I am a UK artist and have lived in the Lancaster areas for the past
fifteen years. I work mainly in oils and have a lifelong fascination
with still life. I am interested in shadow and light, particularly in
abandoned religious buildings. Many of my paintings have been inspired
by such buildings on various travels.
email: mail@alarmstrongfinearts.co.uk
Email: graemeatkinson@tiscali.co.uk Professional
artist, born in Westmoreland in 1972, Graeme studied art and design through to
A-level in Kirkby Lonsdale and then graphic design in Carlisle at Cumbria College
of Art and Design. As well as painting he enjoys all sports, particularly running
on the road and the fells of the Lake District. Millenium Bridge(pictured
here - £500) featured in the blueroom-exhibition at the Ashton Memorial
inMarch 2004.
Painter of Everything
Exceptional Bentham Artist
Paintings in acrylic or gouache, usually on plywood. Also prints and postcards. See website: www.ipaint.org.uk/.
Tel: 015242 62284 or email gill@ipaint.org.uk
Tom
Barron Tom works as a stonemason "in't Yorkshire
Dales & Cumbria. I carve stone signs
and build walls." He aslo now builds web
sites. He trained at Weymouth College in
Dorset and has been working with stone for
years.
An associate member of Ellel Artists' Studios, Eleanor's work is "inspired by nature and our connection with it. I work with universal energies, working mainly in pen and ink. I am also a Community Artist and run workshops in arts and crafts."
Visit website and facebook.
A wildlife and environment artist/artivist based in Milnthorpe. Original
artworks celebrate the diversity of life. Founder of the popular
programme of wildlife art workshops at RSPB's Leighton Moss Reserve.
Most of my work is abstract, though I do create a small amount that is figurative. Media varies from traditional to digital and often encompasses techniques from both areas within a single piece. Influences derive from landscape, maths and sciences.
Work is usually offered for sale as prints because the completed piece often exists only in a digital format. To ensure the best possible longevity I reproduce these using high quality inks and papers designed for archival purposes.
Gerry Brookes
Web:
www.gerrybrookes.com
Gerry has had exhibitions of her work in a wide
range of cities including Birmingham, Brighton and Manchester,
and in the US.
She's also part of The Book Project.
Her paintings include explorations of natural forms in paintings
of mixed media, texture and colour.
Paul
Clark
Web: www.paulclarkart.co.uk Arnside-based Paul has been exhibiting in group and solo
exhibitions in recent years. He mainly uses oil, earth, chalk and
other natural pigments such as bitumen and shellac.
John
Elles
Web: www.johnelles.com
Fine Artist, specialising in pencil drawing, pen and
ink work and abstract painting. John is happy to accept commisions
to draw houses, pets or portraits from photographs, or to sell work
exhibited on his site. Email: johnelles@hotmail.com
Aziza
Essa
Web: www.moodsoncanvas.co.uk Aziza was born in Lancaster. "Painting is, and
has for a long time, been my creative and emotional outlet," she
says. Psychology influences all her work along with the people in
her life, her environment and her feelings. "In my work I can
see my past, I can feel some of my future". Her paintings also
convey much of her daily experiences and where she is mentally and
spiritually at the time of creating the work -- "the joys and
frustration of life, and in truth, even vices of life".
•
Read
a review of on of her exhibitions by Michael P. Nunn
Fine Lines Web: www.finelines-art.co.uk PO Box 615, Lancaster LA1 2GQ
Telephone on +44 (0)1524 841584 E-mail to contact@finelines-art.co.uk
A group of local artists producing fine art scenes of the Lake
District, Lancashire, Yorkshire and Classic & modern cars.
Glenn
Fraser Web www.fanartreview.com Tel. 07981 206124
email: glenn@
gfraser.wanadoo.co.uk
Morecambe-based artist (originally from Scotland) producing strong graphite portraiture
and original work.
Image: The Big Issue
David
French Web: www.aim-artists.co.uk Now selling limited edition
prints (mostly local scenes) through local galleries (Crescent Gallery
Bare, Town House Gallery Lancaster) and also selling greetings cards
through Paper Gallery, Williamson Park, Maritime Museum Lancaster and
also the Tourist Information in Morecambe.
Steve
Harris Web: www.unbelievable-art.co.uk A scaffolder by trade, Steve became an overnight success after his website
was spotted
on
the
internet
by
international art dealers. This Heysham-based artist's fabulous work has
a
residency
at New York's
Montserrat Gallery on Broadway.
Sazi Harrop Web: http://saziharrop.wix.com/artisariot
Email: saziharrop@gmail.com Freelance Professional Artist born in Morecambe. My inspirations come from the local music scene. Various cities around the world. I work with strong bright colours, acrylic paint on canvas and I am looking for bespoke commissions in any subject. Promotional packages for businesses, House portraits, vehicles and boats. Image: The Cavern
Patricia
Haskey Knowles Web: www.phk-art.co.uk Patricia
graduated from the University of Central Lancashire in 1980. Her paintings
are widely exhibited in galleries across the UK and Europe and are
held in private collections in the UK and Australia.
She also paints murals and trompe l’oeil to commission. She is involved
in the painting of murals for Morecambe’s Regeneration Project; her designs
for Morecambe’s new Skateboard Park having just been approved (2004).
Paintings and Limited edition prints are available locally from Town House Gallery
Lancaster and Crescent Gallery Bare.
Milan Ivanic is from former Czechoslovakia and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague before coming to this country in 1970. He has had one-man exhibitions at Keele University, Wolfson College, Oxford, The Clyde Bertrand Gallery, Stockton, California, Aston University Arts Centre, The Terrace Gallery, Worthing, and The BBC, Manchester. His work has been included in numerous major exhibitions. Since 1986 he has lived and worked as a figurative artist in Lancaster
Elaine
Jackson I was born in Lancaster 1952 and attended Teacher Training
College 1972-75. It was here I first found a love of surrealism, especially
the work of Max Ernst. I later graduated from Lancaster and Morecambe Art
College. Most of my work concerns itself with seeing
things in ways that aren't ordinarily accessible to people. Elaine is incommunicado.
Bill
Jervis
E-mail: bill@jervis.fsnet.co.uk
Writer and artist Bill was born in Lancaster in 1933 and lived here until 1951.
He now lives in Norfolk but visits annually. You can view his lifetime's art
work here.
Read some of his short stories in our "Write
Stuff" section.
Harry
Johnson
1904 - 2002
Web: www.hhjartworks.co.ukInspired by both regional and European landscape
and architecture Harry was always thoroughly happy when capturing
the the beauty he found in nature and architure.
You can find cards and limited edition prints from Harry Johnson's
paintings in Town House Gallery, Williamson's Park and Wolfe
House Gallery. Image:
'St Peter's Church, Heysham'
Jack Knight www.knighttimecreations.com
Email: jack@knighttimecreations.com Lancaster based illustrator and artist providing individuals and businesses with eyecatching illustrations and paintings. Creates in a variety of media including acrylics, marker pens and ink with digital colour. Jack is thrilled to announce that his illustration business, Knight Time Creations, is ranked as the #1 illustration company in the UK by Freeindex services directory. See website for more information and to view testimonials and an online portfolio.
Little Lost Soul
Contact Lucy Pass at littlelostsoul@gmail.com www.littlelostsoul.com "I'm a freelance visual artist based in Lancaster. My main areas of work are contemporary portraiture and illustration. For as far back as I can remember all art has dominated my life. I am in the throes of a life long love affair with painting. At times it is exhausting, but I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. I value art that makes me think, 'wow, I wish I could do that'."
Vicki Mulligan
Web: www.nvmdigital.com/crafts/crafts.html
Vicki designs and makes felted bags and scarves. Each one is unique and individual. They are sold at galleries throughout the UK. Retail bag prices range from £21 to £39.95 and scarves from £29.95 to £39.95. She also makes abstract translucent wall hangings of wool felted onto silk chiffon at prices from £125 to £250.
Mario
Ottonello
Web: www.studioarts.co.uk/gallery/ottonello Fine watercolours of
Lancaster.
Image:
Millenium Bridge, Lancaster by Mario Ottonello - This Limited
Edition Print is for sale framed at £75.00 and unframed £40.00
each from Studio Arts, 50 North Road, Lancaster. Telephone 01524
68014 or email otto@studioarts.co.uk
Kevin
Pearson Web: www.kevinpearson.co.uk Tel: 01524 413377
Modern contemporary and abstract artist based in the Morecambe and
Lancaster area.
Kevin's artistic style has developed over the last few years intto what
can only be described as bright, modern, vibrant, contemporary art for the 21st
century's style of life. Painting styles: modern contemporary, modern abstract,
textured art & abstract landscape.
Inspiration comes from many different sources, visual images from home & abroad,
his own creative imagination and through the love of music.
Kevin's artwork can be found in The Bank of England, Cadbury's, Harvey
Nichols, Corporate Offices, upmarket property developments and country house
hotels. His work is currently on display at The Bay Gallery,
Plaza Arcade, Queen St, Morecambe.
Janet Mary Robinson Web:
www.jmr.org.uk Email: jmr[AT]jmr.org.uk
Artist and natural history illustrator.
Founding member of Ellel Artist's Studios, Galgate.
I paint and draw in a variety of media, inspired by colour, light, mood and character. I am an experienced illustrator and specialise in portraying the natural world; animals, plants and places. I also accept portrait commissions of both four legged and two legged family members!
Catrina
Stamp Web: www.catandcoat.co.uk Tel: 01524 840530 E-mail: Catrina@catandcoat.co.uk
Catrina writes, illustrates and makes books by hand as well as "goddess
cards" and more.
Finn
Stamp Web: www.nuvision.co.uk NuVision Art, 7 Ashwood Court, Bridge
Road, Lancaster LA1 5PY
Tel - 07909513060 / 01524 843223 Email - finn.stamp@nuvision.co.uk
Finn
Stamp set up
the online art gallery Original Art Company which showcased works
by artists including himself and his then partner. This is where
his real passion for creating Pop Art took off, being inspired by
such postmodernists as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Finn was
able to design and paint numerous cult icons in a contemporary
yet personal style.
Donald
Taylor
Web: www.donaldtaylor.org.uk
'My first love is landscape painting" says Donald. "As a boy my habit
was to get up at daybreak on Saturdays and walk up onto the moors above the
town, to favourite haunts like Deeply Vale and Knowl Hill, and I would explore
every fold and track. It was my ambition to be as good at conveying my feelings
of excitement and mystery about the landscape I loved, through painting, with
the same intensity that Turner's large landscape painting, 'Gathering Bait,
Calais Sands' in Bury Art Gallery communicated to me..."
Neil
Thompson Local artist. Neil's art can be bought online from this site dedicated
to Northern Soul.
E-mail: unityflow@hotmail.com
Unityflow is a former games designer and scientist who lost faith in video
games, stopped playing with science and started to create odd pictures to
fill the void left behind.
David
Ward All
of the featured images - oil paintings and limited edition prints -
on David's site are of the Lancaster, Heysham, Morecambe areas.
Email:enquiries@lancasterprints.co.uk
Mark
Scott Waterman Tel: 0788 0718 668
Lancaster-based painter with a warm, sensitive style which
is intimately both earthy and cerebral. A professional portrait
artist, illustrator and designer, Mark's work has a steady market
in the Greater Manchester area. He also accepts corporate and private
commissions.
Tel: 01524 35396
Mob: 07790 073 983One of the Luneside Studios artists
group. Cathy's work is beautifully super-real - immediate and
life-expressive faces.
Carnforth + District Art Society
Open to all, meets alternate Thursdays from 2-4pm Carnforth Station
heritage Centre. Info tel: 01524 822016
Ellel Artists' Studios
Unit 29b, Galgate Mill,
Chapel Lane, Ellel, LA2 0PR
Email: info[AT]ellelartists.org
Ellel Artists' Studios is a small and friendly artists' community founded in 2010 by local artist Janet Mary Robinson. The studios are located on the first floor of a 17th century corn mill in Galgate, and form a fascinating historical backdrop for the creation of new artwork.
Studio members are all professional local artists.
Lancaster
and District Art Society
Tel: 01524 67677 or 0784 052 7712
Meetings held on Fridays from 7pm to 9pm in the Torrisholme Methodist Church
Hall, Norwood Drive, Torrisholme.
Programme of demonstrations, workshops, tutor groups, annual exhibition, summer
painting programme and gallery visits. You are welcome to attend any meeting
as a guest with a small charge of £2.
Luneside
Studios
26 Castle Park, Lancaster, LA1 1YQ
Luneside Studios have been providing studio spaces for artists in Lancaster for nearly thirty years.
Waiting time on the list is not necessarily over long as they have an ongoing short-term programme for those who only need studio space for a limited period as well as those hoping for a more permanent base.
The ethos of the Studios has always been 'to provide a working environment for artists that gives them the space and resources to develop their work'. And, as their record demonstrates, they have done so. Over one hundred artists have been members of the Studios and many have exhibited locally, nationally and worldwide, as well as some moving on to higher education.
If you are interested in finding out more about Luneside Studios and the waiting list, you can email snixon@fsmail.net or telephone 01524 848390
Lunesdale
Studio Trail 18 artists in 13 studios feature on this tour of open studios
in the Lune Valley which runs from 11 - 26 June 2005. The studios feature,
artists, sculptors, ceramicists, textiles, video and more. For more
details please visit http://www.lunesdalearts.co.uk/
Morecambe Bay Art Society meets on alternate Mondays
1.30 - 3.30pm The Platform,
Morecambe Box Office 01524 582803.
Info tel: 01524 381486
Qsands
Artists Not currently running but VL lives in hope.
Artists & Designers
I am a UK artist and have lived in the Lancaster areas for the past
fifteen years. I work mainly in oils and have a lifelong fascination
with still life. I am interested in shadow and light, particularly in
abandoned religious buildings. Many of my paintings have been inspired
by such buildings on various travels. 
Professional
artist, born in Westmoreland in 1972, Graeme studied art and design through to
A-level in Kirkby Lonsdale and then graphic design in Carlisle at Cumbria College
of Art and Design. As well as painting he enjoys all sports, particularly running
on the road and the fells of the Lake District. Millenium Bridge (pictured
here - £500) featured in the blueroom-exhibition at the Ashton Memorial
inMarch 2004. 
Web: 
Glenn
Fraser 
Freelance Professional Artist born in Morecambe. My inspirations come from the local music scene. Various cities around the world. I work with strong bright colours, acrylic paint on canvas and I am looking for bespoke commissions in any subject. Promotional packages for businesses, House portraits, vehicles and boats.
Web: 
Elaine
Jackson
Harry
Johnson
Sheila Jones
Lancaster based illustrator and artist providing individuals and businesses with eyecatching illustrations and paintings. Creates in a variety of media including acrylics, marker pens and ink with digital colour. Jack is thrilled to announce that his illustration business, Knight Time Creations, is ranked as the #1 illustration company in the UK by Freeindex services directory. See 
Little Lost Soul
Jenny McCabe
Nick
'Sputnik' Miller
Vicki Mulligan
Email: jmr[AT]jmr.org.uk
Lynne Shaw
Finn
Stamp
Norman
Trewhitt
Mark
Scott Waterman
portrait
artist, illustrator and designer, Mark's work has a steady market
in the Greater Manchester area. He also accepts corporate and private
commissions. 
