Silk paintings of Dales scenes by Christine Carradice

21st May – 30th July 2016. Silk paintings of Yorkshire Dales scenes by local artist Christine Carradice.

Christine is a silk painter and textile artist based in Settle.

Her painting is inspired by the beautiful countryside of the Yorkshire Dales – the limestone crags, green fields, drystone walls, barns, farmhouses and flowers.

The Three Peaks of Pen-y-Ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside, from different viewpoints, all feature prominently in her work.

Christine’s pictures never have people in them. She prefers her work to show familiar scenes as places of calm and solitude just at the quiet time before people arrive and the day’s activities begin. She does, however, like to include buildings in some of her work. These pictures aim to show the last small influence of people on the landscape before the countryside opens out and the hills rise up.

A preview of the exhibition appeared in the Craven Herald on 19 May Silk paintings by local artist

Art and the world of cycling

April 16  to May 20 2016: To mark the visit of the Tour de Yorkshire to Settle on 29 April 2016, the Gallery on the Green  staged a special exhibition looking at the links between art and the world of cycling. It began with the early days of cycling – featuring a little known work by science fiction writer HG Wells about a cycling adventure. The main attraction was a collection of postcards – showing both the variety of bike designs and the use of the bicycle in advertising and various art forms. We  also included iconic posters from around the world.  The exhibition was supported by Settle Town Council.  See also  Tour de Yorkshire  The exhibition was featured in the Craven Herald on April 14.Craven Herald 14 April

One of the illustrations from

Wheels of Chance – courtesy of the

British Library

Perspectives by Settle College School

19th March – 15th April 2016. Settle College art students present their perspectives on thoughts and feelings, a celebration of the role of art in the development of individual identities.

Talking Across Our Generations

Talking Across Our Generations was the title of the Gallery on the Green’s first exhibition of 2016.

Running from January 16 through to March 19, the exhibition was based on the work of Settle Girls’ Group, a group of girls from Settle College aged between 11 and 14, who, over the previous few months, had interviewed almost 100 women.

The oldest interviewee was born in 1921 and the youngest in 2005. Although all now live in this area many were born and brought up in different parts of the world, a point illustrated by a globe that forms part of the exhibition.

Each interviewee was asked a series of questions about their lives and their schooling.

From this the girls have drawn conclusions about the changing worlds of work, school, leisure, shopping and fashion.

The book of interviews forms the core of the exhibition, but there are also cuttings, quotes and original photographs to show how we have moved on from a world of uncomfortable clothes, limited work opportunities and a need to shop every day.

Previous projects undertaken by the girls’ group include working with a musician to create a song in day – and details of this are also included in the exhibition book

Treasure Island by Settle Flagmakers

28th November 2015 – 12th January 2016.  The brilliant (in both senses of the word) Settle Flagmakers paid their annual visit to the gallery with a reprise of the 2012 Exhibition Treasure Island. For mid-winter the gallery played host to the warmth of a tropical island with flags and a display to warm the darkest winter day in the dales.

There was treasure a plenty in the gallery – together with other images from the tropics – all produced by this talented local group.

Visitors came along and marvelled at the knitted parrot, saw Settle’s only palm tree and helped  themselves to a small portion of the chocolate pieces of eight. As one visitor said: “I don’t know much about art but I like chocolate”.