Our ‘Art in the Park’ display is in the centre of the park, with a few additional pieces on display in the cafe.
The 2022 theme of ‘Wild Rowntree Park’ invited local artists to submit pieces of work that celebrate wild aspects of the park. Despite being an urban park close to the city centre, there is a vast amount of biodiversity. Our volunteers, who care for specific areas of the park and we fund, are focused on helping pollinators, using more native planting where possible, and also considering low maintenance and flood resilient planting. We are also developing a new ‘Wildlife Area’ toward the Butcher Terrace side of the park that will include a pond, bog garden, orchard, wildflower meadow, and more. We welcome people to get involved in this community project (or any of our volunteer opportunities).
Some of the artwork on display will be available to purchase. Many of the artists have kindly agreed we can sell items using their art including such as notecards, prints, and calendars – any profit raised goes back into our charity who help maintain and improve the park.
Keep an eye on this page for details of what we will have for sale. We are likely to be selling items in the lead up to Christmas both online (with local pick up preferred but postage will be available) and via occasional stalls in the cafe.
If you are interested in specific pieces, it is worth dropping us a line with some info as we will only be printing some of the art and your views may help influence this – hello@rowntreepark.org.uk
In addition to the 2022 Art in the Park display, we have some limited edition prints from the Centenary Art in the Park display that was previously in the park (below). These are currently available as A4 prints and notecards.
Art work on this page:
Top – Nicola Harper
Middle left to right – Adele Karmazyn, Fiona Kemp, Trish Fletcher
Bottom – Adele Karmazyn, Helen Atkinson, Guy Ruston
Artists featured in Art in the Park 2022:
| Wozzop | Friends of Rowntree Park | Digital Composite |
| Donna Maria Taylor | “Through the trees – Rowntree Park” | Acrylic on board |
| Jane Duke | Winter Light | Linoprint |
| Guy Ruston | Wildelic | Digital illustration |
| Trish Fletcher | The Magical Pond | Mixed Media |
| Fiona Kemp | Tranquillity | A3 Ink drawing |
| Christine Welham | Drake on Mercury’s Water | Watercolour painting |
| Carolyn Coles | If You Go Down To The Woods | Plein air, acrylic on canvas board |
| Richard Garnham | Hedgehog in the wild | Acrylic |
| Jo Yeates | Golden Fields | Mixed media: paper paint and stitch |
| Afton | God Save the Queen Bee | Neo-expressionism |
| Emily Humphreys | A wild whimsy | Acrylic on Canvas |
| Mandi Grant | Colourful Capers | Acrylic on Canvas |
| Nicola Harper | Lunch by the lake | Free machine embroidery, appliqué and acrylic on calico |
| Debbie Watson | Daffodil Days | Acrylic/oil pastel/pen on paper |
| Emma Feneley | The Reading Cafe | Recycled paper collage |
| Rebecca Mason | Clematis in the Park | Original artwork is Batik on cotton |
| John Humphreys | Swan | Acrylic on Canvas |
| Adele Karmazyn | The Boating Lake | Digital Photo Montage |
| Esther Maughan | Park Life | |
| Debbie Watson | Daffodil Days | Acrylic/oil pastel/pen on paper |
| Kate Hignett (Cafe) | Wild Rowntree Park | Linoprint |
| Tanya McClelland (Cafe) | Plants seeds | |
| Emma Frost (Cafe) | Millennium Bridge | Acrylic on Canvas |