Artists

Jacqui Barnes

Hello! I’m Jacqui Barnes, aka. the quilt lady. I've been making quilts and quilted items for 30 years and have loved every minute. My philosophy is to use every scrap of fabric - I never throw anything away - I make quilts, bags, keyrings and wall hangings, and as the pieces get smaller, the items get smaller until the tiny pieces become bunting on my handmade applique cards

Venue: Staithes Museum

Medium: Applique & Quilting

Beehive Beauty

A beekeeper for over 20 years I promote the benefits of bee products by selling honey at local events and by giving talks. I make a range of face and body care products using honey, beeswax and natural ingredients. I also produce beeswax blocks, handmade soaps, solid shampoos and body scrubs.

Venue: Staithes Museum

Medium: Artisan Beekeeper

Fran Brammer

Fran has always played with cloth, loving its variety, physicality and versatility . After a digression into Art and Design education she has rediscovered freehand machine stitching allowing her to draw freely onto the fabric creating images to share personal experiences and histories of familiar landscapes. The images are made using found or salvaged fabrics, by building up multiple layers, then cutting them away revealing forgotten surfaces,colours,edges and textures. Fran lives and works in York, producing work for commission, sale and exhibition individually or with the York Textile Artists, hosting private workshops and for the Viking Loom Ltd.

Venue: The Old Chapel, High St, Staithes. TS13 5BQ

Medium: Textiles

Lacey Brown

I am an artist based in Whitby, I work from my garden studio and workshop. I enjoy experimenting with a variety of mediums, though I love using natural materials like wool for my pet portraits and wood for crafting decorative homeware and furniture. While I'm more known for my needle-felted pet portraits, I also enjoy creating art and giftware inspired by the local surroundings. Drawing my inspiration from Whitby’s sea and moors. These elements can be seen in my handcrafted wooden pieces, where i combine my love for illustrative designs in hand-burning images of local wildlife. I work on pet portrait commissions as a 2D needle felted image and also work in 3D.

Venue: St.Peters Centre, church street, Staithes

Medium: Needle felt/ Pyrography

Ian Burdall

I paint in oils and draw with pastels and charcoal. My subject matter is mainly coastal concentrating on the east coast between the Humber and the Tees. I have however started to draw inspiration from shipyards around the world where ships are broken on the shoreline where they are beached. Wherever my subject is it's always based around working people, ships and boats

Venue: Museum Apartment. Above the Staithes Museum.

Medium: Painting and drawing

Ian Burke

Ian Burke was born in Saltburn and grew up in Redcar. Having gained a Fine Art degree he studied at Goldsmith's College in London. He then taught Art at schools including Queen Catherine's School, Kendal, Barnard Castle School and Rugby School before moving the Eton College to take up the post of Drawing Master, always dividing his time between Berkshire and his home in the North- East. He lived for four years in Staithes before moving inland onto the North York Moors. After twenty years of teaching at Eton Ian returned home for good in December 2021. Ian has always produced his own work alongside his teaching vocation. He has exhibited widely including presenting one man shows at Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk and Aldeburgh Contemporary in Suffolk. He has had a painting and many prints selected for the Royal Academy Summer Shows.

Venue: The Old Sunday School, Wesleyan Chapel

Medium: Relief print maker

Heather Burton

Award winning painter specialising in palette knife work using acrylics on canvas. Landscapes, seascapes, figurative, animals and still life

Venue: Hillside, High Barrass, Staithes

Medium: Palette Knife Painter

Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage