sweet heART Gallery Pateley Bridge- Helen Cassidy Exhibition

Helen Cassidy, one of our members, has an exhibition of paintings at the sweet heART Tea Rooms Gallery in Pateley Bridge from 22/10/2015 until 16/11/2015.

Helen Cassidy
Dip Art & Design, Bath Academy of Art, Wiltshire.
Helen has had a passion for drawing and sketching from an early age, but only started painting in the 1990s.
She sketches and draws every day which she finds absorbing and often uses as starting points for her paintings. She mainly work in acrylics but also enjoy soft pastels and oils.
She is always looking for a change in direction so not to get into the trap of being labelled with one particular style. She will continue to paint the subjects that delight and excite her, mostly landscapes and waterscapes, but variety is the spice of life, so she experiments with different approaches in putting ideas down onto canvas or paper. Adding texture and collage to her work has given another dimension to some of her recent work.
Some of her latest works are smaller landscapes in oils and these along with some of her sketch books will be on view at the gallery.

St Gemma’s Hospice Art Exhibition and Sale

Thursday 29th October to Sunday 1st November 2015

The Grammar School at Leeds in Alwoodley

Opening hours:
Thursday 29th to Saturday 31st October
10.00am till 6.00pm
Sunday 1st November
10.00am till 4.00pm

This year St Gemma’s Leeds Art Exhibition and Sale returns to celebrate its 15th Anniversary! The event is a well-established showcase for professional and up and coming artistic talent from around the country. Whether your taste is for large dramatic landscapes, soft gentle pastels or cutting edge abstract pieces, the exhibition will have something to wow you! Over 900 pieces will be on display and you will be able to indulge in the Art Café, enjoying delicious homemade cakes, pastries and quality tea and coffee whilst you view the stunning artworks on show.

This year also sees the launch of their dedicated photography exhibition which will be held alongside the traditional exhibition.

As always the pieces on show are available to purchase and there is something for everyone’s pocket with pricing starting from £20 to over £1,000. A percentage of the sale price from each piece of art goes to St Gemma’s Hospice, to support the work they do in providing patient care to people living with incurable illnesses.

For further information:

Becky Hole
beckyh@st-gemma.co.uk
Tel: 0113 218 5505

2nd Regional Exhibition of the UK Coloured Pencil Society

The 2nd Regional Exhibition of the UK Coloured Pencil Society, and will be held at The Station, Richmond, from Saturday 3rd October to Wednesday 14th October.

This is an opportunity to see beautiful work by some of the best coloured pencil artists in the country, and you’ll be amazed at what can be achieved using this often underrated medium.

The Society was founded in 2001, with three main aims in mind:

to promote excellence in coloured pencils as a fine art medium,
to support UK-based artists who use coloured pencils in any genre
to educate artists and the public in general about coloured pencils.

It has enabled professional coloured pencil artists to promote their artistry within this specialisation and share their expertise with amateur members.

The UKCPS holds its annual open international exhibition every year at the Menier Gallery in London, and this is only its second regional juried exhibition – a new and exciting venture for the Society.

We hope you can make it along to the exhibition and please let me know if you’d be interested in attending the private view on Friday, 2nd October.

Kind regards

Lesley Sharman

Exhibition Co-ordinator

Lesley Sharman UKCPS
http://www.lesleysharman.co.uk
01765 601868

Friends of Roman Aldborough Mosaic Festival

Aldborough Museum Mosaic Festival

Saturday 5th – Sunday 13th September

This September the work of eleven Yorkshire Mosaic Artists will feature in a display on the site of the most northerly in situ Roman mosaics in the country. The Friends of Roman Aldborough are collaborating with Sue Kershaw and other members of the British Association of Modern Mosaics (BAMM) to show a range of designs some of which are contemporary, whilst others will have more than a nod to their earlier counterparts. A number of these mosaics will be on sale.

Sue will also be running a Mosaic Workshop on Saturday 5th September from 10.30 – 3.00pm in Aldborough Village Hall. Participants will be able to create their own design using a variety of materials or make one to an authentic Roman design that Sue has discovered on her many travels. She will also be making smaller mosaics with children who visit the museum on Sunday 6th September. (Booking essential for Mosaic Workshop only , £45 for FORA members, £50 for non members. Contact: secretary@friendsofromanaldborough.co.uk)

The mosaics at Aldborough Roman site are amongst some of the most unique in the country. They include discoveries made nearly two hundred years ago by workmen burying a calf in the grounds of the local inn and others containing rare Greek inscriptions. Members of FORA will tell the stories behind these as part of the tours on both weekends of the festival.

Dr Will Wootton, lecturer in Roman Art at King’s College London will also be giving his talk ,“Paving Roman Aldborough: Mosaics and their Makers” on Saturday 5th September at 7.30pm in Aldborough Village Hall ( free to FORA members , £5 to non members).The talk will cover how and why mosaics were produced , concentrating mainly on Aldborough but including others in Roman Britain and the ancient Mediterranean.

As well as being open on both weekends, the museum site and mosaic exhibition will also be open to visitors on Tuesday 8th September. That evening Professor Martin Millett, Cambridge University and Rose Ferraby, who have been conducting archaeological surveys since 2009 as part of the Aldborough Roman Town Project, will return to St. Andrew’s, Aldborough at 7.30pm. Over the past six years they have discovered much about this Roman town which was a very important centre of administration for much of northern Britain. They will share their most recent findings and pose further questions which still remain unanswered with all those who attend (free to FORA members, £5 to non members).
Aldborough Roman Site, Aldborough, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire – YO51 9ES

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk

All Creations Great and Small

Thought you all might like to know, 4 artists  ‘go wild’ very soon at  ‘Inspired By…Gallery’, North York Moors Visitors Centre in Danby 17 April – 4 May. The Artists are Robert Dutton (who regularly demonstrates for us at the Art Club), Helen Patterson, Joe Garlik and Steph Ottevanger who is a sculptor.There will be lots to see and enjoy, including some of Roberts coastal paintings created near Scarborough. There is a special ‘meet the artists’ day on Saturday 10am until 3pm (with drinks and nibbles) and ‘how it’s done’ demonstrations!

Association of Animal Artists Annual Exhibition

If you want to see amazing paintings of wildlife you must visit the Association of Animal Artists Annual Exhibition at Frodsham which starts on Friday 10th April. For further details see the poster below.

Britain From The Air – Victoria Gardens, 12th March – 7th May

The ‘Britain from the Air’ exhibition began an eight week residency in Leeds city centre on Thursday 12 March with unique perspectives of some of the UK’s most striking and thought-provoking landscapes, through more than 100 contemporary aerial images in a large-scale street gallery. Free to view and accessible 24 hours a day, this extraordinary outdoor exhibition offers visitors the chance to see Britain as they have never seen it before and to walk the length and breadth of the country over a 16metre Ordnance Survey map, exploring the precise location of each large-scale image.

‘Britain from the Air’ was opened on 12 March by writer, geographer and broadcaster Nick Crane and marks the return of one of the Royal Geographical Society’s most acclaimed exhibitions and the first time that the exhibition will have been seen in Yorkshire. Created jointly by the Royal Geographical Society and street gallery pioneers Wecommunic8, the exhibition arrived in Leeds as a key part of the Society’s drive to engage the public with the geography of the UK. Its updated panels explore the dynamic processes that shape our landscapes but are often forgotten about. Around the walk-on map, Leodis (the photographic archive of Leeds) also tells the history of the city.

Britain from the Air is sponsored by world travel clothing company Craghoppers, supported by Ordnance Survey and Rolex and hosted by Leeds City Council.

For further details click here

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Spring Exhibition – May 2015
1st May, Friday – Preview Night 7.00pm
2nd, 3rd and 4th May 2015.

Hope you are able to enter your paintings for the Spring Exhibition. Good opportunity to show your work to friends, family and members of the public. We also have an opportunity to win some prizes. Please can you volunteer to help with the running of the Exhibition; your help is greatly appreciated.

During the Exhibition we have a folder which displays ‘Artists Profiles’. Please feel free to update or add your profile; they must be given to Elizabeth Noble by the 15th of April.

Deadline is Friday 3rd of April for Exhibition entries

Share your hidden talent

We are currently starting to organise the programme for 2015 -16.
We are always looking for our members to share their knowledge, skill and enthusiasm for a subject with the rest of the club. We are seeking your help in the following areas:

Still Life
Models
Workshops
Talk

Anything else you may feel will be of interest to the rest of your fellow members. If you are able to help please contact Rosemary Chapman or Helen Entwisle.

Red Nose Day – Bring and Buy Cake stall

We would like to thank all the members who donated cakes and those who bought cakes. Appreciate all your efforts. We raised £30.00. Well done!

Programme Change

This is an advance notice of a programme change in June. Unfortunately Tim Rose who was scheduled to do a watercolour demonstration on the 4th June is no longer able to come to this meeting. Tim will be at Patchings together with Robert Dutton. We will now have an Own Work Night instead. Please bring your preferred medium e.g. watercolour paints, acrylics ,pencil, sticks etc. and your source material, paper, water pot, along with anything else you need to make a pleasing piece of work.

British Wildlife, an Exhibition by the Association of Animal Artists

Sorry everybody I should have posted this ages ago, but there are still a few weeks before the exhibition closes! This is an Exhibition of Wildlife Art by the Association of Animal Artists in aid of Martin Mere Wildfowl and the Wetlands Trust. The exhibition is open until 29th March – opening times 9:30am – 4:30pm. Julie Cross and Mick Burton both have entries in this exhibition. As well as the hosting this exhibition Martin Mere is also a great venue for a day out.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Henry Moore : Back To Land

A new exhibition of Henry Moore Sculptures is about to open at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Dates are 07.03.15 – 06.09.15. The sculptures are to be exhibited in the Underground Gallery and open air in the park.
Born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, Henry Moore (1898–1986) is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. This major exhibition, in collaboration with The Henry Moore Foundation, takes a fresh approach to Moore’s work by considering his profound relationship with land, which was fundamental to his practice and fuelled his visual vocabulary.