The Joy of Creativity
Welcome to our online exhibition of arts and crafts!
The items in this gallery have been made or written by members of our Quaker Meeting. We planned to hold an exhibition in our meeting house in May 2020 – a celebration of creativity, inspired by our return to our meeting house, transformed by refurbishment in the autumn of 2019. That exhibition wasn’t to be, as with many other activities around the world due to Coronavirus.
Undismayed, we offer here, instead, some of the items that would have been displayed. Thanks to all Friends who have been willing to share their work and their enthusiasm. There is much more to show, and we’ll change the selection regularly over the coming months, so do keep visiting to see what’s new.
We remain hopeful that in 2023 we can welcome you into the meeting house to see some of these and other items.
The gallery is arranged in different categories. Our current artists with work on display are:
Eric Botheroyd
Cath Cassidy
Phil Entwistle
Chris Fellowes
John Geekie
Peter Robinson
Rosi Robinson
I don't do titles, but by way of background information, about four years ago I was asked to put on a display at the former RAF bunker at Holmpton. It was about the dereliction and decay of wartime defences along the Holderness coast. I calculate that I walked about 500 miles collecting junk.
More recently, my interest moved on to trying to give new life to stuff jettisoned or washed up on the beaches. The work doesn't have anything profound to say but Friends may see something in it.
As Donne put it, 'Light hath no tongue, it is all eye.'
'Paths through Burton Bushes'. Both paintings are in acrylic and charcoal. I like painting dark, solid, rocky, moody pictures !! Size..... One metre by half metre for both.
Painting gives me another way of relating to the wild outdoors, alongside hill walking and a general enthusiasm for maps. I've become interested in geology as it helps to put our own place on the Earth into perspective. I choose subjects that express the impermanence and changeability of the landscape.
"Deltaic sandstone"
Oils 48x36in. This is of the cliffs at Cloughton Wyke, Scarborough, very close to Cober Hill guest house (which visitors to Easter Settlement will know).
"Betsy Crag quarry"
Watercolour 10x10in. This is in Little Langdale, Cumbria.
"South to Lancaster"
Oils 10x8in. A view across Morecambe Bay, where I grew up.
The two square images below are 'petit-point', made in 2001 and 2003 respectively. The larger one is 'cross-stitch', made in 1991.
A plein-air painter of landscapes in Yorkshire, specifically the Yorkshire Wolds, but also themes such as herbaceous borders, woodland, churches etc.
A sketch looking at a garden with a pigeon sitting on the ivy. Autumn leaves just hanging on.
Leaving Sledmere and taking the Wetwang Road this is a quick iPad sketch of the start of School Dale which is at the bottom of Keepers Hill
I've been painting with watercolours for over 35 years. I love the way the paint can capture light and texture. Having lived on the Isle of Man for 16 years, I enjoy painting seascapes, especially lighthouses, of which there is a good selection on the island.
Since moving to Hornsea in 2018 I've been exploring the new area and am always on the lookout for a subject for another painting. My aim is to take time to look, so that I learn to discover beauty in the ordinary.
Lincoln is a city that I've visited regularly for quite a few years. This painting is of a window at the cathedral that I saw on a sunny day when visiting in the summer of 2022. The colour of the stonework and the effect of the shadows really caught my eye. (painting on the left).
Langness lighthouse (top right) is in the south of the Isle of Man. The surrounding buildings are holiday cottages. It's a very beautiful, quiet area.
The painting of cottages below the hills (bottom right) is also a scene from the Isle of Man. It's a view from Sulby, a small village in the north of the island.