A new contemporary mixed media exhibition by Suffolk based artist Kevin Southgate, reflecting his view on the wonderful Lakeland landscape and iconic landmarks . This interesting body of work is created using a variety of techniques including highly textured 3d sculptures/painting alongside traditional methods

Rings, Wings & Curious Things - A new exhibition of work from Northumberland based Sculptor Robin Fox, inspired by flight or things that might fly when imagination allows. Since the dawn of time and our early evolutions from winged creatures, humans have always tried to break free from gravity and take to the skies.This new body of sculpture work is a snap shot from Robin’s imagination with all of the pieces featuring creatures with differing capabilities of flight. This fascinating body of work contains a mixture of 3D wall art, free standing sculpture and larger scale garden pieces.

We are delighted to present Chris Mouncey’s ‘A Lakeland Journey’, a beautiful body of work that takes us on a visual journey around the local landscape. Chris has been painting in watercolours since 1980 and in that time developed a true mastery of this sometimes challenging medium.. Chris has exhibited in various leading galleries across the country and has work in public and private collections both within the UK and further afield.

Time and Place - Exploring Different Languages in Paint

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Darkness and Light is a collection of oil and mixed media paintings inspired by the changing weather and the shifting light falling across the valleys and fells of the Lake District. This is Paula’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and we are delighted to be showcasing this stunning collection of new paintings inspired by the beautiful Lakes.

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After marriage and having two boys Anne felt a need to return to education qualifying as an art tutor (post 16) and then an MA in Fine Art and Education (Northumbria 2008). Following her MA where Anne discovered something new in large scale colourful abstraction (based on bird calls )she returned to landscape painting. Although enjoyable, she felt like abstraction was too intellectual for her.

“ My head was bouncing off the ceiling with it, I wanted to get back down to earth, with realism and landscape in particularly”.

Over the years with the benefit of travel Anne picked up many influences. Locally she is a great fan of the Cumbrian Painter Sheila Fell as well as the colourful expressionists and the ‘big’ ones, Cezanne and Van Gogh.

Godfrey is a full time painter having exhibited in the Medici Gallery, London, for many years. His works can be seen in many countries around the world. His earlier output was mainly in mixed media and pastels, but he has since worked mainly in oils. He is now located in eastern Cumbria and his work focuses on the beautiful fells that he calls home.

From time to time, GT’s earlier paintings can be seen listed at both Christies or Philips auction houses. These are typically European landscapes in oil pastel.

The sky has always been the major element in Trevor’s paintings. Often the first consideration when planning the composition. The direction of flooding the landscape, dictating the mood. Be it sunlight or moonlight it is an intrinsic element.

His paintings are rooted in landscape. Those that evolve over hours, sometimes days, often represent the passage of time. He seeks to convey the emotion of being in landscape. He likes to recall atmospheric encounters in changing light and weather, seasons and places. As he often says – “I do like a drama!”

Sheila paints in oils and enjoys developing the colour and texture that she loves. Oil paint – the way it dries slowly allows her to manipulate and move colour around on the canvas.

Kevin Southgate is a contemporary artist working form his studio in Suffolk, best known for his evocative landscapes drawn from nature during frequent visits to the Lake District.

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Keswick art gallery holds Dorothy T Ramsay’s first solo show of landscape mountain art.

Experimentation and a sense of fun infuse Dorothy Ramsay’s vibrant works, 15 of which are on display at Northern Lights Gallery in Keswick from this Friday, 24th September.

Dorothy’s many devotees have learned to expect the unexpected, revel in her powers of imagination, colours, her stylistic re-invention & interpretation.

'After I was kindly offered a solo exhibition at Northern lights in 2019 I had the exciting possibility of another exhibition two years later, and now finally with the summer arriving and the galleries reopening, so has this new exhibition of paintings.

There will be a number of large Panoramas including one of my favourite views of Catbells overlooking Keswick and a chance to revisit some of my best loved Fells including Coniston, Bowfell, Helvellyn and High Street.

Patricia Haskey Exhibition: BRITAIN’S FAVOURITE WALKS: TOP 10

Patricia’s exhibition is the culmination of a project that originated three years ago.

Taking her inspiration from the ITV programme ‘Britain’s Favourite Walks: top 100,

Patricia began to study the top ten walks.

This collection encompasses the whole process, from tiny sketches and pen & wash studies to larger mixed media and oil paintings.

I was delighted when Tim asked me to create this exhibition of Lakeland paintings for The Northern Lights Gallery..

THE LAKE DISTRICT is one of my favourite areas to paint. It has such beautiful scenery: with mountains, lakes and cottages dotted on the landscape. These are all my favourite things and the area holds such inspiration for me.

I paint in oil and I have a love of colour and texture. I take my inspiration from experiencing the landscape on walks and using photographs that I take.

Robin’s exhibition is a playful interpretation looking beyond the everyday life of animals in their natural surroundings; small stories set in grand landscapes whispered in mixed media.

This current body of work sees a move towards anthropomorphism and takes the ubiquitous ‘hare’ as the main player set in unexpected scenes: no rules, restrictions or lockdowns. Surreal adventures and journeys with unfolding stories evocative of childhood memories in halcyon days.

The Northern Lights Gallery in St John’s Street are from this Friday are exhibiting Alan Stones’ new lithographic prints and charcoal drawings. The exhibition runs for a month until 18th - October. Alan is well a very well known artist both in Cumbria and across the north west, based between Appleby and Penrith, he is the recipient of a number of accolades and awards over the years including the Northern Lights Gallery Award at the 2019 Westmorland Landscape Prize giving at Rheged.

The covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown changed all that I had been planning for this exhibition. Usually I would spend time walking for miles in and around the lakes and fells: looking, sketching, taking notes, photographs and feeling how it is to be in that place. It’s been interesting thinking about the space between what is known, what is real and what is imagined in these landscapes with the help of Google Maps. I think there is an underlying reference between my paintings and the times we are living through. For aren’t we are all trying to find our way through unfamiliar terrain?

- Jenny McLaren

Eighteen years ago, Tim Fisher asked me if I would like to have an exhibition in 2020. I, of course, said “yes.” My one caveat being if I was still alive.

Tim’s retort was, “Well, if you are not sunny side up, it can be a retrospective.” Hence the title: Sunny Side Up, as I’m still very much alive.

- Venus Griffiths

Artist in Gallery 27 Friday: 10.00 - 16.00

Water is a dominant force in Cumbria, materialising in the tranquil swimming holes of the fells and in the wild waterfalls rushing down our mountains. In this exhibition, Fay has captured it in all its states. From a summer’s day of relaxing by a tarn, to a strenuous hike bathed under the spray of a waterfall and rain, to the reminiscence of its loss as the banks dry and the lakes recede. ‘Drawn to Water’ is, put simply, a collection of our greatest memories of the Lakes.

Starting off the new year in our Blencathra Gallery, is newly represented artist, Heather Burton. Her work is a stunning display of the atmosphere, capturing the teasing light and moody skies of the Lakes. The power in each stroke of her palette knife draws attention to the rawness of nature and the untameable forces that surround us in these fells that we call home.

“One great aspect of our unpredictable climate is the way it transforms our landscapes. I am constantly trying to capture the drama, light and rich colours of the countryside, but I am increasingly drawn towards the powerful landscapes where the atmosphere can change within minutes….” - Heather Burton

Derek Eland is Britain’s last official war artist, having been based in Afghanistan in 2011. He has experienced the world, both the light and the dark, and has carried on that experience into his raw paintings of the fells. This exhibition shows hi interrogation of the Lake District landscape, its colours and patterns, its dry stone walls, executed in oils and on paper.

“From a family of Cumbrian farmers, I’ve always been interested in the impact we make on the landscape, good and bad. In the Lake District it’s most obviously seen in the copses, hedgerows and dry stone walls as well as the hamlets, villages and farms. Wordsworth put it well when he wrote, ‘Once again I see these hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms, green to the very door’.” - Derek Eland

Jonathan needs little introduction, with his paintings gracing the nearby inns to be enjoyed by tourists and locals alike. His paintings are ever-inclusive, of us, the viewer, the walker, the climber, the runner, the mountain biker. They’re not divorced from the landscape, instead drawing us into his world, into his paintings, anchoring our view point by way of characters in the land, much as did the likes of Claude Lorrain and Poussin.

"This exhibition seems to be showing the way my painting is evolving, it’s not simply about the landscape, moreover it’s about us, you, me, and how we interact with our landscape. ‘The Wanderer & His Shadow’ is an eight month reappraisal of “what my paintings need to show, how we enjoy the mountains, how important they are to me and so many others.” - Jonathan Trotman

Haydn’s focus in this exhibition is Cumbria and the Scottish Islands, where he expresses the excitement he feels about places he knows well, from sea shore to mountain peak. He is inspired not only by nature, but by man’s involvement with it:

“Some of the exhibition explores the ‘Edge of the Fell’, a rich and varied landscape, where cultivated farmland meets open country. Here are many signs of man’s activities from days when more people worked the land – ancient walls, barns, sheepfolds and trackways. Farming has changed and today the fell edge is gradually being reclaimed by nature.” - Haydn Morris