Private View: 26th May 2022 6:00 pm
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RSVP‘This exhibition brings together recent oil paintings and prints reflecting my love of both urban and rural settings and my journeys between these two different landscapes.
I studied Painting at Central St Martins followed by an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art. I am a fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and regularly exhibit at their home at Bankside Gallery in London.
I spent my childhood living in Bath and the villages around it and then by the sea in Devon. I came up to London when I was 18 and have stayed ever since. However, I still have a yearning for the countryside with its peacefulness and natural beauty. In this show I wanted to bring together my love of both city and countryside and the impulse to respond intuitively to it through paint or print. I feel the paintings and the prints all connect with the strong use of vibrant colour and the language of my individual mark making.
Enjoy the journey!’
Louise Davies RE, May 2022
Art & Contemporary Art
Babs Pease
Babs Pease is an artist and printmaker who specialises in the relief print method, hand carving and hand printing linoleum to create intricate limited edition prints. Working from her studio in a converted farm building on a small farm in Perthshire, Babs is surrounded by beautiful flora and fauna in the surrounding countryside. Most of her print ideas start out as sketches taken on long walks in the surrounding areas.
Babs Pease exhibited in our NEST 2022 exhibition which included a variety of artists using birds as their inspiration and subject matter.
Our NEST exhibition is celebrating birdlife and the arrival of Spring, with an exciting and vibrant show bringing together eight talented artists, renowned for their studies of the avian world.
Richard Allen SWLA, Brian Dawson, Kittie Jones, Emerson Mayes, Andrew Morris, Babs Pease, Jennifer Tetlow and Darren Woodhead SWLA, are contributing to the multi-media exhibition which includes paintings in watercolour, acrylic and oil, printmaking, stone and wood carving.
Each artists’ style is imbued with a combination of close observation of the natural world and an individual, imaginative approach to composition and use of materials. The combined collection of works reinforces the majesty and wonder of our feathered neighbours as we welcome in the long-awaited Spring.
“Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?” Pablo Picasso
Preview Evening
Come and join us on Thursday 7th April, 6-8pm for an opportunity to see the exhibition before the opening. Please RSVP to harrogate@watermarkgallery.co.uk
Exhibition
4 March - 2 April 2022
Pascale Rentsch & Michele Bianco
Off The Beaten Track
The theme of this exhibition celebrates new work created by two artists: Yorkshire ceramicist Michele Bianco and Scottish-based Swiss painter, Pascale Rentsch. Both are inspired by getting out into hidden areas of the countryside and observing the landscape around them.
From time spent on long-distance walks and the coastal paths of North Yorkshire and Northumberland to the Western Isles and Scottish Lochs, both artists draw on the effect of the elements on those environments to seek out compositions and shapes to inform their work.
Bianco’s hand carved, ripple vessels in their distinctive cobalt-blue glazes reflect the result of centuries of erosion by water and wind on rock. Rentsch, whose works are created en plein air, capture the immediacy of changing weather and light through the seasons, often working in challenging conditions.
This exhibition runs from 4th March – 2nd April inclusive. Artworks can be seen on this website or in our Harrogate gallery.
Private View: 28th January 2022 6:00 pm
21 Artists | Over 60 new works | All under £500
We’re launching our 2022 season with an inaugural Small Painting Show, which opens on Friday 28th January.
This exhibition features 21 artists from around the UK, all of whom have created new, original work exclusively for Watermark Gallery. There is no set theme but all work had to be an original painting, less than 40 x 40cm, unframed and under £500 to buy.
As well as including work by our well known artists who usually paint in a larger format, such as Jill Campbell and Pascale Rentsch, we are delighted to include paintings by several of our popular printmakers, such as Jason Hicklin RE and Jane Walker.
We hope you’ll enjoy this fantastic opportunity to acquire a unique painting by a new or favourite artist at a genuinely affordable price.
Our preview night for this exhibition takes place on Friday 28th January at 6-8pm. If you would like to come along please just let us know by sending an RSVP to harrogate@watermarkgallery.co.uk. We look forward to seeing you there!
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.
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.
