CARTMEL GROUND
GALLERY
Spring Exhibition
For spring we have a really lovely exhibition in the gallery, full of lightness and joy and colour with a spotlight on the beautiful work of Sally Bamber.
Alongside her paintings and drawings will be paintings by Janette Phillips, the intriguing little boxes of new artist Jonathan Alden, gallery artists Tina Balmer, Jan Huntley Peace and Rosie Wates, and other Cartmel Ground regulars :
Ceramics by Vicky Eden, John Calver, James Hake, William Plumptre, Karen Wilkinson, Lara Clahane, Joseph Lenartowicz, Hogweed
Jewellery by Annie Sherburne, Nisha Halo, Sally Moon, Joy Fox
Textiles by Susan Deakin, Kate Morrison and Deborah Dawn
Hand turned lamps and beautiful paper, linen and painted shades by Sarah Lock
Paintings by Jo Lamb, Emily Jolley
Prints by Richard Foster
Colette Bain, Christian Funnell, Cumbria Crystal
If you are interested in purchasing anything from our current exhibition or from any of our artists, please contact us via the Contact page, or ring us on 07793 200542 (Rosie), 07554 957525 (Jan) or 07423 059452 (Tina). Payment can be made by SumUp (credit or debit cards). We can deliver locally, arrange to be at the gallery for work to be collected, or post your purchases to you.
'I carry my light within me'
a few words by Sally Bamber about her work
I did 30 years of full-on city life in London, then came back to the countryside 18 years ago, to allow myself to paint, but still it remained evenings and weekends, oils and grand ideas, portraiture, always charcoal, then watercolour and the patience and stillness of plants for subject matter.
From tight drawings to looser masking and painting, showing the flowers in my garden at Natterjacks in 2010. The Energy of Flowers at Brantwood in 2015, with the subtext of suspend disbelief, sitting in the field and gardens to draw, quietly with nature, and nature comes to me as slow worms pop their heads out to see whose sitting there so long, butterflies land and beetles walk calmly across my paper. Then to working with Medical Herbalist Sarah Atkinson to create Herbal Chronicles, which we launched at Brantwood in 2021, and a new outlook on life.
During the last five years of ‘births’ my mind and body have been challenged. Working with our architect son Joe Bamber we have built ourselves a stunning home in a beautiful environment with amazing neighbours, we named the house Speckled Wood after the common butterfly prevalent in Witherslack, this is my sanctuary. My daughter Megan with her partner Luke have brought three fabulous children into this world and our son Joe delivered his own son in February this year. My status in this world evolved!
What you have here at Cartmel Ground Gallery is elements from these years.
What I am working on now is the Speckled Wood garden as it takes shape and burst from the building and construction yard it was for five years! The garden enables me to step out of the shadows into the sunshine, to step forward in strength and illuminate the path ahead for myself and this I love.