Award-winning Yorkshire artist Claire Baxter is set to open a new gallery in Ilkley next month.
Claire will open her new gallery on Leeds Road on Saturday 1st February 2025.
She opened her first gallery on Pateley Bridge High Street in 2019 and a second in Knaresborough in 2023. The Pateley Bridge gallery was obliged to close last month when the lease on the property expired.
Claire, who works from her home-based studio in Harrogate, said:
“I was really upset to lose the Pateley Bridge Gallery but as the saying goes, as one door closes another one opens, and my disappointment soon turned to excitement when I realised that I had the opportunity of opening a new gallery in Ilkley.
“I love Ilkley and the new premises is just perfect. “I can’t wait to become part of both the local and business communities. I really couldn’t be happier.”
The new Ilkley gallery will stock a wide selection of Claire’s work including original oils, limited edition prints and greetings cards depicting her trademark ‘Proper Yorkshire with Proper Yorkshire Folk with humour never very far away.
The Ilkley gallery will also feature work from her popular fantasy series “The Wonderful World of George and Daphne” including the new “Love Around the World” series, as well as selected glass, ceramics and woodcraft, many produced by independent Yorkshire artists.