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"Joint and Several"
Mel Davies and Kim Coley
Online Gallery
See our exhibition in the flesh at
The Loft, The Spinning Mills, Sunnybank Mills, Farsley LS28 5UJ
30th August to 21st September 2025
Open Every day 10 to 4 (except Mondays)
Preview 30th August 10-4
(If you wish to reserve a painting prior to the event contact Kim on this website or on 07734 256623)

Photo by Peter Beckwith

1. "Beetle Drive" Oil on Linen 4' x 3' framed £1250

2. "The Judgment of Paris" Oil on canvas 5' x 4' u/f £1500

3. Bird Jungle Diptych (Top) Oil on Canvas Framed 26" x 37" £750

4. Bird Jungle Diptych (Bottom) Oil on Canvas Framed 26" x 37 " £750

5. "The Beasties of the Air." Oil on Panel Triptych u/f 60" x 28" £1400

6,7,and 8 "Ogden's Bird Triptych" Oil on Panel Framed £750 each panel.

9. "The Collectors" Oil on Canvas 5' x 4' u/f £1500

10. "Spuggy" Oil on Canvas 5' x 4' u/f £1500

11. "Kelpies" Oil on Panel 55" x 42" Framed £1400

12. "Ladies Day" Oil on Canvas 5' x4' u/f £1500

13. "Like Moths to a Flame" Oil on Canvas u/f 4' x4' £1400

14. "Cherries and Chestnuts" Oil 31" x 40" Framed £800

15. "Bourne's Swan Lake 1" Oil on Canvas 26" x 37" Framed £750

16. "Bourne's Swan Lake 2" Oil on Canvas 26" x 37" Framed £750

17. "Bollywood" Oil on Canvas 5' x 4' u/f £1400

18."The Tribute Band" Oil on Panel 25" x 25" Framed £650

19. "The Flamboyant Tree" Oil on Canvas 31" x 37" Framed £750

20. "Speed Dating" Oil on Canvas 5' x 4' u/f £1500

21. "The Old Phil and Lit" Oil on Panel 25" x 25" £650 SOLD

22. "The Life Class" Oil on Canvas 5' x 4' u/f £1500

Joint and Several

For many years Mel Davies and I ran a Life Drawing Class at Sunnybank Mills.

One exercise made me curious about the nature of cooperation. You might know the one, in which everyone moves round the room and draws on each other’s work.

A different quality emerged from these drawings, a visual dialogue started to take shape, the marks seemed more confident, more playful, and it helped that no one owned any one piece.

Mel and I decided to take the idea of collaboration further by drawing and painting together, on the same canvas at the same time.

This has been going on for two years now and an instinctive rhythm, melody and harmony is emerging.

We each have different preoccupations, so of course there have had to be compromises, but it is a process which encapsulates that valuable, if difficult, act of human cooperation.

In a late essay Michel de Montaigne writes. “In whatever position they are placed, men pile up and arrange themselves by moving and shuffling about, just as a group of objects thrown into a bag find their own way to join and fit together, often better than they could have been arranged deliberately.”

These paintings are the result of some very fun filled, valuable and enjoyable Wednesdays moving and shuffling about and elbowing each other in the ribs.

Kim Coley (June 2025)

Kim Coley

Welcome to the portfolio of artist Kim Coley,

a place where you can discover her work, skills, and professional experience.

"Male Blackbird" was selected for the

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021.

("Varnishing Day")

Dance

Male Blackbird RA copy good colours.jpeg

Artist Statement

Kim Coley uses “visual song writing” as an analogy for her creative process and is interested in the tensions between observation and expression, truth and wishful thinking.

Influences include the philosopher Richard Sennett (author of The Craftsman) amongst many others.

She works in acrylic, ink, charcoal, pastel, collage, household paint, mixed media and print.

She sells her work from her studio and exhibits widely.

Take a look at her works, and get in touch for more information.

'Garden Birds and Wild Flowers'

“Kim is a painter of great skill in capturing the

vivacity of nature through her brushstrokes and energetic

mark-making. Her paintings are a record of human energy,

spirit and observation. I have always admired her

warm professionalism, her sense of humour and

commitment as an artist.”

Quote

Jonathan Newdick (JN Sculptures)

Professional History

The Society of Wildlife Artists 2024

Long Tailed Tits was selected for SWA

"The Natural Eye"

61st Annual Open Exhibition at

The Mall Galleries, London SW1 from October 16th.

Woven Threads 2024

A Joint exhibition by artists who have exhibited at Sunnybank Mills since its restoration.

A Tupperware Sky 2022

A Tupperware sky was acquired by William and John Gaunt of Sunnybank Mills.

Drawn from the Land 2022 Sunnybank Mills

An exhibition by eleven artists whose work is inspired by the land.

Royal Academy Summer Show 2021

Kim’s “Male Blackbird” was selected for this year’s Summer Show curated by Yinka Shonemare

North Yorkshire Open Studios 2007 - 2023

This is one of the most prestigious Open Studios events in the UK. Kim has taken part in NYOS for 17 years.

The Bus Shelter KO

During lockdown Kim enjoyed painting a mural onto the bus stop at Kirkby Overblow, inspired by the wildflowers growing nearby.

Mercer Gallery Open Exhibition 2010- 2019.

Kim has been selected to exhibit on many occasions. In 2010 she was awarded a prize for “Someone Else’s Coat”

Sunnybank Mills 2012- 2024

Kim has exhibited on many occasions at the innovative and award-winning Sunnybank Mills in Farsley. She ran Life Classes there with artist Mel Davies for many years.

Art Director EU Cineage Project 2015

Working with students from Northern Film School Kim co -designed the set.

Post Graduate Certificate of Education 2016

Teaching for a social purpose. Art Mentor Adam King. Awarded outstanding for all competences.

Farrow and Ball Landscape Commission 2012

Still Life

Life Drawings

Still Life: Ink and Gouache

Pastels : The Isle of Arran

North Yorkshire

Nudes

Glory!

Christmas Cards : A6 with envelopes

Glory The Nativity Three Kings

DAD'S POTS

My Dad made pots in the 60's and 70's and was so prolific that most of them ended up in the garden. Now I am pleased to have them cluttering up the place and sometimes invading my pictures.