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Ceri Allen

January 11, 2018

Elected to the Society 1989 Ceri Allen studied Fine Art Painting at The City & Guilds School of Art , London . She has exhibited widely and her work is represented in public and private collections in the UK and USA.  Collections include Tullie House, Carlisle, St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington and Corpus Christi College, Oxford .  She has been selected for Artist Residencies at University of Cumbria, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Kronstadt, St Petersburg with the NCCA and with ‘Demi-paradise productions’ at Lancaster Castle. She was recently commissioned to produce a painting of Corpus to commemorate  its quincentenary for The Oxford Almanack 2017 www.ceriallen.co.uk           email:  art@ceriallen.co.uk

Christine Baines (Mrs D. Wragg)

January 26, 2018

Elected to the Society 2008  Born in 1958 and lived in Ambleside until moving to Kendal once married. Now living back near Ambleside, at Loughrigg. Self taught artist with no formal training but had a passion for drawing and painting from a very early age. Likes to paint mainly in watercolour and enjoys many and varied subjects - trying to capture the different textures and materials found in a still life or the beautiful landscapes of Lakeland - being a keen fell walker. Elected to be a member of the Lake Artists Society in September 2008 and has been a member of the Ambleside & District Art Society for over 20 years. Loughrigg Foot, Loughrigg, Ambleside, LA22 9HE tel.015394 33105

Marion Bradley

January 12, 2018

Elected to the Society 1983 Marion Bradley was born in Lancashire in 1946. She worked in textile design for six years before moving to Ambleside in 1969. She began landscape painting in oils, followed by detailed studies of flowers and fungi in gouache, then acrylics. She "likes to paint flowers in landscape from a sort of rabbit's eye view, so to speak". Marion is also an honourary member of Lancashire Art Society, and is currently president of the Ambleside Art Society. She has exhibited regularly, with numerous 'one woman' shows. Marion Bradley's work is in many private collections, both in the UK and abroad. Gale House Villa, Low Gale, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 0BB Tel. 015394 33782