Painter's not-for-sale abstract stars in art show divided across town

NOT for sale – at any price. During its heyday as a sale room the former Ward Price auction house saw just about everything go under the hammer, including countless pictures.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th May 2010, 03:05 BST
Updated 7th May 2010, 03:06 BST

But a work of art in progress at the former premises in Queen Street, Scarborough – now Crescent Artspace – could never find a buyer because it is being created on the walls.

Scarborough landscape painter Helen Donnelly, from the local Crescent Arts community arts group, is producing the abstract work as part of a new exhibition.

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It means that the opening evening today will be divided between 14-15 Queen Street and the Crescent Art Studios in the Crescent. The opening at Crescent Art Studios will be 5pm to 7pm. Then the party will move to Queen Street from 7pm to 9pm. The exhibition – Helen Donnelly New Work – can then be seen until June 12. The aim of the Queen Street piece is to echo the work she does in the studio on a bigger "canvas".

Ms Donnelly lives and works in Scarborough where she specialises in paintings inspired by the local landscape.

"My aim is to explore the many different ways of expressing the moods and feelings that the landscape evokes by capturing the spatial atmospheric qualities in the shifting movements of light colour and shape," she said.

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