Bury Art Collective
A collective of creatives in Bury
ARTISTS
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clay and oxides
Charcoal on paper
stoneware clay and glaze
clay and oxides
Charmaine Turner
Whether working with clay, charcoal or inks my aim is to achieve strength and elegance in each piece.
My inspiration and influences are varied but I strive to add a bit of myself as an Afro-Caribbean and as a woman.
Acrylic on canvas
Etching with aquatint
Watercolour illustration for children's book by Emma Lea
Acrylic on canvas
Maggie Lea
I have lived and worked in Bury most of my life and much of my work is about the local environment and people (you don’t have to travel far to find amazing subject matter). Sometimes I add extraordinary mythological beings to Bury's urban landscape. I do this to help communicate the wonder of things that are often just passed by. These unexpected individuals can also represent some of the more disturbing and painful aspects of life, as they attempt to exist in a world that has no place for them.
I work mainly with acrylic paint on canvas and I also make prints using traditional etching techniques. Extraordinary beings also occur in some of my etchings but these really exist, crouching high on buildings around Bury town centre.
Coreen Cottam
I'm an artist based in Bury. After twenty years in teaching I have returned to my other passion and have been painting full time since 2010. My work is hugely influenced by nature - hills, trees, stones, water, sky. I grew up in the Scottish Borders and dearly miss walking in the green hills under those huge skies. The M6 is a familiar route as I travel between home now and home then. A view of a hill or a hedge snatched in a moment from the car window on the motorway is often the starting point for one of my landscapes. These paintings are a way of connecting again with the countryside of my childhood.
As my own family grows up, all the while adding
layers of tales, love and heartache to our family
history, I find myself drawn back in time to stories and characters only half-remembered or often described. These women who preceded me became the inspiration for my first solo exhibition “connected” at The Met in Bury, in 2014.
Dennis Markuss
Originally from Bolton, I moved to Bury in the late 1980s. I trained as an illustrator and printmaker, first at Bolton College of Art and Design and later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Liverpool Polytechnic. Among my influences are comics, poster art, television and figure artists through the ages. My favourite artists would make a very long list.
The materials I use vary depending on the situation, felt tips and chalk pens for speed, pastels and pencil crayons for subtlety, or acrylics and oils for more finished paintings.
The subjects which interest me most are the human figure and manmade structures in the landscape. I've developed a love of life and costume drawing and really enjoy trying to capture the variety of anatomy and facial features.
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Catherine Entwistle
I am inspired by local scenes, particularly sculpture and architecture and domestic subjects. I enjoy online painting and drawing challenges. My drawings and paintings explore patterns and reality.
Peter Cave
I am a native of North Wales and have lived in the Greater Manchester area for the last thirty one years.
I aspire to be a competent watercolourist but regard myself primarily as a printmaker. I am fascinated by the processes involved and by the nature of the medium. I am never entirely sure what I will find when I print from a plate and subscribe to the doctrine of happy accident where, sometimes, unintended results enhance a print.
I find inspiration in the landscape, the North Sea coast and the human face.
Damian Langan
Damian has been creating drawings using ink on paper and also collage for 30 years. His pieces begin with random ink strokes upon the page or sometimes found marks or objects. He then develops these further using visual imagery ("images which reveal themselves to me on the page"). Damian says a lot of his artwork is unfinished, works in progress.
Some of the images shown here are details from much larger works
oil on canvas
acrylic on panel
acrylic & ink on constructed paper
oil on canvas
Marguerite Heywood
I am always on the lookout for an exciting colour or shape and I often find them on industrial estates, which I like as a setting because my interest is in purposeful subjects not a gloomy dystopia.
Although I often use traditional paints and supports I seek out found objects too and I enjoy making my own paper in the ‘wasli’ tradition. I have a special fondness for plastic - how it shows and transmits light and gets into every corner of our existence.
Bury Collective is an excellent organisation which encourages artists of all kinds but maintains high standards and keeps stretching us all.
Julie Foley
"Sooner or later we will discover that the important moments in life are not advertised ones, not the weddings and birthdays, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less pre-possessing. They come to the door unannounced; stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these moments' ..... Susan B Anthony, American Civil Rights Leader.
My work is measured by trying to capture that stray dog moment ....... the light on a wall, the arm on the car door as it passes, the shape between two people talking. I paint moments before they melt away....which I think comes from caring for my Mum who had Alzheimers.
I love exploring all mediums, but watercolour captured my heart - I love its unpredictability ..... like life itself .....
Collage, inks
Janet Brady
My work is often linked to walking...I wonder as I walk. This could mean disaster! I see settlements and trackways and 'natural' landscapes making patterns, evolving and dissolving in time. I think of life coming and going, leaving its own particular stamp on Place. And of course Place leaves its own mark on life too. This has been quietly at the back of my mind for a while. Well after many years of teaching myself the basics of drawing and painting I was lucky enough to get some good help in expressing my thoughts visually, e.g. Lee and Steve at Bury Art Gallery. Then I met David Tress and was knocked sideways by the strength of feeling in his landscape painting. The next big jolt was last year when I went to two courses on the 'Expanded Field of Drawing' at the Slade. That was mind-blowing. There I discovered that Feeling really is the key for me and now I'm groping my way along the next stage of my journey. Here are a few examples of what I'm doing.
Helen Mandel
I live in Manchester,UK. My work is varied, but I have a particular passion for line drawing and collage in a variety of media. I often uses humour in my work, using it as a counterbalance to more serious work. I invent characters and creatures who come uninvited (but welcome) straight onto the page.
There is a definite ‘northern flavour’ in my work, influenced by the local architecture and people.
I am influenced by books, films, songs…anything that suddenly occurs to me during the course of the day, will often find it’s way into sketchbooks or canvases.
I am self-taught, and believe that everything is potentially of interest, and that there is much that an outsider’s view can contribute to the art world.
Sarah Golightly
My art work often begins with observing a view of the landscape that I have come across by accident and find particularly emotive. It generally is not considered what might be a pretty view, but is just something that has a bit of magic for me.
I might collect a few stones, twigs or search for flotsam and jetsam to take home and combine these into a small display or bring together into a sculpture or I might make a sketch- quick and free. These will form the starting point of more drawings, paintings and sculptures which might in turn evolve into something else.
Sometimes it is the making and process which matters more. For the planet’s sake I now try to use natural materials and leave no waste.
Recently I have had the opportunity to visit the coasts of Cornwall and Northumberland. Line, the juxtaposition of colours and textures, the movement of the sky and sea and above all the quality of light are never ending sources of inspiration.
Essentially it is the colours, the materiality and spirituality of the scene before me which inspires my art. But I am fascinated too by gardens ( including my little one ) , geology, architecture, art and history anywhere. Looking is a good way to feel alive.
Ranjana Rani
I find inspiration in nature and life all around me. I am self taught. Since retiring from clinical practice, I have invested my time in exploring my interests in art. I am learning all the time by experimenting with different media which include acrylic, oils, charcoal, digital and ceramics.
My passion for vibrant colours is reflected in my art work. My trips back to my birth place in India reminds me of the landscape full of tropical colours, dynamics between people and Ganga river which are the subject of many of my paintings.
I live in Manchester and enjoy capturing dancing rain and sparkles of sunshine on Manchester's streets.
Caroline Coates
I am an illustrator, community artist, craft tutor and project manage. I specialise in increasing engagement, working in partnership with arts organisations. Based in Bury, but working across the North West and sometimes even further I teach a wide range of arts and crafts. As an artist I'm always trying out new things; as a tutor Iove to introduce people to new crafts and art forms, making learning fun.My illustration is a mix of traditional and contemporary with a sense of humour!
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Mary Wilson
I have loved Art from as young as I can remember and have always drawn and painted. I gained a 2:1 degree in Graphics and Illustration and have been commissioned for several pieces of artwork. However my main occupation for many years has been as Assistant Manager for Bolton Libraries where I could sometimes use my artistic abilities producing displays there. I have retired now so I have more time to do what I love.
On the whole I draw and paint Cultural portraits, although I have done portraits of famous people as well. People fascinate me, their faces, their customs, their histories and stories. In this ever changing, diverse world the concepts of race, ethnicity and culture have become more difficult to define. I myself come from a Polish/ Italian background.
I work in watercolour and rotring pen and use a technique called stippling.
Jenny Unsworth
My work incorporates drawing, printmaking and stitch.
I am fascinated by the lifecycle of plants, the use of text in artwork, craftivism, and the therapeutic benefits of creativity
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Louise Garman
I am a working, exhibiting, selling artist who also does an array of art workshops and art talks in a variety of settings- from cruise ships to universities to local spaces.
Committee member and studio holder at Greater Manchester’s neo: artists, I have exhibited at an array of places, spaces and galleries, including for the Royal Society of Women Artists at The Mall Galleries, London, the GM Arts Prize in Manchester...and everywhere from the historic Hanging Bridge at Manchester Cathedral to a shop unit at Salford Precinct, to The Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking 2020 at The Woodend Gallery in Scarborough to Stockholm, Oviedo and Paris.
I am a Chelsea School of Art Fine Art and Sculpture graduate, attended Anatomy lectures at the Royal Academy and completed an experimental drawing course at the Slade School. My work involves creating uncompromising, experimental multi-media images with the volume tuned up to the unreal, suffused with dreams of beauty and decay. These are natural and man-made scenes, via drawings, video, installation, silkscreens, and photos.”
All my work is wrapped with attitude and love XXX
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Describe your image
Robert Mandel
As a recently retired healthcare professional, I now have the time to indulge in what has been a longstanding fascination with photography.
My images are often shot as I wander the streets of Manchester. They seek out the otherwise unseen in the everyday jumble of urban life – those elusive micro-dramas of the streets. The spontaneous moment feels, for me, more exciting and ‘true’ than the painstakingly composed photograph.
My favourite pictures tend to be those which have multiple elements and are open to diverse interpretations. I love deeply saturated colour or dramatic monochromes. Most of all, I strive for a composition which feels ‘right’ and content with which one can find a sense of empathy. For me, an image which ‘works’ will tend to evoke an emotion, it will amuse or confuse and it certainly must hold your attention.
I am influenced by many of the great 20th century photographers and by a few of today’s more outstanding Instagrammers.
As for equipment, I keep it simple with a lightweight, inconspicuous micro four-thirds camera and natural light.
Scott Carter-Clavell
A Photographer, Artist and Historian.
Amongst recent achievements is the publication of my book entitled the ‘The First Air Raid on Lancashire’ regarding the 1916 Zeppelin raid on Rossendale & Bolton. Upcoming projects I'm working on encompass both photography and history so create an ideal subject for me!
My photography is across the spectrum and I work with Film and Digital. The drawn pieces I do are varied but more recently I find great inspiration from the likes of Artists such as Eric Kennington
My brand called Cat in a Bucket was initially started as a platform to market photographic and drawn work, but has been developed into a broad range of Greetings Cards, Prints and posters.
Stephen C. Nuttall
I am an illustrator and educator who is currently studying my Masters in Illustration at Manchester School of Art (UK).
At Stockport College I am writing and teaching (part time) on the BA Illustration course. I am also a Freelance Workshop Writer and Facilitator, and I work with several well established art establishments and charities throughout the North West of England on a regular basis.
My MA study is concentrated on the communication element of illustration and I am experimenting with codes and ciphers for my new work.
Brad Bradshaw
I love being creative and produce art using all kinds of media such as drawing, (esp. life drawing) painting, printing, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, murals, collage, etc. Works are either studio-produced by myself or created as a collaborative effort in an educational or community setting. I also produce art via commissions such as Union banner work or public artworks e.g. large ceramic friezes.
My themes vary from personal family history, music, political satire, protest art, love, loss through to just making something for the sheer joy of it.
I try to work in a bold, colourful, free-spirited way that attempts to use as much direct perception, raw emotion and naked thought as possible. To me the big motivation is communication but as Edgar Degas said, "Its not a matter of what the artists sees that's important, it's more a matter of what an artist can make OTHERS see."