2023 Exhibitors
These are the talented artists who made the 2023 exhibition such a huge success.
**Details of our selected 2024 Exhibitors will be added in Spring 2024
PLEASE JOIN US AT THE DACRE HALL LANERCOST PRIORY NR BRAMPTON CUMBRIA CA8 2HQ
JULY 30th - AUGUST 27th 2024 10.00am - 5.00pm every day
We look forward to seeing you in 2024
LILY GREENWOOD Painter
Lily has been painting professionally since 2006, exhibiting widely throughout the UK during that time, and now features in collections worldwide - including Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Australia. Lily exhibited overseas for the first time in 2012, with two shows in Barcelona, and one in Amsterdam. She now works from her studio on a sheep farm in Cumbria, just to the north of the Lake District.
Lily's work reflects a love of nature. Her original paintings are often inspired by multitudes in nature (flocks, shoals, gatherings...) and the flow of that multitude, in glorified representations. Lily’s paintings usually employ an element of collage material, however rather than found material, Lily uses paper copies of her own painting or printmaking studies. Koi fish, for example, are meticulously hand-painted, then reproduced, cut, and arranged in a composition on the canvas. Washes of inks are applied, and sometimes additional painted or drawn details, before a clear gloss varnish secures the work and adds an opulent lustre.
In 2013 Lily was shortlisted for the New Lights Art Prize, which supports emerging young artists in the North of England. In January 2016, Saatchi Art featured Lily in their 'One to Watch' artist series.
https://www.lilygreenwood.com http://www.instagram.com/lily.greenwood.painting
CAROLYN MARR Ceramic Artist
Carolyn aims to make objects that arrest attention and invite handling. These may be hold-in-the-hand sculptures or smooth-glazed bottles.
Often using locally-found materials in her work, she also makes site-specific multi-media installations.
*Carolyn is a member of the core group who organise and present this annual exhibition each year.
Based in Brampton, Northeast Cumbria, she has taken part in exhibitions and events across the UK, often working with her sister and fellow-artist Frances Marr.
Carolyn is currently studying for an MA in Contemporary Art and Archaeology at the University of Highlands and Islands.
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DAVID STEPHENSON Blacksmith
David Stephenson is an artist blacksmith using traditional hand forging techniques to produce a range of works, both functional and sculptural, at his forge at Lockton on the North York Moors.
He is inspired by the beautiful scenery and natural forms around him, often simplifying designs to represent the essence of his inspiration.
Much of his time is now spent in teaching his skills to others on day- and longer blacksmithing courses.
RACHEL GIBSON Painting
Rachel Gibson MA is an artist living and working in North Cumbria
"It is the North Pennine Fells with its open landscape and flora and fauna that I love. I walk often following the traces of the different seasons, looking for small finds, observing the wildlife around me and mentally recording natural events that act as echoes from the past or signposts to the future.
I work in a range of media, often combining them to create imagery that is subtle and mysterious. I see the natural world as an environment of uncertain stability and my work reflects shelter and growth as well as fragility and loss"
http://www.rachelgibson.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/rachelgibsonartist/
‘Richard Kennedy is a furniture maker and woodcarver with a great love of medieval carving.
He designs and makes cupboards, desks, tables etc, often carved, and also a range of unusual jewellery boxes.
SOPHIE WILSON textiles
Sophie produces beautifully hand crafted knitted and upholstery products in the heart of the Lake District.
She'll be bringing a tempting selection of her unique designs to the exhibition.
Check out her textile workshops at the Makers Mill in Keswick
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” (Elliot Erwitt)
This quote just about sums up the way I feel about photography. For me it’s all about capturing the essence of the moment without getting too bound up in reality. I have found my camera to be less of an instrument with which to record what I see in front of me, but more of a tool which allows me to present the scene in a personal way.
Light, colour and form shape my imagery - using the ‘Intentional Camera Movement’ (ICM) technique, the structure of the subject is rendered as a confusion of colours and shapes with just the merest hint of reality behind it, allowing the viewer to interpret the image as they wish.
Some of my most recent work has been made by using fabrics and coloured objects which, when arranged ‘correctly’ can create the illusion of being somewhere I would rather be. Photography, like life itself, is what you make it. https://www.triciameynell.com https://www.instagram.com/triciameynell/
JULIA NEUBAUER Knitwear Designer
Julia Neubauer is a knitwear designer based at The Brewhouse Studios, by the river in Alston, Cumbria. Each item is hand framed in British spun pure wool from a Yorkshire woollen mill
Designs include wrist warmers in plain, stripe and colour blocks, hats, headbands and neckwarmers with stripes, jacquard or felt embellishments, scarves and fine lambswool wraps.
Julia finds inspiration for colours and patterns from many sources, including the natural world and research into the history of decorative arts, folk art being a particular favourite.
www.woolclip.com
DUNCAN STEWART Glass Artist - Greendolphins Glass
“I work with glass.
My working life BG (before glass) was bookended by art schools: Edinburgh, where I studied Architecture way back in the last century, and Glasgow School of Art, where I attended an introductory fused glass session at the Summer School in 2015
This really sparked my imagination. Cutting up bits of glass and putting them in the kiln before leaving for the day: each morning was like Christmas.At the same time I was completing the build of a new extension on my house, a room which, more and more, looked like a potential studio: the kiln arrived in November 2015.
Using the kiln, which heats the glass to up to over 800 degrees celsius, I work with specialist art glass from the USA and also with float (window) glass. The look and feel of the finished piece can vary, depending on how it is fired in the kiln.Constantly experimenting, I'm interested in seeing how heat, time, temperature, and gravity work on the glass to achieve an end result.
I said I “work” with glass: more accurate to say I “play” with glass.“
SUZANNE TWEDDLE Glass Jewellery
Suzanne is a glass artist and jeweller. Her studio is situated in the beautiful market town of Barnard Castle, from which she designs and hand makes glass beads, buttons, baubles and flowers using a technique known as lampworking – ‘the art of making small objects from glass rods melted in the flame of a torch’.
Suzanne's discovery and exploration of the art of lampworking has drawn her towards the use of glass as a medium to incorporate into her jewellery designs to inject colour and contrast to the other materials used. Using her silversmithing skills and the glass beads she has made, Suzanne produces a range of jewellery which includes necklaces, bracelets, earrings and cufflinks.
With over 15 years' bead making experience, Suzanne also offers tuition in lampworking at her studio in Barnard Castle.
https://www.suzannejewellery.co.uk http://facebook.com/suzannejewellery http://instagram.com/suzannejewellery
David creates a range of beautiful artisan products and gifts from soft and hard woods.
"I am a self taught carpenter and furniture maker.
I have always had a passion for wood and I started many years ago making dolls houses on my kitchen table. I have always wanted a fully equipped workshop but never had the space or the funds for one.
When we moved to our beautiful house in Lyneholme Ford near Roadhead it had a big garage, so I immediately thought Workshop.
This is now where I work. I use reclaimed wood and offcuts where possible"
https://www.facebook.com/people/Lyne-Valley-wood-crafts/100057522666309/
MARY KENNEDY - RAM WORKSHOP Decorative Painter
Mary Kennedy is an artist who paints landscapes and domestic scenes, and translates her imagery onto wooden boxes and trays etc.
Her painting is full of detail, light and colour, as well as humour.
HILARY HARRISON Ceramics
I live in North Cumbria on the Solway at Burgh by Sands. I have a garden studio that looks out to the fells and Skiddaw. I have more sheds that house my kiln, my glazes, my dry ingredients.
Over the past few years I have been making earthenware slab ware and clocks have been one of my regular makes. I am very interested in surface pattern and build up my designs with coloured slips onto paper and the print onto the slabs. I take inspiration from vintage fabrics and wallpaper from the 1950s. I also make domestic thrown ware in earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. In the past, I made a lot of slipcase ware in porcelain making my own moulds.
Inspiration comes from the natural world and often from tiny things like seeds and spices. For nearly ten years now I have been a member of The Fountain Gallery in Wigton, Cumbria. This is a co-operative venture with about 20 members at present. My work can be found there. I sometimes have a stall at Potfest in the Pens and have exhibited in a number of exhibitions over the years including Upfront Gallery and Craftsmen at the Priory, Lanercost, Cumbria.
DENISE HUDDLESTON Artist Printmaker
Denise is an artist printmaker and wildlife watcher, inspired by the wild world and wild places.
With a background in stitched textiles, she lived for many years in the English Lake District, where she lectured and exhibited nationally and further afield.
Drawn to the wilder Hebridean landscape and a switch to printmaking, Denise now lives and works from her tiny studio/gallery in a small historic croft house overlooking the sea on the Isle of Skye.
Her work blends textural printmaking elements reflecting her textile background and crisp graphic screenprinting . . often in the same piece.
https://www.instagram.com/cuckootreeskye
ASHLEY BOON Artist -
“Having been told by countless teachers at school and several tutors at art school that he would never make a living from just painting birds & wildlife, Ashley Boon has made his living from painting birds & wildlife since leaving art school. He gained his degree at Bristol, a very long time ago!
His work has taken him to some far flung and wonderful parts of the globe in search of subjects, and as well as paint he also leads wildlife tours mostly to Botswana and India, and he has led tours in Brazil, Malaysia and Borneo. A local resident, this is his first time showing with Craftsmen at the Priory.”