Here is a series of paintings by Shane in response to the aerial landscapes of James Brown (the marbled images), the rugged qualities of the Yorkshire landscape(this is one of a series of large 4x8feet oil paintings on board),and also an abstract linear piece looking at issues surrounding globalisation and multiple symbols colliding to represent the everyday bombardment we get from the world of media.....

Meeting Place

A draft design by RK of the town centre of Ilkley for the future, with a reduction of car parking and a communal centre for people to meet and greet !
This series of marbled landscapes were made by SG in direct response to the incredible aerial paintings made by JB a while ago.
This is where it is happening every Wednesday evening at 8pm
There is no one in at the moment but we may well be setting up a video-cam/conferencing facility from 8 'til 9pm every wednesday evening for you to join in the debate.......

Dialogue Room

Here is where it is happening every Wednesday night in Otley at 8pm 'til late.
We approach the evening with a certain air of anticipation and when we have done our homework (!)...we share, shake and rattle the very fabric of society as seen through the wild staring eyes of the newly formed Otley Observation Society's members.
We may share poetry, painting, notions of anarchy, fell-running and the computer age. We seem to have one thing underlying all threads of collaboration....the inherent need in man to be creative........

Leeds Light Night and The Windfan

Here is a night shot taken at about 10.30pm in Leeds City Square....it was like a ghost town waiting for the mass migration of the student population from Headingley and Hyde Park arrival for the 'AM Clubs and Bars'

RK heading out into the last of the day, high up on Ilkley Moor.
Carpe Diem.......
SG return to lanscape painting having been back from Pennsylvania for three months, did have the intention to continue where I left off back in May but the climate of Yorkshire has left me somewhat cold....I suppose the harsh reality of being back from the 'magic year' has taken a while to get back in the studio, but it's buzzing now.