Meet The Maker – Molly Ginnelly

Molly Ginnelly – Jeweller

Molly is currently studying at HND level at Carnegie College Dunfermline and in the early stages of  her career as a jeweller so she is searching for her own unique style.

Large Mixed Media Pendant

Exploring new techniques, experimenting with both metals and mixed media materials and investigating different sources found in the natural environment her current work is vast and varied whilst concentrating on one particular theme.

Coloured Bracelet

Inspired by tree branches, leaf patterns and textures and places from her childhood, the variety of design, techniques and materials Molly has used in her collections show the diversity and range she is able to work in. Molly’s work includes techniques such as roll printing, inlay, patination and stone setting. This mixture of different techniques produces interesting patterns and finishes, giving individuality to each piece showing the diversity in which she likes to work. 

Small Mixed Media Necklace

Searching for perfection, balance and form, Molly’s work continues to develop and grow. Recent additions to her collections are Formica laminate based jewellery, including a collaboration with paper artist Charlie Trimm. Charlie works by hand creating romantic and whimsical paper cuts; each piece unique and colourful, she works to her own designs and particularly likes birds, trees and flowing patterns.

Dandelion – Charlie Trimm

When Molly met Charlie the story began …

Birdie earrings

Meeting through a friend of a friend of a friend you might say, through social networking actually. Tweets led to facebook likes which then led to emails and loving each others work Molly and Charlie decided to have a look at what they could do together, Molly with her trusty but not rusty jeweller’s saw and rolling  mill and Charlie and her amazing magical scalpel.

They set about new ideas and patterns with great excitement and wonder of the outcome. A few weeks later came designs for embossing silver and quickly after, a range of colourful brooches with Molly’s favourite material Formica…yes you read that last part right…lovely, colourful Formica. Cut by laser to achieve the beauty and intricacy of the branchy patterns and double layered to show depth and contrasting colour this range of wearable jewellery pieces have proven to be most popular and as beautiful as a little birdie itself.

Oval birdie brooch

Molly’s birdie range is currently in Heart Gallery and we all love it and really hope to receive some of these little beauties to add to the birdie collection now Autumn is nearing.

Little fawn oval brooch

Charlie’s papercuts will be arriving any day now to launch at our next exhibition 23 September and we are all really excited about that too! Come along to our 6th Birthday Celebrations and see both Molly and Charlie’s work alongside other gorgeous contemporary jewellery and craft.

6th Birthday Party Invitation

Meet The Maker – Josephine Gomersall

Josephine Gomersall – artist

Josephine makes Silver Jewellery and Metal Artwork treasures from Brass, Copper, Silver and recycled Tin, with hand stamped decoration and lettering, with an occasional accent of colour using coloured lacquers.

Silver Seed

Spring Blossom

Metal artwork is incorporated into her mixed media framed artworks too. Both delicate and decorative, her designs are inspired by the natural world; from the garden and hedgerow, to the countryside and coastline. She works from her home studio in the rural setting of Seagrave in Leicestershire. Chickens; Gem and Noodle, live at the bottom of the garden.

Poppies and Daisies

Hen House

The ‘little treasure’ metal artworks mounted in wooden blocks make a wonderful, unique, hand crafted gift, and can be displayed either individually or collectively. Josephine’s mini sculptures have been featured in the Emporium pages of Country Living magazine.

‘Little Treasure’ mini sculptures

In the Garden collection, Silver, Copper and Brass sculptures with hand stamped decoration

The mixed media framed artworks are all unique, individual pieces and incorporate hand drawn and hand painted matt paper coloured backgrounds, with hand stamped decoration, lettering and machine stitched detail. In the foreground the stylised flowers and seed heads are made from either Silver, or recycled tin, with some applied coloured lacquer for detailing. These artworks can be personalised with your own special message, commissions welcome so do please ask about this service.

All the beauty I see

Close up of detail

Josephine studied Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design and had a successful career as a Textile Designer and in product development in the Textiles industry, which is apparent in her work and adds a special decorative quality to her designs. She worked closely with Tricia Guild, whilst employed at Designers Guild, London where she gained a greater understanding and confidence with the use of colour.

Foliage Collection, Silver, Brass and Copper with hand stamped decoration

Josephine is a Botanical artist, and loves to drawn flora and fauna, inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s flower drawings. She has sold original artwork to Liberty,of London. Her Botanical drawings have been used to create three fabric designs for Liberty Art fabric collections. The original drawings are kept in the Liberty archive. 

Fruit Orchard Collection, Silver with hand stamped decoration and coloured lacquer

Josephine also designs and hand block prints glass cooker splash backs, which have featured on Channel 4’s Grand Designs programme with Kevin Mc Cloud and on Britain’s Best Homes programme with Sarah Beeney and they have also featured in many Kitchen and Interiors magazines.

Flower lapel pins, Silver and Copper

 

WHAT A CRACKER – Christmas Exhibition at Heart Gallery 13 November 2011

Heart Gallery kindly invites you to WHAT A CRACKER launching on Sunday 13 November at 12pm

What goodies can you buy this Christmas at Heart Gallery? Here’s a sneak peek of what’s new for you, for your loved ones and for your home.

Louise Wilson - Mixed Media Artist

Karen Dell'Armi - Jeweller

Tania Sneesby - Textile Artist

Caroline Cowen - Jeweller

Jacqui Sharples - Letterpress

Heart Gallery has now launched a fantastic Loyalty Scheme and we have been really busy cutting, stitching and preparing lovely little heart shaped felt pouches for you to keep. Feedback from customers has been amazing so here is some info for those of you who haven’t heard about it yet:

Heart Gallery Loyalty Card

Collect your loyalty card from Heart Gallery when you spend over £50.

Receive a heart stamp every time you spend £50 or over.

Collect 5 heart stamps on your loyalty card and exchange it for your Heart Gallery 10% Token.

Your Heart Gallery 10% token is a pewter heart and is yours to keep, for life.

Use your Heart Gallery 10% token every time you spend over £50 in Heart Gallery.

Heart 10% Loyalty Token

Live with the art you love …

It’s easy and affordable to buy and collect contemporary art and craft at Heart Gallery with Own Art which lets you spread the cost of your purchase over 10 months with an interest free loan.

Own Art loans allow you to borrow from as little as £100 up to a maximum of £2,000 for the purchase of works of art by living artists.

Own Art loans are available from Heart Gallery for the purchase of contemporary art and craft of any kind, and in any media. That means you can choose more or less anything you want from Heart Gallery from paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture, to glassware, ceramics, jewellery, furniture and textiles.

There is no limit on the number of times you can use Own Art, but we recommend that you don’t apply for more than one loan at a time. This is because each loan application is subject to a credit check, and your application may be declined if you have not yet already established a repayment record for an existing Own Art loan, or if the bank considers that the total amount of credit you are asking for is too high in relation to your income.

The minimum you can borrow is £100 (monthly repayment of £10), but this can be used to cover a group of lower value items whose combined total adds up to £100 or more. This means that at Christmas you can purchase a number of presents for your friends and family interest free so there is no need to use your credit card!

If you are buying something more valuable than £2,000 you can use an Own Art loan as a part payment. Please note that you cannot apply for multiple Own Art loans to cover the costs of a single purchase.

Own Art is available to all UK residents over the age of 18, subject to status. This means that you must be able to meet the following criteria in order to be approved for a loan:

• Over the age of 18
• A permanent UK resident
• Working at least 16 hours a week (employed or self-employed)

If you are not working but are married to or living with a partner who does have a full time job, then you may still apply provided that your partner is happy for their employment details to be included on your application form.

You’ll need to have proof of ID with you in the form of a driver’s licence or utility bill, along with a credit or debit card as proof of signature and it only takes 10 minutes!

Staff in Heart Gallery will take you through the loan application process and once you’ve given all the information we need, you’ll get an instant decision.

Once your application has been approved and you’ve signed the paperwork you can take your purchase(s) away with you – simple as that!

Own Art bank partner Hitachi Capital Consumer finance will send you a welcome letter and the 10 monthly payments will be collected by direct debit from your account starting a few weeks after you’ve made your purchase.

Meet The Maker – Catherine Green

Catherine Green - Textile Artist

Catherine’s work incorporates print and stitch on beautifully tactile fabrics such as velvet and satin to create vibrant, tactile pieces.  She builds up layers of dye, both printed and painted, before using devoré techniques to remove the fabric surface to reveal the delicate silk beneath, creating an almost three dimensional effect. 

Catherine Green - Wilderness

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine works intuitively from her first point of reference and enjoys allowing the design to change and evolve as the piece progresses through each process.

Catherine Green - Carved Leaves III

Catherine takes her inspiration from the rural and urban areas around her studio in Yorkshire which appear to combine and contrast in perfect harmony; spiky grasses and seed heads set against a backdrop of a geometric cityscape alongside more rural landscapes inspired by the Yorkshire Dales and coastal pieces influenced by the dramatic East Coast. 

Catherine Green - Charcoal Carved Leaves

Each piece is created using strong colour ways which are intended to be striking and uplifting. 

Catherine Green Bright Pears

Catherine Green - Climbing

Catherine has recently had a series of pieces reproduced into greetings cards and giclée prints which are available at Heart Gallery along with framed originals.

Catherine Green - Violet Carved Leaves

Meet The Maker – Tony Wright

Tony Wright

So, where do I start with this one? Many of you will know Tony Wright not as an artist/maker I now showcase in Heart Gallery quite regularly but as singer in the Bradford band Terrorvision, creativity of a different kind!

Tony on stage

Terrorvision poster

Creatively speaking though Tony has just diversified his talents, and he is still singing too both in Terrorvision, who are back in the studio and touring at the moment, and in LaikaDog. LaikaDog was formed on a high Yorkshire moor top. Tony, Paddy and Sim were building dry stone walls and thought it would be a good idea and a warmer past time to form a band and play the tunes they had been inspired to write.

Heart Gallery sells Tony’s little miniature dry stone walls, just like these ones! After a long day building walls on the moors Tony brings home a little bit of Yorkshire stone and chips away at it to make a mini version of the ‘real thing’!

Miniature dry stone wall, Tony Wright

Tony's little wall, on a wall!

Tony also has a love for photography and Heart Gallery showcased Tony’s collaboration with Stuart Humphrey entitled ‘While You Were Sleeping’ during the summer of 2010. These prints sold well and are still available to order through Heart Gallery.

24hr Garage Tony Wright and Stuart Humphrey

Underworld Tony Wright and Stuart Humphrey

Top Lad Tony Wright and Stuart Humphrey

Tony’s latest love is letterpress and woodcutting! Tony and Stuart are in a mill with no electric but the radio and lamp which they listen to and see by to create various letterpress and woodcut prints. They bought some fab equipment to work with:

Ink, block and press in the mill

The carving gets started on

Starting on the woodcut for the orange carp

Starting on the carving for the Blue Panther

then the blocks are inked ready for the paper which is a repeat process for each colour – Tony has to be really careful to get each colour sitting in the right place but the whole process means that each one is unique.

The blocks are inked ready for each layer of colour to be individually printed

The finished posters are now in Heart Gallery and are a limited edition of 150 of each design, with every one being different to the last one that was printed by hand. These are his tattoo inspired posters now on sale at Heart Gallery:

STRENGTH

COURAGE

FREEDOM

Call in to see Tony’s dry stone walls and posters soon and watch this space too as I am sure there will be something new from Tony soon if he can squeeze it in with all the touring he’ll be doing! Check out the Terrorision dates for 2011 here - might see you in Leeds!

 

Meet The Maker – Clare Caulfield

Clare Caulfield – Yorkshire based Artist and Printmaker

Clare Caulfield is a Yorkshire based Artist and Printmaker who graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Surface Pattern Design from Staffordshire University in 2000. Combining the processes of drawing, painting, collage and various printmaking techniques Clare captures the excitement, life and vibrancy of many of the world’s most enticing cities including Paris, New York, Venice, Rome, London, Sydney and Prague. The magic of each location being recreated in Clare’s very distinctive and appealing illustrative style of working.

The London Eye South Bank

Drawing has always been a very important part of Clare’s work. She is fascinated by architecture be it the Midtown skyscrapers of Manhattan, The Grand Canal in Venice or simply capturing Parisian life outside a brightly canopied pavement cafe, she strives to create spontaneous lively line work.

Flatiron Building

View from Accademia Bridge Venice

La Mere Catherine Paris

Clare uses her sketchbook and camera to record and capture her experiences whist visiting each of these cities, on returning to the studio she then interprets this information to produce her quirky pen and watercolour and mixed-media paintings. For Clare the initial pen drawing is the most important part of the whole process needing to achieve a lively and fluid quality of line. From the initial marks on the paper, Clare chooses not to plan out her composition in pencil first, but to always work directly in pen from the beginning.

Prague

Closer to home Clare has turned her attention to the historic Shambles of York, County Arcade in Leeds and the beautiful architecture to be found within Saltaire Village: Salts Mill, The United Reformed Church, the shop fronts of Victoria Road and the cobbles of Albert Terrace have all been interpreted in her instantly recognisable style.

York Minster

Boutique Shopping in County Arcade Leeds

Saltaire United Reformed Church

Clare’s love of drawing and use of line lend themselves perfectly to her work as a printmaker. She produces her handmade original prints at West Yorkshire Print Workshop where she also teaches weekend screenprint courses. Screen printing allows Clare to transfer the lively original drawings often taken directly from her sketchbook produced whilst on her travels, onto both paper and canvas enabling her prints to maintain this great sense of spontaneity. Within many of her screenprints Clare combines elements of hand painted acrylic and watercolour resulting in each print being a truly individual piece in itself.

San Giorgio Maggiore Venice

Clare also produces drypoint prints, a method of intaglio printmaking as she enjoys the rich velvety line quality it achieves. The prints are created by firstly drawing the image by scratching directly onto the plate with a sharp needle. For each print made the plate is re-coated with ink and then carefully wiped each time therefore every print is original and unique. Only small editions can be made as the plate wears down very quickly during the printing process. Some of these prints also combine elements of chiné colle allowing Clare to introduce subtle areas of colour and texture into her compositions.

Harrods Red Bus

Clare exhibits both her paintings and original prints with galleries throughout the country in regular solo and group shows. She has been represented by CCA Galleries at the Affordable Art Fair in London exhibiting her collection of hand painted screenprints on canvas of famous landmarks in the capital including The Royal Albert Hall, Tower Bridge and Buckingham Palace.

Royal Albert Hall

Heart Gallery is proud to be one of Clare’s carefully chosen Galleries to showcase her work all year round.

Mark Yates – Terrorvision guitarist – delivers his touring wall art to Heart Gallery

Gina Cortina

Backstage Pass

Born and raised in Bradford, England, Mark has always combined music and art. Trained in graphics, he has also designed album sleeves for his own rock ‘n’ roll band Terrorvision.

Mark has an ever developing style taking influences from old school tattoos and modern day street culture. Brought up on the likes of Sailor Jerry, Ed Hardy and Vince Ray, Mark’s love of kitsch and low brow art is obvious.

With outlets in Britain, Sweden and Florida, Mark’s work is rapidly cropping up in cool bars, funky apartments and burlesque clubs worldwide.

Mark finds painting like song writing has no boundaries, pictures can evolve from a simple idea, a sequence of colours or an entire vision. Like Mark’s guitar playing these paintings are strikingly colourful and flamboyantly loud.

July/August and what’s in store for you at Heart Gallery

Hockney

Harry

Twiggy

The BLONDES are arriving soon ….

Marvelous May

A sneaky peak at some marvelous May treats in store for you arriving very soon:

Love is in the air locket style necklace

The Owl and The Pussycat brooch

Moon Gazing earrings

Communication Wires linoprints and etchings

The Social Housing Shortage

April Arrivals

Protea bangle single flower

Sockees

Silver and 22ct gold brooch

Orbit bangle

recycled biscuit tin jewellery

love love love cushion

Julia Ogden paintings

scrabble tiles covered with Japanese papers to make beautiful necklaces

red heart devil's tail necklace

barcode cufflinks - personalise yours with a special date

Silver pierced range of gorgeous jewellery