Art & Contemporary Art

Paul Talbot-Greaves

Paul Talbot-Greaves is a professional landscape painter working in watercolour, Oil and acrylics. Many of his subjects are sought amongst the moors and hills of his native West Yorkshire and beyond. Among his many accolades he has been made a companion of the International Guild of Artists, an Associate of the British Watercolour Society, a Professional Associate and advisory panellist of the SAA, president of the Halifax Art Society, as well as an advisory panellist for Artists and Illustrators magazine.

Paul is a highly regarded contributor to The Artist magazine and has had four books published to date; ’Watercolour for starters (D&C), ‘30 Minute Landscapes’ (Walter Foster, USA), ’30 Minute Landscapes in Watercolour’ (Harper Collins) and ‘Landscapes in Watercolour’ (Crowood Press). He has also contributed to numerous other titles including ‘Watercolour layer-by-layer’ (Walter Foster, USA), ‘101 Top techniques’ (D&C), ‘Complete Watercolour’ (Quarto Press), ‘The encyclopedia of watercolour techniques’ (Search Press).

Paul Talbot-Greaves has won numerous awards including best in show at Holmfirth Artweek, The Artist award and the Canson award at Patchings festival. He regularly exhibits with the Royal Institute of painters in Watercolour, London and he has been teaching and lecturing on the subject of watercolour and acrylic painting for the last twenty five years. His demonstrations and workshops are always extremely popular.

Find out more about Paul here.

Exhibition

3 September - 8 October 2021

Tessa Pearson

The Artist’s Garden

Tessa Pearson has always been in love with colour,and has spent her life seeing the world as a myriad of pattern and captivating images. Marvelling at patches of brilliant yellow in a dramatic patchwork green landscape, the glimpse of a violet pot against a cobalt blue wall will thrill her.

Trained in textile design, her influences have been many, from Matisse to Hodgkin and the bold colourists of mid twenty first century painters Patrick Heron and Albert Irvin.

Tessa sees gardens as living paintings and they have been the inspiration she has returned to many times. Creating her own garden has been an influential process informing her current work. As the garden emerges each year she repeatedly immerses herself in the planting, responding to the colour, rhythms and characteristics that excite. The time spent drawing and painting these moments in her sketchbook builds a rich recollection of images to create larger scale paintings and working with unpredictable watercolour and mixed media ensures the liveliness and energy captured from direct observation.

Tessa Pearson 2021

Art & Contemporary Art

Janine Jacques

Textile Artist Janine Jacques has a love of nature and beautiful landscapes which began at a young age. Having grown up on a Lincolnshire farm, her bedroom had an amazing view over the rolling fields, which is where her love for landscapes began. She kept many animals including a small flock of four sheep, which she sometimes includes in her artwork. Now her main medium of choice is wool.

In 2009 Janine and her friend created a website all about tea and cake and became obsessed with all things related. One day browsing a local craft shop Janine saw a felt tea cosy and decided to learn how to make one. She made her first felt tea cosy in 2015 and has been hooked on wet felting since. This led into creating felt landscape paintings and to follow her passion in art as an artist.

Janine’s work combines her training in painting with the ancient art of felt-making to celebrate and bring together the different skills of wet felting, needle felting and sewing. She uses wool to ‘paint’ with, needle felting to refine the detail and embellishes with hand embroidery.

Janine’s statement pieces are created using many different materials. Her artwork is inspired by photographs of the landscapes she has visited throughout her life and recorded for future inspiration. Each piece is unique, evoking memories of a past time and place.

Janine Jacques graduated from university in 1996 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, gained a PGCE in Secondary Art Education and worked for many years in web design before returning to the studio to follow her passion and inspire others through a programme of felt making workshops.

She now lives and works in Yorkshire – within easy reach of the beautiful countryside. Read more about Janine Jacques here

Art & Contemporary Art

Andrew Morris

Andrew Morris trained at Harrogate College of Art and went on to study illustration at Brighton University in 1986.

After graduating Andrew worked as a commercial artist for over 15 years. He worked in most fields of illustration including advertising, design and publishing. He began teaching art and design to 16-18 year olds in 2003. Alongside his commercial and teaching career Andrew Morris has continued to develop his personal work and is now painting full time. Using the experience gained over 25 years as an artist and educator Andrew’s work is firmly rooted in the traditional techniques of observational drawing and painting.

Along side Emma Holliday, Andrew showcased classic seaside scenes in our Harrogate by Sea Exhibition. Read more about it here.

See more of Andrew’s work here.

Exhibition

29 July - 30 August 2021

Andrew Morris

Harrogate By Sea

New work by Emma Holliday and Andrew Morris which celebrates the great British seaside.

Newcastle-based artist, Emma Holliday’s vibrant paintings capture the light and colour of the much loved Yorkshire and North-Eastern coastline.

Andrew Morris, originally from Harrogate and now based in Brighton, has an eye for the features, design and typography of the traditional English seafront. His paintings focus on details which have a striking, cinematic quality.

Thank you to everyone who came along to our preview evening on Thursday 5th August.

Exhibition

2 - 30 April 2021

Jill Campbell

Fell Light

This latest solo exhibition by Jill Campbell predominantly features many of the paintings she completed throughout 2020. During that year Jill studied the light on the fell landscape near her home in County Durham, particularly at sunrise.

The idea of a new day representing a new beginning, a hopeful emotional moment, was the common thread linking these abstract expressionist paintings. This searching for hope was undoubtedly a subconscious response to an extraordinary year. The year began with January Sunrise and fittingly ended with the beginning of a series of small paintings, Fell Lights 1 and 2. The exhibition also contains some small mixed media studies on paper made before 2020 in which can be seen the beginning of ideas that were developed in some of the later paintings.

Jill exhibits in galleries throughout the UK and has had paintings selected for many prestigious open exhibitions, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize Exhibition, the Ferens Open and the New Light Art Prize.

Art & Contemporary Art

Pascale Rentsch

Pascale Rentsch RSW is based in the East Lothian region of Scotland where she makes the most of the surrounding hills and coastal landscape. She draws and paints outdoors, directly from nature in all weather conditions. This is a technique called en plein air painting. She works instinctively and spontaneously to capture nature and the elements.

Talking about her painting Pascale says, “My language is paint and like a conductor guiding an orchestra, I enjoy working outside with my materials, exploring mark-making and connecting with my surroundings, reacting to what I see, feel and hear. I love the fact that whenever I am in nature, I know I will always find something beautiful, something that touches me however small and insignificant it might appear“.

Originally from Switzerland Pascale trained in Scotland where she graduated with a BA in Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art in 1999. In October 2022 she was awarded full membership of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW).

Pascale will be exhibiting in a solo show at Watermark Gallery in March 2023. Her previous exhibition in 2022 alongside Michele Bianco in Off The Beaten Track was a resounding success and we are looking forward to seeing new work in the forthcoming exhibition.

To see Pascale in action please watch her video on this website (below) called “This is my voice”.

Art & Contemporary Art

Jason Hicklin

Jason Hicklin captures the feel of the weather and light and its effect on the landscape. All of Jason’s work is begun outdoors. Carrying the minimum of equipment, he will walk and climb the desired area for days and sometimes nights, often in extreme weather. He describes working outdoors in these tense and exciting conditions as a tremendously connecting experience – feeling a part of the land itself.

The result is a striking record of the elemental collisions between earth, sea and weather. He conveys the bleak essence of driving rain, when the mist closes down, and masters the polarities of bright skies and shadowed rocks. His work is charged with an atmosphere born of an intimate knowledge of the landscape and a direct physical experience of its changing moods.

Jason Hicklin was born in Wolverhampton in 1966 and studied at St. Martins College of Art, where he was a student of renowned printmaker Norman Ackroyd. After completing a postgraduate course at the Central School of Art in 1991, Jason combined working as Ackroyd’s studio assistant and editioner with producing his own work and teaching printmaking at City and Guilds of London Art School.

Jason is currently Head of Printmaking at City and Guilds. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painting and Printmakers in 1993 and has had numerous solo and joint exhibitions in the UK and abroad.

Art & Contemporary Art

Louise Davies

Painterly images using intense layers of translucent colour and overlapping shifting shapes are pulled together by calligraphic lines that define the subject matter. This is the hallmark of artist Louise Davies RE. Her work covers a range of techniques including painting, etching and monoprints. All of which employ the artist’s individual approach to colour.

Much of this work stems from her formative years in the West of England where the countryside was her place of reference. Later moving to London the artist reminisced on the landscape by adding her own romantic notion of colour to emphasise the beauty of nature, induced by nostalgia for the past. Suns rising and setting; turbulent storms; calm and troubled waters, are all represented by the artist using her unique style of layering bold transparencies of colour that are all enveloping

Davies also uses drama and vibrant colour to depict London and cityscapes. Buildings are back lit by luminescent skies that add magic and excitement to the already vibrant city. The River Thames is set alight with neon colours that reflect the mood of the image. And yet, the addition of line adds structure to the scene giving it stability.

It is apparent in all of Davies work that her love of the environment is paramount and that her intuitive use of the media is testament to her mastery of these techniques.

Louise Davies R.E. is a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and currently resides in London with her husband and family. She has devoted the last thirty five years to her art work having trained as a painter and printmaker.

Category: Art

Art & Contemporary Art

Paul Talbot-Greaves

Exhibition

3 September - 8 October 2021

Tessa Pearson

The Artist’s Garden

Art & Contemporary Art

Janine Jacques

Art & Contemporary Art

Andrew Morris

Exhibition

29 July - 30 August 2021

Andrew Morris

Harrogate By Sea

Exhibition

2 - 30 April 2021

Jill Campbell

Fell Light

Art & Contemporary Art

Pascale Rentsch

Art & Contemporary Art

Jason Hicklin

Art & Contemporary Art

Louise Davies

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