Exhibitions

The Artist In his Environment
09-05-22 to 25-05-22
Norman Adams 1(927 – 2005) was born in Walthamstow, London. He is known by many as a painter of landscapes. He painted his environment constantly – the Yorkshire Dales, Provence, Italy and the Hebrides. He was however a versatile artist, and in the1950s, designed stage sets and costumes for the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, and for Sadler’s Wells. Other major commissions include: murals for St Anselm’s Church Kennington, London and the commission he considered his major work: The Stations of the Cross, for St Mary’s Church, Mulberry Street, Manchester.
His paintings are in many private and public collections in the United Kingdom, including The Imperial War Museum and The Tate Gallery. His painting at the Tate gallery, is the ever popular large Rainbow painting of 1966. – First Rainbow Painting (Easter Series) 1966. Purchased from the artist in 1969
Read moreI am deeply moved by nature, and all my work is the result of finding myself at one with nature at a particular time. My work is about light, space and probably most of all, time. A particular place (situation) brings me vividly face to face with these elements and then I can only work. Norman Adams writing in 1970 about the painting of a rainbow which he had painted in 1966 on the Island of Scarp.
Previous exhibitions

Nature – A Closer Look
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Norman Adams, Watercolours Four Distinctive Landscapes
15-05-21 to 24-07-21
Norman Adams 1927 - 2005
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Autumn / Winter Exhibitions 2020/21 Various Artists
03-10-20 to 28-02-21
Autumn / Winter Exhibitions 2020/ 2021 - Various Artists. 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.
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Journeys Near And Far
12-02-20 to 08-09-20
While the gallery at the Town Hall is currently closed to visitors, we have put together an online exhibition of the work of four artists: Katharine Holmes, Brian Hindmarch, Christine Leadbetter and Milan Ivanic. In the forthcoming weeks images and information about their work will be sent out in our newsletters. While online images cannot reproduce an actual visit to a gallery if you are interested in discussing a particular artwork please do telephone mobile: 07799797961 or email: info@gavaganart.com The title of the exhibition is one which captures an aspect of the present global situation.
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Milan Ivanič – From the Elbe to the Lune
09-11-19 to 21-12-19
An Exhibition of Drawings Paintings and Sketchbooks. Milan Ivanič is from the former Czechoslovakia. He studied at the Hollar School of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he met Roz, and came to England with her in 1970. He lived and worked in Devon, Sussex, London, and Stockton (California), before settling in the North West of England in 1986.
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The Printed Image
20-04-19 to 01-06-19
This joint exhibition brings together the work of two printmakers, a father and daughter. Kenneth Craddock (1911 - 1989) and Adrienne Craddock. Kenneth's wood engravings and Adrienne's monoprints.
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Broad Horizons – Ceramic Exhibition – Work by James Hake & Edward Hughes
20-10-18 to 22-12-18
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