Kathleen Geater: Glass Casting Artist Statement I take my inspiration from the world around me. The beautiful landscape of the North East bares the marks of its industrial past, and I seek to evoke this in my work through exploration of shape and form, I am influenced by the presence of making and makers, past …
Elizabeth Talbot: Painter Artist Statement My interest lies primarily in the potential of landscape drawing and painting to express feeling and mood. Whilst I take inspiration from looking and being in the outdoors, I don’t seek to represent particular locations. Rather, I am interested in creating a balance between conveying atmospheric qualities and reflecting the …
Cat Moore: Printermaker Artist Statement I am a self taught linocut printmaker, based in and inspired by the Northumbrian landscape. Much of my work leads from my own understanding of sense of place, as well as a love of the light, and the way different weathers jostle one another to capture my attention. I am captivated …
Christina Mingard: Painter Artist Statement Since moving to Allendale, I have had much to take in from my studio window. There is in front of me a long meadow, where people wander, walking dogs and chatting; sometimes in groups. As a result, I am beginning to people the landscape when painting it. The view is …
Rick Kemp: Artists Statement I was born in Dorset in 1941. I have been a musician all my life and best known for song-writing and my work with seminal English folk-rock band, Steeleye Span. Apart from a long break in the middle, for good behaviour, I was with them from 1971 to 2018. I have played, …
NERYS A JOHNSON (1942-2001) Nerys Johnson’s work is a rare gem in the history of British Art. Her intense, vibrant flower studies are immediately recognizable and distinct. They are more like miniature stained glass windows than paintings. Their power comes from the forging of opposites: delicate, glowing petals and leaves are chained in darkness; the …
Jacqueline Quinn: Artist’s statement I am a painter…and printmaker. My love is of colour and texture. The northern landscape, Northumberland, it’s craggy, sharp features, soft moss and heather. Cup and ring marks, sacred symbols hewn into rock. Each piece is memory, an echo. The feeling of a place, a time, the weather, a faint recollection …
Carole Thirlaway: Artist’s statement There are Places …. Carole is a printmaker who enjoys experimenting with texture and colour. Living in the Tyne Valley, and previously on the North Yorkshire Moors, she is influenced by the natural beauty of her environment. For this exhibition the artist is revisiting places that have been important in her …
Inspired by the landscape, architecture, antiquity and mythology Dennis Kilgallon’s sculpture is unique and thought provoking. He has over 40 years experience and his journey, which includes Art School in the sixties (he dropped out), stone carving, ceramic production management and education have all influenced a remarkable range of work. This eclectic approach has led …
Jane Veitch: Artist’s Statement Margins, edges, liminal spaces where identity is fluid and where rocks reduce to sand; these are the places which free me to engage and explore. I am always drawn westwards to the coasts and islands of our archipelago. The process of making in itself involves finding, losing, re-constituting. To uncover or recover …