The Four Seasons at Hay-A-Park  

Exhibition runs 12th February to 26th March 2010

A visual diary of the flora and fauna in paintings and photographs by local artist Mark Whorley. This exhibition reveals the beauty and diversity to be found at this local site of special scientific interest. Mark brings to us a year in the life of the flora and fauna on our doorstep with sensitive acrylic paintings that change gradually with the seasons and photographs of the wildlife and flowers that he discovered there.  

  The Boys are Back in Town!

Peter Stanaway, Steve Capper, Kevin Haynes and Russell Howarth

Preview event Sunday 8th November 12-4pm

Meet the artists

Four artists from Manchester return to Yorkshire to showcase their latest work. They will be joined this time by sculptress Jean Fenton also from Manchester.  

 The show starts on Sunday 8th November and runs until 24th December at Art in the Mill, Green Dragon Yard, Off Castlegate, Knaresborough HG5 8AU

Tel: 01423 862963 www.artinthemill.co.uk 

  Opening hours: 11-5.30pm Wed-Sat, 11-4pm Sun

Peter Stanaway returns to the Mill with more sharp geometric images. This year he has produced a series of oil paintings in response to and depicting his love of folk music. A keen folk musician himself, he has produced lively scenes evoking good vibes amongst musician friends.

 Kevin Haynes paints from his chidhood memories of life in the mill towns. His nostalgic images tell a story, often very amusing, as seen through the wide eyes of a small boy growing up in Northern England.

Steve Capper is inspired by the hills and valleys of the Pennines where he lives and works. His use of strong vibrant colour and stylish shaping produces fascinating landscapes with almost luminous qualities. He often focuses on trees and foliage as his subject and one can usually find a landmark or mill building within his flowing landscapes.

 For sculpture this year Jean Fenton will show her latest figurative work in terracotta which uses line and form to find underlying emotions and feelings. Her dance figures aim to trap a burst of energy and strength in a frozen moment.

FEVA SHOW AUGUST 2009

Richard Snowden is well known in these parts for his relentless productive and creative energy and he is now seeing the fruits of his labours flourishing.  By day the challenge is to harness mother nature on his working farm and by night it is to release his abundant creativity. The result is a rich body of work imbued with a joie de vivre which lights up even the darkest walls. The subjects are luscious and diverse, but each work is a performance, expressing the artist's empathy for nature in all its wonderful forms; dramatic landscapes one day and seductive femmes fatales the next!

Peter Stanaway returns to the Mill with more sharp geometric images. This year he has produced a series of oil paintings in response to and depicting his love of folk music. A keen folk musician himself, he has produced lively scenes evoking good vibes amongst musician friends.

Rosemary Abraham's floral paintings create intense visual statements. The surfaces are enriched with thick gesso allowing colour saturation which is often further enhanced by metal foils and pearlescent pigments producing heady floral pieces that are attracting the bees!

John Sibson is well known across Yorkshire and a respected artist now concentrating solely on his painting after a career in the quarrying industry. He likes to paint in watercolour, oil and acrylic with a pleasing rhythmical style  that evolves from his understanding of the complex vibrations in nature within landscapes and a precise eye for technical details in his industrial images.

 For sculpture this year Jean Fenton will show her latest figurative work in terracotta which uses line and form to find underlying emotions and feelings. Her dance figures aim to trap a burst of energy and strength in a frozen moment.

Mandy Long also exhibits. Her raku sculptures aspire to capture the extraordinary passion and electricity, strength and grace of athletes and dancers in motion. Mandy is fascinated by the relationships in performance between impetus, power, strength and the point of balance about which motion hinges often defines an iconic pose for Mandy to recreate.