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  • 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…

  • Planting Ideas

    St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire20 January – 16 March 2024Planting Ideas, St Barbe Nuseum Planting Ideas leads visitors on a journey through the stages in creating an Herbarium, introducing contemporary art inspired by science and botany. The exhibition looks at historic practices in preserving and presenting plant species and shows how these…

  • Rogue Women 2

    An exhibition bringing together and celebrating the work of women artists from Roque Studios plus invited artists from around the UK. Exhibition dates: Saturday 6 May to Sunday 28 MayOpening times: Saturday & Sunday 11am – 4pm, Weekdays by appointment onlyGround Floor Gallery Space, Rogue Artists’ Studios CIC, 2-6 Barrass Street, Higher Openshaw, Manchester, M11…

  • Entwined: plants in Contemporary Painting

    Following the first iteration of the exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery, Entwined: plants in Contemporary Painting tours to 20-21 Visual Arts in Scunthorpe: Exhibition dates: 18 March to 27 May 2023Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 10am-4pmAdmission freeWebsite: https://www.2021visualartscentre.co.uk/exhibitions/entwined/ “The paintings in this exhibition invite their viewers to look closely at plants. They do this through…