Sharron Astbury Petit 1

Sharron Astbury-Petit

Veronica’s Choice

Veronica’s Choice work in 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 favourite clematis “Veronica’s Choice”, whose flowers are stunningly beautiful this…

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Trevor Pittaway 1

Trevor Pittaway

Painting Poppies

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 the weather is beautiful so have been painting poppies in the garden  

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Pauline Meade 1

Pauline Meade

Day out in Whitby

Linoprint ‘Day out in Whitby’ 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 the Stanley and Audrey Burton gallery later this year, inspired by works from the Leeds University Art collection. I chose a…

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Liz Salter 1

Liz Salter

Dreaming of wildness and weather and the smell of the hills

Memories of the Moor 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 from dreaming of wildness and weather and the…

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Keith Harris 1

Keith Harris

Getting Back to Painting Plein Air

View from White Ley Bank, Fulstone – ink and colored pencil 15th May 2020 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 to resume some plein air art near to home. However, by the time…

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Malcolm Barton 1

Malcolm Barton

Sweet Peas

Sweet peas in glass vase This is an oil painting on canvas size 45cm x 55cm.  The subject was intended to be used as one of a series of demonstrations to a local art group but wasn’t used as an actual live demonstration because the lock-down interrupted the sequence of events.  So that I could…

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Roger Gardner 1

Roger Gardner

Moving On

I used one element of a Patrick Caulfield print [the basis of the Leeds University “stimulus” – a 60s style plate – red with white spots] and I made this into an 18” x18” painting incorporating an actual plate. I have made a similar work with a target. During the lockdown I cut down various…

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Neil Pittaway 1

Neil Pittaway

Figurative Art Fair online

Blue Danube Façade I will be exhibiting three of my new drawings in this online Figurative Art Fair. The brand-new art fair organised by the Federation of British Artist will feature selected work for sale by elected members of their national art societies, the Pastel Society (PS), Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), Royal Institute of Painters in…

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Pamela Anne Briggs 1

Pamela Anne Briggs

Studio Work in Lockdown

Ancient Egypt No.1 (Detail) Acrylic 61x61cm Inspired by Ancient Egyptian border patterns, I made a collection of 8 designs titled EGYPTIAN SKETCHBOOK in pens on canvas to emulate the effect of the many preparatory and exploratory studies I had made in my work journal. The pen on canvas presented many unforeseen and frustrating technical problems…

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Catherine Warburton 1

Catherine Warburton

Preliminary work for the LFA Exhibition in the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at Leeds University

These are the preliminary work I am doing for the Leeds University exhibition. I chose work in response to an acrylic by Judith Cain illustrating a corner of Roundhay Park with trees and flowerbeds. I love her textures and simple tree shapes so I am replicating this into my work. Roundhay Park is on my doorstep…

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