With Derbyshire Open Arts taking place in Glossop at the end of May, we take a look at three more artists from the area taking part. These three artists will all be exhibiting at Victoria Hall from 27th - 29th May.

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Jean Hobson

After graduating from Liverpool College of Art, Jean moved to Scarborough where she taught, had two children, ran a small hotel, played in a R'n'B band while painting and exhibiting her work nationally.

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Since moving to Glossop to concentrate on painting full time, Jean has exhibited her work in many exhibitions in Great Britain, Ireland, Germany and the U.S.A.

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For the past fifteen years, Jean has been recording through her paintings, screen prints and drawings, the amazing changes taking place in Manchester as it evolves from its nineteenth century industrial past to emerge as a vibrant, modern 21st century city.

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Jean’s current work is now more focused on the recreational aspects of Manchester. She is working on a series of paintings and drawings that look towards the beautiful green areas and parks within the city and the dramatic landscape that surrounds it.

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Heather Jones

Heather Jones is a mixed media Artist living and working in Hadfield in the Dark Peak. Her work is often multi-layered and she creates fictional landscapes which often feature figurative elements such as faces and people. She sells originals, prints, original cards and tote bags featuring her designs.

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She includes printed/painted elements, photos and cut-outs from a variety of sources in her pieces to create vibrant, thought-provoking pieces.

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Although not immediately obvious to the viewer her work includes her photographs which are taken in and around the landscape in which she lives. She is interested in the minutiae of her environment such as textured bark, lichen on rocks and the frothy patterns on the dark brown streams of the Peak District and she photographs these on her phone, prints them and collages them into her pieces. Her work is all produced in an analogue way without any digital input.

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Heather works in a very free-flowing and organic way and often doesn't have an end product in mind when she begins a piece; she is led by the materials and what they suggest to her. For example a discarded piece of collage material by its shape and colour will inspire ideas and the creative process will begin and Heather describes much of her work as emerging from a "happy accident".

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Heather's work has a distinctive style and yet every piece is unique. Her pieces are vibrant, bold, experimental and not constrained by convention and they challenge the viewer to form their own interpretation.

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Helen Cunliffe

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Using a variety of hand building techniques, Helen makes both functional and decorative works in ceramics.  Stoneware and porcelain is textured and oxides, slips and glazes are used to decorate.

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Find out more at https://www.derbyshireopenarts.co.uk/artists

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