A New Exhibition for Christmas Times

Artsmill Gallery in Hebden Bridge is pleased announce a new cosy and warm exhibition for the lead up to Christmas. There are lots of beautiful work for sale, oh, and yours truly has work in the exhibition too!

Come and visit!

You are invited to an Opening Party!

So very excited about this new project! This is the regeneration of the Artsmill Gallery charity in Hebden Bridge! A team of beautiful and industrious volunteers have been quietly beavering away in the background making a reopening possible! We are opening our doors this coming Saturday with a bit of a party. There will be musicians, poetry reading and refreshments. And, of course, lovely art to feast your eyes on by some pretty fabulous artists! You are invited! Share our joy!

Introduction to Gouache Workshop (or fun day playing with paint!)

Really pleased to announce a fun workshop invitation on Saturday, 6th November, 2021. The venue is Northlight Studios, which is a wonderful space in the popular and beautiful mill town of Hebden Bridge. Northlight provides high quality studio spaces for artists, designers and makers. It has a thriving community art school education programme as well as a popular calendar of events and exhibitions.

The subject we shall be exploring is the allotment. We will be looking at simple, recurring patterns using photographs for reference and finding ways to play with them on paper using gouache (trust me, this will be easy!). If you are a keen gardener with a vegetable patch, you may want to bring in photos of your own vegetable garden, preferably from an aerial perspective.

If you are thinking of gifting a loved one with a great experience, have friends to share your day with or would like to learn something new (always nourishing for the soul), then this is for you.

To book the workshop, click on the link below. Don’t forget to tell your friends. Look forward to seeing you there!

https://www.northlightstudio.co.uk/full-day-weekend-workshops

Artists & Artisans Fayre, Haworth, Old Schoolrooms, Saturday, 31st July

We are pleased to announce we have a stellar selection of bright talent whose work will be on sale in the gorgeous market town of Haworth! The work includes; art and illustration, textile art, jewellery, lamp glasswork, knitwear, photography and gorgeous gifts. There is also going to be delicious pizza by Dough it Yourself, so come and eat, drink, say hello and be sociable!!

The venue is at the Old Schoolrooms where all the Brontë siblings taught at some point in their short lives. Well worth a visit and right next door to the Parsonage, where they grew up.

Hello! It has been a while!

Well, hello there! It has been a long time since I’ve announced an event. You can thank lockdown for that. Things got so quiet for such a long time that it felt like the new normal. But the great news is, things are starting to move again (albeit slowly!).

I will keep this short and simple.

Exhibition

This month, up until 10th July, I am exhibiting work at Todmorden Information Centre. The work that I am showing is influenced by the Yorkshire landscape surrounding us, here in Todmorden. Todmorden Information Centre is a font of all knowledge when it comes to places and events around our lovely town and they also support local artists as well as selling a range of gifts with a Todmorden or Yorkshire theme. The address for Todmorden Information Centre is: 15 Burnley Rd, Todmorden OL14 7BU.

Artists & Artisans Fayre

I am also taking part in this lovely fayre!

Not only will it be brimming with an array of wonderfully talented artists but It is in Haworth, right next door to the Parsonage. That was where the Brontës lived! In fact, the Old School Room was built by Patrick Brontë and all the sisters taught there some time in their short lives. Haworth is such a beautiful place to visit, so we are excited that this is the location of our first fayre since before lockdown began.

Hebden Bridge Open Studios 2020

Coming to you soon in the luxury of your own living room (drum roll please) is the fantastic Hebden Bridge Open Studios Online, October 10/11. We invite you to participate and I have forwarded all the details below, including a group show, which you will be able to go to if you need your gallery fix (which is very understandable). 

We'll be broadcasting videos and live streaming via our YouTube channel.

Find out all about the 92 artists involved on our website, where there will be lots of art to see and buy. 

Follow the hashtag #hbopenstudios2020 on Instagram and Facebook to see fantastic artwork and find out all about the creative life of artists in and around Hebden Bridge.

To get you in the mood you can visit an actual exhibition of 27 Open Studios artists at Hebden Bridge Town Hall now. It's open daily this week from 8.30 - 4, ending noon on Saturday.

Then to warm you up for the online weekend Hebden Bridge artist Kate Lycett is hosting a conversation with gallery owners Alison and Paul Bartram (Heart Gallery and The Yorkshire Gallery) and Terry Brett (Pyramid Gallery, York).

Tune in to our Youtube channel at 7.30pm next Thursday, October 8, for some fascinating insights into the art scene of Northern England.

We might not be able to invite you into all the studios and workshops this year so we'll bring Hebden Bridge Open Studios to you. Full programme details are coming soon.