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Partners who live and work in South Yorkshire. Originally meeting in the Eighties at Charlotte Press Print Workshop on Tyneside. Enjoying the unique and lively Northern culture.
DAVE WATSON
2008 saw a Judges Award in the Doncaster City Open for 'Hedgerow Hedge. Pastel' (see below). In September he was awarded the Tony Wilkinson Award at the Thoresby Open for 'Summerhouse, Brodsworth Estate' (shown below). Both these subjects are ones Dave returns to frequently to explore in ever greater depth.
The Chase magazine published a perceptive article (Written by Charlie Graves with photographs by Ian Townsley) on the extraordinary story of Dave's move into painting following his heart attack, and his surreal experience while in hospital. Click here to download a pdf of the article.
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Morag has joined the West Yorkshire Print Worksop in Mirfield. "I'm happy to be printing again" she says. Now working on a series of prints 'Time Passing'. Using landscape as a metaphor for change.
An exhibiting etcher and lecturer for many years, Morag took a change of direction in the early 90s to work in commercial design. Eventually coming full circle to work again as an artist.
From the current series of etchings 'Time passing'. 'Barnburgh from the North-east'
At heart, Morag's work is observational. Over the Winter of 2007/8, she worked in acrylics on the 'A Native Returning from Exile'. Painted out in the Dearne Valley to catch the transient English weather as it whips across the landscape. Morag returned to live in the Dearne Valley after 35 years away. The series is a celebration of the Dearne Valley today. There is nostalgia in it for the 18 year old who left to go to art college.
Summer 2008 saw a series of (acyrlic) Food Still-lifes (on-going). With more than a passing homage to food from the 1970's.
Originally working as a landscape photographer, experiencing a heart attack inspired him to change artistic direction.
Dave says "I paint out in the woodlands and open landscape of the Dearne Valley - I am not a studio painter. Capturing light and colour as it whooshes by in the wind that seems to constantly blow around here. I use everything from quill and ink, watercolours, acrylics, to the mud at my feet to make the paper relate to the view. More recently I have found the immediacy of soft pastels appealing. I use Unison soft pastels - made in Northumberland for their fantastic range of colours."
"I also photograph the landscape using analogue Leica and Canon digital cameras." View photographs . .
Clicking here will give a link to Dave's Flckr photography pages.
2008, etching
From 'Time Passing'
Hawthorn Hedge. Pastel'
2008. Unison pastels
A2
2008, acrylic.
25cm x 38cm.
From Food Still-lifes
2008. Watercolour and pen & ink
76cm x 56cm
2008. Unison pastels.
A5 size
2007, acrylic.
34cm x 20cm.
From Native Returning from Exile