Painting Northumberland this spring - and what’s ahead for summer Local artist Joanne Wishart is based in Cullercoats. Here, she shares an insight into her recent work and what’s inspiring her as we move into the summer months. Earlier this year, I turned my attention to painting daffodils and exploring how they sit within the … Continue reading Featured Artist – Joanne Wishart
In the centenary year of Richard George Hatton’s death in February 1926 and the naming of the Hatton Gallery in his honour, this article follows on from the one in the Spring Bulletin that focused on Hatton’s life and achievements, to look at aspects of the art collection that also bears his name. In 1912, … Continue reading Richard Hatton’s “Store of Treasures”
In 2015 I was very fortunate to start a PhD at Newcastle University, in collaboration with the University’s Hatton Gallery, researching aspects of the Hatton Gallery Collection. My focus was on a significant collection of old master and contemporary artworks acquired by Professor Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991) for the Fine Art School in the 1950s that … Continue reading Richard George Hatton, “a great little man”
Born in Zambia, raised there and in Northumberland, Ruth trained in fashion before founding an award-winning interior design business in Newcastle. Her deep love of colour, texture, and form found a natural evolution in painting, and today she works primarily in oils-always painting from life, memory, and lived experience. Having travelled and worked across the … Continue reading Featured Artist – Ruth Bond
The Ashington Group's permanent collection is now housed at the Woodhorn Museum which has recently been absorbed into the North East Museums group. In 1936 though they featured in an exhibition at the Hatton Gallery. This is how it happened!Twelve months ago I had no particular interest in art.Today, Art Appreciation is an essential thrill … Continue reading The Ashington Group exhibition at the Hatton, 1936
Originally from the West Midlands, Kath moved to Sunderland in 1977 to take up a teaching post at a local college and eventually tutored for the Open University for 20 years. An interest in traditional clippy and hooky mats led Kath to undertake courses with various textile artists in the mid 90’s. After the turn … Continue reading Featured Artist – Kath Price
Steve is an artist and designer, living and working in Northumberland. He combines a love of walking and nature with his art and fills his notebooks with poetic and immersive responses to nature and the world around him. He is also leading a workshop in Creative Nature Journaling for us on 13 Sept. In recent … Continue reading Featured Artist – Steve Pardue
Extraction Echoes is an international exhibition by Videocity and Forum Sudut Pandang. It is supported by the British Council and co-curated by Friend Polina Chizhova. It takes place in 3 different locations around the world, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Jakarta and Palu in Indonesia. The collaborative exhibition project “Extraction Echoes” brings together Indonesian and British … Continue reading Extraction Echoes – an international Videocity exhibition
Theresa Poulton was born in Everton, United Kingdom, 1963, she lives and works in the North East of England. Theresa is a Newcastle University MFA graduate, a freelance art tutor, hard-edged, abstract, geometric and text-based artist with a range of skills and knowledge in painting, drawing, composition, colour relationships, collage and theory. Magen David – … Continue reading Featured Artist – Theresa Poulton
Hannah Forsyth is a Monotype Artist. I moved to Northumberland 25 years ago from Hertfordshire with the intention of staying for a year or so, 25 years later I have truly put down lasting roots and Northumberland is definitely my home. I studied art at foundation level, went on to study Sculpture at Brighton and … Continue reading Featured Artist – Hannah Forsyth
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