Welcome to the Virtual-Lancaster Art Gallery - featuring links
to local art groups, artists and online galleries.
People say that when you use the word 'local' describing an artist
it's the kiss of death.
In fact this page contains links to nationally and internationally
acclaimed artists and some of the greatest work in the world. The 'anti-local'
nonsense just reflects the low self-esteem of some local galleries and
funders, the 'almost-' and 'used-to-be-' artists keen for acceptance
from the centralised, paperwork establishment (and occasionally invited
to the odd soulless party in exchange for exhibition-space and commissions),
not the quality of the living work we see around us. Van Gogh was a
local artist. So was Michaelangelo. So is Judy Chicago.
Sadly,
the brilliant Chris Amriding died in 2005, although his web site
is still online as of July 2007. Chris, who studied art at Lancaster
and Morecambe Art College and Preston Polytechnic (University
of Central Lancashire), was an active
supporter of local artists and his spirit lives on in initiatives
such as AIM2.
E-mail: graemeatkinson@tiscali.co.uk Professional
artist, born in Westmoreland in 1972, Graeme studied art and design through to
A-level in Kirkby Lonsdale and then graphic design in Carlisle at Cumbria College
of Art and Design. As well as painting he enjoys all sports, particularly running
on the road and the fells of the Lake District. Millenium Bridge(pictured
here - £500) featured in the blueroom-exhibition at the Ashton Memorial
in March 2004.
Gill
Barron Painter of Everything
Exceptional Bentham Artist
Tom
Barron Tom works as a stonemason "in't Yorkshire
Dales & Cumbria. I carve stone signs
and build walls." He aslo now builds web
sites. He trained at Weymouth College in
Dorset and has been working with stone for
years.
A wildlife and environment artist/artivist based in Milnthorpe. Original
artworks celebrate the diversity of life. Founder of the popular
programme of wildlife art workshops at RSPB's Leighton Moss Reserve.
Gerry Brookes
Web:
www.gerrybrookes.com
Workshop Leader and Company Director for the Qsand
Arts Centre, Gerry has had exhibitions of her work in a wide
range of cities including Birmingham, Brighton and Manchester,
and in the US.
She's also part of The Book Project.
Her paintings include explorations of natural forms in paintings
of mixed media, texture and colour.
Paul
Clark
Web: www.paulclarkart.co.uk Arnside-based Paul has been exhibiting in group and solo
exhibitions in recent years. He mainly uses oil, earth, chalk and
other natural pigments such as bitumen and shellac.
John
Elles
Web: www.johnelles.com
Fine Artist, specialising in pencil drawing, pen and
ink work and abstract painting. John is happy to accept commisions
to draw houses, pets or portraits from photographs, or to sell work
exhibited on his site. Email: johnelles@hotmail.com
Aziza
Essa
Web: www.moodsoncanvas.co.uk Aziza was born in Lancaster. "Painting is, and
has for a long time, been my creative and emotional outlet," she
says. Psychology influences all her work along with the people in
her life, her environment and her feelings. "In my work I can
see my past, I can feel some of my future". Her paintings also
convey much of her daily experiences and where she is mentally and
spiritually at the time of creating the work -- "the joys and
frustration of life, and in truth, even vices of life".
•
Read
a review of on of her exhibitions by Michael P. Nunn
F
Fine Lines Web: www.finelines-art.co.uk PO Box 615, Lancaster LA1 2GQ
Telephone on +44 (0)1524 841584 E-mail to contact@finelines-art.co.uk
A group of local artists producing fine art scenes of the Lake
District, Lancashire, Yorkshire and Classic & modern cars.
Glenn
Fraser Web www.fanartreview.com Tel. 07981 206124
email: glenn@
gfraser.wanadoo.co.uk
Morecambe-based artist (originally from Scotland) producing strong graphite portraiture
and original work.
Image: The Big Issue
David
French Web: www.aim-artists.co.uk Now selling limited edition
prints (mostly local scenes) through local galleries (Crescent Gallery
Bare, Town House Gallery Lancaster) and also selling greetings cards
through Paper Gallery, Williamson Park, Maritime Museum Lancaster and
also the Tourist Information in Morecambe.
Patricia
Haskey Knowles Web: www.phk-art.co.uk Patricia
graduated from the University of Central Lancashire in 1980. Her paintings
are widely exhibited in galleries across the UK and Europe and are
held in private collections in the UK and Australia.
She also paints murals and trompe l’oeil to commission. She is involved
in the painting of murals for Morecambe’s Regeneration Project; her designs
for Morecambe’s new Skateboard Park having just been approved (2004).
Paintings and Limited edition prints are available locally from Town House Gallery
Lancaster and Crescent Gallery Bare.
Steve
Harris Web: www.unbelievable-art.co.uk A scaffolder by trade, Steve became an overnight success after his website
was spotted
on
the
internet
by
international art dealers. This Heysham-based artist's fabulous work has
a
residency
at New York's
Montserrat Gallery on Broadway.
Milan Ivanic is from former Czechoslovakia and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague before coming to this country in 1970. He has had one-man exhibitions at Keele University, Wolfson College, Oxford, The Clyde Bertrand Gallery, Stockton, California, Aston University Arts Centre, The Terrace Gallery, Worthing, and The BBC, Manchester. His work has been included in numerous major exhibitions. Since 1986 he has lived and worked as a figurative artist in Lancaster
J
Elaine
Jackson I was born in Lancaster 1952 and attended Teacher Training
College 1972-75. It was here I first found a love of surrealism, especially
the work of Max Ernst. I later graduated from Lancaster and Morecambe Art
College. Most of my work concerns itself with seeing
things in ways that aren't ordinarily accessible to people.
Bill
Jervis
E-mail: bill@jervis.fsnet.co.uk
Writer and artist Bill was born in Lancaster in 1933 and lived here until 1951.
He now lives in Norfolk but visits annually. You can view his lifetime's art
work here.
Read some of his short stories in our "Write
Stuff" section.
Harry
Johnson
1904 - 2002
Web: www.hhjartworks.co.ukInspired by both regional and European landscape
and architecture Harry was always thoroughly happy when capturing
the the beauty he found in nature and architure.
You can find cards and limited edition prints from Harry Johnson's
paintings in Town House Gallery, Williamson's Park and Wolfe
House Gallery. Image:
'St Peter's Church, Heysham'
Vicki Mulligan
Web: www.nvmdigital.com/crafts/crafts.html
Vicki designs and makes felted bags and scarves. Each one is unique and individual. They are sold at galleries throughout the UK. Retail bag prices range from £21 to £39.95 and scarves from £29.95 to £39.95. She also makes abstract translucent wall hangings of wool felted onto silk chiffon at prices from £125 to £250.
Mario
Ottonello
Web: www.studioarts.co.uk/gallery/ottonello Fine watercolours of
Lancaster.
Image:
Millenium Bridge, Lancaster by Mario Ottonello - This Limited
Edition Print is for sale framed at £75.00 and unframed £40.00
each from Studio Arts, 50 North Road, Lancaster. Telephone 01524
68014 or email otto@studioarts.co.uk
P
Kevin
Pearson Web: www.kevinpearson.co.uk Tel: 01524 413377
Modern contemporary and abstract artist based in the Morecambe and
Lancaster area.
Kevin's artistic style has developed over the last few years intto what
can only be described as bright, modern, vibrant, contemporary art for the 21st
century's style of life. Painting styles: modern contemporary, modern abstract,
textured art & abstract landscape.
Inspiration comes from many different sources, visual images from home & abroad,
his own creative imagination and through the love of music.
Kevin's artwork can be found in The Bank of England, Cadbury's, Harvey
Nichols, Corporate Offices, upmarket property developments and country house
hotels. His work is currently on display at The Bay Gallery,
Plaza Arcade, Queen St, Morecambe.
Viv Roberts
5 Lancaster Road, Cockerham, Lancaster LA2 0EB
Tel: 01524 791390 Mobile: 07855 764995 E-mail: liveandletviv@hotmail.com
Handcrafted cards for every special occasion - left blank inside for your own
personal message. Wedding stationery and commissions welcome.
Catrina
Stamp Web: www.catandcoat.co.uk Tel: 01524 840530 E-mail: Catrina@catandcoat.co.uk
Catrina writes, illustrates and makes books by hand as well as "goddess
cards" and more.
Finn
Stamp Web: www.nuvision.co.uk NuVision Art, 7 Ashwood Court, Bridge
Road, Lancaster LA1 5PY
Tel - 07909513060 / 01524 843223 Email - finn.stamp@nuvision.co.uk
Finn
Stamp set up
the online art gallery Original Art Company which showcased works
by artists including himself and his then partner. This is where
his real passion for creating Pop Art took off, being inspired by
such postmodernists as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Finn was
able to design and paint numerous cult icons in a contemporary
yet personal style.
Roy Smith
Tel: 01524 61035 E-mail: words1@ntlworld.com
Landscape artist and photographer
T
Donald
Taylor
Web: www.donaldtaylor.org.uk
'My first love is landscape painting" says Donald. "As a boy my habit
was to get up at daybreak on Saturdays and walk up onto the moors above the
town, to favourite haunts like Deeply Vale and Knowl Hill, and I would explore
every fold and track. It was my ambition to be as good at conveying my feelings
of excitement and mystery about the landscape I loved, through painting, with
the same intensity that Turner's large landscape painting, 'Gathering Bait,
Calais Sands' in Bury Art Gallery communicated to me..."
Rebecca Taylor,
"A", Pavillion Buildings, 5 West Street, Morecambe, Lancs, LA31RB Tel:
07837 066003
Now occupying a working art studio in Morecambe, Rebecca specialises in painting, printmaking,
drawing and sculpture but is also an accomplished interior designer and digital
imaging artist.
" Contemporary and traditional artwork is available by comission or just
simply come and visit the studio and browse in my gallery on the first floor.
My studio is available for other local artists to exhibit a selection of artwork,
at my discretion, for a set fee. We also stock limited edition prints, hand crafted,
locally made silver jewellery and Charles Rennie-Macintosh style silver jewellery."
Neil
Thompson Local artist. Neil's art can be bought online from this site dedicated
to Northern Soul.
E-mail: unityflow@hotmail.com
Unityflow is a former games designer and scientist who lost faith in video
games, stopped playing with science and started to create odd pictures to
fill the void left behind.
W
David
Ward All
of the featured images - oil paintings and limited edition prints -
on David's site are of the Lancaster, Heysham, Morecambe areas.
Email:enquiries@lancasterprints.co.uk
Mark
Scott Waterman Tel: 01524 33633
Email: mark@lancaster.me.uk
Lancaster-based painter with a warm, sensitive style which
is intimately both earthy and cerebral. A professional portrait
artist, illustrator and designer, Mark's work has a steady market
in the Greater Manchester area. He also accepts corporate and private
commissions.
Tel: 01524 35396
Mob: 07790 073 983One of the Luneside Studios artists
group. Cathy's work is beautifully super-real - immediate and
life-expressive faces.
AIM2 AIM2 is the new name the group formally known as Artists in Morecambe.
The concentration is about selling art and artists rather than just
showing projects and themes.
"Artist with talent should not have to starve in garrets, it’s
not romantic, and it’s unfair. Many artists have remarkable talents
that in time will prove their worth. We want to encourage investment
in art and in the abilities of artists."
AIM2 is planning to hold a series of one and two-day events at the
weekends at various venues in Lancaster where artists can come along
and put up a stall and display their work. If you’re an artist
and want to get involved please get in touch with AIM2 tel: 01524
847530
Carnforth + District Art Society
Open to all, meets alternate Thursdays from 2-4pm Carnforth Station
heritage Centre. Info tel: 01524 822016
Lancaster
and District Art Society
Tel: 01524 67677 or 0784 052 7712
Meetings held on Fridays from 7pm to 9pm in the Torrisholme Methodist Church
Hall, Norwood Drive, Torrisholme.
Programme of demonstrations, workshops, tutor groups, annual exhibition, summer
painting programme and gallery visits. You are welcome to attend any meeting
as a guest with a small charge of £2.
Luneside
Studios 2nd Floor, St George's Works, St George's Quay, Lancaster LA1
5QJ. Artists' group which collectively rents a large part of the
old quayside factory now converted into studio spaces.
Lunesdale
Studio Trail 18 artists in 13 studios feature on this tour of open studios
in the Lune Valley which runs from 11 - 26 June 2005. The studios feature,
artists, sculptors, ceramicists, textiles, video and more. For more
details please visit http://www.lunesdalearts.co.uk/
Morecambe Bay Art Society meets on alternate Mondays
1.30 - 3.30pmThe Platform,
Morecambe Box Office 01524 582803.
Info tel: 01524 381486
Qsands
Artists Mona House, 1 Deansgate, Morecambe (behind the Bradford Arms on Queen St).
Tel: 01524 851283
The group has formed a 'Company
Limited by Guarantee' which is called Qsand Ltd, a non-profit organisation
and a registered charity. The building is owned by the Heritage Trust North
West and is to be restored to its former glory as a Grade 11 Listed
Georgian property.
"
We have space for artists' studios and we run workshops, also
exhibitions.
"
A Weekend Art Market is being held on Saturdays and Sundays
during August and September 2006 12 midday until 4pm with local arts and crafts on
display."
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Professional
artist, born in Westmoreland in 1972, Graeme studied art and design through to
A-level in Kirkby Lonsdale and then graphic design in Carlisle at Cumbria College
of Art and Design. As well as painting he enjoys all sports, particularly running
on the road and the fells of the Lake District. Millenium Bridge (pictured
here - £500) featured in the blueroom-exhibition at the Ashton Memorial
in March 2004. 
Glenn
Fraser 
Web: 
Elaine
Jackson
Inspired by both regional and European landscape
and architecture Harry was always thoroughly happy when capturing
the the beauty he found in nature and architure.
Nick
'Sputnik' Miller
Vicki Mulligan
Finn
Stamp
Norman
Trewhitt
Mark
Scott Waterman
portrait
artist, illustrator and designer, Mark's work has a steady market
in the Greater Manchester area. He also accepts corporate and private
commissions. 
