Jill is a West Yorkshire–based painter and photographer whose work marks a return to painting after many years as a community artist. Combining photographic observation with an expressive approach to paint, she creates atmospheric landscapes inspired by nature, with a particular passion for the sea.

Although now living in Yorkshire, for Danish artist Sussi Louise, Scandinavia forms the foundation of her inspiration. Her paintings draw heavily on its traditions, cultures and contemporary visions of life, love, peoples and places.

Up until 2015 I had a full time management career with little time to pursue my love of art. This all changed when I left work and for many years I considered art as my hobby, that was until I completed an 18 month long Contemporary Atelier with Martin Kinnear RCA on oil painting in early 2025. Since then my work has changed dramatically and I now consider myself a serious artist with my work exhibited in numerous exhibitions around Yorkshire.

I am now retired from my professional (financial)work life in this country and abroad. My main activity is art but I also do a lot of walking to try to keep me healthy. I am in two art groups and spend time with fellow artists twice a week. I originally learnt to paint in watercolour, but now also use acrylic.

Ellie's bold and vibrantly coloured townscapes were originally inspired by the beautiful Georgian architecture of the city of Bath, which was her base for a number of years. Art residencies in the South of France, Rome and more recently Sicily, have served to further inspire and develop Ellie's painting style.

I started my creative journey at 18 when I studded at Jacob Kramer Art College in Leeds. Then into the Advertising agencies of Leeds, as the art director producing storyboards, TV commercials, branding, marketing, advertisements, catalogues, websites, tracking, working for household names M&S, Freemans, Grattans, Kays, GUS, Philips, BMW, Mercedes, NHS, Beeswax Dyson Farming and Dyson

I studied BA Hons Illustration at the University of Central Lancashire graduating in 2004. I worked for a number of years as a freelance artist from my Manchester based studio . I produced mainly large scale canvas paintings along with book and magazine illustrations. Due to health and personal circumstances I had to take a break from my art work . I moved to Ilkley in 2012 and have worked as a chef in the same job for the last 9 years . In 2022 I was able to rekindle my love and passion for painting and had an exhibition of my current work at Friends of Ham in Ilkley , receiving lots of positive feedback and selling some pieces .

I am a Yorkshire based artist creating a variety of colourful interpretations of my favourite places, from the Yorkshire countryside, to places close to my heart, including the Lake District, Cornwall and further afield.

I enjoy an experimental approach to creating artwork, using acrylics and watercolour/mixed media to build layers and create movement and texture. 

I graduated in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University in 2023 and I’m currently studying MA Fine Art at University of Leeds.

I work from my home studio painting oil semi-abstract autobiographical scenes. Landscapes and woodlands feature heavily in my work as ways of conveying ambiguity and introspection.

As a visual artist, my work encompasses watercolour, acrylics, graphite, and copper etching. I dedicate myself to creating art daily, with around 6-10 pieces in progress simultaneously, except when other obligations arise.

My art conveys my feelings towards environments, trees, concepts, causes and to narrate stories. I believe in the authenticity of art and eagerly follow where my inspirations lead me.

Originally from North West London, I studied at Harrow School of Art. In 1988 I moved to sunny Silsden, teaching art at Keighley College and as a visiting artist in schools.

I acquired an allotment plot 10 years ago and began a one sided "relationship" with the birds that visit the plot. This has led to a fascination for birds - songbirds, moorland birds, tropical birds - the source material is endless.

North Yorkshire based, Katrina has been developing her skills in acrylic and mixed media for the last year.

Originally a graphite and coloured pencil artist, she has blended her background as an architectural technologist, with a passion for detail, and her love of vibrant colour.

Her work is heavily influenced by contemporary Spanish art, Colour Field painting and the Op Art movement. In particular, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Bridget Riley and Frank Stella. Not wanting to be confined to one genre, Katrina's work can be identified by impasto palette knife strokes with a range of colours designed to stimulate the eye and imagination

Based in Haworth, I live and work in an old West Yorkshire textile mill building called Damside Mill. Our gallery and my studio are open to visitors by appointment or periodically for exhibitions.

I predominantly work with paint and clay. I think of my ceramic vessels as 3D abstract paintings. They are hand built, layered with slips, oxides and glazes. When fired they evolve to become an object that may have been weathered or forged by the environment.

I use oil paint, often over or with different mixed media materials, on wood, paper and canvas.

There are moments when you look at something - a bird with its twisting body, a landscape full of contrast or the passing of the seasons, a face showing life’s journey and the passing of time. Whether it is awe, peace, joy, interest or curiosity these are the moments that inspire me.

Olivia has been an artist for the last three half years, going full-time almost immediately upon discovering she could paint. Olivia works from her countryside home studio near Ilkley and travels frequently to the family house in Filey to exhibit at the Pop-up Gallery shop, a venture she co-hosts with her parents and daughter. 

An artist born and living in Yorkshire, the hills and dales of this lovely part of the world do occasionally appear in my work. I paint in oils and though I love to paint pretty much anything from 19th century inspired seascapes, an alla prima sketch of hills in Appletreewick to an explosion of colour in the form of an abstract; my first love is realism.

I am a largely self-taught painter of landscapes and portraits in various media, often oils. I paint for the joy of it, and it is my 'opposite world'. My development as an artist began in earnest when I needed an escape from the stress of my work as an intensive care doctor during the 2019 pandemic. I am inspired by light and shadows in beautiful places that are important to me, or the people who ask me to paint them.

I started painting in acrylics, mesmerized by the shimmering colours of Venice, Tuscany and the brooding wild mountains of Scotland. I have since taken to oils to capture the whirling clouds and hills of Yorkshire.

Tonalist landscape art inspired by the Yorkshire Countryside. Predominantly working with oil paint on canvas and paper.

Christine likes to express her love of the great outdoors in her landscape paintings. Gaining inspiration from both the Yorkshire countryside and her travels further afield, she likes to interpret what she sees and her emotional response to the landscape. She loves nothing more than a bit of moody weather and blustery skies, which we get plenty of in Yorkshire!

My paintings always begin in situ, observing the fluctuations in weather through the seasons. These variations of light enhance and transform colours, tones, moods, textures and reflections creating sensual atmospheres which speak to the imagination.

“Working in my first-floor studio I make abstract paintings and collages which dance with delicious colour. Dreamy artworks, imbued with a profusion of beautiful shapes and subtle veils of colour, soft and gentle or rich, bold and vibrant are often further enhanced with mark making techniques and texture."

Helen creates landscapes with liquid paint, which she hand tints and pours directly onto the canvas. Using colours that reference the changing skies and landscapes of the moors surrounding the town, the poured paint collides and mingles, arranging itself into an image which is instantly recognisable as a landscape yet completely abstract.

Offering fresh, engaging artwork beginning with her love of sketching and painting local scenes around Ilkley. From her studio the work takes on a loose and playful composition capturing people, places and moments in time.

Andy James. B.A. (Hons), M.A. Andy is a contemporary artist based in Yorkshire. He works mainly in oil and mixed media and is interested in the visual language of colour, form, and line.

Laura Dawes is a freelance artist living and working in Ilkley. Although her specialism is 3D video game art, she is also a painter in both traditional and digital media. Her main subject is the Yorkshire landscape and her favourite traditional mediums are watercolour, gouache, ink and acrylics.

I paint the Yorkshire Moors and Dales in the gorgeous medium of soft pastel – how lucky I am to live and work here. Growing up in Ilkley, and returning here with my family in 1993 I love looking out at Ilkley Moor from my home studio; I use the local moors as a place to walk, a place to think.

John Gamble works from his studios in Ilkley. He is co-founder of Art School Ilkley which offers workshops for young artists and adults. His education includes BA in Performance Arts, Access to HE. Leeds Arts University, courses with the Royal Drawing School and a MA in Creative Practice.

I’m Lizzie and I’m an acrylic artist. My work focuses mainly on animal portraits with the occasional landscape, and I love bold and bright colours that make for beautiful statement pieces.