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Eden Valley Artistic Network (EVAN) develops & promotes local artistic talent in the Eden Valley & north & west Cumbria.

Visit EVAN's gallery & studios at Corney Place, Penrith CA11 7PX. An exhibition space, Gallery 4a, is available for hire next door. EVAN holds a number of exhibitions & events during the year at the gallery & studios in Penrith, & at other venues around Cumbria.

26/02/2025

EVAN member Helen Alice Johnson is a Cumbria-based artist creating nature-inspired contemporary landscape paintings and offering online art classes that explore the harmony between people and nature. She lives and works between Alston in the North Pennines and Les Chapelles in the Pays de la Loire, Northern France. Helen has an optimistic approach to life and this is evident in her celebratory landscapes. https://buff.ly/41ww2cQ

25/02/2025

This Saturday morning at 10.00 you're warmly invited to our EVAN members Gallery Northwest in Brampton where at their Open morning you can view works by fellow member Tom Adams and Helen Alice Johnson. Come and talk to the artists and enjoy the available refreshments.

Their exhibitions runs from 1 March until Tuesday 15 April. Check times and opening days here https://buff.ly/41g2Wxj

24/02/2025

Ruth Wharton works in the working and worked landscapes of the Pennines, drawing in charcoal or graphite and painting in oils on site, allowing a spontaneous and honest approach with direct observation and space for intuition to flow. The subject is often not pre-planned, but come upon while walking, biking, or driving if too distant from Ruth's home near Appleby.

In her work, lines enclose land under the open fell, quarries scar the hill, water channelled for forgotten purpose at the old mine, floods transform the familiar scene, storm blown trees bend sideways, the fields a vivid monochrome green. This is a damaged and poignant beauty: silence has overtaken the noise of industry, witness to our transitory lives. Peatlands and rivers, peewits and curlews: within its beauty, this landscape cautions for the future. Ruth hopes her art reflects our need to inhabit our landscapes with care. See more of her work here https://buff.ly/4blELSz

23/02/2025

In her studio in Gilcrux, West Cumbria, EVAN member stained glass artist Nikki Clark uses traditional skills that haven’t changed much since Medieval times. All her work is hand-crafted, thoughtfully designed and well made. As well as commissioned pieces, she carries out repairs and restoration work as part of this heritage craft. Nikki welcomes commissions to make stained glass windows for private homes and buildings, as well as smaller bespoke panels for special occasions.

Nikki Clark Glass uses different techniques to embellish and bring interest to her work, from hand painting and leadwork to copper foiling and making her own kiln formed fused glass pieces. It’s a magical process and Nikki never gets tired of seeing her designs come to life in such colourful and expressive ways.

Teaching stained glass is a wonderful way to help keep this heritage craft alive and Nikki offers workshops and mentoring programmes that are carefully planned to help and encourage students learn and develop their skills whether they are complete beginners or have more experience.

To find out more about workshops, commissions or to see her work contact Nikki https://buff.ly/4hJe1Oa

22/02/2025

Lynne Frost's first love will always be for the moorland landscapes of Northern England, particularly those in her native North West and Cumbria. She is an ardent walker in all weathers and aims to capture in her sketch book those special moments that all of us walkers chance upon. She usually sketches in either charcoal or watercolour, and her sketches later form the basis of studio works in mixed media. Quite often, she actually like the original sketch best, capturing the moment on the hills. Blencathra, near Threlkeld, occupies a special place in her affections, facing it as she does from her living room window.

Like all our members Lynne Frost has a dedicated page on our website exhibiting her art and giving details of how to contact her to find out more https://buff.ly/41i7gNE - our website is a great way to browse information about all of our members and their work.

21/02/2025

Cezary Flak is a young artist based in the Eden Valley who has been interested in oil painting from a young age where in Dumfries and Galloway he was inspired by his first artistic mentors and the 'Scottish Riviera'. Since moving to the Lake District to study his style has developed into a more free flowing and abstract feel for landscapes, while following his interest in realism for portraiture.

You can find Cezary's work in the EVAN Gallery in Penrith, where many of our members exhibit their work, and he also welcomes commissions.

20/02/2025

Nichola Connell is an EVAN member specialising in pet portraits. She escaped living in the bright lights of inner-city London over a decade ago and has never looked back. She has been an animal lover all her life, with her first business aged 14 being dog walking for her family's friends and neighbours. She has owned many cats and a dog and spent a lot of time riding as well as mucking out horses. Whilst living in London she spent 5 years as a volunteer for a Wildlife Trust https://buff.ly/4b4cOOS., caring for all sorts of British Wildlife. She is a member of the Keswick Society of Art, and also volunteers to support and help raise funds for The Penrith & District Red Squirrel Group (PDRSG). Proceeds from the sales of her paintings of our native Red Squirrels are donated to the group. https://buff.ly/4gMV3EY

Nichola finds herself lucky to be able to spend her time focusing on her passion, which is her love of animals and art. She warmly welcomes commissions of paintings of your furry family members, and is happy to arrange this wherever you are based. To find out more explore her website https://buff.ly/3QnMRAt

19/02/2025

Helen Thornley produces wheel-thrown pottery in the Eden Valley in Cumbria. She works out of her home studio, and also a day a week at Brougham Hall She enjoys making both practical, useful items in stoneware as well as decorative, raku pieces. She particularly values the tactile nature of a finished pot, and aims to make pieces which are as pleasing to the hand as to the eye.

As a swimmer and walker, Helen gets much of her inspiration from being in or around Ullswater, where you'll find her swimmers mugs at Ullswater Swim Place at , as well as and or on her website https://buff.ly/3X2F1jx

18/02/2025

Haydn Morris is a landscape painter working in his studio in Tirril near Penrith. His favourite subjects include the Cumbrian Fells and the Scottish islands, working mainly in oils and watercolours. He welcomes visitors to his gallery by appointment, and you can see Haydn Morris Artist work in the EVAN Gallery in Penrith, the Northern Lights gallery in Keswick and the virtual art gallery Inspired by Ullswater https://buff.ly/3QjTaoL.

These recent works highlight the beauty of Ullswater and the surrounding areas - stunning in winter as in other seasons.

All 📷 Haydn Morris

17/02/2025

Next up in the Eden Valley Touring Network's season of events is on Saturday 22nd February at Skelton Toppin Hall with Pete Garnett followed by Tyan. Doors open at 7pm, admission £8

Pete Garnett is a masterful accordion player, with intricate tunes and harmonies influenced by European and World Music.

Tyan have ‘Exceptional voices blended together in glorious harmonies’ (Unicorn Magazine. Singing together now for 6 years, June Swift and Peter Michael Rowan bring you close harmonies, a double bass, a fiddle, a guitar and a Puerto Rican cuatro, and songs that lean towards Americana whilst nodding at English songwriters and big-screen musicals. Expect boats (of course!), small-town record stores, Chinese horoscopes, convict ship figureheads and dancing as an alternative to capitalism.

15/02/2025

Dawn Johnstone enjoys experimenting with textiles, paints and threads, creating thread painting and textile art. She uses free motion embroidery that creates stitches with a sewing machine that resembles paint strokes.

Dawn works with many different fabrics, but Habotai silk with its smooth texture, strength, yet fine weave is her favourite. She also enjoys marbleing on fabrics and she finds applying paint a slow, relaxing, measured process that creates a beautiful soft background. In contrast to painting, free motion embroidery is a much livelier process where she moves her fabric around, painting with many coloured threads giving beautiful detail, texture and depth to her work.

14/02/2025

Valentine's flowers for everyone who supports us - who visit the Gallery, come to the Open Studios (coming up again for this year in Spring and Autumn), who buy our work, come to our events, enjoy our music, read our poems, wear our textiles, adorn their walls with our photographs, and decorate their homes and gardens with our sculptures, glass and ceramics.
Pop into the EVAN Gallery this weekend and be inspired. Open every week Monday to Saturday 10-4.

Wet felted flower textile art by See more of her work here https://buff.ly/3KFB2ms

13/02/2025

Take your loved one this Saturday night on Valentine's weekend (or come on your own) to EVTN's concert at Langwathby Village Hall where you'll hear Pete Moran and Briar and Bramble. Admission £8, doors open at 7pm.

Pete Moran is a Penrith-based musician writing and playing folk-flavoured songs and a few tunes too - mainly on acoustic guitar, but the 'dark side' of electric occasionally calls! Pete has played with local groups Errant Thieves and Green Man's Apprentice and has taken part in many EVAN gigs and projects including Beneath the Beacon.

Briar and Bramble are Mike Turnbull and Kate Hewson based in Kendal. Mike is a multi-instrumentalist who has the knack for writing well crafted songs with a story to tell. With his trademark tenor guitar, Mike's influences are taken from the Lakes, across the UK and beyond. With Kate on the mandolin and Shruti box, the Briar and Bramble sound and style is original modern folk ranging from melodic ballads to more upbeat styles.

12/02/2025

This Saturday 15th February BlueJam Arts CIC are hosting an Open Day from 2-6pm. There will be an art exhibition, painting, food and live music - it's free and everyone is welcome.

The schedule for the day:
2-6pm - drop-in painting for all, as well as art for sale by Joanna, Yulia, Olha and Alina. We will warmly invite you to join us in painting the flag of your country or the flag of a place you dream of visiting.
2.30pm: Family Jam (music for under 5s and their grown ups)
3.30pm: Try an instrument - all ages!
5:00pm: Ribbon cutting and Street Beats performance
There will also be a performance from the Folk Group on the day (time TBC).

11/02/2025

A sneak peek of ASH (Artists Shepherds Hut) - it's looking good!

It's being built near Alston and when it's ready later in the spring it will be used as an exhibition space, performance space, music stage, wildlife hide, creative meeting place and a 'artist in residence' space where our artists can work, meet, and connect with our communities across the Eden Valley. Our aim is that it will also be available for community groups, and for hire to promote the arts at festivals and shows.

EVAN are able to develop ASH thanks to a grant from the Westmorland and Furness Authority’s Thrive with Arts, Culture and Heritage Programme.

Where would you like to see it visit, and what would you like to find inside?

10/02/2025

For a Valentine's Day treat this Friday night at The Old Courthouse in Shap, Eden Valley Touring Network offers a double bill of Carolyn Francis followed by Briar and Bramble. Booking in advance is advised - via the Courthouse website theoldcourthouse.org , email the Old Courthouse or pop in to speak to one of the volunteers. Doors open 7pm for a 7.30 prompt start. Admission £8.

Renowned Lakeland Fiddler Carolyn Francis has made a career of creating a living, inclusive, culture of traditional music rooted in Cumbria, in particular with Striding Edge Ceilidh band (https://buff.ly/48gw9vb) and The Lakeland Fiddlers (https://buff.ly/415Mcdc). With this solo project she uses a foot pedal to loop and layer these tunes, enhanced with occasional lyrics.

Briar and Bramble are Mike Turnbull and Kate Hewson based in Kendal. Mike is a multi-instrumentalist who has the knack for writing well crafted songs with a story to tell. With his trademark tenor guitar, Mike's influences are taken from the Lakes, across the UK and beyond. With Kate on the mandolin and Shruti box, the Briar and Bramble sound and style is original modern folk ranging from melodic ballads to more upbeat styles.

09/02/2025

Penrith Art Club https://buff.ly/3RWKgP6 has 100 members geographically spread across Cumbria, from the Solway, to Carlisle, the North Pennines into the Eden Valley and Kendal. It is open to all artists and anyone with an interest in art, even if they are not practising art themselves.

The club has an annual programme of events, workshops and demonstrations, and monthly Club nights (free for members), and trips to larger galleries and museums. Non-members are welcome on a pay-per-event basis.

Other club activities include weekly outdoor painting and sketching from May to early October, Life painting and drawing sessions with live male and female models, and portrait drawing which run from October to April. New topics and genres are continually reviewed for addition to our activities and these currently include :- ceramics, photography and film making, printing, plein air landscape days, relief sculpture, textile art, digital art and others as members would like. Whilst art lessons are not provided, we strongly encourage sharing and we have some members who are happy to provide mentoring.

08/02/2025

EVAN Artist Sarah Reid Red Raw Studios creates abstract paintings in pastel, inspired by the atmospheric light and colour of the Cumbrian coastline, the Lake District and the Eden Valley. Sarah is fascinated by the ever changing light upon the landscape and our place within it and aims to capture an emotional response to the scenery. She invites the viewer to explore the scene - drawn in by unexpected hints of light and colour, strong lines and bold stripes.

You'll often find Sarah in the EVAN Gallery where she's one of the artists who have a working studio there, so if you'd like to find out more or talk to her then the gallery is open Monday to Saturday 10-4 at 4 Corney Place in Penrith. This is just a taste of here work, you can see much more of her work on her website https://buff.ly/4jWeEFV or in the EVAN Gallery.

Address

4 Corney Place
Penrith
CA117PX

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm

Website

http://www.edenvalleyartisticnetwork.co.uk/

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EVAN Open Studios 2022

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