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 lives and works in Yorkshire. Her paintings are somewhere between contemporary and traditional, based on detailed observation, but also in trying to convey the spirit of the different elements and how this affects the sea and the landscape. Recording the moods of the weather is also a constant challenge, and she always wants to remain open to the possibilities of experimenting with mixed media.
The sea has always held a deep fascination for her with its ever changing moods and colour. There is an unexpected excitement in its ceaseless energy that she feels compelled to paint.

© Ailsa Read

OLIVIA BEAU

Olivia Beau paints from her studio in Ilkley, working primarily in acrylics and using vintage maps of Yorkshire within her work.

Olivia’s artwork is inspired by The Yorkshire coastline and the stunning greens of the landscape around her home in Ilkley. In 2022 she exhibited a collection of eight artworks at the ‘Friends of Ham’ restaurant and arts venue in the town.  Each artwork contains a map segment of Yorkshire, and the title of the collection.

© Olivia Beau

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

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

DARCY + WOLF

Hand-made designs of artisan jewellery in various mediums including sterling silver, gold freshwater pearls, semi-precious stones, fair trade ceramic and glass.

© Darcy + Wolf

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