Fresh

We love this time of year where we regularly see familiar faces of locals but also holiday makers that choose to visit Settle each year and always pop in.

During the summer period we always try and have a good mixture of local artists, and during our summer exhibition Fresh, we have certainly managed to achieve this. 
From Artist Claire Ninham based in Gargrave, just outside Skipton, taking her inspiration from close up details of dry stone walls to canal walks she regularly does each morning. Alongside Claire’s work is abstract landscape artist Emma Whitelock, who is based in York. Emma’s colour palette evokes a sense of calmness and tranquility within the Yorkshire moorland or our local seascape landscape’s based in Scarborough or Whitby. When you observe Emma’s work closely you see the soft brush stroke marks at first glance but the second time you look you so a subtle figure that is observing the landscape. Once you see one figure you see this mark in all her paintings. 

Alongside these artists we have ceramic artist Lizzie Pickup who is based in Clitheroe, Jeweller Charlotte Whitmore based in Bingley, as well as some arists that are not so local, but are new to the gallery. Like Textile artist Lynsey Walters, basket weaver Helen Munday, Jeweller Suzanne Claire Jewellery, Metal work David Mayne and Enameler Cathy Timbrell.