A BRITISH ARTIST’S MIXED-MEDIA PAINTINGS ARE A HIGHLIGHT OF THE SUMMER EXHIBITION AT THE BLACKSMITH’S SHOP GALLERY, YORK

Recently, Cathy Ward,brutjournal’s London-based artist-correspondent, made two trips to York, a city in northern England to the northeast Leeds. First, she took in Educated Vandals, an exhibition presented in an unused office building in York’s downtown district.

Several days later, she returned to the region to see a summertime group exhibition at The Blacksmith’s Shop Gallery in Bishop Wilton, a small town near York.

See last month’s HOME PAGE for Cathy’s report describing those two exhibitions. In the presentation at The Blacksmith’s Shop Gallery, the work of the artist Sally Taylor (Instagram: @_sallytaylor__ especially caught Cathy’s attention, as did the fact that they were made using found pieces of cardboard. Here is her report about Taylor’s mixed-media creations.