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
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.
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
5 - 27 March 2021
Janine Baldwin
Forest and Moor
Friday 5th to Saturday 27th March 2021
Our first exhibition of 2021 was Forest and Moor, a solo exhibition by award-winning artist, Janine Baldwin PS (Pastel Society UK).
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”.
