New Arrivals Make Tracks for Richmond.
A brand new group of professional Yorkshire artists is making tracks for one of the county’s most unusual art galleries.
The ‘New Arrivals’ are due into Richmond railway station… …but 40 years after the last train left. That’s because the station has been converted to an award-winning art and community centre called The Station Gallery.
The new arrivals are six Ryedale artists on their own exciting journey examining different ways of looking at our landscape in an exhibition of mixed media which runs from May 15th to June 12th
“What we all have in common – apart from being friends and fellow Ryedale artists – is a passion for showing how lines flow through the landscape, sometimes metaphorically, but sometimes quite literally… as you’ll see at the exhibition,” said Maria Silmon.
With tree lines as her recent focus, Maria portrays unseen earth energies - collectively known as ley lines - and energetic hubs such as those that great cathedrals and churches are built on.
She says she finds endless inspiration from her surroundings in the North York Moors National Park where she lives and works.
Ian Mitchell’s ‘Linescapes’ are his unique delineation of the landscape based on a stripped down reality celebrating the Yorkshire Coast and Countryside. Fittingly for the railway venue, Ian’s work pays homage to the early 20th Century travel posters while being described as contemporary, refreshing and very calming.
Jackie Lunn’s inspiration is ancient architecture, tribal dwellings, mud huts and wooded structures as well as symbols relating to religious beliefs. Her textiles range from large hangings to smaller framed pieces and three-dimensional work including felt-making, hand- and machine-stitching, fabrics and sometimes, handmade papers and paper threads.
Stef Mitchell aims to make connections with unknown and at times hostile landscapes through drawing, photography, film, printmaking and painting.
Her abstraction of the landscape expresses balance, scale, space and silence using ritualistic drawing, photography and note making, before the final pieces are produced in a response to the memory of the landscape. These aerial mappings record human encounter with the landscape.
Sue Slack draws her inspiration by going out to sketch the beautiful landscape that surrounds her before developing her paintings in the studio: accentuating colour, simplifying shapes, reflecting rhythms of the land to reflect her passion for colour and the influence of the expressionist artists of the twentieth century.
Christopher Ware is a representational watercolour painter, but also the country’s first professional Artist in Residence on a steam railway - the NYMR which runs from Pickering to Whitby. He works in the heart of the North York Moors national park at his Open Studio at Levisham Station in Newtondale.
Chris said, “I paint the landscape in a way people recognise, but in a style that should draw an emotional response,” he said. “But like the others, I use my work to share with viewers the way the lines in our landscape communicate with our emotions.”
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