Julian Bailey NEAC When Julian Bailey paints in oil he works on board, enjoying the resistance of the hard surface. ‘I have a fairly wide range of colours, but try to limit my palette as much as possible in one painting. I try to keep the colours fresh and clean, using clearly visible brush strokes […]
Martyn Brewster ARE Blue Shadow 1. 2017. Acrylic and collage on canvas. 90 x 110cm. Martyn Brewster’s work is inspired by colour and light, by the natural landscape and the sea on the Dorset coast. Martyn has lived near the cliffs and beaches of Southbourne in Dorset for thirty years. His lyrical abstract works combine […]
Marzia Colonna MRBS Marzia Colonna Flying over the Rocks collage 90 x 90cm MARZIA COLONNA’s collages centre on the things she loves, the land and sea that surrounds her Dorset home, the places she visits, interiors of her studio, flowers from her garden, her sculpture. All are represented in cut or ripped paper she has […]
Fred Cuming RA (1930 – 2022) Thaw Signed, limited edition silkscreen print, framed. £1,200 Richard Holmes, the Romantic biographer, describes how Fred Cuming RA ‘reinvent[s] the world through colour’ to paint ‘both a recognisable place, which can be visited; and yet a completely transformed object of poetic intensity.’ For Fred Cuming, Turner has long been […]
Luke Elwes Luke Elwes Dawn water oil on canvas 2018 75 x 80cm £poa ‘Luminous fields composed of sea and sky,’ describes the subject matter of Luke Elwes’ own work very beautifully. Whether they are watercolour studies he made at sunrise on the banks of the Ganges, or different waters closer to home, his paintings […]
Michael Fairclough RE NEAC Michael Fairclough explores the immensity of sun, sky and sea in richly coloured, multi-layered and deeply textured impasto paintings. His recent works contemplate the transition from light to darkness. Sunset, dusk and twilight are a succession of light effects which can easily look overblown in paintings but Michael Fairclough’s compositions encompass […]
Rachel Fenner ARCA (1939 – 2025) Rachel Fenner’s recent paintings and drawings of holloways, rocky coves and the last marvellous vestiges of Britain’s temperate rainforests were deeply felt responses to powerful places where wild things still survive. Rachel was an established environmental sculptor and landscape painter. Throughout the 80s and 90s she worked prolifically making […]
Matt Fothergill Leather Goods Matt Fothergill is one of Britain’s best leatherworkers. The quality of the leather he uses is a pleasure to touch and his stitching and styling are faultless. He studied saddlery, harness making, fashion accessory design and construction at Cordwainers College in London. He now specialises in commissions and bespoke work as […]
Vanessa Gardiner High Cliffs 9 (Orkney) 2024. acrylic on board. 87 x 129cm. Clean lines, dynamic surfaces and thrilling coastal subject matter are the defining features of Vanessa Gardiner’s work. Wonderful new paintings of Boscastle, Tintagel and Godrevy, subjects she has loved all her life and has painted often and brilliantly, are joined in this […]
Anthony Garratt Loch 60 x 60cm oil on canvas Anthony Garratt is an experimental painter of landscape and sea. His paintings of Dartmoor and the Devon coast show his love of running and tidal water within the landscape. Since he and his young family moved to Dartmoor, Anthony’s engagement with this wild landscape and its […]
