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Dave Sharps has work in two exhibitions with : John Muir Trust, Alan Reece Gallery in Pitlochry, Scotland from 8 – 31 October and Beacon Museum, Whitehaven from 9 October 2021 – 2 January 2022.

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Mandy Allan: “I am a pastel artist specialising in animal portraiture. I take inspiration from the local countryside and farms, and love recreating the expression and character in my subjects, bringing them to life in 2D.” Green Door Art Trail, 25 & 26 Sept

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Alex Jakob Whitworth is primarily concerned with exploring the human condition through the metaphor of our temporal relationship with the land, the horse and visualisations of music. Green Door Art Trail, 25 & 26 September

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Ray Green – “I work from wild landscapes, carrying or canoeing in with my art materials. My paintings are mainly of mountains, the sea or other natural landscapes and capture their beauty and energy.” Green Door Art Trail, 25 & 26 September

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Briony Farr: “Inspired by Lake District walks, and travels to Scotland and its beautiful islands her paintings are usually in acrylic inks or mixed media. Her paintings are expressive and evoke feelings of being outside in the wind, the sun or the rain.”

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Kate Morrison creates paintings and designs that evoke her response to her surroundings. Her body of work explores how she processes the world around her through photography, mark-making, abstraction and making wearable art

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Congratulations to Jacqui Bassett who has had these three paintings accepted for the ‘Through the Locking Glass’ exhibition at Rheged, ,

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‘A Spring Light’ by Jacqui Bassett, currently exhibited at Bridge Gallery in Cockermouth which opened this week,

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‘Between Land & Sky’ by You can find more from this series on show at The Bumblebee Gallery in Kirkby Lonsdale - hopefully opening soon

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Eileen Anderson: “I enjoy the freedom of putting paint down on a surface without being constrained by representation, at least in the early stages of a painting.” https://t.co/NQ0BZxZ8so

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Ray Green – “The trapping lockdown has meant I can’t travel into my normal wild places. The suffocating trappedness has meant I have to dream-journey into internal wildernesses. From these internal journeys, dynamic, vibrant images have formed.”

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Mike Lambert – “I attempt to capture the fleeting moments in a landscape in watercolour. I start from a traditional approach but use texture and innovative techniques to bring a contemporary feel to my work.”

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Work from Martin Connolly from our ‘Green Shoots’ exhibition,

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Barbra Cropper’s favourite things “My favourite sculpture was given to me by my late husband, Peter, on our first visit to an art exhibition 1987, an exhibition of sculpture by Josephina de Vasconcellos at the Abbot Hall Gallery.”

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– “During lockdown Sky Arts launched a spin off to Portrait Artist of the Year - Portrait Artist of the Week. I enjoyed the time limits which brought a spontaneous feel to the work where some areas are left looser and unfinished.”

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Kate Morrison – “Finding herself in one place for a longer than usual time, Kate has used this self isolation time in lockdown observing and sketching the landscape within a literal running distance from her front door.”

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