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Exhibitions

Sue Nichol's much awaited exhibition, Fell, Stone and Sky will launch at The Old School Gallery, Muker, Swaledale this month. Sue will be there to on 3rd and some of the 4th September to meet visitors to the Gallery and will be happy to talk about her work and techniques. The exhibition, which celebrates the Dales landscape and in particular Upper Swaledale, will run throughout September.

Maggie Robinson will be taking part in the Manchester Academy of Fine Art’s Autumn Exhibition at Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery, Wellington Road South, Stockport SK3 8AB from Saturday 21st September until Friday 1st November 2019. There will be over 180 pieces on show in the exhibition. The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday 1.00-5.00pm, Saturdays 10.00am- 5.00pm and Sundays 11.00am-5.00pm.

8 Women in Print is the first exhibition of original handmade prints to be held at the Bessemer Gallery, and features work by Cath Dunn and seven established printmakers from Sheffield. The exhibition runs from Monday 16 September to Sunday 1st December and is an excellent opportunity to purchase early Christmas presents. Bessemer Gallery is open Tues-Sat, 10am to 6pm, Sunday & Monday 11am to 4pm.

Ian Daisley's High Stone Gallery will be open on Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th September, 10 am to 4 pm. The gallery is the showcase for Ian's landscape photography and you will be sure to find a varied selection of framed and mounted, limited edition prints.

Ian's new book, The Peak District in Black & White will be available to browse through and place orders, with delivery expected in early October. See more at www.highstonegallery.co.uk

Ian will also be exhibiting at Melbourne Arts Trail on the weekend of 14th & 15th September, giving you another chance to view his landscape photography. More details at melbournefestival.co.uk

Art in the Gardens is a lovely event held annually in Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Clarkehouse Road, Sheffield. PDA participants this year include photographer and darkroom printer Natasha Braithwaite and Cath Dunn who will be showing as a Premier Artist. Her display will include recent work in a variety of media together with prints and cards.

The event opens with a preview evening on Friday 6th September from 6 to 9pm and continues Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th September, 10.30am to 5.30pm.
A limited number of free preview tickets are available on a first come, first serve basis from Cath. Please contact her on cath@cathdunn.me.uk if you would like a preview ticket.

Cath also has monotypes and paintings on display at No.28, 28 Market Place, Belper. The exhibition in this vibrant venue runs until until 12th September.

PDA members Alison Wake and Joanna Allen are taking part in New Mills Festival’s Art Trail, which runs from Friday 13th until Sunday 29th of September. Over seventy artists display their work in windows across New Mills for the duration of the two-week festival and Alison's display will be in the window of Stepwise Podiatry, Market St.

For the Big Weekend of Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th, Joanna will open her second floor studio and ground floor gallery on High Street (venue 26) from 11 am until 4 pm. Joanna will be displaying recent work, which includes decorative hand coloured prints and drypoints, as well as her romantic and luxurious silk crepe de chine scarves. Joanna’s work often contains faces, flora and fauna, sometimes with a magical or literary theme. Admission is free.

Workshop Dates

As the Summer draws to a close and the cooler days and darker nights encourage us inside, how about planning some creative activities and learn some new skills this Autumn?
Join Liz Wellby for a creative workshop at The Art Room, Barlow or at her home studio, where there is the added bonus of meeting Bert, the Studio Cat.

This month Silk Painter Pauline Townsend will be running three full day workshops:
1st September – Silk Painting for Beginners £70
8th September – Flowers inspired by Rennie Mackintosh £70
29th September – Paint a Butterflies Silk Scarf £75 (4 places only)

All workshops take place at Pauline’s home studio in Buxton. Booking is essential. Please contact: pauline@silkpainter.co.uk tel: 01298 22117 or visit website for more details: www.silkpainter.co.uk

Joanna Allen is running a creative drypoint printmaking workshop on Monday 23rd September, from 6.00pm until 8.30 pm. This is part of a series of Print, Paint and Create workshops this autumn, all to be held at the Pump Room in Buxton.

Deriving inspiration from Buxton’s famous Georgian and Victorian architecture, Joanna’s class will try different drypoint techniques, using sandpaper, scissors, etching tools and craft knives. Printmaking can be messy so please wear old clothes. All materials (and cake) are included in the £35 fee.
Pauline Townsend is also taking part in Print, Paint & Create. Pauline’s ‘Introduction to Silk Painting’ is on 7th October.
Full details of all workshops at the Pump Room or see link. You can also pick up a booking form from the Gallery in the Gardens in Buxton or email info@galleryinthegardens.co.uk.

Lin Cheung’s workshop Colour, Collage and Texture in Abstract Painting is on Monday 16th September, 10 til 4pm, at The Old House Studio, Glossop. See linc-art.com/workshops for more details

Other News

During August Lin Cheung completed a 31 Day Monochrome Challenge. Lin set herself the challenge to complete a small 10cmx10cm black white plus one colour painting a day during the month of August. Go to Lin’s website www.linc-art.com to read all about the challenge and see the finished paintings.

Visitors to the summer exhibition of the Buxton Spa Prize at the Green Man Gallery have been voting for their favourite painting. Pam Smart is delighted to have won the People’s Choice Award for her painting ‘Cavendish Kaleidoscope’ which features beautiful details from both the inside and outside of the Cavendish Arcade. Watch out for her latest architectural painting featuring The Dome.

For the past seven years Michela Griffith has been making images of her local river, working and reworking the same small section of the River Dove in the Peak District National Park.

Her images celebrate the ephemeral beauty of water and the patterns of light that play on its surface: water has become her canvas and in turn the river has transformed her photographic practice. She has recently updated her website and you’ll find a selection of new work and writing, including A Memory of Water which gives an insight into her current practice.

Sue Nichol will again be part of the Staithes Festival of Art and Heritage which will take place over the weekend of 7 and 8 September 2019 in some 85 temporary galleries in cottages, houses and public spaces throughout the village.
Sue will be doing her very popular demonstrations at her venue at Laura Knight’s Studio, on both days from 1.30pm to 2.30 pm.

Sue will also be giving an illustrated talk about Gypsy art and culture. Sue spent over twenty years working with the traveller community, during that time she was able to document, through her love of photography a disappearing, increasingly threatened and misunderstood community.

Our Next Event

Our popular Winter Artisan Fair will take place again in the Whitworth Centre Darley Dale on 9th/10th November
22 artisans will be taking part offering a diverse range of gifts including fine art, ceramics, jewellery, glass and wood.
Sue Prince's now completed community folk art painting of the Great Dome Art Fair will be unveiled for the first time at the WAF so save the date - more details to follow.

Don't forget our
Emerging Artist/Maker-Designer Award
Closing date for Entries is

2nd October

For more details and to complete an application form go to peakdistrictartisans.co.uk/emerging