Beautiful, swift and bright exhibition page

Beautiful, swift and bright

Paintings by Louise Balaam NEAC RWA, Nick Jones and James Lynch

Ceramics by Gabriele Koch

Furniture by Petter Southall

17 May – 12 July 2025

A glorious celebration of the English rural landscape by five artists, each of whom has a thrilling, richly developed style of their own, and each of whom is admired by collectors across the world.

GABRIELE KOCH

PETTER SOUTHALL

LOUISE BALAAM

Louise Balaam NEAC RWA paints with expressive gestural brushstrokes in natural, sumptuously applied colours. Her work conveys the intense feeling of being out in the landscape, in the wind and the sun.

NICK JONES

Nick Jones paints in acrylic on canvas and makes silkscreen prints in spare abstracted poetic works. Over the years, Nick’s landscapes have simplified into increasingly pure celebrations of colour and light.

JAMES LYNCH

James Lynch’s paintings capture the breathtaking beauty of the West Country where glowing shafts of sunlight shine between clouds onto rolling fields and trees. James’s restrained palette and the combination of delicacy and strength in his painting, reveal a unique affinity with the natural world.

We are delighted to welcome James Lynch back to Sladers Yard. Please register your interest in his work if you would like an early notification when it becomes available to view online, and an invitation to the private view.

GABRIELE KOCH

Gabriele Koch’s search has always been for simplicity, restraint and beauty in her ceramics. Recently she has been exploring new surfaces, making scored, ridged moon-scape textures in heavy black clay overlaid with various slips including porcelain.

PETTER SOUTHALL FURNITURE

Petter Southall responds to superb natural timber in furniture designs that combine an exciting fluidity of line with tactile textures and physical strength. Always original and surprising in his understated and brilliantly judged detailing, Petter’s pieces take your breath away.