Summer Newsletter 2024
March 1, 2025
Welcome to my summer news letter.
Throughout this year I have been making paintings which have continued along the theme of the recent public art work commission, ‘Threads through time’ which I produced for Leeds City Council and which can be viewed throughout the year on Neville Street, Leeds.
I have worked from archival photos of people and places that belong to my Northern heritage. The paintings are produced using a ‘Zorn Palette’ which is a limited colour palette invented by the Swedish Artist, Anders Zorn (1860-1920) It has four colours: yellow ochre, ivory black, vermillion, and white. Its possible to produce very subtle tones and shades with this palette, reflecting the limited colour range of some of the old photographs I have worked from.
You will be able to view two of these paintings at Leeds playhouse in the ‘Leeds Summer Group show’ The exhibition continues until August 30th:
‘Majestic’ oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, framed. This painting is based on a 1930s photo of a group of Norman Hartnell models on the rooftop of Leeds Queens Hotel looking across to the Iconic ‘Majestic’ building on City square.
‘One pad, no gloves’ oil on Linen, 32 x 32 cm framed A painting which represents cricketers of the ‘Hunslet Boys club’, Leeds circa 1940s
I also have two paintings currently exhibited at ‘Coles Gallery’ Leeds Corn Exchange:
‘Northern Traders’ oil on canvas 100 x 100cm This painting pays tribute to the men who traded in Corn at the Leeds Corn Exchange circa 1930s. I enjoyed painting these men, dressed resplendently in three piece suits wearing either homburgs or bowler hats on top!
‘Barcelona Blue’ oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm A very colourful holiday inspired painting which represents two figures in the beautiful Mediterranean light of Barcelona .
All of the above work is also available directly from my website, shop and commissions.
A peek into Autumn 2024:
I am excited to be part of a North Yorkshire Artists group who will be putting on a group show in Harrogate during the first weekend in October. I look forward to posting more details to you as soon as I am able!
Saturday 28th September, ‘Leeds Open Studios.’ Artists throughout Leeds will be opening their studios for the public to come in and have a look around and see the latest work. My studio is in the mezzanine of Patrick studios, which is run by East Street Arts. The mezzanine is a shared studio space and we look forward to welcoming you there.
In the basement of the building is Leeds Print workshop who will also be opening their doors and running workshops.
New courses that I will be teaching at Leeds Print Workshop this Autumn are now open for booking via their website; www.leedsprintworkshop.org
Procreate Basics for portraiture, using procreate for iPad. Wednesday 23rd Oct. 6-8pm
Portraiture: drawing and mono printing, Wednesday 30th Oct. 11-4pm
Enjoy the rest of the summer
Chris