Portraits Landscapes Abstracts Austonley Art Gallery Contact How to Purchase NEWS Holmfirth Artweek Great News! Sally Elizabeth French is one of the few artists to be selected to display in the main gallery for Holmfirth Artweek 2008. Two original oil paintings by S. E. F. will be on display in the Main Exhibition at Holmfirth Civic Hall. 20% of the sale of each painting will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. www.macmillan.org.uk Opening Times: Sun 6^th July 10am – 5pm, Mon 7^th July 10am – 10pm, Tues 8^th July 10am – 10pm, Wed9^th July 10am – 10pm, Thurs 10^th July 10am – 10pm, Fri 11^th July 10pm – 10pm, Sat 12^th July 10am – 5pm. www.holmfirthartweek.net We are happy to announce to you that RED Hairdressers Station Road Holmfirth is displaying a painting by S.E.F “The Crimson Dawn” The painting may be purchased at the hairdressers. www.redcontemporaryhair.com

Sally Elizabeth French Klimt and Impressionist Style Artist Sally Elizabeth French was born in Yorkshire in the 1960s, educated in Yorkshire and Manchester, gaining a BA degree in The Creative Arts, Fine Art in 1984. (Manchester) Her tutors were Professor S. Jordan and graduates of The Royal College of Art. After travelling in Europe and working as an art teacher in the USA, she returned to her native Yorkshire in 1985 and settled in the ancient market town of Holmfirth, where she is the 6^th generation of her family to live; her great, great, great grand parents lived in Choppards. Here, she developed her decorative picturesque style of landscape and portrait painting, and found she was being approached to undertake commissions. At aged 29, she sold her first major work to a collector from Aberdeen, a portrait of Claire Tyas, titled ‘Nature Woman.’ Producing watercolour sketches en plein air, she returns to the studio to complete a piece in oils. Her philosophy is to create an impact of jewel – like colour as a memory - vision of an image. Decorative, self expressive, her work is inspired by Gustav Klimt and the French Impressionists as well as van Gogh. Some pieces verge into abstractionism, where others convey mysteriousness. Visitors of all ages and from all backgrounds come to view the paintings at Austonley Art Gallery. One recent visitor from Derbyshire said, “If I could afford, I’d buy the whole lot.”

Gallery Open Days Austonley Art Gallery (the gallery of Sally Elizabeth French) will be opening its doors to the public on Friday 13^th June 10am -8pm. All are welcome. Cheese and wine. Entry and parking FREE. Austonley Art Gallery 10 Booth House Austonley Holmfirth West Yorkshire HD9 2QT UK