Dreamscapes

27 January – 16 March 2024

Artists of the imaginary world, Finn Campbell-Notman, Robin Rae, Alfred Stockham and David West are all masters of the surreal, the strange, unsettling, humorous and beautiful. With Petter Southall, they are all five technically astonishing artists, thinkers and dreamers, whose work lifts us out of the everyday.

Paintings by Finn Campbell-Notman ARCA (b.1970), Robin Rae ARCA (1928-2019) and Alfred Stockham ARCA (1933-2020) with wood carvings by David West (b.1939). Furniture by Petter Southall (b.1960)

FINN CAMPBELL-NOTMAN

ROBIN RAE

ALFRED STOCKHAM

DAVID WEST

Finn Campbell-Notman

Winner of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2023, Finn Campbell-Notman joins Sladers Yard with a group of his exceptional paintings of buildings, birds and animals within landscapes. Finn grew up on a boat on the Norfolk Broads with his artist parents drawing the birdlife and developing a lifelong ecological awareness and interest in the natural world.

The following are available to buy. Click on the image to expand it. Please call 01308 459511 or email gallery@sladersyard.co.uk to enquire.

Finn Campbell-Notman Hambledon Hill from Hod Hill (Egrets)

2024. Dimensions: 120 x 280 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £14,900.

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Finn Campbell-Notman Shiprock

2022. Dimensions: 108 x 288 cm. Oil on jute.

Available to buy: £14,900.

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Finn Campbell-Notman Barranco de la Abuela

2023. Dimensions: 160 x 120 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £14,000.

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Finn Campbell-Notman Isle of the Desert (Calavera)

2021. Dimensions: 140 x 92 cm. Oil on canvas, prepared with gold gesso ground.

Available to buy: £11,000.

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Finn Campbell-Notman Empire of Light

2021. Dimensions: 140 x 92 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £9,800.

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Finn Campbell-Notman The Spirit of the North, Snowy Owl with Aurora Borealis

2021. Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm. Oil on linen.

Available to buy: £5,950.

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Finn Campbell-Notman The Ghost of the North, Great Grey Owl at full moon

2020. Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm. Oil on linen.

Available to buy: £5,950.

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Finn Campbell-Notman Time and Space

2022. Dimensions: 100 x 80 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £4,400.

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Finn Campbell-Notman Atalaya

2023. Dimensions: 92 x 65 cm. Unframed oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £3,950.

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Finn Campbell-Notman Fossa

2020. Dimensions: 100 x 70 cm. Oil on linen. SOLD.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Robin Rae ARCA (1928-2019)

Extraordinary success also marked Robin Rae’s early painting life. He first exhibited at the Royal British Academy in Young Contemporaries in 1946 when he was 18. After Ealing School of Art (1945-49) he went on to the Royal College of Art where his teachers included Francis Bacon, John Nash, Rodrigo Moynihan and Edward Bawden. By the time he was 21 he had had two successful solo shows at the Little Gallery in Piccadilly followed by an exhibition at the Ashmolean. In 1950, The Sunday Times critic Eric Newton described the ‘nerveless way’ he applied paint, calling him ‘an artist with a vision… distinguished not by its newness but by its completeness and intensity’. He put him ‘in the category of Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash and the Pre-Raphaelites’.

We are pleased to offer a selection of paintings by Robin Rae including three significant paintings from the 1950s and others spanning his lifetime of painting. His paintings are available to view below and to buy via phone +44 (0)1308 459511 or email gallery@sladersyard.co.uk.

Robin Rae Luis Bunuel

1955. Dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 cm. Oil on board.

Available to buy: £12,000.

Robin Rae Self Portrait

1956. Dimensions: 101.5 x 51 cm. Oil on board.

Available to buy: £12,000.

Robin Rae Eve

1958. Dimensions: 51 x 76 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £8,000.

Robin Rae Portland Bill Lighthouse

2006-07. Dimensions: H 61 x W 76 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,995.

Robin Rae Norfolk Broads, Low Tide

2001. Dimensions: 61 x 76 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,995.

Robin Rae Sheep at Ringstead

2000. Dimensions: 76 x 61 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,995.

Robin Rae Boat Yard

Dimensions: 61 x 76cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,995.

Robin Rae West Bay, West Dorset

1999. Dimensions: 76 x 61 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,995.

Robin Rae Fishing Boats, West Bay

2006. Dimensions: 76 x 61 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,995.

Robin Rae Yarrow

Dimensions: 51 x 61 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,995.

Robin Rae Old Railway Bridge, Powerstock

2000.Dimensions: 61 x 76 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,995.

Robin Rae Café at Freshwater, IOW

2009. Dimensions: 61 x 76 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,995.

Robin Rae The Eclipse

2000. Dimensions: 76 x 61 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,995.

Robin Rae Nursery

2006. Dimensions: 61 x 51 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £1,995.

Robin Rae Monument to a Despot

2010-13. Dimensions: 61 x 51 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £2,500.

Robin Rae Blackfriars Bridge

2001. Dimensions: 51 x 61 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £1,995.

Robin Rae Two Jugs

2001. Dimensions: 51 x 61 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £1,995

Robin Rae Walking to Paradise Garden

Dimensions: 61 x 51 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £1,995.

Robin Rae Colmers Hill, West Dorset

2011. Dimensions: 51 x 51 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £1,800

Robin Rae Untitled (Horse on the Chesil)

2003-07. Dimensions: 45.5 x 61 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £1,800.

Robin Rae Inmates

1996. Dimensions: 56 x 51 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £1,800.

Robin Rae Portland Lighthouse

Dimensions: 35.5 x 25.5 cm. Oil on canvas. SOLD.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA’s particular way of putting on paint , his knowledge and eye for colour and his ability to construct a perfect composition never ceases to delight and intrigue. Sadly Alfred died at the end of 2020 but we are pleased to show paintings, both abstract and more figurative from the last forty years of his life.

Alfred Stockham’s jewel-like paintings often convey the deepest imaginative force through the simplest of structures. His use of colour, shape and composition are based on a lifetime of study. Hours of contemplation went into each painting, resulting in works of extraordinary vision.

‘My aim is to create an underlying visual dynamic, a tension between the motifs in the painting so that the poetry of the subject and the poetry of the composition support each other. The real or observed world and the subconscious dream world both play their part to make a painting sing.’ Alfred Stockham

The following are available to buy. Click on the image to expand it. Please call 01308 459511 or email gallery@sladersyard.co.uk to enquire.

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Abstract I

2004. Dimensions: 24” x 30” / 61 x 76 cm. Framed size: 64 x 79 cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £12,000.

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Abstract II

2004. Dimensions: 24” x 30” / 61 x 76 cm. Framed size: 64 x 79cm. Oil on canvas.

Available to buy: £12,000.

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Moonlit Garden

2019. 16” x 20” / 40.5 x 51 cm. Framed size: 56 x 66cm. Oil on canvas board.

Available to buy: £5,950.

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Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Abstract Collage

2016. Dimensions: 16” x 20” / 40.5 x 51 cm. Framed size: 53 x 63.5cm.

Oil and paper on board. SOLD.

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Going South III

2017. 10” x 14” / 25.5 x 35.5 cm. Framed size 38.5 x 49 cm. Oil on canvas board.

Available to buy: £4,500.

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Untitled (Figure in a Landscape)

2020. 10” x 10” / 25.5 x 25.5 cm. Oil on canvas board. SOLD.

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Tuscan Farmhouse

2020. Dimensions: 7 x 9” 18 x 23 cm. Framed size: 28 x 32 cm. Oil on board. SOLD.

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Hillside House

2019. Dimensions: 8″ x 10″ / 20 x 25.5 cm. Framed size: 33 x 38 cm. Oil on canvas board.

Available to buy: £2,950.

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA White House and Tree

2015. Dimensions: 5″ x 7″ / 12.5 x 18 cm. Framed size: 26 x 31 cm.
Oil on board. SOLD.

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Black and White with Red

2019. Dimensions: 7″ x 5″ 18 x 12.5 cm. Oil on board. SOLD.

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Abstract I

Dimensions: 7″ x 5″ 18 x 12.5 cm. Oil on board.

Available to buy: £1,250.

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Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Abstract II

Dimensions: 7″ x 5″ 18 x 12.5 cm. Oil on board.

Available to buy: £1,250.

Please enquire: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel: 01308 459511

Alfred Stockham ARCA RWA Abstract III

Dimensions: 7″ x 5″ 18 x 12.5 cm. Oil on board. SOLD.

David West

An extraordinary wood-carver, David West has worked as an architect, an artist, a craftsman and a teacher during his long life. He has converted houses, restored the Town Mill in Lyme Regis, redesigned a three-acre garden for John Fowles, spent seven years building a doll’s house for a private collector and created unique and fantastical furniture, organ pipes and painted gilded carvings. He has exhibited at Fischer Fine Art, London; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Glyn Vivian, Swansea; Mead Gallery, Warwick University; the Royal Albert Museum, Exeter and has had two solo shows at Dorset County Museum and three at Sladers Yard.

The following are available to buy. Click on the image to expand it. Please call 01308 459511 or email gallery@sladersyard.co.uk to enquire.

David West The Ark

2020. Dimensions: H140 x W91.5 x D38 cm.

Available to buy: £20,000.

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David West White Fish

2023. Carved and painted poplar and plywood. Dimensions: H54 x W65 x D8 cm.

Available to buy: £3,000.

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David West Happy Fish

2023. Carved and painted spalted birch and poplar. Dimensions: H54 x W65 x D8 cm.

Available to buy: £3,000.

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David West Two Eyes

2023. Carved walnut and painted plywood. Dimensions: H52.5 x W62.5 x D7.5 cm.

Available to buy: £4,000.

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David West Coral Maze

2023. Carved and painted oak, birch and mahogany. Dimensions: H52.5 x W62.5 x D7.5 cm.

Available to buy: £5,000.

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David West Crab Larva

2023. Carved and painted poplar. Dimensions: H30 x W29 x D12 cm. SOLD.

David West Squid and Turtle

2023. Carved and painted poplar and birch. Dimensions: H30 x W36 x D17 cm.

Available to buy: £2,000.

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David West Octopus

2023. Carved and painted spalted birch and poplar. Dimensions: H30 x W36 x D17 cm.

Available to buy: £2,000.

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David West Kumano Kodo

2012. Carved and gilded wood (purple heart). Dimensions: H49 x W33 cm.

Available to buy: £3,500.

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David West Waterfall 2

2010. Carved, gilded and painted pine. Dimensions: H150 x W43 x D3.5 cm. SOLD.

David West Shoreline

2018. Carved and painted tulipwood. Dimensions: H25 x W43 cm.

Available to buy: £3,600.

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David West Waves

2018. Carved and gilded obeche. Dimensions: H51 x W19 cm. SOLD.

David West Waves Past and Present

2018. Carved and gilded oak. Dimensions: 47 x 30 cm.

Available to buy: £2,800.

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David West Sedimentary Rocks

2018. Carved and painted spalted birch. Dimensions: 19 x 70 cm.

Available to buy: £3,000.

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David West Low Tide

2018. Carved and painted spalted birch. Dimensions: 22 x 79 cm.

Available to buy: £3,000.

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David West Shoreline

2018. Carved and painted poplar. Dimensions: 20 x 68 cm.

Available to buy: £2,000.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

FINN CAMPBELL-NOTMAN

ROBIN RAE

ALFRED STOCKHAM

DAVID WEST

Sladers Yard Gallery is endlessly enhanced by Petter Southall’s exquisite furniture and his sculptural pieces large and small. An extraordinary artist and craftsman with a true understanding of his material, Petter’s pieces are deeply satisfying compositions in wood.