Saturday, 20 July - 11.30 till 3.30pm - Learning Room at the gallery In this Summer-inspired workshop, Jo Duncan will demonstrate how to make appealing wool hedgehogs, using a simple pompom method which guarantees perfect results. In the second part of the workshop, we’ll create some little yarn birds which can be customised as standing, … Continue reading Woolly Creatures Workshop with Jo Duncan
Saturday 29 June - 11.30 - 3.30pm - Learning Room at the gallery Photographs are one of the richest sources of inspiration for landscape painters and almost all artists will use them at some point to create work. This workshop will help participants gain a deeper understanding of the potential of this way of working … Continue reading Painting Expressive Landscapes from photographs inspired by the work of David Bomberg and Joan Eardley – Edward Hillier
Our new President Joyce Quin has a new book out. 'Angels of the North: Volume Two – More Notable Women of the North East' is co-written by Joyce with Moira Kilkenny. Angels of the North Vol. 2 by Joyce Quin and Moira Kilkenny – published by Tyne Bridge Publishing In the second volume of Angels … Continue reading Angels of the North Volume Two – by Joyce Quin and Moira Kilkenny
Saturday 16th March, 1pm Andy Martin's talk this Saturday has had to be cancelled. We are hoping to reschedule the talk for a date in the autumn. ----- Andy works primarily with older, higher quality analogue processes - medium and large format film cameras to tell their stories. He is also one of a handful … Continue reading CANCELLED – Talk by Andy Martin, Photographer, Visual Artist and Filmmaker
Dear Friends We recently had our first Trustees meeting of this year. We meet four times each year to deal with the management of the Friends of the Hatton’s business. It brings with it a New Year with fresh challenges and opportunities. It’s been a while since our last President retired and we have been … Continue reading Friends Bulletin Spring 2024
On the 16th December Katie Price conducted a workshop for the Friends of the Hatton. Katie had prepared lots of kits using her supplies of vintage quilts and fabric. She had prepared templates so we could make a selection of Christmas ornaments or fairy houses. She brought many samples of her own work together with … Continue reading Review of our recent workshop by Katie Price
Friday 19th April, 11 till 3 pm Louise is a textile artist based in 36 Lime Street, Newcastle, making unique pieces, working with traditional northeast techniques such as patchwork and quilting, hooky and proggy matting, as well as spinning, embroidery, felting, batik along with upholstery, printing and community yarnbombing. She has collaborated on and co-coordinated … Continue reading Patchwork Workshop by Louise Underwood
It was a very pleasant surprise to be invited to become the President of the Friends of the Hatton Gallery. I was delighted to accept and be able to meet members of the Committee at their meeting last month. Over the years - indeed since way back in the 1960s! - I have visited the … Continue reading A message from our new President: Baroness Joyce Quin
Adele graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA Hons in Interior Design and previously and HND from Newcastle College in Spacial design. After a career in Interior Architecture Adele returned to her home town of Hexham in Northumberland to bring up her family. Here she became interested in printmaking and took several courses … Continue reading Featured artist Adele Burdon
Notice is hereby given that the Friends of the Hatton Annual General Meeting will be held in the Learning Room in the Hatton Gallery on Saturday, 4th May 2024. The AGM will follow a similar format as in previous years which is as follows: 10.00 Coffee and biscuits 10.15 Show and Talk. We are inviting … Continue reading Notice of 2024 Annual General Meeting
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