The Riverhead Gallery is open from 10am to 1pm Monday-Saturday (Box Office hours) and during all Theatre performances.
For all enquiries regarding future exhibitions, please contact Gallery manager Geoff Stone - gallery@louthriverheadtheatre.com or 01507 600350 (Box Office hours).
PHIL TETLOW
The featured artist for December at the Riverhead Gallery is PHIL TETLOW.
Phil was born in Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire. He gained a Fine Art Degree from Sheffield Art College followed by further studies at Brighton Art College. He then taught for 28 years in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
LAINY DALZELL
The featured artist for November is LAINY DALZELL.
As an artist living in the historic market town of Louth, Lainy draws inspiration from the local architecture and the vibrant character of her surroundings. Her work captures the essence of familiar streetscapes through a modern lens, using bold colours and geometric abstraction to reimagine the familiar.
Mike Phelps and Tony Player
The joint featured artists for October at the Riverhead Gallery are Mike Phelps and Tony Player.
MIKE PHELPS is a newcomer to art and his work reflects his view of the world. Fun, colourful and quirky reflect his style. He paints in watercolour and in pen & ink and his paintings are of buildings, places and situations.
TONY PLAYER is an artist now based in Lincolnshire, working collaboratively with his local community. Tony has been drawing all his life and his interest and career in architecture and conservation has led him to pursuing his creativity into artistry using different painting techniques.
Glynne Bulman & Richard Glet
The joint featured artists for September are Glynne Bulman and Richard Glet.
Having retired from full-time teaching of art, GLYNNE now concentrates on pursuing her own work, in particular drawing, painting and printmaking as well as curatorial work.
RICHARD has had a love of art and making art since he was very young and it has taken him from a foundation year in Fine Art to a diploma year in oil painting at the Norfolk Painting School.
MARTIN MOYERS
The featured artist for July is MARTIN MOYERS.
Martin has a Fine Art degree and as a post graduate worked mainly in art education. He is a member of the Lincolnshire Artists Society and was recently awarded the Oyler Hayward painting prize by the society.
AVRIL and DAVID MORRIS
The joint featured artists for June are AVRIL and DAVID MORRIS, two of Louth’s pre-eminent artists.
Their return to the Riverhead Gallery features some of Avril’s deliciously “sticky” impasto acrylic flower paintings whilst David is showing two new large Louth street views in his classic and masterful style together with some of his beautifully-considered abstract watercolours.
Kate Boulton
The featured artist for May is KATE BOULTON with an exhibition of ceramic landscapes.
Kate’s practice involves continuous exploration of form, colour and texture with particular emphasis on ceramic materials, and the variability of glaze reactions. Inspired by the natural environments of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, Kate creates abstract versions of the surrounding world using ceramics as her medium.
Geoff Humphreys
The featured exhibitor for April is Cleethorpes-based artist Geoff Humphreys.
Geoff is primarily a landscape painter, who likes to paint ‘en plein air’ in the Lincolnshire Wolds, Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District. He also paints portraits, figures and still life, working mainly in oil and occasionally in watercolour and gouache.
Simon Coster
The featured artist for March is Simon Coster.
As an artist, Lincoln-based Simon likes to use bold, bright colours as well as humour throughout his work. All of his paintings are one-off originals and he never makes copies or prints.
Steve Chapman
The featured gallery artist for January 2024 is Lincolnshire photographer Steve Chapman.
Steve’s journey in photography commenced some twenty years ago triggered by the sale of his professional business. He purchased a camera which provoked an avid interest in photography and a quest to capture moments in time to preserve for future development.
He was fortunate to form an association with the National Trust and over the years has staged twelve exhibitions in various stately homes and other properties.
The January exhibition features a variety of subjects and locations, all displaying Steve’s personal eye for dynamic images.
The Tuesday Art Club
The featured artists for November are the Tuesday Art Club from Humberston.
The club has met for the last five years at Wendover Hall in Humberston. They are a small group of people with varied interests but all getting the same enjoyment from spending a few hours engrossed in making pictures, using a range of media. Their skills are amateur with most members never having exhibited before, although a couple of members have submitted work in local village art exhibitions.
Christine Taylor
The featured artist for October is Christine Taylor.
“I studied industrial design and typography at Dunstable College and went on to work in London design agencies. I then moved to Brighton and became creative director of Choccywoccydoodah, an artistic chocolaterie that featured in several TV series.
Just prior to the pandemic I moved to Alford and rediscovered my love of drawing and illustration. I mainly work in pen and ink on canvas.
My inspiration is my daily life, the woodlands, the Fens, the Wolds, the market towns and the friendly communities of Lincolnshire. There is a wealth of inspiring views, people and architecture here and I have only just discovered it.”
Sarah Allen & Tamsin Hunkin
The featured artists for September are SARAH ALLEN and TAMSIN HUNKIN
Sarah and Tamsin met at the Big Skies Arts Festival, hosted here at the Riverhead Theatre last year.
Tamsin had submitted her first fabric collage to the exhibition that Sarah was curating. They realised that they were both entering / re-entering into arts practice in a similar tentative way and they challenged one another to aim for a shared exhibition. This is the result!
Lainy Dalzell
Lainy is an artist and musician from Yorkshire who now lives in Louth.
Before painting any subject, Lainy prepares an abstract canvas. She makes many different marks, often with found objects and other unusual tools, using only a few colours.
The subject, be it person, animal or place, is allowed to live within the abstract background without obscuring it. Using the same limited colour palette, both subject and background merge organically together to tell the story.
Martin Moyers
“A number of the paintings on show are some thirty or forty years old, made at a time when I was teaching Fine Art full time. They are based on encounters with people and places, and in a way make permanent all that is impermanent. There is a kind of objectivity about them painted in a representational and traditional manner.
More recent paintings such as Woodmans Cottage, Bag Enderby and Park House, Hagworthingham are acknowledgments to living and walking in the Wolds. They are responses to places at particular moments in time, abstracting and representing feelings and memories, and attempting to capture a sense of place.”
Richard Glet
Originally from Yorkshire but resident in Lincolnshire for seventeen years, Richard has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. Largely self-taught but with a foundation year in Fine Art, he more recently completed a year-long diploma in oil painting at the Norfolk Painting School.
Curiosity is central to his work and he likes to paint quickly and to create something that is fresh, arresting and alive. Oil paint is his preferred medium but he also occasionally likes to use acrylics, watercolour and mixed media. This is Richard’s first solo exhibition in Louth and he has therefore included a varied mix of landscapes, florals and portraits to show the range of subjects he tackles.
Anne Harris
“I am a Lancashire Lass whose home for the last 27 years has been Lovely Louth. I was allowed to pass my O-Level Art at the age of 12 years and then left doing art altogether. I started painting again many years later.
I love the challenge of trying to capture a scene on board, canvas or paper, with acrylic or watercolour paint. I especially enjoy doing small and miniature paintings. I try and paint every day in my compact and messy studio and would much rather paint than do anything else.”
Claire Fort
Claire says “I grew up in the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds, surrounded by wildlife, inspiring my love of nature and my passion for horses, which were always around me.
Although I loved painting, I never had any formal art training, studying instead to be a nurse, and when the opportunity arose I took up painting again, turning to watercolours.
I am kept busy with commissions, which often challenge me to do something different.”
Wendy Ronaldson
Wendy says “I am an experimental artist who works with any medium to reach an end goal, whatever that might be. This body of work in acrylics is worked on box canvases and explores nature, delicacy and detail, questioning perfectionism.
I explore line, form and colour using different techniques giving me a sense of “am I good enough?” I love the bright bold colours, minimalistic style and variety of line work which has slowly begun to emerge in my work.”