Harrogate and Nidderdale Art Club, Spring Exhibition 2025. At Ripley Town Hall.

The Harrogate and Nidderdale Art Club, Spring Exhibition, will be held on 3rd to 5th May 2025 at Ripley Town Hall.  As usual, there will be a wide range of quality paintings, prints and cards by members of the club at this splendid venue.

My pictures will include the completed coloured version of my single continuous line Phormium which I covered in my earlier post of 27 November 2024.  I call it “Phormium in Snow”.  There were also fox tracks passing the phormium, down and back up the garden, which I thought of including.

Phormium in Snow. Mick Burton, continuous line artist.

Another update from that post is that the bees have re-occupied the hole in the lawn. 

There is often a bee arriving and another leaving at the same time.  It is not a quick process!  The one landing may circle around and land a foot away and wander around before working its way through the grass into the hole.  The leaver will crawl out and wander around before flying off at low level.   Of course, when I mow the lawn I have to be careful that they are not coming or going when I go over their area.

And now here is something completely different.

Tsunami Tackles Wildfire. Mick Burton, continuous line artist.

Another new picture is my “Tsunami Tackles Wildfire”.  It combines two Climate Change topics, pitting two extreme situations against each other.        

Spherical Continuous Line Abstract with Colour Sequence.

I started the picture during an Abstract workshop arranged by club Chairman Steve Walmsley.  I told him what the title might be.  I also said that, as President Trump was making all sorts of announcements to change the World, I could call the picture “Trump calls in Tsunami to tackle California Wildfire and if that fails he has Icebergs moored off Greenland he can have towed round.”