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Renaissance 2
The Renaissance2 retail business including picture framing, fine art and photo printing and the picture gallery are located in the village of Golcar near Huddersfield in Yorkshire. You will receive a friendly welcome from Diane Challenger and Martin Sample who are always happy to give you advice or assistance on your picture framing, printing or art-buying needs.
We also deal with internet orders here so if you buy online you can be sure that you are in safe hands.
You can contact us by:
visiting or writing to the shop at
36 Town End Golcar Huddersfield HD7 4QD
telephoning 01484 659596
emailing sales@renaissance2.co.uk
Latest Exhibitions
In 2008 Renaissance2 artists exhibited at a number of exhibitions including:
Works by Martin Sample and Diane Challenger were in the Holmfirth Artweek exhibition in July. Now ended. They were also exhibited at Longwood Arts Festival in September 2008, now ended. Diane also exhibited pictures and jewellery at Bird's Edge Artfest in September 2008.
Previous exhibitions include:
Pictures by Diane Challenger, published by Renaissance2, were on show during November 2007 at Hammond's Yard Coffee Shop (formerly Peaches Coffee Shop), Hammond's Yard, King St, Huddersfield. Now ended.
Works by Martin Sample were on display during March 2007 at Batley Art Gallery in West Yorkshire. Now ended.
Works by Diane Challenger were on display during March 2007 at
Batley Art Gallery in West Yorkshire. Now ended.
Works by Jillian Bland were on display at
Peaches Coffee Shop in Hammond Yard, King Street, Huddersfield
during March 2007. Now ended.
Works by Martin Sample and Diane Challenger were in the Holmfirth Artweek exhibition in July. Now ended.
They were also exhibited at Longwood Arts Festival in September 2007, now ended.
About Jillian Bland
Jillian Bland was born in Lepton, Huddersfield in 1958 into a farming community, Jillian spent her early years playing on local farms with farmers’ kids. Down Knotly Lane was a very tightly-knit old fashioned hamlet where everyone new each other and very little happened. It came as a huge shock when the Bland family decided to emigrate to Australia when Jillian was 7 years old as by this time her roots were firmly set in Huddersfield.
The move was an adventure and the two cultures were massively different Jillian lived near the coast where the heatwaves were exhausting, relieved only by the evening breeze known locally as the "Fremantle Doctor". Unfortunately it brought with it the smell of Robs Jetty, the coastline’s slaughter house whose activities were open to the passing road. It will be no surprise to learn that Jillian is now a vegan.
Jillian returned to Britain at the age of 14. One brother was working and was torn as to whether or not to stay but to the relief of the family all decided to return. She returned to live in North Wales in a fairly remote village called Y Ddol, "The Meadows", she later returned to Huddersfield, "Field of Heather", at the age of 23.
Jillian has drawn and painted and written verse all her life, she says "I don’t remember when I started, it is just something I have always done. It has been a sort of escapism, it’s often said that I live in a dream world, though this remark is mostly made by my desperate Mother!".
Jillian is largely self-taught but has attended art classes and says "The Ashley Jackson classes were always full of useful information, so much that it was hard to take it all in".
