Tag: Paintings

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 […]

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 Mango Seller  80 x 100cm  collage 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 with mostly […]

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 […]

Vanessa Gardiner

Vanessa Gardiner Harbour 12. Acrylic on board. 37 x 61 cm. Vanessa Gardiner paints in a dynamic geometric style enlivened with lyrical curving lines. Her colours may be opaque and crisp or more translucent and weathered, scoured and scored, washed back and reapplied, to give surfaces like those of a pebble on the beach. Seductive […]

Anthony Garratt

Anthony Garett 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 these dynamic paintings. […]