Art Café Autumn Showcase in Buxton: 2018

Archive: the Art Café Autumn Showcase was advertised for 3 September to 4 November 2018.

Art Café Autumn Showcase

The 2018 Autumn Showcase featured landscapes, local scenes, wildlife, flora and fauna, ceramics and other work by High Peak Artists.

The exhibition was advertised for 3 September to 4 November 2018, with artwork available to buy at the time.

The Art Café benefits from beautiful natural light and it’s location inside the Pavilion Gardens gives visitors a distinctive experience to enjoy and browse original art as well as a chance to enjoy lunch here, a stroll through the Victorian gardens or a visit to the groups’ permanent exhibition – Gallery in the Gardens – inside the Gift Boutique.

Printmaker Jill Kerr presented work on trees, tractors and boats, with original drawings, lino blocks and finished linocuts.

Art Café Autumn Showcase — Work by artist Jill Kerr.

Maureen Howard showed pencil drawings and watercolours of flora and fauna.

Simon Denvers exhibited geometric placemats and boxed sets of four coasters in walnut veneer.

Ceramic artist Karin Findell exhibited brooches, rings, pins, trinket dishes and framed ceramic flowers.

Kathy MacMillan showed oil paintings of local buildings and landscapes.

Jeweller and musician Jenny Conway showed copper-etched artworks.

Richard and Joyce Prime showed paintings and etchings of wildlife.

Jan Butcher showed framed colour photographs, and John Mellor showed paintings of local landscapes and canal life.

About the Art Café

For current information about High Peak Artists, visit Gallery in the Gardens.

The 2018 article listed earlier Art Café exhibitions including Derbyshire H2O and Natures Patterns. High Peak Artists continues to run exhibitions in its Art Café and gallery.

Who are High Peak Artists?

The original article dated the group’s beginnings to 1996. High Peak Artists says the association was formed in 1998, with its first venue at Buxton’s Pump Room.

The group moved from the Pump Room to Gallery in the Gardens at Pavilion Gardens in March 2009.

The 2018 article reported 43 members working in disciplines including painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture, glass, wood, textiles and jewellery.

High Peak Artists currently says its membership waiting list is closed; see the group’s website for updates.