Tag: Artists

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 […]

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 […]

Finn Campbell-Notman

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 […]

Marzia Colonna MRBS

Marzia Colonna MRBS Sunflowers by the Sea  collage 100 x 100cm 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 painted beforehand […]

Fred Cuming RA

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 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 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 art all […]

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 […]

Vanessa Gardiner

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 […]