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 […]
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 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
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 […]
Brian Graham
Brian Graham A stunted thorn stands here and there. 51 x 51 cm. Acrylic on canvas. We are delighted to show a selection of Brian Graham’s Great Heath paintings. Celebrated by Thomas Hardy, the heath originally stretched between Dorchester where Hardy grew up and Bournemouth where Brian Graham grew up. As an important habitat, it is […]