We have a limited number of works by some other leading artists including:

Mark Spray - Four pieces from Marks collection entitled “I’ll bring the poets”

Paul Simms - Two beautiful large mixed media paintings from Paul - he must have spent years watching waves turn over.

Catherine Harvey-Jefferson - A fourth generation Cornish artist producing fresh, expressive seascapes.

Wilf Langford - Striking pastels paintings of some beautiful Shropshire and Welsh scenes.

Monoprints and etchings from Lee Stevenson, Adrienne Peverall and June Hicks

 

I work mainly in porcelain and hand-throw a range of simple forms which are altered and distorted whilst at the plastic stage. The magic in making happens for me at this moment. The clay is at its most sensitive, being alive and responsive at the stage it calls to be moved and pushed. By distorting my freshly thrown pots I create a range of sculptural pieces that maintain an active relationship with their functional roots. 

My pots echo the energy and movement which initially existed in the soft clay, as well as inspiration from the natural world around me. Washed up smooth shell forms, tidal movements eroding their existence on sand and the flowing river Nore surrounding my tranquil studio space. The collaboration of these, as well as my hands on experimentation with the plastic qualities of clay are the channels I choose to express and voice, question and contemplate, resolve and create.

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I have been many things and travelled many roads but have settled for many years now, on being a professional maker of ceramic items. In my undergraduate years at Falmouth College of Arts I was selected for Ceramic Contemporaries 2, held at The Victoria and Albert Museum, I was also commissioned by Sir Terrance Conran to design an exclusive range of breakfast tableware for the Michelin House Conran Shop. In 1996 I went on to achieve a 1st class [Hon's] in Studio Ceramics, also appearing in ‘Setting Out ‘ 96 at the Craftsman Potters Association London. I have continued to practice ceramics incessantly and compulsively ever since.

My work is hand built, multi fired and multi layered to which I add elements of concept and narrative within both the form and surface. For this reason I prefer my work to serve a purpose, even if that purpose is not based on a functionality that is obvious in the traditional sense. I have used variations along this dysfunctional theme for many years now and continue to find that I am compelled to search for complexity and meaning within the smallest detail. My way of working is part habitual and contrived, yet spontaneous. I have always carried a tendency toward order as opposed to chaos. I am therefore compelled to confine, manage and control the chaotics of my mark making and favoured overloads of colour. This methodology/aesthetic remains constant regardless of form. In this respect, I hope that my work refers to something more than just itself.

The words ‘charming’ and ‘hideous’ are often used to describe my work. I regard both as compliments.

These days I reclusively and obsessively work in my studio, lecture and curate. My current range includes figurative sculpture, dysfunctional hollow ware and assembled tile panels, paintings and drawings

To purchase a piece of Linda’s work or for more information please call or email

 

Conceptually my work is centred on the acceptance of transience that all things are in a continual state of change. I am stimulated by that which is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.

I am largely influenced by the urban environment and architecture, in particular the buildings and walls showing the evidence of erosion, alterations and marks detailing passed events, changes and activities. I am attracted to the idea of the palimpsest, which strictly refers to a medieval document on parchment or vellum where attempts have been made to erase earlier writing, which, despite all efforts, will eventually show through and provide evidence of the previous work. The word palimpsest can be extended to mean something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface.

I work in encaustic, hot wax that hardens and becomes more permanent within minutes. It demands both freedom of inspiration from me and also respect for it as a natural medium. And just as the built up environment and the medieval vellum often betray the layers or our intervention, so encaustic - it is translucence - create pictures of layered opacity that show my marks and its own depths and shallows.

The development of the work revolves around making new discoveries, allowing one experience to lead to another and returning to previous work and redeveloping earlier themes.

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Elaine graduated from Exeter College of Art & Design in 1985, where she studied animals via livestock markets and the abattoir, using the media of photography and drawing to record the structure of the carcass.

In 1986, she set up a studio and continued the study of agricultural animals. Each animal is individually made by the process of slab building in clay, i.e. rolling out a sheet of clay and forming the body, then gradually adding slab by slab to form the whole animal. The details are then remodelled until the animal is complete. It is then biscuit fired, glazed and re-fired to stoneware.

Elaine wishes to develop other animals such as African animals and to incorporate other materials such as metals with ceramics.

To purchase a piece of Elaines work or for more information please call or email

 

I studied Graphic Design at High Wycombe College of Art and pursued a career in Graphics until 1990 working in London and then in Hampshire.

Although I have always painted, I started to exhibit work in pastel in 1988 in London and the south. Work has since been regularly selected for exhibition at the Mall galleries including the Pastel Society, RSMA, NEAC, and Society of Women Artists and at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.

I was elected a member of the Society Women Artists in 1995 and won the award in 2008 for ‘Most popular painting’. In 2008 I won best painting in show at St Barbe Museum, Lymington and in 2009 I won the Unison Pastel Award at the Pastel Society.

Work has been purchased by Hampshire County Council and Hunting Management Group.

All works are mounted and framed behind glass, to purchase one of these pictures or for more information please call or email

 

Welcome to our Autumn Exhibition. We have a superb collection of paintings and ceramics on show. Artists include Sheila Goodman S.W.A. Tony Owers, Beth Fletcher, Elaine Peto, Karen Morgan, Linda Styles and selected works by Steve Slimm, Catherine Harvey-Jefferson and Paul Simms

Sheila Goodman


Elaine Peto

Tony Owers

Linda Styles

Karen Morgan

Beth Fletcher

Other artists

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