LEEDS FINE ARTISTS
LFA Artists’ News
From the summer of 2021 galleries in the UK began to reopen for public exhibitions. The Members News posts for September 2021 onwards will now feature LFA Members who have work on display in galleries.
As a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, LFA’s first physical exhibition in over a year was from 16th April to 21st June 2021 at the Blossom Street Gallery in York.
The second physical exhibition was “Look Again: Leeds Fine Artists” at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, 8th June to 23rd October 2021. LFA members were invited to respond to artworks in the University Art Collection. Each artist responded to their chosen piece in their own style, media and format.
Prior to these exhibitions, during the various stages of the pandemic lockdowns the Members News posts offered the public the opportunity to view the work that took place in our members’ studios and the posts also featured two LFA online exhibitions.
To view LFA Members Exhibitions prior to 2020, please click this link.
Look Again – Ladle Slag
Wadsworth’s dynamic response to the debris left over from a Black Country steel-making process may well have been triggered by the powerful war-torn landscapes depicted by artists on the Western Front during the preceding four years.
Look Again – Trees
Inspired by Sir George Clausen RA’s painting Trees, I have explored the artist’s much quoted dictum that: “light is the most important person in a picture”.
Look Again – Picnic Set
Some years ago, interested in Caulfield’s work, I made a painting of 60s wallpaper.– a comment on some paintings being merely wallpaper.
Look Again – The Triple Alliance
I was at once attracted to “The Triple Alliance” because it was clearly a Collage using printed material and playing with random shapes: a process with which I am very familiar and besides, it is of a decent size and made an immediate impact.
Look Again – Bretton Hall
Looking through the University’s on-line art collection I came across an entry for a print, “Bretton Hall” by Michael Anderson. This immediately caught my attention, as I had been a mature student at Bretton Hall College when “Andy” was head of the Art Department.
Look Again – Saltash Bridge
I was first made aware of the work of Alfred Wallis when I was a student at Leeds College of Art in the late 1950’s.
Look Again – Changing
The challenge of dynamic drawing from music-led disciplines in studio and theatre locations has been a main interest of mine. Friends, other participators at shared dance classes, as well as professionals, have been models in my previous working drawings.
Look Again – Above and Below
As an abstract landscape artist influenced by the 1950’s abstract expressionist work of Peter Lanyon, I chose the painting “Above and Below” by Trevor Bell who was involved with the St Ives School at the same time.
Look Again – A Mountain Pool
It was the title of the work in the University archives – “A Mountain Pool (also known as A Mountain Tarn)” by Alexander Cozens that originally caught my eye.
Look Again – Mistress Page
When the Look Again project was first broached I was working on a particular series of paintings as part of my performers-in-boxes theme.
Look Again – Herne Bay Pier
I finished this linoprint ‘Day out in Whitby’ in February 2020 from sketches made in normal times for the LFA exhibition to be held at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery inspired by works from the Leeds University Art collection postponed until now.
Look Again – Weathercote Cave
I selected a watercolour by John Piper from the collection; a study of Weathercote Cave near Ingleton. The cave is an example of streams disappearing into underground caverns in this limestone area.