BURY ART SOCIETY 2025 ANNUAL EXHIBITION

AWARD WINNERS

Millennium Award - Best in Show: Malcolm Lucas ‘Denise’
Tommy Valentine Landscape Award: Andrew Clark ‘Plein Air, Gull Crag Dunstanburgh’
David Swithenbank Foreign Painting Award: Anna Hiley ‘Cork Oaks in Portugal’
Mary Edyvean Flower Painting Award Judith Church  ‘Cabbage White’
Life Image Award: Peter Jones ‘Pigeon’
Derek White Contemporary Painting Prize Gill Pollitt ‘Searching For The Light’

Highly Commended Gill Pollitt ‘Roughead Rabbit’
Steve Roberts ‘Memorial Park’
Catherine Shield ‘Hoarfrost’
Judy Turner ‘Harmony’

Commended Glynn Banard ‘Trees of Distinction’
Peggy Hargreaves ‘High and Dry’
Janet Raisi-Varzaneh ‘”Alice” – Tea Party’
Amber Smith ‘A Day Out at Burrs’

Bury Art Society Annual Exhibition 2025 23 August – 18 October 2025
Numerical list:
no. artist title medium price
1 Glynn Barnard Looking Towards Iona Watercolour £295.00
2 Steve Whittaker Between A Rock and A Hard Place Acrylic on canvas NFS
3 Peter Jones All Saints Church (Whitefield) Lino collage NFS
4 Janet Raisi-Varzaneh Moonglow Watercolour pencils £46.00
5 Neil McClung Ice Cream Oil on canvas NFS
6 Gill Pilkington Force of Nature Pastel £185.00
7 Barbara Harding Springtime at Wastwater Mixed media £200.00
8 Anne Sugden Looking Towards Silverdale Shore, Oil £80

Lancashire

9 Andrew Clark Plein Air - Worbarrow Bay, Tyneham Pastel £75.00
10 Janet Raisi-Varzaneh Arnside Watercolour £96.00
11 Geoff Saunders Perambulations Relief panel - found objects with £80.00

aluminium

12 Judith Church May Queen Pastel £95.00
13 Kathleen Bowers Snowy Morning, Holcombe Hill Acrylic £70.00
14 Catherine Shield Dancing Skies, Hawkshaw Soft pastel NFS
15 Phil Raynes Evening Light Oil £200.00
16 Geoff Saunders Crate. Global. Pays Linoprint £105.00
17 Malcolm Lucas Peel Tower at Sunset Watercolour £65.00
18 Andrew Clark Plein Air - Cockermouth Castle Pastel £75.00
19 Anna Hiley Birchforest in Catalonia, Spain Coloured pencils and watercolour £105.00
20 Barbara Harding The Yorkshire Dales Mixed media £400.00
21 Anne Sugden Little Langdale Valley, Lake District Oil £80.00
22 Catherine Shield The Fate of Ophelia Colour pencil NFS
23 Geraldine Hay Xhosa Headdress Media mixed £30.00
24 Judy Turner Rosie: Queen of Sheba Mixed media £150.00

no. artist title medium price
25 Leona Whittle James Ballpoint pen NFS
26 Leona Whittle Precious Ballpoint pen NFS
27 Norman Miller Moraito, Chico II Oil NFS
28 Mike Standbridge Billie Holiday Oil NFS
29 Neil McClung Ellery Oil on canvas NFS
30 Steve Whittaker Early Morning Tranquillity in Kettlewell Acrylic on canvas NFS
31 Jackie Heaton Investment Opportunity Pen and brusho £45.00
32 Geraldine Hay Black Rock Cottage Collage NFS
33 Pam Stone The Torrent Walk – Dolgellau Oils £140.00
34 Peggy Hargreaves Fruits of Autumn Watercolour £75.00
35 Pam Stone Camelias Watercolour £80.00
36 Pam Stone Rydal Water (Lakes) Oils £85.00
37 Malcolm Lucas Malam Cove Acrylic £250.00
38 Kathleen Bowers Three Little Birds Watercolour NFS
39 Jackie Heaton Hare in Summer Pen and brusho £35.00
40 Jackie Heaton Fox in Spring Pen and brusho £35.00
41 Shyamal K Sarkar Robotic Cat Original print from a collagraph £150.00
42 Christine Hall Dawn Over the Fells Mixed media £70.00
43 Ranjana Rani In Conversation Clay £80.00
44 Janet Raisi-Varzaneh Ceramic Jug Earthenware (ceramic) £20.00
45 Glynn Banard Trees of Distinction *Commended Acrylic £375.00
46 Steve Roberts Memorial Park *Highly Commended Pen and watercolour NFS
47 Gill Pollitt Roughead Rabbit *Highly Commended Pen on paper £140.00
48 Catherine Shield Hoarfrost *Highly Commended Soft pastel NFS
49 Andrew Clark Plein Air - Gull Crag, Dunstanburgh Pastel NFS

*Tommy Valentine Landscape Award

50 Judith Church Cabbage White *Mary Edyvean Pastel £95.00

Flower Painting Award

51 Malcolm Lucas Denise *Millennium Award - Best in Show Acrylic on canvas £250.00

no. artist title medium price
52 Peter Jones Pigeon *Life Image Award Lino collage NFS
53 Anna Hiley Cork Oaks in Portugal *David Coloured pencils NFS

Swithenbank Foreign Painting Award

54 Gill Pollitt Searching for the Light *Derek White Pen on paper NFS

Contemporary Painting Award

55 Peggy Hargreaves High and Dry *Commended Pen and ink £85.00
56 Janet Raisi-Varzaneh "Alice" - Tea Party *Commended Drawing on dyed fabric £150.00

and embroidery

57 Judy Turner Harmony *Highly Commended Soft pastel £130.00
58 Amber Smith A Day Out at Burrs *Commended Oil on canvas NFS
59 Janice Sarkar Boatagenic Acrylic £150.00
60 Alison Adams Boat Sheds at Lindisfarne Watercolour £65.00
61 Steve Whittaker The Storm Draws Ever Closer Acrylic on canvas NFS
62 Janet Brady Seachange, Gower Inks £175.00
63 Shyamal K Sarkar Sketched in Amsterdam Original print from a drypoint etch £200.00

During Annual Holiday

64 Glynn Barnard Sunlight on Fistral Bay Watercolour £250.00
65 Peter Jones Swan Lino collage NFS
66 Ranjana Rani City at Night Acrylic £180.00
67 Ilham Boudrez Dignity Oil on canvas £100.00
68 Gill Pollitt Swan Watercolour and pen on paper £130.00
69 Norman Miller Backstreet Manchester Acrylic NFS
70 Barbara Harding Cottage in the Glen Mixed media £150.00
71 Kathleen Bowers Earl of Berkeley Watercolour £65.00
72 Christine Hall Summer Symphony Mixed media £100.00
73 Anne Sugden Mykonos Oil £100.00
74 Peter Lewis A View From a Café Oil £60.00
75 Anna Hiley Red Tulips Coloured pencil £95.00
76 Peggy Hargreaves Magnolia Blossom Coloured pencil £50.00
77 Peter Lewis Still Standing Oil £60.00

no. artist title medium price
78 Geoff Saunders Kicked. Taker. Ruler Collagraph £75.00
79 Hazel Dunkley Until Next Year Mixed media £46.00
80 Gill Holt Rhododendrons Watercolour £60.00
81 Alison Adams Wild Moorland Watercolour on textured paper £65.00
82 Diane Finlay Oriental Dream Multi media NFS
83 Ilham Boudrez Shy Cat Watercolour £75.00
84 Joe Dunning The Peckinator Mixed media NFS
85 Christine Hall Whispers in the Woods Mixed media £70.00
86 Zelakah Murphy Messy Gal Watercolour NFS
87 Ilham Boudrez Colourful Cat Watercolour £95.00
88 Kelly Stevens Strength Within Collage and pen NFS
89 Peter Jones Stretching Cat Collage NFS
90 Janice Sarkar Weeping Woman Acrylic £120.00
91 Judy Turner Iron Man Soft pastel £130.00
92 Anna Hiley Fruit for Lunch? Coloured pencils £95.00
93 Phil Raynes Path Above Mossley Oil £125.00
94 Andrew Clark Plein Air - Grisedale Pike Pastel with acrylic ink NFS
95 Catherine Shield Hest Bank Soft pastel NFS
96 Glynn Barnard Beyond Wycoller Watercolour £275.00
97 Alison Adams Grey Skies Beyond Hawkshaw Watercolour, ink and pastel £80.00
98 Judy Turner Voysey Hill, Devon Soft pastel £150.00
99 Geraldine Hay Window in Grassington Watercolour and collage NFS
100 Gill Holt Berries Watercolour and colour pencil £60.00
101 Steve Whittaker A Chilly Start in Borrowdale Acrylic on canvas NFS
102 Phil Raynes Autumnal Evening Oil £200.00
103 Malcolm Lucas Beech Wood Watercolour £65.00
104 Phil Raynes Dunham Massey Oil £150.00