2025 Round-up 2: Dave Mercer Workshop

 Dave showed us how he starts his paintings without a clear idea of the oucome and develops his compositon on the canvas, then encouragewd us to do likewise:

Dee and Kate respond to Dave's ideas:

2025 Round-up 1

 Time for a belated roundup of 2025: 

st-10th January	Yorkshire Land and Sea Exhibition by Ruth Davies and Kate Geelan	Heritage Gallery, Cargo Fleet
18th March	Proposed visit to Hepworth Gallery	Cancelled owing to transport problems
27th March - 25th April	For The Love Of Art Exhibition	Heritage Gallery
3rd June	Dave Mercer workshop	Abstract and imaginative landscape painting
3rd September	Newcastle Visit	Newcastle Art Centre Laing Gallery Biscuit Factory
8th September - 10th October	Teesside Fringe Exhibition	Heritage Gallery (Most members have submitted work)

Ruth and Kate's Yorkshire Land and Sea Exhibition got us off to a great start, and was, as usual, beautifully hung by Jodie Athey at The Heritage Gallery. The same was true of the group's 'For The Love Of Art' Exhibition, which took place in March and April.

Here are a few examples of work from the Exhibition:

To be continued

For The Love Of Art Exhibition - Heritage Gallery April 2025

 

This felt a particularly special exhibition, with up to 5 paintings from each artist, and a collection of potter from Les Southerton. A big thank you too Jodie Athey fo an inspired hanging.

2024 Roundup

2024 Round-up

15th January - 23rd February

All About Art  (15th Anniversary Exhibition), Heritage Gallery, Cargo Fleet

6th February

Alan Morley Workshop - Using oils and oil pastels

11th April

Visit to Baltic and Biscuit Factory Galleries - Mainly to see the Open Submission Exhibition featuring artists from the North East.

28th May

Lunch at The Cart House cafe. - Our new cafe next door.

2nd-6th June

Barmoor Residential - An annual event

9th-20th Aug

15th Anniversary Exhibition - Python Gallery, Middlesbrough

29th October

Visit to Ushaw College and Bob Abley Art Gallery, Spennymoor - To see Henri Matisse paper cuttings and work by Durham miners

28th November - 10th January 20225

Yorkshire Land and Sea Exhibition, featuring work by Kate Geelan and Ruth Davies, at the Heritage Gallery

Work from Ruth above and Kate below

Laing Gallery and Biscuit Factory

 We had an excellent day out visiting the 'Liquid Light' Exhibition of water colours from the Laing's Collection, then going on to the Biscuit Factory.

Here Norma, aim4art's answer to Manet's Olympia, relaxes at The Biscuit Factory.

The Art Of Lockdown

Here is a slightly belated post about our Art Of Lockdown Exhibition at Kirkleatham Hall, held in early 2022.

One of the features of the exhibition was the amount of art and craft work on show.

Some of Les Southerton's pots. Les had a very successful exhibition, selling both pots and paintings

Some of the work from last Christmas's group project to create piece of jewellery.

Kate Geelan's felt figures

The Gill Place corner, featuring her lockdown picture a day sketchbook and video presentation

Graham Canwell's Portrait Workshop

 Here are some pictures from our first post lockdown workshop, with 13 members present. Graham gave an excellent presentation, reviewing portraits from a wide variety of artist and people enjoyed creating portraits mainly from portraits they'd brought along to the session.

Gill Place worked on a portrait Of Judi Dench

Gill Spensley painting her daughter

Patsy looking bemused by Graham's comments

Melvyn Bragg by ?

Rob Blenkarn's son Michael - the eyes don't have it

Margaret enjoying herself

Karol Nielsen with some of the fruits of her labours

Julia Cutter achieved a great likeness

Graham with Gill Place

Albert Einstein by Kate Geelan, looking very much himself

Kate has moved on to the next one

Les Southerton got off to a cracking start

Val Harrison makes an interesting start

Dee Maloney also races away