(Selected recent) EXHIBITIONS & BIOGRAPHY
DAVE WATSON
2024
Opened FOLDYARD Gallery and Print Studio at 44 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed
Photographic commission by JO THOMAS, forager, for promotional purposes.
Photographic commission by LEE MACE, driftwood boat sculptor, for promotional purposes.
Photographic commission by ANNA CHAPMAN-PARKER, to promote her new book UNDERSTOREY.
Photographic collaboration with GAYLE LITSTER.
Continuing pastel-work collaboration with LISA SOMERVILLE.
2023
Pastel-work collaboration with LISA SOMERVILLE.
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
2022
Painting collaboration with JENNY BRYANS as Co*Lab.
Steward for THIS ENDLESS SEA. A multidisciplinary artwork on Grief by CHLOE SMITH
2021
FOLDYARD Gallery closed to allow us to concentrate on our own art practice.
Photographic commission to document the annual crowning of Berwick-upon-Tweed SALMON QUEEN.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: Henry Martin Sculpture and Collage.
Filmed by PITH sketchbooks as a promotion for their 'lay-flat' Oroblanco sketchbooks. Watch Dave working in the landscape at Roughtin Linn here
2020
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: ANNA-MARIA POTAMITI (paintings) and PATRICK HARTLEY (digital prints & ceramics)
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: TAKE 5. 5 Berwick-upon-Tweed photographers
2019
Photographer for Berwick-upon-Tweed PECHAKUCHA.
FOLDYARD Gallery book launch: EPHEMERIS, MORAG EATON and GNAOMI SIEMEN's horoscope collaboration.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: SHORELINES, Kittie Jones.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition by Liz Oughton: THE CONTEMPORARY RURAL: art in a rural context
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: SILK TO STONE, group exhibition. Including MICHELLE DE BRUIN's stone carvings.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: WOODCUTS AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS, Angela Lemaire.
2018
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: BERWICK AND BEYOND, Roland Macfarlane
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: I SAT UNTIL I COULD SEE NO MORE, Anna Chapman Parker.
Showed the film CROSSING by LIGHTHOUSE FILMS with a soundtrack by MIKE WORBOYS.
SOMETHING DIFFERENT was a mixed media performance of poetry from GNAOMI SIEMENS, dance ALL AT SEA, FIRMLY ON DRY LAND by CHLOE SMITH and music by MIKE WORBOYS.
TREVELYAN COLLEGE, Durham University. (Solo exhibition).
Beltie Books, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway.
Opened FOLDYARD Gallery and Print Studio at 47 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed
GARDENS AND UNCULTIVATED SPACES, The Queens Hall, Hexham.
2017
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY OPEN EXHIBITION, Edinburgh.
RED SHED NURSERY, Coldstream. Year long residency recording the change of seasons in GRAHAM BELL's permaculture garden. Culminating in an exhibition in situ.
2016
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
THE SUTTON GALLERY, Dundas Street, Edinburgh. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
ALL AT SEA. Beltie Books, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
2015
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street. As FOLDYARD, for the last 5 years we have curated an exhibition in our home and studios to include artists from out of the local region.
WISH YOU WERE HERE, The Granary Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed. A selection of sketchbooks exhibited as examples of the 'Artist on holiday'.
ALLANBANK ARTS OPEN EXHIBITION. Exhibition curation.
ROBSON GALLERY, Selkirk (solo exhibition).
2014
ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER SHOW 2014.
TREVELYAN COLLEGE, Durham University. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street. As FOLDYARD, for the last 4 years we have curated an exhibition in our home and studios to include artists from out of the local region.
ALLANBANK ARTS OPEN EXHIBITION. Exhibition curation.
GALLERY 25, Berwick-upon-Tweed. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
2013
SELKIRK YES FESTIVAL. The Haining, Selkirk. Short residency prior to the Festival. Paintings of The Haining - interiors and grounds. Exhibition.
Participant in a film biography of the late artist Kirill Sokolov. A Russian artist of international standing who was a Durham resident. Filmed in conversation discussing his work with Morag Eaton and printing examples of his fine art prints.
For the last 30 years I have recorded Kirill’s work through photography. More recently as digital scans.
2011 - 14
Allanbank Arts. Tutor in watercolour and oil.
Exhibiting work in various venues in and around the Scottish Borders.
2009
‘LANDSCAPE OF THE HEART’, Brevon Gallery, Doncaster. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
SWINTON LOCK GALLERY, Swinton, Rotherham (solo exhibition).
DONCASTER OPEN, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery (awarded: second prize).
THORESBY GALLERY OPEN, Nottinghamshire (prize winner).
CB HIVE, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley (group exhibition).
FIELDGATE CENTRE, Fishlake, Doncaster (solo painting exhibition).
2006
Fieldgate Centre, Fishlake, Doncaster (solo photography exhibition).
2005
St James’, High Melton, Doncaster (solo photography exhibition).
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MORAG EATON
Exhibiting artist since 1980. I have also worked in commercial design - predominately corporate design - and as a lecturer in design subjects. I work predominantly in relief print & momotype,
2024
Opened FOLDYARD Gallery and Print Studio at 44 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed
ARTIST RESIDENCY at Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad (KKV) in Lulea, Sweden.
2023
ARTIST RESIDENCY at Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad (KKV) in Lulea, Sweden.
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
DERBY PRINT OPEN
2022
ARTIST RESIDENCY at Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad (KKV) in Lulea, Sweden. The physical manifestation of the 2021 DIGITAL RESIDENCY with MATS WIKSTRÖM. Exhibiting as part of the RANEÅ BIENNALE. Sponsored by MALTINGS VISUAL ARTS and SWEDENLAPLANDAIR .
2021
FOLDYARD Gallery closed to allow us to concentrate on our own art practice.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: Henry Martin Sculpture and Collage.
'LANGHOLM PEOPLE'. A commission to create work in response to the stories and memories of the descendants of the Polish serviceman who were resettled in Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, post WWII.
BERWICK CALLING RANEA: an online event on the digital residency with Mats Wikstrom hosted by SWEDENLAPLANDAIR and BERWICK VISUAL ARTS with JAVIER RODRIGUEZ.
PASSAGES: 'Ancient Exchanges', is the online journal of The University of Iowa devoted to literary translations of ancient texts. Visual interpretations to translations by Gnaomi Siemens.
A DIGITAL RESIDENCY with artist MATS WIKSTROM in Råneå, Sweden.
2020
EPHEMERIS published in 'Asymptote', an online journal dedicted to world literature.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: ANNA-MARIA POTAMITI (painings) and PATRICK HARTLEY (digital prints & ceramics)
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: TAKE 5. 5 Berwick-upon-Tweed photographers
2019
FOLDYARD Gallery book launch: EPHEMERIS, MORAG EATON collaboration with New York translator and poet, GNAOMI SIEMENS, of the first horoscope translated into English - circa 16C.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: SHORELINES, Kittie Jones.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition by Liz Oughton: THE CONTEMPORARY RURAL: art in a rural context
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: SILK TO STONE, group exhibition. Including MICHELLE DE BRUIN's stone carvings.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: WOODCUTS AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS, Angela Lemaire.
‘CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT: Lessons from Japan and the UK’. Addressing a group of Japanese Academics and Art Curators on 'Art and agricultural diversification'.
2018
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: BERWICK AND BEYOND, Roland Macfarlane.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: I SAT UNTIL I COULD SEE NO MORE, Anna Chapman Parker.
THE NATURAL EYE, Mall Galleries, London.
Showed the film CROSSING by LIGHTHOUSE FILMS with a soundtrack by MIKE WORBOYS.
SOMETHING DIFFERENT was a mixed media performance of poetry from GNAOMI SIEMENS, dance ALL AT SEA, FIRMLY ON DRY LAND by CHLOE SMITH and music by MIKE WORBOYS.
Beltie Books, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway.
Opened FOLDYARD Gallery and Print Studio at 47 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed
ANOTHER FIELD, The Queens Hall, Hexham. Farming diversity project. Arts Council England exhibition.
2017
ANOTHER FIELD, Trevelyan College, Durham University. Farming diversity project. Arts Council England exhibition.
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
ANOTHER FIELD, Christopher Boyd Gallery, Galashiels. Farming diversity project. Arts Council England exhibition.
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY OPEN EXHIBITION, Edinburgh.
2016
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
THE SUTTON GALLERY, Dundas Street, Edinburgh. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
ALL AT SEA. Beltie Books, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
2015
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street. As FOLDYARD, for the last 5 years we have curated an exhibition in our home and studios to include artists from out of the local region.
Design and layout for a 97-page book reviving Wilson’s Tales of the Border volume 2.
THE RED HALL OR BERWICK 1296, Apples for Jam, Melrose. Exhibition and Artists Talk.
THE OPEN BOOK project, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway.
THE RED HALL OR BERWICK 1296, Beltie Books and Cafe, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway. Exhibition and Artists Talk.
2014
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY OPEN EXHIBITION, Edinburgh.
TREVELYAN COLLEGE, Durham University. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street. As FOLDYARD, for the last 4 years, we have curated an exhibition in our home and studios to include artists from out of the local region.
ALLANBANK ARTS OPEN EXHIBITION. Exhibition curation.
PEEBLES SUMMER SHOW, Tweeddale Museum & Gallery (group exhibition).
Design and layout for a 58-page book reviving Wilson’s Tales of the Border.
GALLERY 25, Berwick-upon-Tweed. FOLDYARD exhibition.
THE RED HALL OR BERWICK 1296 for The Wilson’s Tales Project (solo exhibition). A series of prints re-imagining the Border Tale. Exhibition and Artists Talk, The Old Gaol, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
2013
PRINGLE GALLERY, Old Gala House, Hawick (solo exhibition).
THE BACKSMITH'S WIFE OF YARROWFOOT. Selkirk YES Festival. The Haining, Selkirk. Commissioned series illustrating the Borders Tale. Exhibition and Artists Talk.
Participant in a film biography of the late artist Kirill Sokolov. A Russian artist of international standing who was a Durham resident. Filmed in conversation discussing his work with Dave Watson and printing examples of his fine art prints.
2012
BARBARA ON THE WALLS. Commission from Maltings Visual Arts, Berwick upon Tweed, to produce a piece of work in response to an piece in the Berwick Burrell Collection. Exhibition and Artists Talk,
The Granary Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed.
2012/3
Membership Secretary for Crossing Borders artists group.
2009
SMITH ART GALLERY, Brighouse, West Yorkshire (group exhibition).
GREAT NORTHERN ART SHOW, Ripon (open exhibition).
‘FLOURISH AWARD’, hosted by West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield, Huddersfield. (Awarded: Highly Commended).
2008
SMALL AND BEAUTIFUL, Batley Art Gallery, West Yorkshire (group exhibition).
LANDSCAPE OF THE HEART, Brevon Gallery, Doncaster. (FOLDYARD exhibition)
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FOLDYARD
Foldyard has existed in one form or another for 35 years. It is the partnership between two artists Morag Eaton and Dave Watson. Morag, a printmaker, studied at Loughborough in the 1970s met Dave in 1981 at Charlotte Press in Newcastle upon Tyne. Morag was busy, amongst other things, making prints of the Yorkshire Ripper, The Stations of the Cross, printing the Newcastle Libraries’ ’Pease Collection’ of Thomas Bewick original wood blocks. Dave was a photographer promoting punk bands and in 1982 went to Derby University to study photography.
Between our early days in Derby and our time in Berwick we made a living from art-based businesses or employment from either design or photography. We both lectured in our subjects in the Derby Tertiary Colleges. Whilst living in South Yorkshire Dave had a heart attack and during the recovery started Foldyard as a full-time enterprise making fine art and this has been their way of life since 2007.
Every year time is allotted to the curation of the Kirill Sokolov collection in Durham City.
Over the last ten years Morag has worked with paper-plate printing, a technique invented by the Chinese in the early 1980s. Similar to lino printing but with the paper-plate being much easier to cut using a scalpel to remove the negative space.
Since living in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Morag has illustrated the Borders tale The Blacksmith’s wife of Yarrowfoot. Which led on to producing Berwick 1296 or The Red Hall as part of Andrew Ayre’s Wilson Tales Project. The Blacksmith’s wife of Yarrowfoot is a fantastic horror tale of witches, witchcraft and brotherly love. The Red Hall a story with a Hollywood storyline of murder, marriage and sacrifice.
Morag has experimented with a technique of weaving inked Japanese paper to make tessellated pictures. Their journey into cubism and abstraction through colour and form create confusion so the work has depth in meaning and perspective.
Initially on arrival in Berwick, Dave worked with watercolours, understanding how all the greys were made. Finding his own way of using primary colours to defeat each other. With constant work he in the landscape became at home in the beautiful softly lit landscape of north Northumberland. Always experimenting with new ways of seeing and expression has led to works such as 'Hutton's Unconformity' or ‘All at Sea’ a series of 33 paper based works. This work in conjunction with Morag’s All at Sea formed the basis of our 2016 exhibition in the Sutton Gallery on Dundas Street in Edinburgh. With Morag’s work based on media reports of the refugees and Dave’s experiences of painting from a boat, the work in the exhibition had an unsteady, frightening feel that neither of us expected.
Prints.
All of our prints are hand-printed using either an intaglio or relief press onto handmade pure cotton printing paper or handmade Japanese printing paper. Our prints are sold in small limited editions. None of our painted or printed images are ‘giclee prints’ (everyday enthusiast photographer Epson prints with a posh French name). Our fine art photographic images are printed with Epson K inks on to Epson Archival matt paper and framed under Conservation Clear glass for a longer life.
32 Bridge Street Open Studios
We have shown the creative work of Chloë Smith, Jonathan Lloyd, Sam Cary, Peter Hallam, Micheal Dawson, Katie Ward, Niaill Campbell, Gill Walton, Dan and Meg Kenny, Benjamin Sadd, Katherine Elkin, Tower House Pottery, Brad Wood, Kevin Peden and the late Kirill Sokolov.
Openness/transparency
We have welcomed artists from all over the world to our home and share our work ethic and ideas and learn from their experiences. We are always open to people interested in understanding our work more clearly. Or people who just want to see the collection we have amassed over the years.
Exhibitions
We are always open to offers of showing our work. We expect a written contract with all the necessary details.
Dave Watson and Morag Eaton
2024
Opened FOLDYARD Gallery and Print Studio at 44 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed
Photographic commission by JO THOMAS, forager, for promotional purposes.
Photographic commission by LEE MACE, driftwood boat sculptor, for promotional purposes.
Photographic commission by ANNA CHAPMAN-PARKER, to promote her new book UNDERSTOREY.
Photographic collaboration with GAYLE LITSTER.
Continuing pastel-work collaboration with LISA SOMERVILLE.
2023
Pastel-work collaboration with LISA SOMERVILLE.
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
2022
Painting collaboration with JENNY BRYANS as Co*Lab.
Steward for THIS ENDLESS SEA. A multidisciplinary artwork on Grief by CHLOE SMITH
2021
FOLDYARD Gallery closed to allow us to concentrate on our own art practice.
Photographic commission to document the annual crowning of Berwick-upon-Tweed SALMON QUEEN.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: Henry Martin Sculpture and Collage.
Filmed by PITH sketchbooks as a promotion for their 'lay-flat' Oroblanco sketchbooks. Watch Dave working in the landscape at Roughtin Linn here
2020
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: ANNA-MARIA POTAMITI (paintings) and PATRICK HARTLEY (digital prints & ceramics)
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: TAKE 5. 5 Berwick-upon-Tweed photographers
2019
Photographer for Berwick-upon-Tweed PECHAKUCHA.
FOLDYARD Gallery book launch: EPHEMERIS, MORAG EATON and GNAOMI SIEMEN's horoscope collaboration.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: SHORELINES, Kittie Jones.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition by Liz Oughton: THE CONTEMPORARY RURAL: art in a rural context
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: SILK TO STONE, group exhibition. Including MICHELLE DE BRUIN's stone carvings.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: WOODCUTS AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS, Angela Lemaire.
2018
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: BERWICK AND BEYOND, Roland Macfarlane
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: I SAT UNTIL I COULD SEE NO MORE, Anna Chapman Parker.
Showed the film CROSSING by LIGHTHOUSE FILMS with a soundtrack by MIKE WORBOYS.
SOMETHING DIFFERENT was a mixed media performance of poetry from GNAOMI SIEMENS, dance ALL AT SEA, FIRMLY ON DRY LAND by CHLOE SMITH and music by MIKE WORBOYS.
TREVELYAN COLLEGE, Durham University. (Solo exhibition).
Beltie Books, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway.
Opened FOLDYARD Gallery and Print Studio at 47 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed
GARDENS AND UNCULTIVATED SPACES, The Queens Hall, Hexham.
2017
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY OPEN EXHIBITION, Edinburgh.
RED SHED NURSERY, Coldstream. Year long residency recording the change of seasons in GRAHAM BELL's permaculture garden. Culminating in an exhibition in situ.
2016
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
THE SUTTON GALLERY, Dundas Street, Edinburgh. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
ALL AT SEA. Beltie Books, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
2015
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street. As FOLDYARD, for the last 5 years we have curated an exhibition in our home and studios to include artists from out of the local region.
WISH YOU WERE HERE, The Granary Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed. A selection of sketchbooks exhibited as examples of the 'Artist on holiday'.
ALLANBANK ARTS OPEN EXHIBITION. Exhibition curation.
ROBSON GALLERY, Selkirk (solo exhibition).
2014
ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER SHOW 2014.
TREVELYAN COLLEGE, Durham University. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street. As FOLDYARD, for the last 4 years we have curated an exhibition in our home and studios to include artists from out of the local region.
ALLANBANK ARTS OPEN EXHIBITION. Exhibition curation.
GALLERY 25, Berwick-upon-Tweed. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
2013
SELKIRK YES FESTIVAL. The Haining, Selkirk. Short residency prior to the Festival. Paintings of The Haining - interiors and grounds. Exhibition.
Participant in a film biography of the late artist Kirill Sokolov. A Russian artist of international standing who was a Durham resident. Filmed in conversation discussing his work with Morag Eaton and printing examples of his fine art prints.
For the last 30 years I have recorded Kirill’s work through photography. More recently as digital scans.
2011 - 14
Allanbank Arts. Tutor in watercolour and oil.
Exhibiting work in various venues in and around the Scottish Borders.
2009
‘LANDSCAPE OF THE HEART’, Brevon Gallery, Doncaster. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
SWINTON LOCK GALLERY, Swinton, Rotherham (solo exhibition).
DONCASTER OPEN, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery (awarded: second prize).
THORESBY GALLERY OPEN, Nottinghamshire (prize winner).
CB HIVE, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley (group exhibition).
FIELDGATE CENTRE, Fishlake, Doncaster (solo painting exhibition).
2006
Fieldgate Centre, Fishlake, Doncaster (solo photography exhibition).
2005
St James’, High Melton, Doncaster (solo photography exhibition).
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MORAG EATON
Exhibiting artist since 1980. I have also worked in commercial design - predominately corporate design - and as a lecturer in design subjects. I work predominantly in relief print & momotype,
2024
Opened FOLDYARD Gallery and Print Studio at 44 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed
ARTIST RESIDENCY at Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad (KKV) in Lulea, Sweden.
2023
ARTIST RESIDENCY at Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad (KKV) in Lulea, Sweden.
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
DERBY PRINT OPEN
2022
ARTIST RESIDENCY at Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad (KKV) in Lulea, Sweden. The physical manifestation of the 2021 DIGITAL RESIDENCY with MATS WIKSTRÖM. Exhibiting as part of the RANEÅ BIENNALE. Sponsored by MALTINGS VISUAL ARTS and SWEDENLAPLANDAIR .
2021
FOLDYARD Gallery closed to allow us to concentrate on our own art practice.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: Henry Martin Sculpture and Collage.
'LANGHOLM PEOPLE'. A commission to create work in response to the stories and memories of the descendants of the Polish serviceman who were resettled in Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, post WWII.
BERWICK CALLING RANEA: an online event on the digital residency with Mats Wikstrom hosted by SWEDENLAPLANDAIR and BERWICK VISUAL ARTS with JAVIER RODRIGUEZ.
PASSAGES: 'Ancient Exchanges', is the online journal of The University of Iowa devoted to literary translations of ancient texts. Visual interpretations to translations by Gnaomi Siemens.
A DIGITAL RESIDENCY with artist MATS WIKSTROM in Råneå, Sweden.
2020
EPHEMERIS published in 'Asymptote', an online journal dedicted to world literature.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: ANNA-MARIA POTAMITI (painings) and PATRICK HARTLEY (digital prints & ceramics)
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: TAKE 5. 5 Berwick-upon-Tweed photographers
2019
FOLDYARD Gallery book launch: EPHEMERIS, MORAG EATON collaboration with New York translator and poet, GNAOMI SIEMENS, of the first horoscope translated into English - circa 16C.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: SHORELINES, Kittie Jones.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition by Liz Oughton: THE CONTEMPORARY RURAL: art in a rural context
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: SILK TO STONE, group exhibition. Including MICHELLE DE BRUIN's stone carvings.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: WOODCUTS AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS, Angela Lemaire.
‘CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT: Lessons from Japan and the UK’. Addressing a group of Japanese Academics and Art Curators on 'Art and agricultural diversification'.
2018
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: BERWICK AND BEYOND, Roland Macfarlane.
FOLDYARD Gallery curated exhibition: I SAT UNTIL I COULD SEE NO MORE, Anna Chapman Parker.
THE NATURAL EYE, Mall Galleries, London.
Showed the film CROSSING by LIGHTHOUSE FILMS with a soundtrack by MIKE WORBOYS.
SOMETHING DIFFERENT was a mixed media performance of poetry from GNAOMI SIEMENS, dance ALL AT SEA, FIRMLY ON DRY LAND by CHLOE SMITH and music by MIKE WORBOYS.
Beltie Books, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway.
Opened FOLDYARD Gallery and Print Studio at 47 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed
ANOTHER FIELD, The Queens Hall, Hexham. Farming diversity project. Arts Council England exhibition.
2017
ANOTHER FIELD, Trevelyan College, Durham University. Farming diversity project. Arts Council England exhibition.
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
ANOTHER FIELD, Christopher Boyd Gallery, Galashiels. Farming diversity project. Arts Council England exhibition.
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY OPEN EXHIBITION, Edinburgh.
2016
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
THE SUTTON GALLERY, Dundas Street, Edinburgh. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
ALL AT SEA. Beltie Books, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
2015
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street. As FOLDYARD, for the last 5 years we have curated an exhibition in our home and studios to include artists from out of the local region.
Design and layout for a 97-page book reviving Wilson’s Tales of the Border volume 2.
THE RED HALL OR BERWICK 1296, Apples for Jam, Melrose. Exhibition and Artists Talk.
THE OPEN BOOK project, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway.
THE RED HALL OR BERWICK 1296, Beltie Books and Cafe, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway. Exhibition and Artists Talk.
2014
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY OPEN EXHIBITION, Edinburgh.
TREVELYAN COLLEGE, Durham University. (FOLDYARD exhibition).
OPEN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE, 32 Bridge Street. As FOLDYARD, for the last 4 years, we have curated an exhibition in our home and studios to include artists from out of the local region.
ALLANBANK ARTS OPEN EXHIBITION. Exhibition curation.
PEEBLES SUMMER SHOW, Tweeddale Museum & Gallery (group exhibition).
Design and layout for a 58-page book reviving Wilson’s Tales of the Border.
GALLERY 25, Berwick-upon-Tweed. FOLDYARD exhibition.
THE RED HALL OR BERWICK 1296 for The Wilson’s Tales Project (solo exhibition). A series of prints re-imagining the Border Tale. Exhibition and Artists Talk, The Old Gaol, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
2013
PRINGLE GALLERY, Old Gala House, Hawick (solo exhibition).
THE BACKSMITH'S WIFE OF YARROWFOOT. Selkirk YES Festival. The Haining, Selkirk. Commissioned series illustrating the Borders Tale. Exhibition and Artists Talk.
Participant in a film biography of the late artist Kirill Sokolov. A Russian artist of international standing who was a Durham resident. Filmed in conversation discussing his work with Dave Watson and printing examples of his fine art prints.
2012
BARBARA ON THE WALLS. Commission from Maltings Visual Arts, Berwick upon Tweed, to produce a piece of work in response to an piece in the Berwick Burrell Collection. Exhibition and Artists Talk,
The Granary Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed.
2012/3
Membership Secretary for Crossing Borders artists group.
2009
SMITH ART GALLERY, Brighouse, West Yorkshire (group exhibition).
GREAT NORTHERN ART SHOW, Ripon (open exhibition).
‘FLOURISH AWARD’, hosted by West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield, Huddersfield. (Awarded: Highly Commended).
2008
SMALL AND BEAUTIFUL, Batley Art Gallery, West Yorkshire (group exhibition).
LANDSCAPE OF THE HEART, Brevon Gallery, Doncaster. (FOLDYARD exhibition)
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FOLDYARD
Foldyard has existed in one form or another for 35 years. It is the partnership between two artists Morag Eaton and Dave Watson. Morag, a printmaker, studied at Loughborough in the 1970s met Dave in 1981 at Charlotte Press in Newcastle upon Tyne. Morag was busy, amongst other things, making prints of the Yorkshire Ripper, The Stations of the Cross, printing the Newcastle Libraries’ ’Pease Collection’ of Thomas Bewick original wood blocks. Dave was a photographer promoting punk bands and in 1982 went to Derby University to study photography.
Between our early days in Derby and our time in Berwick we made a living from art-based businesses or employment from either design or photography. We both lectured in our subjects in the Derby Tertiary Colleges. Whilst living in South Yorkshire Dave had a heart attack and during the recovery started Foldyard as a full-time enterprise making fine art and this has been their way of life since 2007.
Every year time is allotted to the curation of the Kirill Sokolov collection in Durham City.
Over the last ten years Morag has worked with paper-plate printing, a technique invented by the Chinese in the early 1980s. Similar to lino printing but with the paper-plate being much easier to cut using a scalpel to remove the negative space.
Since living in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Morag has illustrated the Borders tale The Blacksmith’s wife of Yarrowfoot. Which led on to producing Berwick 1296 or The Red Hall as part of Andrew Ayre’s Wilson Tales Project. The Blacksmith’s wife of Yarrowfoot is a fantastic horror tale of witches, witchcraft and brotherly love. The Red Hall a story with a Hollywood storyline of murder, marriage and sacrifice.
Morag has experimented with a technique of weaving inked Japanese paper to make tessellated pictures. Their journey into cubism and abstraction through colour and form create confusion so the work has depth in meaning and perspective.
Initially on arrival in Berwick, Dave worked with watercolours, understanding how all the greys were made. Finding his own way of using primary colours to defeat each other. With constant work he in the landscape became at home in the beautiful softly lit landscape of north Northumberland. Always experimenting with new ways of seeing and expression has led to works such as 'Hutton's Unconformity' or ‘All at Sea’ a series of 33 paper based works. This work in conjunction with Morag’s All at Sea formed the basis of our 2016 exhibition in the Sutton Gallery on Dundas Street in Edinburgh. With Morag’s work based on media reports of the refugees and Dave’s experiences of painting from a boat, the work in the exhibition had an unsteady, frightening feel that neither of us expected.
Prints.
All of our prints are hand-printed using either an intaglio or relief press onto handmade pure cotton printing paper or handmade Japanese printing paper. Our prints are sold in small limited editions. None of our painted or printed images are ‘giclee prints’ (everyday enthusiast photographer Epson prints with a posh French name). Our fine art photographic images are printed with Epson K inks on to Epson Archival matt paper and framed under Conservation Clear glass for a longer life.
32 Bridge Street Open Studios
We have shown the creative work of Chloë Smith, Jonathan Lloyd, Sam Cary, Peter Hallam, Micheal Dawson, Katie Ward, Niaill Campbell, Gill Walton, Dan and Meg Kenny, Benjamin Sadd, Katherine Elkin, Tower House Pottery, Brad Wood, Kevin Peden and the late Kirill Sokolov.
Openness/transparency
We have welcomed artists from all over the world to our home and share our work ethic and ideas and learn from their experiences. We are always open to people interested in understanding our work more clearly. Or people who just want to see the collection we have amassed over the years.
Exhibitions
We are always open to offers of showing our work. We expect a written contract with all the necessary details.
Dave Watson and Morag Eaton