Published at 11:09, Thursday, 26 April 2012

PAINTINGS, prints and woodwork are featured in Lowes Court Gallery’s Spring Exhibition.

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The gallery on Egremont Main Street launched the new exhibit on Saturday, and it runs until June 12.

It features paintings by Derek Eland and Gareth Harrison, etching and aquatint prints by Ceri Allen, and works in wood from Ralf Bidder.

Derek returns to the gallery and, since his last visit when he painted strong and distinctive landscape work, he had broadened his art into multimedia pieces and has spent time as an official war artist in Afghanistan.

Gareth is usually busy hanging the exhibitions in Lowes Court, but recently he has been following new ideas in his own painting, exploring flat areas of colour and various ways of applying paint, though still within a landscape context.

Ceri exhibits at Lowes for the first time, having been awarded first prize in the Cumbrian Open exhibition in 2007, and for several years has been working on the theme of the figure in a mainly urban environment.

Alongside the artwork, Ralf will be showing various works in wood.

His pieces vary in size and function from benches and tables to clocks and spoons.

Ralf’s method is to design with the flow of the wood grain, thus making each piece unique, and he plants a new tree for each piece of furniture sold.

The gallery is open 10am to 5pm from Mondays to Fridays, and 10am to 4pm on Saturdays.

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