‘Winter Mixture’ - 23rd October 2021 - 9th January 2022

'Winter Mixture' - a heady blend of sweets with wonderfully strong intense flavours designed to awaken your senses. This exhibition of new work by three Yorkshire-based artists does just that!

Gillian Martin, Kate Jordan and Giuliana Lazzerini all use colour and design effectively to stimulate the senses. Together with figurative ceramics by Alison Hill, this exhibition is definitely not one to miss.

Gallery Forty-Nine also stocks a wide selection of work by many other artists and makers. 'Winter Mixture' is an ideal opportunity to choose some different and original Christmas presents. For further information, please contact Gallery Forty-Nine.

UPDATE (November 2021):

Gallery Forty-Nine is pleased to introduce a new selection of original, mixed media artwork by Joan Hudson and Sarah Monro as part of current exhibition 'Winter Mixture'.

Exhibition Catalogue

A catalogue has been produced for this exhibition which details each of the artworks available for sale. Please click on the button below to download the catalogue in PDF format.

All artworks in this exhibition are framed. The dimensions listed in this catalogue refer to the size of the artwork before framing.

Gillian Martin

Gillian Martin is an illustrator and designer based in Scarborough. Her illustrations combine analogue and digital media; she produces work with a graphics program, after scanning in drawings, ink textures, and samples.

After studying illustration at college, Gillian moved to London and worked for a wide range of clients in publishing, editorial and advertising, including the BBC, Asda, Cambridge and Oxford University Press, Fiat, and Royal Mail. She also gained inspiration from her part-time job at the Tate Gallery, which provided her with the opportunity to study the collection at close quarters.

After living for a few years in Canada, Gillian moved back to Scarborough, focusing more on self-generated work which she licenses through her agent at Yellow House. She also sells prints online. Recent clients include Canns Down Press, King & McGaw, John Lewis, Elite Gift Boxes, and the Stephen Joseph Theatre.

Describing her working process, Gilian says: "An image develops as a collage of elements. I like to play with layers and colour variations, and aim for a degree of happy accident! I am strongly influenced by mid-century art and design, so I try to achieve that offset printed look."

The artworks in this exhibition are fine art giclée prints on 315gsm Innova high white matte paper, using fully archival inks which are designed to last without fading.

Kate Jordan

Kate Jordan works as a professional freelance artist and lives with her family and pets in the coastal town of Hornsea. She also enjoys making illustrations and greeting cards in her comical, colourful style.

Kate studied Fine Art at university, specializing in painting. She sees her paintings as naïve in style. Her work describes a line between both expressive and abstracted elements.She loves to interweave between the real and the imaginary, using bold colour, pattern, and humour. She is inspired by people, places, birds, the Yorkshire landscape and coastline where she lives, and the little moments in life.

Kate sees her artistic process as very organic. It evolves in response to the serendipitous nature of the marks, colours and drips that emerge on the canvas.

All of Kate's paintings are beautifully framed in Yorkshire, and each frame is hand-crafted.

Giuliana Lazzerini

Giuliana Lazzerini was born in Seravezza near Pietrasanta in Tuscany. Between 1962 and 1968 she was a student at the Istituto D'Arte Stagio Stagi in Pietrasanta, gaining a Master of Arts Diploma. This was followed by a further four years studying painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara. Giuliana moved to the UK in 1973 and to Yorkshire, England in 1987, where she now lives.

The Tuscan landscape and childhood memories still bear a strong influence upon Giuliana's current work. In an earlier statement she describes her first encounters with art in Italy as a child in her father's mosaic studio. She refers to the "translucency of the mosaic fragment" and her "fascination with the vibrancy of colour" from the juxtapositioning of the pieces. These early perceptions provide a language and a vocabulary for her own pictures in terms of colour, surface, and scale, which she now uses in the construction of her tapestry-like, interlocking, angular-surfaced village landscapes.

Giuliana says: "My work is varied, and often developed from an idea encountered during a journey that takes me in an unknown territory where I grow as an artist. I usually work in small series of paintings, where memory and imagination come to interplay. Time made me more familiar with the landscape of northern England and it finally has left a mark in some of my work, as I become more intrigued by its drama and atmosphere."

Alison Hill

Alison Hill studied at Sunderland University. Following a career teaching Design Technology and Art up to GCSE level, she made the decision to reduce her hours to part-time, and to produce her own portfolio of work with a view to selling. Alison's recognition as an artist has developed, and she now successfully sells work in galleries across the North East and further afield.

Alison's work is predominantly figurative, always reflecting her fascination with and love of people from all walks of life. Her work captures expression and mood. In the last five years, Alison has developed her work in the third dimension using ceramics. While she has experimented with a variety of media, she finds that the medium of ceramics has allowed her to be the most expressive of all. When she works with clay, the human character evolves in her hands, and there comes a point in the sculpting which Alison describes as “giving her a buzz, when the face seems to come to life and looks back at her.”

Alison now has her own studio in Darlington where she works full-time producing her own artwork and running ceramic classes for adults. Favouring bold colour, she mainly fires her work to earthenware as she finds the glazes available tend to be more vibrant. Contrast between glazed and unglazed areas creates tone and texture. In some pieces, she uses oxides which pool in the crevices of the clay, bringing out the form and producing light and dark tones of one colour, as seen in the finish of 'The Victorian Fishwife'.

The body of work in this exhibition has been specifically produced by Alison for Gallery Forty-Nine. She has aimed to capture the essence of the seaside, portraying the magic of the beach at Bridlington. When making these pieces, she asked herself: “What does the seaside holiday mean to a child?” Her interpretation is the small child just revelling in the sensory experience of playing with wet sand; the older children collecting shells and being fascinated by a crab; and the girl with the last ice cream of her holiday with a little sadness in her eyes because the holiday is over.

Joan Hudson

Artist and illustrator Joan Hudson is a Fine Art graduate with over 30 years experience teaching Art and Design. Her bold and colourful work is inspired by wildlife as well as the Yorkshire Wolds, Moors and Dales. Joan admires Georgia O’Keefe, Gustav Klimt, and Indian Mandala art.

Sarah Monro

Sarah Monro is a self-taught artist who grew up by the seaside. She works mainly with acrylic inks on paper, canvas, and wood.

Sarah says: "I have always been drawn to the sea and the sky; the light, colours, and energy greatly inspire me to paint. I spent many years living in the Caribbean, and was honored to be invited to exhibit in the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands' virtual exhibition exploring experiences of lockdown, along with many renowned artists."