As leaves blow around the garden and trees sway in the wind, vegetables and fruits are brought home and gardens change shape and colour in the dappled autumnal light.
In this season of change, the Garden Shed Allotments show at the Saltbox Gallery, in Helmsley, celebrates the transition between summer and winter by exploring self-sufficiency and seasonal growth of flowers and vegetables in gardens and on allotments.
Materials have been reused in the making of many of the works on show, not least in the textile work of Emma Gale and Sallie Temple and the jewellery of Gemma Nemer.
Jane Kennelly, from York, and Edinburgh College of Art graduate Elizabeth Walker contribute vegetation, animal and bird drawings; Dorothy Thelwall and Kim Tillyer present embroidery, mosaics and mixed-media work; while Rosemary Abrahams, Steve Whitehead and Paula Zimmerman’s sunny and joyous paintings of gardens, allotments, flowers and animals supply splashes of colour and light.
Ceramics and precious jewellery by Naomi James and Jill Graham and creative felt work and pottery by Andrea Bailey and Elizabeth Bailey are on show too.
“How wonderful is it to bring such a variety of talented artists together in our autumn exhibition,” says gallery co-owner Louise Dwyer.
Garden Shed Allotments runs at the Saltbox Gallery, Castlegate, Helmsley, until November 14.
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