Makers of Rye will be showcasing their work over the Easter weekend, Saturday April 4, to Sunday April 5, 10-4pm.
From painting to printmaking, ceramics to textiles and more, this curated exhibition will transform the village hall into an informal gallery setting, where visitors can view and purchase directly from the makers themselves.
Visitors to the exhibition will have a wonderful opportunity to meet and engage with the exhibitors in a relaxed atmosphere, while enjoying a cup of Yorkshire tea and a slice of home-baked cake.
Made up of eight artists living and working around the Kirkbymoorside area, the group is named after the wonderful river Rye, from which the area also takes it’s name.
It is hoped that the new Makers of Rye exhibition will become an alternative channel for artists and makers to engage directly with the public, and that it will build on it’s success to become an annual event.
Check out the list of amazing artists featured in the exhibition below!
1. Helen Milen - textiles
Helen is a weaver, artist and natural dyer creating contemporary textile art and accessories. The captivating patterns and textures found in architecture, and the rhythm, light and colour of the changing seasons constantly influence Helen’s woven textiles. Helen captures her inspiration in a tactile interplay of colour and geometric pattern. Inviting you to take a closer look. Photo: Makers of Rye
2. Jess Shaw - printmaking
Jess is an emerging artist printmaker exploring the impact of water and ice on our landscape. Combining screenprint, woodcut and monoprint with diverse media such as collage, gouache and acrylic ink, her work draws from organic patterns and shapes in mapped topography of the National Park. In contrast, she finds and records beauty and meaning in the ephemeral ice patterns found in bodies of water and glass in winter. Photo: Makers of Rye
3. Kate Brown - mixed media
Kate studied Fine Art at university and is currently undertaking an MFA exploring process, materiality, and the relationship between people and place. Informed in particular by her surroundings, the transience of nature and seasons. Drawing on foraged materials and expansive northern landscapes, her pieces capture the quiet moments, and subtle rhythms of life, evoking emotion and reflection. Kate has exhibited in the UK and internationally and continues to evolve her practice through ongoing experimentation with presence, impermanence, and the ways natural materials carry memory and meaning. Photo: Makers of Rye
4. Lyn Bailey - printmaking
Lyn is a self taught printmaker, producing her intricate reduction lino prints from her studio on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors. Fundamentally each print begins with a simple walk, observing and connecting with her surroundings from the heart of the landscape. Working in small print runs, her designs develop organically from a simple sketch; decisions are made and altered throughout the cutting and printing process as the image emerges through the mark making. Photo: Makers of Rye