We have enjoyed choosing local art for our holiday cottage. Many of the images were purchased from Buxton Spa Prize exhibitions – the annual competition where artists are required to create works by working on the streets in the town during May and June, exhibiting them at the Green Man Gallery in July. The cottage owners have sponsored the prize each year and Roddie was a judge in 2019, as Chair of Vision Buxton. (Kate was on the judging panel for the associated weekend competition ‘ Come Rain or Shine’ in September 2019.)
The photographs of the artwork were taken for this website by Steve Allen of Chrome 35. Click on the thumb nail images to bring up more information about each artwork, including the name of the artist and where we bought it (if we can remember!)
Scriveners on the High Street, by Brian Smith of Sheffield. Painted from the garden in front of the Cheshire Cheese pub, looking down Church Street. Buxton Spa Prize 2019
The Roaches - Simon Quinn Photography, purchased from the Buxton Art & Design Market in October 2004
'See the Peak District' railway poster designed for the London Midland & Scottish Railway. Hassop Station Cafe on the Monsal Trail stocks these.
Buxton Pavilion Gardens - Woodcut by J S Kerr, purchased from the Gallery in the Gardens
Embroidery of Buxton Octagon by Alison Wake. (www.cognissart.co.uk) Limited print (1 of 30). The original was submitted for the Buxton Spa Prize 2019
Moorside by Peter Fees. Acrylic. Purchased in a Buxton cafe-bar, many years ago
Overstones Farm - below Stanage. Large format landscape photograph by Karen Frenkel (karenfrenkel.info)
Watercolour of Fernilee and Errwood Reservoirs in the Goyt Valley. Painted by John Stanley, a former art teacher at Stockport Grammar School, from a lay-by on the Long Hill road between Buxton and Whaley Bridge. In the owners' family for many years.
Hardwick by Takumasa Ono, (takumasaono.co.uk), official artist for the National Trust in 1999. Print purchased from an exhibition at Hanbury Hall in 2017.
'Fog Break' - quirky image of Buxton's Edwardian Opera House by Andrea Joseph. Buxton Spa Prize entry in 2016
Crescent Windows - photograph by Keith Wheeler (www.noisysparrow.com), purchased at an Art & Designer Fair in the Octagon, in the Pavilion Gardens
