Catherine Kleeli
As a practicing Fine Artist, graduating with First Class Honours, I work across the disciplines of printmaking and painting. I am seeking to extend the range of galleries exhibiting my work.
Trevor Craggs
My paintings are rooted in landscape. They seek to convey the emotion of being in landscape. Recalling atmospheric encounters in changing light and weather, seasons and places. This frame of reference promotes a freedom in oil paint up to large scale .
Chris Rymer
Wood Artist
Hand crafted from locally reclaimed wood (logs) Chris creates contemporary wood art by reshaping nature, revealing fascinating combinations of patterns, lines and wood grain. The work evolves through careful shaping, controlled drying, seasoning and finishing with natural oil - a slow process, but well worth the effort in order to conserve the beauty that is wood.
Vanessa Plews
email, 01947 880361,
"I work principally with all natural fibres such as cotton, silks and merino wool tops. The base fabric for each of the scarves is personally hand dyed using my own specific mixes. The labour intensive craft of Nuno felting is then employed to apply pattern often inspired by my extensive knowledge of floral forms and colour gained through botanical drawing studies."
Mark Laycock
Mark Laycock creates contemporary and sculptural furniture using high quality English hardwoods.
His workshop is based in the beautiful coastal village of Robin Hood’s Bay, a few miles south of historical Whitby and surrounded by the North Yorkshire Moors National Park.
Using diseased and highly figured timber often incorporating the natural bark edge, Mark creates one of a kind pieces merging sculpture with furniture.
Val Marshall
Pottery
01524 262512, email
I just love the unpredictable results of a Raku firing, especially the excitement of opening the kiln and seeing all the wonderful colours on the pots – particularly the copper matt. Smoke firing is still also one of my favourite projects as I am able to use leaves from the woods for decoration and impressions for shaping dishes.
Anita Burrows
Anita has always loved black and white photography and still enjoys the wet process of printing in a darkroom where she feels the true rich blacks are produced. Anita uses selenium, sepia and copper toners creatively to help produce an image which she feels invokes a sense of the landscape she experienced at the moment the shutter was released.
Mark Sibley
It has been making paintings of the face that has been my subject interest over the past 10 years. My starting point (the face) is dissected, consciously breaking down figurative forms, and I reconstruct the fragmented forms through individual canvases. The canvases vary in size and proportion and their painterly treatment is arbitrary, in relation to the whole, with emphasis on the individual surface rather than the complete image.
Denise Swanson
I investigate the issues
involved in classification as complexity is removed and individuality or character is lost, looking at why we feel the need to classify and create order and the issues involved in doing so. I explore the interpretation and use of signs and representational imagery, philosophies and ancient belief
systems and the fields of cognitive science, looking at how we interpret images by using our senses,
memories and past experiences and how this ultimately affects our perception.
Mawdsley Williams
Mawdsley Williams create contemporary furniture that is comfortable to use and live with. Natural forms, architectural shapes, unusual grain patterns in timber and decorative joint detailing influence their designs.
Kate Stewart
I work from watercolours using layers of transparent fabric like watercolour washes to produce an intensity and subtlety of colour. The machine or hand embroidery provide line , pattern and texture. I have continued the theme of transparency in the screens so that bright light either shines through the screens or reflects from the shine of the fabrics.
Toni Hargreaves
Since 2004 my work has involved depicting mainly British domestic rural animals.
Primarily using a limited palette of sepia tones but sometimes engaging in the bold use of colour in a statement piece, I work in oils mostly on box canvas.
Cattle are a very prominent feature of my works and I continue to experiment with different perspectives and angles to emphasise different features.
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