Click on image to purchase tickets In the run up to Halloween locally based professional actors Stephen Tomlin and Grace Kirby will be reading three superb ghost stories. The Phantom Coach by Amelia B Edwards is a Victorian gothic shocker set on the snowbound north Pennines. Safe as Houses by Christine Poulson shows what might …
Morag Gordon: Glass Casting Since setting up my first studio in 1985 I have worked with glass in many different ways. Working with blown forms, windows and sculptural pieces. What has not changed is my use of figurative imagery. I am always looking at the tension between a gaze, or a stretched out hand. The …
Lionel Playford: Painter Artist Statement I am a landscape painter living and working in the North Pennines. I first started painting landscapes in the 1970s and, after a detour into shipbuilding, returned to painting full-time in 1987. The skies, moors, valleys and streams illuminated by sun and moon are the stimulus for many of my …
An opportunity to hear Strictly Smokin’ stripped down to a quartet with Alice Grace (voice), Michael Lamb (trumpet), Pawel Jedrzejewski (Guitar), Michael Whent (Bass) – featuring music from Alice and Pawel’s new Album ‘A Timeless Place’. For more info please check https://www.strictly-smokin.co.uk/event/dennis-kilgallon-art-gallery/
Lisa Delarny: Sculptor Artist Statement My work is primarily about the expressive power of the body. From a small hand gesture to the subtle shifting of weight when the body is in motion, or the gentle angle of the head. A universal language that bridges race, age, gender and time. The abstract expressions of dance …
Bernadette Koranteng: Artist Artist Statement Bernadette Koranteng is a figurative artist living and working in County Durham. She has two daughters, now grown. Born and raised in the North East of England she moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Art, remaining in London for several years. Here she exhibited at the …
Jane Willis: Painter Artist Statement Jane Willis studied Applied Contemporary Art and retains an interest in domestic subjects and decorative techniques. Certain motifs re-appear: fish, jugs, apples. She usually sets off on a project with a process in mind and some self imposed constraints. Working Inside the box.
Mary Hayward: Painter Artist Statement Mary gained a degree in Fine Art at Newcastle University and taught for a few years. She then morphed into a Graphic Designer, earning her living as part of a small design & print company. Recently returning to painting she is enjoying playing with colour and being away from her …
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 …