The Cank Street Gallery Summer Open Art Exhibition 2018

  

The walls are amass with colour as creativity dazzled around every corner of the Cank Street Gallery at Thursday's Private View.  Hundreds gathered and drank the bar dry by 7.15pm as we arrived!  Tim, Anetha & myself captured a glimpse of the atmosphere on such a fabulous evening.

My entry 'The Globe,' £295

Anetha Hunte & Lizzy Hewitt

Lizzy Hewitt artist

Artist Sue Graham with her landscape

Lizzy Hewitt, Judith Linley & Anetha Hunte

Maryam Naraghi, Lizzy Hewitt & Anethe Hunte

Maryam Naraghi with her daughters

Tim Noakes

Gallery Staff Stefan (left) chats with artist Linda Sharman (2nd from right)

Artists Jim Griffiths (left) and Paul Barrand

Visitors enjoy an extensive selection of artworks

A visitor enjoys a view of 2nd prize winners work,
George Sfougaras for Yiayia (Grandmother)
 (centre)

 

Leicester's Cank Street Gallery Summer Prize Giving, Thursday 8 June 2017

Cank Street Gallery was full to bursting for the occasion

Lizzy Hewitt with artist Louise Ellerington & Bev Hart

Lizzy with Dayle Flude, Cank Street Gallery owner

Max Ewen with Lizzy's watercolour entry, 
Sunbathers, Victoria Park

With Mark Hewitt, Lizzy's brother

Paul Berrand and his work, With Every Hour

Tim Fowler with his entry, Princess Leia

With singer, Anetha Hunt

Lousie Ellerington's, Equine Head Study in Red

Lizzy with Cank Street's Maryam

2016 winner, Christine Johnson-Hume, with this year's entry, on screen, Derry Crows in Flight

With mum, Christine Denoon

Lizzy, Paula Robinson & artist Max Berryman

Sue Graham with her paintings

2017 winner, Signpost at Burnham Deepdale, by Peter Clayton

Sue Graham chats at Leicester's Cank Street Gallery

Sue Graham with her paintings at Leicester's Cank Street Gallery, 22 September 2016

Artist talks are useful and occasionally highly informative events so I was particularly glad to be invited along to a presentation by acclaimed LSA (Leicester Society of Artists) featured artist, Sue Graham.

At Leicester's Cank Street Gallery on 22 September, I discovered that Sue aims to capture light, time and place in her pictures, using Britain's coastline from Norfolk to Cornwall, and in all weather conditions.

Thornham in the Mist by Sue Graham,
oil on paper

Sue paints in oils, an ideal medium to convey mood and demonstrate changes in light. I particularly appreciated her use of the texturing palette knife, and some of her more dramatically dark and moody pictures, which work well, even on a small scale.

To obtain the atmosphere she seeks, Sue sets off very early in the morning to complete at least one picture in a day. Often she uses board instead of canvas, which she says is good for quick work. Sometimes she soaks up the atmosphere before heading to a beach to set up. Once a painting takes off she will stay long into the evening to take advantage of the light and her creative mood.

It was a real pleasure to meet Sue. Check out her recent artworks at sue-graham.co.uk