Our Mid-Summer exhibition features paintings by one of the leading contemporary Scottish Artists, Andy Cross.
Award winning illustrator and children's author Catherine Rayner together with landscape painter Jean Laing make a welcome return to Red Barn and we have the original and exciting works of Edward Foster and Mary Cookson.
Our featured jeweller is Jane Moore working in transparent enamel to create her colourful pieces.
We have the bold and dynamic ceramics of Adam Frew and the wooden and silver sculptures of James Reynolds
Open Gallery
Glynnis Carter
Originally from Walthamstow in North East London, Glynnis lived, studied and worked in the North East from 1967 - 2000.
In 2000 she moved to the North Pennines. Whilst continuing to work as a teacher she studied part time at Newcastle College, Northumbria University and Sunderland University. In 2004, having gained a BA(Hons) in Fine Art, she gave up teaching and began to paint full time.
Glynnis draws inspiration for her paintings from the wild landscapes of the North Pennines. Her work is a response to the surrounding hills and moorland, the constantly changing light and weather.
She exemplifies the words of Malcolm Andrews in Landscape and Western Art (OUP 1999 p19): "Authenticity in landscape art is a transcription not of 'nature' but of subjective responses which often involve a process of sustained direct contact with the chosen site ....."
She works instinctively, over several weeks, building up layers of colour and texture, allowing what happens on the canvas during the painting process to determine the evolution of the painting.
Andy Cross |
Catherine Rayner |
Jane Moore |
Edward Foster |
Jean Laing |
Adam Frew |
James Reynolds |
Mary Cookson |
