Last year six member were invited to talk about their artwork by David. This proved to be successful so it was added to the programme for this year, Lynn KirkleyDavid introduced Lynn, a Salfordian, who has been a prizewinner in our exhibitions, and runs workshops. She brought paintings of her family with her, as this is her inspiration for this talk. Lynn went to Hope High school and was good at art. She does a lot of representational work and talked about two of the artists she likes, Klimt and Hopper. She is also inspired by club members and the work on show at the gallery. Mentioning her close links to her family, she talked about her grandad as seen in the painting below. Having taken a photograph, she decided she had to paint it. Lyn often does two versions of he works as mistakes on the first one, can be rectified on the second one. Then she talked about the painting of her dad done in acrylic paint. One aspect she loved doing was his fingers and has several drawings of these Lyn has lots of studies showing a picture of her mum during covid where she is knitting. During the Covid pandemic she started work on a selection of concertina sketch books, which she has continued to do. Her latest work is focusing on small groups having conversations painted in mixed media. Laurence ShelveyAs a youngster Laurence drew cartoons and sketched tattoos, eventually moving into pubs doing decorative boards. Inspired by his art teacher, who said that he was an imposter, as he copied artist’s styles, he was challenged to find his own style of painting. Moving on, Laurence showed us the work he does now, such as his portraits, landscapes. he also showed us a few copies of traditional artists such as Monet, Degas etc. saying that he was still inspired by these great artists. Laurence made it clear that finding himself was one of the, hardest thing he had had to do. Laurence explained that he tries to capture something in his own paintings that is inspired by Renoir or Japanese art. He is never happy with his work. He often starts with a pencil sketch then when happy with this, he plays with it in his own style. His helper Mavis showed us a range of different styles in his folder, from all around the world. Another great inspiration for him was his teacher from the London School of Art. Karen LesterKaren who is now working from her studio in the Lake District was a member of the art club, where she was the exhibition officer. Her influences were her parents who liked hiking etc. which gave her a love of landscapes, especially the changing seasons. She said she wants the viewer to connect with the work, which includes, trees, water and moss. Karen is influenced by different artists like Alwyn Crawshaw, John Blockley and Ann Blockley. She has learnt a lot by copying from their work, simplifying where she needs to. She described her style as messy and impressionistic. Karen enjoys going on painting holidays, saying that different techniques influence her artwork. There is always something new to learn. She attended Kendal college to do a foundation course which she enjoyed. Then Karen showed some prints she has done based on Morecambe Bay. Recently, she has experimented with oils and cold wax and does a lot of mixed media work nowadays. Michael BillingtonMichael has an art degree. This introduced him to the Renaissance and he talked to us about how he was inspired by the work of Leonardo da Vinci, in particular the painting of Mona Lisa. He then showed a canvas with her image, and it included a crushed Campbells soup tin! This was a link to another artist who also interested him, Andy Warhol. Michael worked on a screen print on the same theme mentioning the use of lapis lazuli, an expensive blue colour. He likes to look at the work of artists who use collage and showed us an example of his work. He mentioned artists have always copied from each other and how some artists have work that is similar to other work. Finally, he showed a large painting of Mona Lisa entitled ‘Painting by Numbers”. Meredith CollinsonMeredith mentioned that she has a nice commute to work with superb views of the Pennine moors, which has influenced her paintings. She is inspired by the colours of the seasonal changes and likes the vibrant colours of David Hockney and his portraits of people. She also likes Jackson Pollock with his use of inks and the fact he listens to music as he paints. Meredith brought with her a selection of reference books from which she gets ideas for her work. After visiting Australia, and meeting an Aboriginal artist, she took the idea of using 'dots' back with her. Using this for inspiration she worked on her own interpretation and incorporated it in her painting of Winter Hill, which can be seen below. Another influence that she mentioned was by children's author Tove Jansson who created the Moomins characters. Showing us pages from one of his books we could see the wonderful illustrations, characters and movement created influenced her. Finally, she showed a sketch she thought was influenced by Tove and read a passage from the book. Tony EasomTony started his talk by explaining that as young as four years old, he took to drawing. This happened to be on a tiled mantlepiece in his home. Sadly this effort was rubbed out by his sister before his dad came home from work!
He talked about his love of music and how much he enjoyed his time at primary school. He was made leader of a group and influenced the children in it to do artwork. At high school he had a very good art teacher called Tony Rice and was inspired by the idea of perspective. Tony explained that due to his work, he travelled a lot, doing various jobs, and the places that he visited influenced his art work. He loves cranes and boats, flags, ships and sails and he showed us examples of how he incorporated these into his artwork. He is inspired by industrial scenes that have always been around him. For a while Tony worked in South Africa. Here he took lots of photographs and did drawings from them. Tony finished singing a verse from Dirty Old Town which members joined in with. A fitting end to an interesting afternoon
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