Contemporary Art
Katharine Holmes
Category: Original Paintings
An exhibition of over 50 new original artworks by nine Watermark Gallery artists and makers. Paintings by Colin Black, Jill Campbell, Louise Davies RE, Andrew Farmer ROI, Emerson Mayes, Tessa Pearson and Tom Wood; ceramics by Yvette Glaze and a selection of both prints and ceramics by Louise McNiff.
This summer art exhibition of work is now available to view throughout our Harrogate gallery and also on this website. It runs until the end of July 2023.
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RSVPBrowse the catalogue (by clicking on the image to the right) for our forthcoming exhibition by Caroline Bailey RSW. This is the first exhibition that we are holding in partnership with our friends at Walker Galleries and we look forward to welcoming you to the private view on Friday 12th May. You can also view all of the works from the exhibition below on this website.
Tom Wood has a solo exhibition of recent still life paintings at Watermark Gallery. View the exhibition in our Harrogate gallery or online here. This exhibition runs from 6-21 October 2023.
Tom Wood was originally born in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika in 1955 and in 1959 moved to West Yorkshire. He graduated from Sheffield School of Art in 1978 and since then his work has been exhibited worldwide. His numerous portrait commissions include paintings of Professor Lord Robert Winston and Alan Bennett, both of which were commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery. Other notable commissions have included portraits for HRH The Prince of Wales, Yale University and Cambridge University.
Tom was visiting Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds and is a Fellow of Sheffield Hallam University.
Tom has also been heavily involved in the creation of The West Yorkshire Print Workshop and also the Yorkshire Printmakers in Leeds. He was one of the first artists to have a studio at Dean Clough in Halifax and created a large studio gallery at Phoebe Mills, Halifax.
He has worked in Hong Kong as Art Adviser for The English Schools Foundation and, whilst there, was instrumental in developing art projects for gifted and talented art students, including large scale painted and digital mural projects in numerous schools. Upon returning to the UK he created the Art Academy at Redbrick Mill, Batley, where he continues to teach. He has also been featured in the BBC ‘Star Portraits’ arts programme in which he painted the actress Barbara Windsor.
This is our second Small Painting Show and features work by 23 UK-based artists, who have created work specially for this exhibition. All of the work included is original work in small format (less than 40 x 40cm), framed and less than £500.
As well as including work by existing Watermark Gallery artists, this year we are delighted to welcome three new artists; Henrietta Corbett, Helen Thomas and Tom Wood. We hope you’ll enjoy this fantastic opportunity to acquire a genuinely affordable piece by a favourite artist.
All prices will be available from 10am on Friday 27th January.
We’ve extended this exhibition ‘Looking For The Light’ until Saturday 15th April.
We hope you can come along and view the fabulous exhibition and new work from Pascale.
Pascale writes about her latest exhibition here…
“I am always looking for the light. Not necessarily in its obvious form but more as an abstract, hidden meaning; the leaves of a bush lit by the streetlights, shining golden against the dark night sky. Shells and stones which gleam on the dark slate seashore or the berries which glow like little embers across the grey landscape and the river flowers swaying gently with their delicate colour hues against the river’s edge.
“It’s those tiny lights that touch me and I try to hold and capture them in my paintings in a spontaneous way. My work is an expression of my feelings of what I see and feel at that moment in time and being connected with my surrounding wholeheartedly. They are there, the small lights, no matter how dark and dull a day might appear.
“When we look and feel, we become connected and see those small lights right in front of us. Those lights are magic; I paint them and take them with me.”
Pascale Rentsch RSW, February 2023
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RSVP‘This exhibition brings together recent oil paintings and prints reflecting my love of both urban and rural settings and my journeys between these two different landscapes.
I studied Painting at Central St Martins followed by an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art. I am a fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and regularly exhibit at their home at Bankside Gallery in London.
I spent my childhood living in Bath and the villages around it and then by the sea in Devon. I came up to London when I was 18 and have stayed ever since. However, I still have a yearning for the countryside with its peacefulness and natural beauty. In this show I wanted to bring together my love of both city and countryside and the impulse to respond intuitively to it through paint or print. I feel the paintings and the prints all connect with the strong use of vibrant colour and the language of my individual mark making.
Enjoy the journey!’
Louise Davies RE, May 2022
Our NEST exhibition is celebrating birdlife and the arrival of Spring, with an exciting and vibrant show bringing together eight talented artists, renowned for their studies of the avian world.
Richard Allen SWLA, Brian Dawson, Kittie Jones, Emerson Mayes, Andrew Morris, Babs Pease, Jennifer Tetlow and Darren Woodhead SWLA, are contributing to the multi-media exhibition which includes paintings in watercolour, acrylic and oil, printmaking, stone and wood carving.
Each artists’ style is imbued with a combination of close observation of the natural world and an individual, imaginative approach to composition and use of materials. The combined collection of works reinforces the majesty and wonder of our feathered neighbours as we welcome in the long-awaited Spring.
“Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?” Pablo Picasso
Preview Evening
Come and join us on Thursday 7th April, 6-8pm for an opportunity to see the exhibition before the opening. Please RSVP to [email protected]
The theme of this exhibition celebrates new work created by two artists: Yorkshire ceramicist Michele Bianco and Scottish-based Swiss painter, Pascale Rentsch. Both are inspired by getting out into hidden areas of the countryside and observing the landscape around them.
From time spent on long-distance walks and the coastal paths of North Yorkshire and Northumberland to the Western Isles and Scottish Lochs, both artists draw on the effect of the elements on those environments to seek out compositions and shapes to inform their work.
Bianco’s hand carved, ripple vessels in their distinctive cobalt-blue glazes reflect the result of centuries of erosion by water and wind on rock. Rentsch, whose works are created en plein air, capture the immediacy of changing weather and light through the seasons, often working in challenging conditions.
This exhibition runs from 4th March – 2nd April inclusive. Artworks can be seen on this website or in our Harrogate gallery.
