Artists

David Atkins

David Atkins David Atkins was born in Greenwich, London in 1964. He studied painting at St Martins School of Art, London and Winchester School of Art gaining a 1st Class Honours Degree in painting. After leaving college he returned to London, where he taught part time and continued painting. He exhibits regularly throughout the UK […]

Julian Bailey NEAC

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 […]

Richard Batterham

Richard Batterham Pottery Richard Batterham died peacefully at his home in Dorset on 7 September 2021. An exhibition entitled Richard Batterham Studio Potter will be at the V&A, London from 26 November 2021 – September 2022 Richard Batterham is acclaimed as one of the foremost makers of domestic stoneware in the world. At Sladers Yard we were […]

Martyn Brewster ARE

Martyn Brewster ARE Blue Shadow 1 2017. acrylic and collage on canvas 90 x 110cm. Martyn’s work is inspired by colour and light, by the natural landscape and the sea on the Dorset coast. He is an artist whose seductive use of colour and vigorous originality has produced paintings and drawings that are collected worldwide. His drawings […]

Marzia Colonna MRBS

Mango Seller 80 x 100cm collage Marzia Colonna MRBS We are delighted to show the latest collages by Marzia Colonna MRBS (Member of the Royal British Sculptors). Marzia’s bronze sculptures are available to commission or buy through Sladers Yard. In a rare and special exhibition entitled Many Moons, Marzia Colonna is showing her collages with […]

Fred Cuming RA

Fred Cuming RA Waiting for the Ferry, FoweySigned, limited edition silkscreen print, framed £1,280 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 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

Michael Fairclough 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 the subtle […]

Rachel Fenner ARCA

Rachel Fenner ARCA Available Works Rachel Fenner’s recent paintings and drawings of holloways, rocky coves and the last marvellous vestiges of Britain’s temperate rainforests are deeply felt responses to powerful places where wild things still survive. Rachel is an established environmental sculptor and landscape painter. Throughout the 80s and 90s she worked prolifically making public […]

Matt Fothergill

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 […]