We are busy putting together the Art Trail for 2020. In the meantime take a look at who took part last year.
Blue Owl Art Gallery
At Grantham Tennis
Club, Gonerby Road, Grantham. NG31 8HU
Artists
Linda Hollaway
Linda
Hollaway is exhibiting at Blue Owl ‘Butterflies & Nets’. Her work is
currently on display in the upstairs gallery and in the bar area. Linda taught
art for 25 years in Primary, Secondary and Further education. Since taking
early retirement she gained an MA in Fine Art with distinction from the
University of Lincoln where she became involved with the exploration of human
fragility. This exhibition is in recognition of the altering and diverse state
of mental health.
Carolyn J Roberts
Carolyn
J Roberts is a Fine Art graduate from Loughborough University. Currently based
in Leicestershire, she has exhibited throughout the East Midlands. Carolyn’s
work develops from her affinity for the landscape; from The Peak District, Yorkshire
Dales and Moors, to the North Norfolk coast and beyond…Her mixed media work
looks to capture the juxtaposition of permanence and vulnerability: the contour
lines of the landscape contrasting with the delicacy of the tissue paper, soft
ink and watercolour washes. Impressionistic and abstract rather than representational,
the work is her response to the landscapes she loves and the issues it faces.
Oliver Lovley
Oliver Lovley BA Hons,
ASGFA has exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery, The Mall Galleries and at
live shows such as Art in Action and Patchings Festival. He is a member of the
Society of Graphic Fine Art based in London. A professional fine artist and art
teacher born in Grantham he is now based in Nottingham.
“My
paintings are absorbed, introspective and emotional, forming and re-forming
themselves. I use a combination of observed drawing and an unconscious process
of building layers of textural surfaces to function in contrast. I have a strong
interest in the depiction of my own physical reality”.“It has been very nice to
return to Grantham to explore the place properly for new paintings produced
especially for Blue Owl Art.”
Vic Bearcroft has exhibited with Blue Owl several times
including a recent solo exhibition. An East Midlands based professional
wildlife and portrait artist Bearcroft spends many hours studying, sketching
and photographing his subjects at close quarters, mainly in conservancies in
the UK and USA. ‘Some of these animals I know intimately after several years of
working with them and I find their character shining through their eyes. I enjoy
working in a variety of mediums, as I feel that this helps to fuel my
creativity, and enables me to different moods to compliment the subject, or to
tell a story by setting the animal in a more natural environment. My influences
come from varied sources; art, music and literature.
John’s award winning paintings
are inspired by the mountain ranges of the Isle of Skye in Scotland,
specifically the Black Cuillins. This is a choice based on the drama and visual
spectacle of these rugged coastal mountains where he climbed. John found that
exaggerations of the landscape and ‘stretchings’ of the viewpoint geometry
produced a new and compelling topography. Strange forms and dramatic radial
compositions emerged from the experiments, twisted mountains began to suggest a
human form or animal presence, the landscapes now extending almost into the
shapes of portraiture, expressive of some new emotion even.
Bottesford Dental
Practice AND Mai Holistic Centre
12 Albert Street,
Bottesford, Nottingham NG13 0AN
Artist: Vanessa
Stone
www.facebook.com/vanessastoneartist
Bottesford Methodist
Church
18 Devon Lane, Bottesford, Nottingham NG13 0BZ
Open Saturday to
Monday 10am to 4pm
Artists: Vale of Belvoir Art Society (VOBAS)
Crafty Betty
(Bottesford)
8 Queen Street
Bottesford NG13 0AH
Artist: Craft Betty
A selection of textile
artworks by Michelle Baker of the Newark based textile and stitch creative
workshop Crafty Betty. More work will be available to view in the Art &
Soul Studio Space as part of Kooroon Gallery (see below).
The Geese &
Fountain
1 School Lane, Croxton
Kerrial, Grantham NG32 1QR
Sunday 8.30am to
9.00pm
Artist: PollyWhistle www.pollywhistle.com
Textile artists Jane
Millum works as PollyWhistle to tell these tales in textiles and stitch. Exhibition
a brand new selection of new textile mini art quilts featuring appliqué illustrations
of British birds and still life studies Jane’s work hand made using vintage, reclaimed
and carefully selected new fabrics
The Glass and Art
Studio
46a Main Road, Long
Bennington, Newark NG23 5DJ
Artist: Katie Hinder
At The Glass and Art Studio Katie runs kiln fused glass courses
suitable for all ages and abilities. Courses range from hourly Family Sessions
to Taster Days and Weekly Courses. Having worked as a Tutor, Lead Tutor and
Coordinator for Leicestershire County Council Katie now provides a relaxed
informal learning environment to help students get great results
Kooroon Gallery
The Old Sorting House,
25 High Street, NG13 0AA
Artists:
Rosa Wain www.rosawainartist.com
Rosa
has a passion for gardening and the natural world, and a fascination for
kaleidoscopes. Watercolour is her preferred medium to create. She loves watercolours' bright, fine
pigments. Rosa has been exhibiting for about ten years in various places –
theatre lounges, cafes, Open Studios and Coventry Cathedral! With her
husband Roger, she runs Worship Art workshops, mainly from a church based at
Coventry Elim.
Glenda Gibson www.kooroon.com/p/glendas-art.html
Glenda is an expressive painter who uses bright colour to explore
her joy of the world and her relationship with God. From water scenes, to
houses and hearts, Glenda’s work is alive with the interplay of colour and
texture. She loves experimenting with new materials and styles and includes
various surfaces in her work. Her recent love is painting in oils.
Dian Harrison
Dian is the studio owner and a painter and teacher of Decorative
Art and Mixed Media. She was an inaugural member of BADFA (The British
Association of Decorative and Folk Art) and lived for several years in America.
She has been lucky enough to have been taught by some of the most well known
teachers of Decorative Art and during her career taught around Britain,
America, Canada, and as a guest teacher in Japan.
Studio Space
Catherine Moores
Derbyshire
born Catherine Moores has lived in the Vale of Belvoir, Leicestershire for over
25 years. Working in acrylic and oil paints as well as pencil Catherine covers
a wide range of subjects including landscapes and seascapes, although animals
are considered a speciality. Catherine
has had a passion for art since being a young child. She has worked a number of
jobs including those with horses and dogs but art has always remained her main
passion. She’s built a strong reputation over the last 10 years, completing
numerous commissions and holding her own art exhibitions.
Sarah Parr
A textile surface
pattern designer, Sarah’s most recent work revolves around experiments with
felt images. Influenced by ‘outside life’ and surface pattern designers, Sarah
is aiming to share her work through this experimental stage of her life.
Other exhibitions
include textile work by Ros Willis and further work by Katie Hinder, Vanessa Stone and Crafty Betty
further details of which can be found in listings above.
Kooroon Too
2 North Crescent,
Bottesford NG13 0BP
Copse Collection is an installation for which two artists have taken
woodland adventuring and random rambles as their stating point to explore the
wonder of walking, playing and generally being outside.
Painter /
printmaker, Donna Drouin is in a consistent cycle of observing, recording and
creating. “It’s true you’ll find me stood stock still staring at a leaf, or
with my head tilted at the sky watching a bird soar overhead. You might catch
me crouching over moss on a wall or taking photographs of lichen on a tree
stump. This is just part of my world that I try to capture onto paper, canvas,
photographs and tissue. The concept of redemption, repurposing, reusing, giving
a fresh look at things that would normally be discarded. Showing the beauty
that is intrinsic. “
Textile artist
Jane Millum works as PollyWhistle to create curious and quirky stories of
Faux-Lore involving the lives of characters both real and imagined. For this
installation Jane uses reclaimed textiles and found materials to comment upon
the nature of playing, adventuring and collecting real treasure, not to mention
the importance of pockets.
The Old Brickyard Tea
Garden
Scalford, Melton
Mowbray LE14 4ST
Artists / designers work sold at the
tearoom include:
Carol Pairaudeau - Artist / print maker / teacher: http://www.carolartgallery.com/
Lynne Whitfield - artist / watercolour specialist /
teacher:
Alegria Jewellery - sparkly resin jewellery: https://www.facebook.com/alegriajewellery/?ref=br_rs
LB Ceramics - Unique, hand thrown Japanese style teapots https://www.facebook.com/LeighBassCeramics/
Sugar Plum Pig - Handmade loveliness, shabby chic sewing creations
by Lorraine: https://www.facebook.com/SugarPlumPig/
Sharp Needle Felts - fabulous needle felted
creatures by Sophie Harwood https://folksy.com/shops/Felt1knit2
Maureen Ake - Woolly creative / spinning / natural
dyeing / felting
Amanda Rudkin – mosaics
Marilyn Cragg - Crochet creatures
Anna Stasinska - Bowie prints and original
watercolours sold for local Cancer Research charity - HOPE Against Cancer
Greeting cards by various artists including
Handmade
cards by Marilyn Pepper
The Old Sorting House Information Point
25 High
Street, Bottesford, NG13 0AA
Pop-up family friendly
workshop
Venue to be revealed
Sunday 2pm to 5pm only
Artist: Heidi Draper
Poppy Seed Cafe
12 Queen St,
Bottesford, Nottingham NG13 0AH
Artist: Donna Drouin
You'll find
painter/printmaker Donna Drouin staring at flowers and stars, photographing
details, trying to develop an understanding of how and why. A prolific sketchbook filler Donna collects
surfaces, textures and architectural details to work into her paintings and
prints like a secret language. Using layers of under painting to build up rich
tones in her paintwork the same way a printmaker uses layers of colours to
build an image, Donnas work communicates her wonder of the universe we inhabit,
her love of God and an understanding of science all together in one place.
Steve Hunt Workshop
17 Garden Road,
Bingham, NG13 8GB
Artist / Maker Steve
Hunt:
Nowadays thousands of tons of wood are
left on the ground to rot, chipped for
compost, or buried in landfill. I am
exploring how I can use my own designs to create useful and sculptural items
from found, rescued and donated materials. My insect hotels and bird nesting
boxes are made from reclaimed timber - donated by friends and neighbours or
found abandoned or discarded as rubbish. There is a story behind everything I
make.
White Robin Emporium
8-9 Westgate, Grantham
NG31 6LT
Sunday 11am to 4pm
Artists / makers:
Willow Eve
Chapman Stacey -Fine Artist
Sharon Palmer –
Artist
Chris’s Fork
Emporium – Upcycled cutlery
Freckleface Home
fragrance– Candles, diffusers and wax melts
Inspired by
Masons – Wooden boxes, plaques, frames
Mark Swadling –
turned pens, industrial, quirky lamps
The Silver
Forager – sea glass jewellery mounted with silver
Tatty Daft – Hand
sewn individual creations
Alison Taylor –
Hand sewn teddies, dolls, bags etc from quality fabrics
Pure Artisan
Soaps – pure and natural soaps, creams, balms
Dainty Designs by
Elliepie – hand sewn bonnets, angels, lavender bags etc
M. H. Preserves –
jams, jellies, chutneys etc
Ann Kilroy –
Artist
Jannett Frost –
hand sculpted and thrown clay objects
Michele Kettle –
Hand crocheted blankets, throws, toys, baskets.
Blue Owl Art Gallery
Bottesford Dental Practice AND Mai Holistic Centre
Bottesford Methodist Church
Crafty Betty (Bottesford)
Artist: Craft Betty
The Geese & Fountain
Sunday 8.30am to 9.00pm
The Glass and Art Studio
Kooroon Gallery
Studio Space
Derbyshire
born Catherine Moores has lived in the Vale of Belvoir, Leicestershire for over
25 years. Working in acrylic and oil paints as well as pencil Catherine covers
a wide range of subjects including landscapes and seascapes, although animals
are considered a speciality. Catherine
has had a passion for art since being a young child. She has worked a number of
jobs including those with horses and dogs but art has always remained her main
passion. She’s built a strong reputation over the last 10 years, completing
numerous commissions and holding her own art exhibitions.
Sarah Parr
Other exhibitions include textile work by Ros Willis and further work by Katie Hinder, Vanessa Stone and Crafty Betty further details of which can be found in listings above.
Kooroon Too
The Old Brickyard Tea Garden
The Old Sorting House Information Point
Pop-up family friendly workshop
Poppy Seed Cafe
Steve Hunt Workshop
White Robin Emporium
Sunday 11am to 4pm
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