Julian Bailey NEAC On Portland Bill, oil on board, 86.5 x 91.5cm 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 […]
Martyn Brewster ARE Martyn Brewster Nocturne No.4. Acrylic and collage on canvas. 2017. H90 x 110 cm. 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 […]
Marzia Colonna MRBS Marzia Colonna MRBS Happy 90 x 90cm collage on board 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 […]
Anne Davies Night Song 13 x 23.5cm Anne Davies sees landscape as patterns of colour and texture. Memory and imagination feed into her fascinating small paintings. Drawn to semi-industrialised waterfronts, west country harbours, the north of England where she grew up and the Docklands of London are the places her mind goes to when she works. […]
Luke Elwes Luke Elwes Waterline 6 ‘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 seem to ripple with reflected light and dappled […]
Michael Fairclough RE NEAC Winter Contrails – Evening VII 112 x 122 cm 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 […]
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 Kamini Walk 3 (Hydra), 2025, acrylic on paper, 41 x 51cm framed Clean lines, dynamic surfaces and thrilling coastal subject matter are the defining features of Vanessa Gardiner’s work. Boscastle, Tintagel and Godrevy in Cornwall are subjects she has loved all her life and has painted often and brilliantly. More recently she discovered […]
Anthony Garratt 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 long history speaks in dynamic paintings. […]
