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19 July – 13 September 2025
Julian Bailey’s etchings are made in small groups of twelve on his hand-turned press. He selects a few to be over painted in gouache, making each coloured etching a ‘one-off’ picture. The greatly simplified line of the diamond tip scoring into the metal plate gives off a beautiful black velvety mark, which is the unique hallmark of drypoint. This compliments the brilliant quality of the gouache paint to make the special combination that goes into these artworks.
Follow the links to read more about Julian Bailey NEAC and see his recent prints and paintings.
Acclaimed painter MARTYN BREWSTER ARE has also been a serious and productive printmaker for many years, developing his own silkscreen techniques and making relief prints and etchings in his own print studio as well as teaching printmaking at the Arts University Bournemouth. Alongside the prints he makes on his own press, recently he has been working with master-printer Andrew Smith to make thrilling multi-plate carborundum prints on the unique very large press Andrew used to make Howard Hodgkin’s prints. Martyn has recently been elected to the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (ARE) and was awarded the Mike Brennan Print Prize in 2023.
Follow the links to read more about Martyn Brewster ARE and see his recent work.
MERLYN CHESTERMAN RE is a woodblock printmaker living on the North Devon coast. Her work explores the natural world around her, particularly the sea, waves, and the weather.
She followed her Fine Art degree and DipEd by studying printmaking in China. She is on the Council of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and has written two books about woodblock printmaking with her colleague Rod Nelson ARE both published by Crowood Press and both available at the exhibition. She has exhibited widely throughout the world and her work is in many private and public collections including in Hong Kong and Bhutan as well as the V&A Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Edward James Foundation at West Dean College, Chichester, where she taught on the Short Course Programme for twenty years.
MICHAEL FAIRCLOUGH NEAC RE studied at Kingston School of Art, was a Rome Scholar in Engraving, attended the British School in Rome, followed by S W Hayter’s printing Atelier 17, Paris, 1967. After teaching at Belfast College of Art, he taught at West Surrey College of Art, Farnham, from 1967–79. An exceptional printmaker, editions of his aquatints were published by Christie’s Contemporary Art 1978-88 and he contributed to their National Trust series of prints including the commemorative stamps for the Post Office in 1981. His work is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and Victoria & Albert Museum amongst a great number of public, private and corporate collections across the UK and Europe. He was made a fellow of RE and a member of Printmakers’ Council. He and his wife Mary Malenoir RE hand-printed the aquatints in this show on their Victorian press.
SALLY McLAREN RE was born in London, studied at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford and at the Central School of Art in London. After further study in Paris at the Atelier of Stanley William Hayter, she returned to teach at Goldsmith’s College of Art. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, the Printmaker’s Council of Great Britain and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. She has exhibited widely and her work is held in numerous collections around the world, including the New York Public Library, the Scottish Arts Council, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the Museum of Modern Art in Macedonia and the Cabo Frio Print Collection in Sao Paulo. In recent years, two monographs of her work have been published, The Response of Landscape and In Search of Stillness, which is available at the exhibition. Sally McLaren lives and works in Wiltshire.
HOWARD PHIPPS ARE RWA SWE has had numerous solo exhibitions in London and the South of England, including twice at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, and three times at the Dorset County Museum. He has been a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions since 1985, where he has also been a recipient of the Christies Contemporary Print Award. He won prizes on several occasions at the National Print Exhibition in the Mall Galleries and in 2017 was awarded the Bewick Society Prize. He is an associate of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (ARE), a Royal West of England Academician (RWA), and a member of the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE). In recent years his work has been acquired by several prominent institutions, such as the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, The British Museum, & the Yale Centre for British Art in the USA. His work is also in Salisbury Museum, The Russell-Cotes Museum, Dorset County Museum and Heilongjiang Museum of Art, China.
Dorset-based Icelandic ceramic artist Björk Haraldsdóttir makes strong sculptural forms draped with monochromatic geometric patterns. At the core of this work is a conversation between three-dimensional form and two-dimensional pattern. She creates ambiguity in her work by placing a rigid geometric pattern on an organic form, or vice versa, altering our perception of the piece in subtle and fascinating ways.
The ceramics are mostly built in stoneware clay and painted with slip which is then scraped back to reveal the base material in two-tone monochrome patterns. The scrape marks are visible, and the surface is a plane of shallow relief, much like a tapestry. The tactile nature of these pieces is important – they invite touch, in the same way as a draped cloth.
Born and raised in Iceland, Björk Haraldsdóttir trained and worked as an architect for over twenty years before she began to make ceramics. During this time she worked for renowned architects including Richard Rogers.
Björk is a member of the Craft Potters Association and has shown her work widely across England including at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, selected by Grayson Perry. This is her first solo show at Sladers Yard.
PETTER SOUTHALL is an artist in wood with a long career of designing and making unique and exceptional pieces of furniture in addition to sculpture, constructions for the garden and building. His work is distinguished by simple strong lines and immensely satisfying detailing with thoughtful, practical design and extraordinary craftsmanship. Combining boatbuilding techniques such as steam-bending and copper riveting with cabinetmaking techniques and solutions, his work is innovative and confident.
Petter Southall trained as a traditional wooden boatbuilder in Norway, studying at college, in apprenticeships and in a museum-based special legacy apprenticeship and then ran his own boatyard in Norway. He moved to study cabinet making at the College of the Redwoods in Northern California followed by sustainable design with John Makepeace at Hooke Park College in Dorset. He set up his workshop in Dorset in 1991 and has recently moved to new premises at Denhay, north of Bridport. His showroom is Sladers Yard Gallery. He has made work for hospitals, public art commissions, public bodies, corporations and countless private homes and businesses in UK, Europe and the US. He is delighted to undertake commissions large and small.
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Dorset DT6 4EL
gallery@sladersyard.co.uk
Tel. 01308 459511
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© Sladers Yard 2024. Site by FER.
