Artists Art Roundhay Park

SAMANTHA WARD ART

Samantha’s artistic ability has always come naturally through her passion for colour and love of imagination. Growing up in Leeds, West Yorkshire, Samantha has been drawing from a very early age, the family kitchen table was always covered with a huge roll of paper to paint on. It was clear from the start that this was something she would be doing for life.

Sam is inspired by colour, shapes and personalities of nature, from animals and plants to fruits and vegetables. She is also inspired by interiors and people’s homes, seeing a spot in a kitchen where a giant colourful pineapple could go or a happy peacock in the sitting room.

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© Samantha Ward

RYOKO MINAMITANI

Ryoko is a Japanese artist who lives and works in Wales, studied MA Art & Design in Leeds Beckett University. She explores the relationship between spirituality and artistic expression. During meditative states, she transfers the true nature of the inner unconscious behind the mental and emotional phenomena on art works. In particular, she focuses in capturing the expressions of the essential soul.

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© Ryoko Minamitani

BRONWEN DUNCAN

Bronwen’s beautiful pen and ink drawings were rescued from a skip by a local resident in Roundhay, Leeds.

With the family's permission the prints have been donated to Friends of Roundhay Park because of their subject matter.

Sadly, nothing is known about the artist as the family has moved away from the area.

The English Art Co. exhibits these limited edition Artists Proofs and publishes a series of prints, with proceeds going back to Friends of Roundhay Park.

© Bronwen Duncan

AILSA READ

Ailsa Read is a contemporary seascape artists painting in both oils and mixed media. She has lived in Yorkshire all her life and gains inspiration for her work from the coastlines of Britain, especially from the counties bordering the North Sea. An MA graduate in Creative Practice from Leeds College of Art, she is now studying for a PhD in Practice-based Art. 

She has exhibited in Yorkshire, Cumbria, the Affordable Art Fairs (Battersea, Chelsea, Hampstead and Bristol). 

© Ailsa Read

CATHERINE PAPE

Catherine Pape is an artist and illustrator living in Leeds and working from her studio in Farsley. Her work is inspired by celebrating the everyday, walking in the local environment, the relationship between human activity and the natural world, wonder, and joy.

She works across multi disciplines, including drawing, collage, traditional and digital media, as well as painting in acrylic and oils.

She is currently working on an ongoing series of Risograph prints. This is a process that uses soy-based inks and stencils to build up the image in different layers of colour. Using a Risograph machine to print, each colour has its own stencil and when combined they create a multitude of vibrant tones and shades. Each print is unique due to slight variations in alignment and texture from the printing process.

Many of her works exhibited in the gallery are inspired by locations within Roundhay Park.

© Catherine Pape

LUCY BEST SHAW

Lucy was born and brought up in Kent, on a farm at the foot of the North Downs and she was encouraged by her artist mother, throughout her childhood, to paint, draw and sculpt. Primarily a landscape artist, she moved north to Todmorden, then Leeds in 1997, the contrasts of the hills, mills and moorlands of the Pennines, to the parkland walks, Victorian reservoirs and canals of the Leeds area has been an ever-changing inspiration. These landscapes combined with the early influence of the rolling hills and flat marshes of her childhood continue to fire her imagination.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and online and she has won prizes for her landscapes.

© Lucy Best Shaw

JULIE CROSS

Julie’s innovative mixed-media artworks celebrate the natural world whilst taking inspiration from art history, particularly the work of Austrian symbolist painter, Gustav Klimt.  Using homemade collage papers, pastel and charcoal, these design-led paintings are utterly unique and highly covetable.

A painting from this series won the prestigious Schmincke Award at The Pastel Society exhibition in London this February, and Julie’s work has won many prizes. 

Julie exhibits widely, including with the Society of Women Artists and the ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries in London.   Her landscape paintings are inspired by the environment around her home and studio in Wetherby, and from her place of work at Harewood House.

© Julie Cross

EM HOTEN

Emma lives in Chapel en le Frith in the Peak District. The style that emerges in Emma’s work bursts with energy contrasting with softness as she combines colour and intriguing textures.

“My contemporary oil paintings are a fusion of atmosphere, experiment and memory. Using the landscape around me, I draw upon memories of a time and an emotion to overlay into the overall sense of place. I want my work to leave viewers with deep stillness and peace, allowing them to pause a while and breathe.”

© Em Hoten

Jo is a painter and animator who trained in Fine Art in Liverpool and Leeds in the 1980s. She lives and works in north-east Leeds. 

Jo’s work has won awards, and she exhibits and sells her paintings regularly, as well as working to commission. Her animated films have been shown in festivals around the world.

Jo specialises in painting with watercolour. Her recent paintings are observations of the local area where she lives, and scenes painted from memory.

Jo is a regular exhibitor to Art Roundhay Park; we’re delighted she is joining us for this show.

© Jo Dunn

KATE LOVERY

Kate Lovery studied Ceramic Design at Harrogate College. The small intricate work captured her interest and led to the launch of her first porcelain jewellery collection in 2018.

Inspired by the natural environment and a vintage aesthetic, Kate designs and crafts each piece - from colouring clay and hand polishing to decorating with metallic lustres, making every earring wire, and constructing each necklace chain.

© Kate Lovery