Art at the 19th
Exhibition Morecambe Golf Club
Society members, Norman
Shadwell, Roger Salmon and Stuart McDade are also golfers and they got a chance to showcase their artistic talent with a small exhibition at Morecambe Golf Club. They came together for this special
event to help raise funds for St John’s Hospice.
Norman
has had a life-long interest in art, but began studying painting in 1979 with
Ray Schofield at evening classes at Morecambe College and then later with Chris
Stephens at White Cross. At first he concentrated on watercolours – still his
favourite medium – but later began using oils with Martin Greenland’s guidance
at Lancaster and District Art Society.
More recently e has added acrylics to his portfolio.
Norman
used to race dinghies and his love of boats and coastal areas is reflected in
many of his paintings. Both Lancaster
City and Maritime Museums have Norman’s paintings in their permanent
collections.
Roger,
a semi-retired vet, has been an artist for more than 20 years and like Norman
he started out as a water colourist.
These days he concentrates on oils, a medium he feels can help him be
more expressive. He also studies under
Martin Greenland.
Roger’s
paintings and style vary from the realistic to the impressionistic, helping
create varying feelings of peace and tranquillity or fear and trepidation. Many
of his works have been inspired by the countryside around the Lake District and
Morecambe Bay.
Stuart
McDade is a Lancastrian born and bred and this is reflected in his paintings in
which he has tried to capture the beauty surrounding Lancaster and
Morecambe. It was whilst working for the
Department of the Environment in Manchester that Stuart first developed a love
of art, studying at evening classes.
He
continued those studies locally again under the influence of Ray Schofield and
these days oil paints have taken over from acrylics and water colours and
landscapes and buildings are his special interest.
