Deborah Beck

Plasticity Collection

Deborah works from a small studio in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, where she creates sustainable contemporary silver and mixed metal jewellery with an environmental conscience and a clean and distinctive style.

Sustainable contemporary jewellery designs incorporating recycled metals and waste materials. Deborah Beck’s collections have an environmental conscience and a clean and distinctive style. In Plasticity, her latest work, Deborah recycles and reforms entirely by hand the single-use plastic litter she has collected on her daily dog walks along the river Holme. In her Holme Valley studio, she cuts, shapes and refines this repurposed raw material and positions it within sculptural recycled metal structures, creating colourful wearable art pieces that are directly inspired by the straight lines of human industry. Her work responds to pertinent global concerns and the effect of human activity on the planet with dramatic visual references and an urban aesthetic, yet remains ultimately wearable, oscillating in an intriguing interspace between the familiar and the unconventional. Her collections and ‘slow-craft’ practice actively engage with the wider debate surrounding sustainability, notions of preciousness and waste in the design and jewellery industry and the movement towards a circular economy.

Our planet is changing. There is no longer any doubt that human actions are the primary cause.

With our exploding population, transportation networks, agricultural methods, nuclear tests and energy production, our plastics and our cities, we have radically altered the chemical and biological composition of our land, air and water.We have damaged the planet so badly that we are entering a new epoch. The choice is ours whether we change things for the better or worse. What will our legacy be?

 “We have to act. We have to act now to try and clean up some of the appalling damage we have made and that is going to require positive action”                                   

                                                                                                - Sir David Attenborough

Globe Arts Summer Exhibition

An exhibition of works by YOU our creative community

Following the huge success of our 2018 homage to Grayson perry and 2019 homage to Van Gogh Summer Exhibitions, we are very excited and proud this year to be creating a show that pays homage to YOU, our fabulous Creative Community!

Visit us between 10AM - 3PM on Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th or Monday 30th, to see all of the amazing community art on display, including the WOVEN in Kirklees patchworks.

Ella Dawson

My Life is Amazing

Ella Dawson, a local multidisciplinary artist exploring ideas of human existence and experience, exhibits her wide range of contemporary work at the Globe Arts Summer Exhibition 2021. Ella’s work contemplates ideas such as matter, materiality, time, duration, and spatiality, while working intuitively with textile and colour.

Ella expertly develops her own imagery and language of colour through sustained and varied experimental resulting in an ambitious and skilfully produced body of work. Ella combines her affinity of textiles and paint whilst always including her love of drawing and mark making.

Catherine Morris

Catherine is a professional artist whose art has been greatly influenced by her studies in textiles. Consequently she has always been strongly drawn to texture as well as colour in her work.

More recently she moved on to the medium of paint and she now enjoys translating that love of texture into her paintings, layer by layer. She uses a wide range of materials to build up the surface as well as adding numerous layers of colour. She enjoys the process of suggesting half hidden images by continuously covering and revealing, leaving some areas suggested rather than firmly defined. “Whatever subject I am painting I enjoy creating that tension between representation and abstraction” says Catherine,“I like my paintings to be a balance between the definite, the indefinite, opacity and transparency and above all a balance of colours. Colour is my religion and the reason why I paint”.

David McCallam

David McCallam is a native of the Calder Valley and has studied and worked in this deeply historic environment for many years.

David graduated from Bradford College of Art but it is only very recently that he has been able to concentrate on expressing his local landscape through art. Having made this decision David says “it’s uncanny how situations and opportunities have presented themselves – they have found me rather than the other way round.”

David has worked with pastels, acrylic and watercolour in bold expressive ways and practiced in much of England from the far north to Lands End and also in Spain, Germany and Italy. David says “My latest work with the Yorkshire Colourists is my most exciting to date and is the direction I intend to pursue”.

Jacky Rawlins

Born in Holmfirth and presently living in Huddersfield , my family have a long history of farming the local landscape. Their livelihood relied on a deep and intimate understanding of the land, seasons  and the weather conditions.

In my own work I also feel a similar connection when I depict the captivating Yorkshire moorland with its constantly changing light and large dramatic skies. These Pennine spaces with their ancient pathways and hidden sacred places , revered by our ancestors, are the source and inspiration of much of my work.​

Originally I studied drawing and the traditions of oil painting however my time at the Art Academy has introduced me to a broader range of techniques including those a little less conventional.

Working within a group of artists has been both stimulating and challenging ,naturally my work has grown and this I hope ,is just the beginning.

David Preston

Shoreline

I developed my love for photography in my teens after seeing the magic of a print developing in front of my eyes in the darkroom. Like almost everyone else, I have since made the transition to digital photography and have spent many years capturing the landscapes of Yorkshire and Northumberland. Latterly, and partly as a reaction to the now ubiquitous nature of traditional digital photography, I have developed a more abstract approach.

The sea is a recurring theme in my work and these images aim to capture within a photograph, the movement, energy and ever-changing nature of waves and the shoreline.

I came to discover a love for ceramics much later in life, after attending evening classes at Globe Arts. My practice has developed into a precise style of wheel-thrown ceramics, that are enhanced with surface decoration and glazes.

I have made glazes and developed new glaze combinations that capture the same sense of movement and energy as my seascape photography. In combining these glazes on individual pieces my hope is to evoke that place where sea meets sand.

Maggie O’Keeffe

Works on Paper

There's nothing like coming to life class - a shared space filled with stillness, human connection and deep concentration. Life drawing is central to my practice and links back to my very first experiences of discovering myself as an artist. Life drawing is probably the closest I ever get to "flow" or being in the zone. It reminds me why I paint, it helps me recover from blank artless states, and keeps me human.