Autumn / Winter Exhibitions 2020/21 Various Artists

Since July 2020 clients have purchased paintings, original prints, drawings and ceramics after having seen work on our website or in our email newsletters.

Initially we were able to allow work to be collected from the gallery or other locations. We have since the national lockdown in January 2021 used reliable art transporters to deliver larger works and Royal Mail special delivery for smaller items. As the gallery is currently closed we have put together in this online exhibition examples of work which visitors would be able to see in the gallery.

Art work by contemporary artists from the Craven area of North Yorkshire is often featured, including here painters Jacquie Denby and Frank Gordon and hand built earthernware ceramics by Anna Lambert. Lancashire based potter James Hake and work by painters Milan Ivanic and Maureen Grealy.

Gavagan Art exhibits work from all over Britain. Two artists from Cambridgeshire, ceramic glaze expert Stephen Murfitt and painter, Terry Beard regularly show and images of their artwork can be viewed further down this page. Terry has recently received two art awards from The London Invitational Art Contest and The Cass Art Award.

As well as the temporary exhibitions programme a varied range of paintings prints and ceramics are always on display. Included in the images below are original prints by Royal Academicians – John Bellany 1942 -2013 and Albert Irvin 1922 -2015. There are other works also available by these two artists.

Edward Hughes

In 2018 an exhibition was held of a representative body of ceramics by Edward Hughes (1953 – 2006) together with work by potter James Hake. Images can be seen below of a sample of the work available by Edward. Examples of his ceramics can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum London and the Ashmolean Museum Oxford.

Kenneth Craddock

In recent years a number of exhibitions have been held of wood engravings. One artist who specialised in this form of print was Kenneth Craddock born 1911. Originally from Bolton, he was Principal of Hereford College of Art throughout the 1960s. He had previously worked as an illustrator for the Manchester Guardian. Influenced and inspired by Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden his wood engravings, a number of which are illustrated below, recall the nineteen fifties.

Norman and Anna Adams

Work by Norman and Anna Adams have featured in temporary exhibitions and displays at Gavagan Art since 2010. They lived at Horton in Ribblesdale near Settle. Norman Adams R.A. was a professor of painting at the Royal Academy Schools. He was married to artist and poet Anna Adams.

Paintings by both artists are available and also a set of high quality reproduction prints, a selection of images of these can be seen below. The prints are printed on William Turner Fine Art paper 310gsm 100% cotton paper – archival standard. The prints are available framed and unframed.

Samples of work still available from this Exhibition. For more work available by each artist see each artist page.