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  • Walton Colliery Nature Park paintings

    These twelve paintings were made, out on site, at Walton Colliery Nature Park in Wakefield, during the autumn of 2024. The paintings are now for sale (please see captions, or scroll down, for notes on availability). You can also view the paintings here. Details: Acrylic on A5 paper, with a margin of approximately 1cm on…

  • Pale sunlight filters through two layers of tracing paper, with a strip of shade down the right hand side. Delicate, plant-like brushstrokes are dispersed across both layers of translucent paper. The appearance of the brush-strokes on the layer at the back is blurred by the front layer of paper.

    Nature: Sensory, Leeds

    Exhibition dates: 8 – 13 April 2025Project Space, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University Road, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT Nature: Sensory is a project co-ordinated by artists Michelle Duxbury and Sam Metz. Nature: Sensory reimagines how we experience the environment. The show explores alternative sensory engagements with nature…

  • Flora and Fauna

    Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester5 – 19 April 2025 An exhibion celebrating our natural world, both tamed and untamed. Artists: David Cemmick, Jane Fairhurst, Mark Gibbs, Emerson Mayes, Liam Spencer, Helen Thomas, Ruby Tingle and Steve Williams https://www.saulhayfineart.co.uk/flora-and-fauna-apr-2025

  • A bell is a cup

    BLOC Projects, Eyre Lane, Sheffield18-22 February 2025 A painting exhibition featuring 59 artists, organized by Stephen Carley and Kate Jacob, with Sean Williams of Prosaic.

  • Pale sunlight filters through two layers of tracing paper, with a strip of shade down the right hand side. Delicate, plant-like brushstrokes are dispersed across both layers of translucent paper. The appearance of the brush-strokes on the layer at the back is blurred by the front layer of paper.

    Nature: Sensory

    Nature: Sensory is a project co-ordinated by artists Michelle Duxbury and Sam Metz. It centres alternative readings and understanding of landscape that are wider than the visual and incorporate other senses. The project responds creatively to disabled artists who have different bodyminds and who find joy in exploring green spaces with touch, sound, movement, taste…

  • Painting titled 'Lichen, Mulberry Way, 2' by Helen Thomas. Painted in acrylic paint on paper. Size 1m x 1.5m

    Habitat

    An exhibition of paintings by Helen ThomasMura Ma, Marple, Stockport, 3 – 18 May 2024Gallery website “Specificity of time, place and plants are the subject matter for this Wakefield-based artist who is inspired by plants and their locales. Working in response to gardens, countryside and post-industrial edgelands, Helen has become focused on unplanned plants and…