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Rosemary Abrahams Rosemary's paintings
are self referential: they are not about illustrating a concept, reproducing
an object or scene, or commenting on social, sexual, or political mores.
What her paintings are emphatically about is colour, in all its
manifestations. Her beautiful paintings are created with many
layers of colour which give a great richness to her work, and communicates
the joy which Rosemary takes in the creation of these wonderful works.
Caroline Airey Caroline has always had an interest and
talent for art, though she did not discover ceramics until 1990, having been
previously 'hooked' on watercolour painting. She completed her Ceramics City
and Guilds in 1997 and found the design aspect of the course invaluable as
it taught her to develop her ideas into a continual progression.
Her two great influences are her former tutor, the highly acclaimed Japanese
ceramist Mari Odet, nature. Admitting that precision is not
her forte, her work often leans, but this only adds to the beauty of her
organic creations; as Caroline says "Nature doesn't have an inbuilt spirit
level!" She finds the permutations of form and texture endless and endlessly
fascinating, and that each piece spawns another, and so it goes on and
on.....
Graham Airey
Graham was born in 1940 in
Rochdale, and after attending Rochdale Boys Grammar School began a course in
Art and Craft. He then went onto the Manchester College of Art studying
Design and Textiles, followed by Sheffield University graduating in 1961.
During the ensuing years Graham has taught all educational levels, from
secondary school through to postgraduate and MA level.
He is presently involved in
various teaching and art organisations, and has recenitly been coaxed into
Community Education in Bolton where he teaches watercolour and acrylic
painting part time to adults.
But, when he has the opportunity,
Graham concentrates on his first love; ceramics. His motivating forces are
pattern, texture and form. These manifest in sculptural representations of
birds and lizards in stoneware clay, enhanced with the addition of various
oxides and dry glaze. His many varieties of Owl have become widely collected
and he continues to be one of the gallery's most popular artists.
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Nigel Artingstall Nigel was born in Cheshire in 1963, but soon
after moved to Harwood in Bolton where he now lives with his wife and young
daughter Megan.
From a very young age Nigel showed an interest in wildlife, particularly
birds, and spent many hours studying the fauna and flora. He demonstrated an
early ability as an artist with his pencil drawings and slate etchings. By
the age of eleven he started selling his work to friends, relatives and
teachers.
Nigel spent a number of years working for a small company as a modeller
of birds, unfortunately due to business pressures the company had to close
but this gave Nigel the impetus to develop his painting.
The backgrounds for his work are almost entirely painted with an airbrush
to give the photo realistic effect indicative of his work. The fore ground
is then painted with a fine sable brush which creates an almost 3D image.
During the years Nigel has exhibited with the gallery his highly detailed
paintings have become collectable in the UK and abroad.
Sue Atkinson
Sue was born in Leeds, and now lives in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. She
worked for the Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper group for eight years before
deciding to concentrate on her painting. Sue has now been painting since the
early 1990's, and in that time has become one of Yorkshires most loved and
respected artists.
Exhibiting throughout the country, including at the Royal Academy Summer
Exhibition, her work has become collectable earning her numerous awards for
both her oils and watercolours. She was the 2002 winner of the Discerning
eye London Exhibition for the North Region, the Gillett and Bevan Small
Picture Award winner at the 2000 Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, and South
Yorkshire Artist of the Year in 1999, to name but a few.
She has always enjoyed painting from start to finish on site, though now
she often gathers information and impressions to mix with imagination later
in the studio.
Sue says that she loves painting landscapes as they allow her to express
has enthusiasm for nature, though recently she has found more and more
people crowding into the picture. Her wonderful paintings can be
sympathetic, often amusing, and always a joy to behold.
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