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LFA Artists’ News
In 2020 the requirement for social isolation has led to all art galleries closing their doors. However, new visual art may still make a positive contribution to the quality of people’s lives and this page offers the public the opportunity to view the work that LFA members are producing in this challenging time for all of us. We hope that visitors to the website will gain some pleasure and benefit from these posts. Take care and keep safe.
In the current circumstances LFA is not able to hold its annual exhibition at Dean Clough in June and July as planned. At present LFA is unable to say if its other exhibitions planned for later in the year will go ahead.
Experimenting. Works in progress.
As yet untitled. Possibly one for Dean Clough What would happen if.....?This question is always at the forefront of my mind when I’m working. One of the most life giving aspects of the process for me is experimenting with all sorts of different materials and combining...
‘Anonymous Postcard Exhibition’
The photos are of some recent paintings sold via Highgate Contemporary Art’s ‘Anonymous Postcard Exhibition’. I was delighted to have sold all 7 I submitted & it was great fun to be part of. Working towards the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds University...
Missing the sea and the beach
On the Beach, North Yorkshire I decided to work on this painting because I’ve been missing the sea and the beach! I have always loved people watching on beaches and have lots of small pencil drawings and photos of groups on various beaches. It’s called ‘On the beach,...
The Bradford City Square Big Screen
Monsignor J Kennedy Mr Smiddy I will be exhibiting three portraits throughout July on the Bradford City Square Big Screen. My portrait of Monsignor J Kennedy, Rector of The Venerable English College Rome, is held in the college's Rome collection. The college is a 500...
Veronica’s Choice
Veronica's Choice work in progress Further progress Now that the days are getting longer and warmer I am spending much more time outside in my garden, and so the impulse to capture some of its glorious flowers in paint grows ever stronger. I am currently painting my...
‘Straight from the studio – Work in progress’
Studio wall The first few weeks of lockdown found me unable to carry on with work I had been doing or planned to do, I felt sort of stuck, even going to the studio was a challenge! But then I started to realise that I now had more time to paint than before and less...
Day out in Whitby
Linoprint ‘Day out in Whitby’ Reduction Lino block for Day out in Whitbyafter inking and printing in 10 stages I finished this linoprint ‘Day out in Whitby’ in February this year from sketches made in normal times. It was intended for the LFA exhibition to be held at...
Painting Poppies
Painting poppies in the garden I’ve always loved poppies from being child. Still restricted to home because of Covid 19 I can’t go out and find wild poppies to paint. However we have loads of garden poppies that have just started flowering. They look magnificent and...
Dreaming of wildness and weather and the smell of the hills
Memories of the Moor Still Dreaming I was planning on being in Scotland in April and on Orkney in May and June, being inspired by mountains and sea and wide empty spaces. Instead I am stuck in a pleasant but tame agricultural landscape. However this does not stop me...
Getting Back to Painting Plein Air
View from White Ley Bank, Fulstone – ink and colored pencil 15th May 2020 Fulstone Vista oil Dec 2017 After the relaxing of the lockdown restrictions about the time allowed to exercise outdoors, it was great to be able to take advantage of the generally fine weather...