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One of Britain's leading wildlife sculptors Adam has a signature fluid style of simple lines and flowing forms depicting both movement and emotion that beautifully captures the essence of his subjects. Working primarily in Bronze with earthy rich patinas, Adam's work is recognised and collected all over the world.Adam won the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year in 2010, and was elected a Member of the Society of Wildlife Artists in 2011.‘Nature is a wonder and a joy to observe and it's through my sculpture that I endeavour to connect further with wildlife and capture the character of my subject. While I'm sculpting I feel I'm engaging with the spirit of the animal, sensing it's subtle movement and suggestion in body language.For me, nature and sculpture are the perfect marriage. I see repetition in form, line, mass and detail throughout the natural world, sculpted over time but in perfect harmony. Conscious of these patterns, the concept for a sculpture becomes active in my mind and only when the composition, balance and emotion is clear do I begin to sculpt. I want to portray the simplicity of form, smooth flowing lines, natural rhythm and in doing so, free the eye to engage in the detail. Sold Work

I find the practice of painting is akin to meditation where the mind is focused on the work and all the stuff of everyday life disappears. My work is inspired by a varied collection of objects around my studio and home, flowers in the garden and the colours and textures found in the landscape, especially the geology and flora of the coastal cliffs where I walk daily. The paintings are predominantly oil on linen or board and I prefer a limited palette, mixing my colours from the three primaries, black and white.I start by making random marks of colour (the under painting is integral to the work) which gradually take shape as pared down Still Life compositions, hopefully bringing order, balance and a bit of tension into the initial chaos. My fascination with the relationship between form, space, and colour is fundamental to my practice. I make many small drawings, collages and oil sketches for reference while creating larger works and at the end of each working day brushes and palette knives are wiped onto newspaper, often creating little sketches which are later pasted into work books that can become ideas for future paintings. Sold Work

A very personal room that can tend to be a low key and contemplative space. Perhaps a space for subtler, gentler works – watercolours, drawings or etchings that would be lost visually in the larger public areas.

There are so many paintings that work at different age levels, think Pixar movies. A child can appreciate an artwork for immediate visual effect while a parent can perhaps enjoy an abstract at a more sophisticated level. Never assume children can only deal with cartoon posters.

Certain pictures we look at and they simply shout ‘Dining Room Picture’. Regardless of style or period, some subjects seem obvious dining companions. A still life of fruit, a sumptuous table of game and wine, bottles and wine glasses in varying stages of consumption, all fit the bill.

The room of the house where most subjects seem right, except perhaps a rather too racy nude study. The main public room is where your blockbuster pieces can be shown off – landscapes, portraits, still life and marine paintings – frankly an opportunity to express yourself.

As in most houses, this is the daily communal area so the works tend to be bright and fun, full of colour and personality to brighten the day. The ‘kitchen still life’ always conjures a copper kettle or raw vegetables on a cottage table but really – go wild!

A very personal room that can tend to be a low key and contemplative space. Perhaps a space for subtler, gentler works – watercolours, drawings or etchings that would be lost visually in the larger public areas.

Barbara Richardson was born in 1944 and graduated with a B.A (Hons) at Chelsea School of Art.  She was awarded the Christopher Head Scholarship for Drawing and represented College at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. At Art School Barbara had the good fortune to be encouraged by Patrick Symons RA, with whom she worked on Wimbledon Common over several summers after leaving College.  Patrick Symons’s interest in wild flowers was infectious and his meticulous way of working immensely instructive.Barbara first saw an exhibition of etchings by Giorgio Morandi at the Tate in 1991 which made her catch her breath, and since then she has looked at painters of that genre and fallen in love with their art. She has always loved work by such artists as Piero della Francesca, Velazquez, Gwen John and Paul Modersohn-Becker and has loved the still life work by the Spanish painters, Luis Melendez, Juan Sanchez Cotan and Goya, and by the painters Chardin and Fantin Latour. Group exhibitions include paintings accepted for the National Portrait Gallery John Player Portrait Award Exhibitions, Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, Singer/Friedlander Watercolour Competitions, Royal Watercolour Society Opens, London Group, RP, ROI, New English Art Club, Discerning Eye and RBA exhibitions at the Mall Galleries London.Elected ARBA in 1996 and a full member in 1998, Barbara has won several prizes at their annual open exhibitions, including the prestigious De Laszlo Medal. Barbara was elected to the Small Paintings Group in 2007 and Hon Secretary of the Group since 2010.  She has shown with the Group in their yearly exhibitions and with other Galleries as an independent artist. Barbara Richardson continues to be fascinated by the intriguing process involved in working to create an image that has weight and conviction, using her collection of ordinary everyday objects and her oil paints. Sold Work

Born in 1956, Bryan is a self-taught painter and sculptor who works in oil, watercolour, pastel and tempera. He has exhibited widely, both in this country, in Europe and in the USA with one man shows and mixed exhibitions. His exhibitions include the World of Watercolours in London; Whaletail Exhibition in Nairobi, where he was an award winner; International Animal Exhibition in France; the Tryon Gallery; Birds in Art Exhibition in Wisconsin, USA; he has also shown at the Game Fair. Bryan also works on many commissions including designing cover jackets for and illustrating books (Gerald Durrell's Army and Conservation published in 1997). His commissions include ‘Altarpiece', a 10 x 5 foot triptych inspired by a verse by St. Francis of Assisi and a commission from the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust for a painting depicting endangered species to commemorate their 25th anniversary. He has travelled to Africa to research his own book on African Wildlife. Bryan has been Artist in Residence at Wallsworth Hall, Gloucester and has taught art at Marlborough College Summer School. Sold Work

Born in 1953, Carry obtained an MA in Fine Art from Northampton University. She became a member of the Wildlife Society of Artists in 2000 and from 2003 to 2006 was a Council member. Carry is a painter and printmaker and occasionally gives workshops and demonstrations on printmaking and screen printing. For Carry, screenprinting is directly about colour combining monoprinting methods with handmade stencils. There is always a dynamic between planned intentions and spontaneous reactivity to the emerging image - the interface between the deliberate, the impulsive and the accidental. Carry feels that the landscape is inextricably linked to the plants and animals that live in it. She wants her images to project a sense of a place without being too accurate - somewhere between a map and a memory - and her starting point is direct drawing in the landscape. Living in rural Northamptonshire, the arable landscape has been the main source of her imagery, punctuated by forays to wilder regions. Her interest in the landscape draws on many levels of fascination: history mainly, also geology, botany and wildlife. She is drawn to the nature of the unlabelled countryside trying to survive alongside agribusiness. Carry Akroyd's characteristically colourful and organised landscape images examine the relationship between humans and wildlife and reflect her sheer joy derived from the natural world. She thus continues the tradition of British writers and painters of natural history. In 2009 Langford Press published a book called Natures Powers and Spells - Landscape Change, John Clare and Me in which Carry had 150 images printed. Subsequently she has been involved in a series of talks with John Clare relating to landscape change and her current work. In 2014 Carry was Winner of the Birdscapes Gallery Special Conservation Award. Sold Work

Born in Sheffield, he showed an early artistic aptitude such that he won a scholarship to a London art school at eleven years old. Sadly, his mother’s MS made it impossible to take up the place but he later entered the College of Arts & Crafts in Sheffield where he studied under James Anthony Betts, staying on to teach there himself for a year after his graduation. That year he also held his first solo show in a commercial gallery before beginning a scholarship post graduate course at the Royal College of Art in 1933.On graduating from the RCA painting department in 1936 he was quickly taken up by two of leading commercial patrons of the arts, Frank Pick at London Transport and Jack Beddington at Shell. This supplemented wages from teaching anatomy and lithography at the Camberwell College of Art and the South London Working Man’s College. In 1938 he married Eileen Kohn, a fellow student at the RCA and sister of the artist Edwin Ladell, moving to Harcourt Terrace in Chelsea. At the outbreak of war Mozley joined the Royal Engineers and like many fellow artists was transferred to the Camouflage Unit in Leamington Spa. His first commanding officers were Frederick Beddington (brother of Jack and post-war director of Wildenstein Gallery) and the fashion designer Victor Steibel. He would travel with colleague Edward Seago on painting visits and with whom he remained friends for many years. He approached the War Artists Advisory Committee but his lack of major exhibitions before the war ruled out his appointment as an official war artist. However, they recognised his abilities and transferred him to Military Intelligence where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He adapted well to the highly secretive world and used his skills of observation and the effects of light and colour in concealing the build-up of troops and equipment during the preparations of Operation Overlord. His war-time connection served him well in the subsequent peace. Victor Steibel and his partner, the composer Richard Addinsell, made many introductions in the theatre and film world that led to numerous commissions. He designed a number of theatre and film posters, stage sets, costumes and programmes for Sir Alexander Korda between 1946 and 1955. In the literary realm he produced more than three hundred book jackets and over a hundred illustrations for books, magazines and newspapers. His work appeared in the associated ephemera for all the principal national events of the era - The Royal Wedding, the Festival of Britain, Schools Prints, Lyon’s Lithographs and the Coronation paintings. Throughout he continued to paint and exhibit, contributing regularly to commercial galleries and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. His commercial posters were commissioned by the great corporate giants of the day. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Tate Gallery, The Imperial War Museum and The British Museum. Sold Work

Born in Perthshire, Chris is one of Scotland’s greatest living landscape painters. Initially he studied archaeology and ancient history at Edinburgh but from his earliest years he has responded to his fascination with the landscape around rural Aberdeenshire. He was accepted at Gray’s School of Art in the 1980s and forged a career painting landscapes very much in his own style and at odds with the fashionable conceptualism of the day. Examples of his richly textured, deeply personal responses to his native land sit in many public collections and they have won him a plethora of awards at the societies. His work can be found in the corporate collections of Murray International Metals, Premier Property Group, Aberdeen Hospitals Trust, Grampian Regional Council, Edinburgh Hospitals Trust, Bulthaup, Scottish Life, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Scottish & Newcastle, Dundee City Council, Bulthaup, University of Stirling, Turnberry Hotel and Centrica. His many awards include the Morton Fraser Milligan, Russell Flint Trust, Glasgow Arts Club Fellowship, Scottish Arts Club Awards, the RSW Council Award, the RSW McManus Galleries Purchase Prize, the RSW Fotheringham Gallery Award and the RSW The Walter Scott Award. Most recently, Chris has had considerable success at the The Discerning Eye winning both the Founder’s £2500 Purchase Prize in 2015 and ING £5,000 Purchase Prize in 2016. Sold Work

Christine studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating in 1963. Soon after she won the prestigious David Murray Scholarship for Landscape painting in 1966 and then the Hospitalfield Scholarship in 1968.  More recently in 1993 she was elected to membership of the RSW and two years later she won the Teachers Whisky Travel Scholarship at the RGI. This allowed her the travel opportunity of a visit to North Africa and the experience changed both her style and interpretation. The change marked a step forward in terms of recognition, and her works began to be bought and subsequently feature in a number of permanent collections. In 1996 her work was purchased for the Royal Scottish Academy as well as other similar bodies in different parts of the country. In 1999 she was elected as a Member of the RGI. Sold Work

All living artists that we show here at the gallery, not necessarily modern in outlook or style but definitely still breathing.

Born in 1964, David Atkins is a landscape painter living and working in Dorset.  He studied painting at St. Martin’s School of Art and Winchester School of Art, gaining a 1st Class Honours Degree in painting in 1986.  The tradition of landscape painting has always been at the heart of his drawing and painting, and he works directly from the environment, often revisiting places many times and in ever changing weather and seasons, inspired by his immediate surroundings and travels such as to New York, Italy and Ireland.Atkins has had many successful solo and group exhibitions in the UK and his work is included in both private and public collections.  He has won many awards including the Horan prize for painting at the New English Art Club, and the Façade International prize for painting at the Discerning Eye Exhibition. He was recently awarded the Baltic Exchange Prize for painting at the Mall Galleries. Sold Work

David has gained recognition largely as an abstract painter though this fails to cover the breadth of his abilities. He has had numerous one person exhibitions throughout the UK and has won praise and acknowledge through many prizes and commissions. He was regional prizewinner in the Laing Competition from 1990 - 1994 and more recently an invited artist for four years running at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival. Sold Work

Born 1957 into a Norfolk farming family, and growing up in a very rural environment, Dee Nickerson developed an interest in art and making things from an early age.Dee attended Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design, now NUA, between 1982 and 1984 gaining a diploma in general art and design with distinctions.  For the next few years Dee continued to pursue her art whilst being employed by Liberty retail.In 1992 Dee moved back to the countryside and began painting full time. Since then Dee has had many exhibitions, mixed and solo, in Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk and Somerset.Working mainly in acrylic on paper or board and influenced by her rural environment and her interest in fashion, textiles, nature and human life, Dee tries to construct little stories, based on life around her. Dee explores themes of living in the countryside.In some ways her work is less about life as she sees it but a mirrored reflection to it. Obviously, her experiences in fashion and textiles play a part, as do her memories of Norfolk, and the constantly changing landscape. -Oona Campbell Sold Work

Probably the best known of the late twentieth century landscape painters, he was an East Anglian artist by heritage and inclination. Without formal training he took private tuition from Bertram Priestman RA and was encouraged by the local celebrity, Sir Alfred Munnings. Munnings advice and contacts led to a lucrative early career in equestrian portraiture. Service during the second war led to his attachment to Field Marshall Alexander of Tunis to record the Italian Campaign. In peacetime Seago enjoyed a celebrity status in the London art world of the 1950s and 60s. His shows at Colnaghi’s enjoyed the previously unknown phenomenon of queues of excited buyers waiting for the doors to open. He was a great friend and favourite of the Royal Family, accompanying HRH Prince Philip on Britannia’s 1956 tour of the South the Antarctic, the south Atlantic and West Africa. As a result many of his paintings are held in the Royal Collection as well as the Guildhall Art Gallery, the Government Art Collection, the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, Pallant House and the Yale Centre for British Art amongst many others. Sold Work

Born in 1943 Elsa Taylor studied painting under the tutelage of Robin Child whose teaching continues to influence her approach to painting.  She now lives and works in the Cotswolds from where she gains much inspiration, as well as from the landscapes of Italy, Cornwall and Scotland.“I prefer to paint in the studio from drawings – sometimes just rough scribbles of a subject that has captured my imagination.  I can then work this into a finished painting.  I need to feel the excitement that comes from a mixed palette of colour and tones that are in harmony with each other.  It is very often the appeal of a small object standing alone in a large empty space, whether in the landscape or in flowers or still life that create an emotional response that needs answering.  Finding rather than making the mark is the crucial thing.Many artists have and continue to influence my work: Morandi, Nicholas de Stael, Keith Vaughan, and of course Cezanne – I look constantly and try to learn from the lessons that they show me.” Sold Work

Born in England in 1961, Emma graduated in 1984 with a  BA (hons) in Fine Art Printmaking from West Surrey College of Art and Design.Since then she has worked full time as an artist and exhibited throughout the UK . Her paintings have been internationally reproduced as greetings cards, posters, limited edition etchings and even fabric designs. "What excites me about making pictures is trying to capture the essence of a place, a feeling, a thing. I am attracted to vivid colours and the decorative qualities in everyday objects. I enjoy rearranging my ingredients, for instance moving all the red boats on the beach next to the pink tractor for a stronger effect. Birds, shells, flowers and fish might be placed against true landmarks as focal points. My pictures are therefore more atmospheric than literal. My aim is to end up with my gathered ingredients – glimpses of journeys, patterns from familiar settings and objects collected along the way – converging to create an image that communicates the richness of the original source of inspiration. I work mainly on board in acrylic, occasionally incorporating collage with gold and silver leaf. My training as a printmaker is evident both in the use of blocks of flat colour and in the way I scratch through surfaces to reveal pre-laid colours underneath. My influences come from traveling in India , Cornish holidays and the chaos of cats and children wandering onto wet paint. I have also drawn inspiration from the work of favourite artists, including Mary Fedden, Milton Avery and Daphne McClure." Sold Work

Born in 1950, Felicity House was fortunate to benefit from a post-war education that gave time and status to art which developed her early visual skills. With paper in short supply Felicity remembers making pencil drawings on end papers of books and unfolded food cartons as a child. Felicity taught before working as an illustrator following which she was also a tutor of Life Drawing at the Arts University, Bournemouth. She has also tutored at West Dean College. She works primarily in pastel but also uses water colour, pen and ink and oil paint. Her studio works are developed from her sketchbook drawings or studies made ‘en plein' air. She says of the approach to her pictures ‘Drawing is fundamental to my work. Instinctively searching for lines and shapes that interest me most, I make drawings and paintings directly from the subject with a fresh eye and lively hand. I enjoy the challenge of working to the inevitable boundary of time. Editing intuitively and responding with spontaneous expressive marks to create a vital equivalent'. Elected a member of the Pastel Society in 2003 and the N.E.A.C. in 2023, Felicity regularly shows with the R.W.A. and The Discerning Eye. She was awarded the Daler Rowney prize in the 2015 Pastel Society Exhibition. Sold Work

Fiona Millais’ paintings are based on landscape and still life, or sometimes a combination of both.  The paintings are produced in her studio, sometimes on the completion of a journey, perhaps to the landscapes and coasts of Cornwall and the west of Scotland or further afield.  Her daily walks out with her dog, in and around the farm, woods and heathland near her home, provide a rhythm and are source of inspiration throughout the seasons.  Her works are rarely directly representational, they evolve from memories, drawings and notes.  Small objects noticed on her walks will find their way into her compositions, which when painted add a sense of place and time. Fiona is the great-granddaughter of the Pre- Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais. Sold Work

This exhibition presents a selection of some of those we feel represent the best of the current school of British impressionism – not by any means an exclusive roll, but each as fine an ambassador of the style as you’ll find. Including: Michael Alford, Luke Martineau, Susan Ryder and Karl Terry. View E Catalogue ● Sold● Reserved If you are interested in any of the reserved paintings, it is worth contacting the gallery as they may become available.

Born in London, Fred attended Sidcup School of Art from 1945 to 1949. After having completed his National Service, he attended the Royal College of Art in 1951, winning a Rome Scholarship and an Abbey Minor Scholarship. In 1964, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, and ten years later achieved full membership, the youngest to have been so honoured at the time. In 2001 he was given the honour of being the 'Featured Artist' by the Royal Academy and unusually an entire gallery within that year’s Summer Exhibition’ was given over to a solo show of his work. In 2004, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts at the University of Kent in Canterbury, in recognition of his status as an artist and his lifetime contribution to the Arts. Among his many awards are the Grand Prix Fine Art, the Royal Academy’s House & Garden Award and the Sir Brinsley Ford Prize at the NEAC. Institutional collections include Monte Carlo Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Department of the Environment, the Guinness Collection, Lloyds of London and W H Smith. He was also an elected member of the New English Art Club and an associate of the Royal College of Art. Sold Work

Born in 1962 Giles Penny is a British artist who divides his time between sculpture, painting and printmaking, Penny trained at The Heatherly School of Fine Art, Chelsea, Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Newport College of Art. His focus of expression is the human form, which acts as a vehicle to explore the interaction between physical and abstract worlds and often portrays an innocent humorous quality. The nature of his figures remains eternally elusive. His paintings are instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with his sculpture.  In his own words: “I don’t like being limited to just one medium, I work on several pieces at once until something is complete. I am driven by the feeling that my next piece of work will be my finest, but when I reflect on my work over the past forty years I’ve found it’s the idea in conjunction with the making that completes the experience.” Penny’s large-scale pieces can be seen in many public spaces including: Golden Square, London; Canary wharf, London; Body Shop International; Fulham Reach, London; Liminster Church, Sussex; Wolverhampton city centre; Bruton, Somerset. Sold Work

Ian was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1934. A talented musician, he studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1950. Soon afterwards he began a part time painting course at St Martin’s School of Art and before long he decided to eschew a promising career as a concert pianist in favour of his painting. He began exhibiting his work in London in 1956 and a year later while showing at the wildlife specialists Tryon Gallery he met the artist Edward Seago. At the time Seago was a celebrity artist, equally popular with the man in the street and the Royal Family, he had recently returned from accompanying Prince Philip as a friend and ‘tour artist’ on a trip to the Antarctic in HMY Britannia. Seago saw great potential in the young Ian Houston and offered him encouragement from the start, in much the same way perhaps that Munnings had encouraged the young Seago. It was Seago who persuaded Ian to concentrate on landscape painting, a remarkably unselfish suggestion as it was his own specialty. Ian told us that “Ted was enormously generous and such a nice person. He used to give me a box of paintings to copy.” In 1964 he moved to North Walsham in Norfolk with his wife and family, where he taught music at the town high school. With Seago as an artistic godfather it was natural to gravitate to the county that had made the great man’s name and whose distinctive ‘flat’ landscapes inspired centuries of artists to subordinate land and man to its towering skies. Solo shows soon followed in Lincoln and Norwich, the latter with Mandell’s in 1970, shortly before Seago’s death. The success of the Norfolk exhibition allowed him to buy the sea-going Thames Spritsail Barge “Raybel” in which he subsequently gained his Master’s Certificate. Apart from the pure pleasure in sailing it, the Raybel allowed him to immerse himself in the weather off shore around East Anglia. Particularly sea weather and traditional sail in action, adding an enormous authenticity of experience and knowledge to the depiction of his subjects that so many of his followers now lack. His paintings have been collected worldwide for many decades and he has held solo shows Melbourne, Australia to Hong Kong. His private collectors include HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and his work is held in the corporate collections of Barclays Bank plc, Mercury Asset Management, Norwich Union, Robert Fleming Holdings Ltd, The Australian Government, The State Bank of South Australia, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln and Windsor and Newton amongst many others. He became a member of the Guild of Norwich Painters in 1994 and later became the group’s president. Ian is described variously as an impressionist or post-impressionist painter, he is the last in a long line of British twentieth century landscape painters that lead directly back to Munnings and Priestman, although through his association with Norfolk painting he is the spiritual heir to the more ancient heritage of Constable and the Norwich School. We are enormously proud to be associated with an artist of Ian’s artistic stature, a great painter with a page in British painting history secured. Sold Work

Born in 1968, Jane Hooper is a self taught artist living in a small village in Buckinghamshire. After 20 years of painting it is still life that has become a real passion. From her studio in High Wycombe Jane sets up collections of everyday objects that become the subject of her work. She works in oils with a muted palette trying to build shape colour and importantly texture. Always hoping to make the out come look spontaneous, confident with a simple naivety.  Sold Work

A graduate from Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s, Janice later worked, rather appropriately, for a period as Artist in Residence at Edinburgh Zoo.Her highly decorative, amusing and beautifully observed works combine birds, animals, fruit, handbags, high-heeled shoes , teacups with witty writing commenting various aspects and  foibles of her real and imagined menagerie of animal characters and her collection of props. "I tend to choose my subject (usually animal) for their decorative quality which can be explored through the medium of watercolour and collage. I don't normally know what the finished painting is going to look like, I don't plan or do any preliminary sketches, I suppose it is a bit hit or miss! I like to start with one object then add as necessary, sometimes there is a link but normally there isn't. The unlikely collections of objects in my work makes people think, making up their own links. I love to hear how differently my work is interpreted. My paintings are often described as 'quirky' which I like, as life is all too often a bit of a downer, so I enjoy creating daft paintings which can make people a wee bit cheerier!" - Janice Gray Sold Work

Born in 1961 Jill Barthorpe graduated from the Slade School of Art in London she won a European scholarship to paint in South-West France. Jill returned to London to establish a studio, continuing to spend half the year in rural France with frequent trips to work in Italy and Spain.Now entirely based in England Jill divides her time between London and her studio in Leicestershire, where the rolling countryside and huge skies provide constant stimulation for her work.Over the past 25 years Jill has exhibited extensively in the UK and America. Her paintings have been selected for 'Critics Choice' exhibitions and sold through Christie's contemporary art sales. Jill's work also features in several important corporate and private collections. Sold Work

Born in St. Andrews, Fife, he studied Art History at the University of Manchester and, following graduation in 1974, went on to lecture on Medieval Art at the University of Leeds. John has been described as a painter "capable of investing the ordinary table-top still-life with magic and mystery". (John Russell Taylor, "The Times"). "The handling of paint stood out" (Richard Dorment, "The Telegraph" reviewing the R.A. Summer Exhibition). The Daily Telegraph Magazine published a four page illustrated article on him in which he discussed his approach to painting. John paints the interiors of his home by electric light. His pictures glow with earth colours shot though with occasional dashes of blue. He is preoccupied with the shapes and patterns made by accidental conjunctions of bookshelves, pictures, chair backs and objects on a mantelpiece, as well as by half-open doors. John learnt much of enduring value about the art of painting from the artist Dick Lee, and since 1992 has concentrated full time on painting. He paints in oil, interpreting the texture and colour of everyday objects with a handling that gives the paint a feeling of fluidity, and recalls the manner of William Nicholson. In 1995 he was commissioned by The National Trust to paint a series of panels for a restaurant at Felbrigg Hall. In 2008 he was commissioned to design the new altar for the Lady Chapel in Ely Cathedral. For this commission John was one of five artists short listed for the coveted 2015 ACE Awards. These awards are designed to celebrate the successes and diversity of architectural and artistic projects in religious buildings throughout Britain. Sold Work

John Martin was born in 1957. He studied at Hornsey followed by three  years at Exeter College of Art where he obtained a First Class Honours Degree. He then studied at the Royal Academy Schools under Peter Greenham, gaining a Post Graduate Diploma.His work is in a line of traditional figurative painting, influenced by the Camden Town Group, particularly Sickert, Gilman and Spencer Gore. John’s paintings reflect a sense of place and atmosphere. Brian Sewell, Art Critic of the Evening Standard, said of John’s work : "The gentle honesty of his observation and a technique that matches it produce pictures without irritating mannerisms or striving effects." John was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1991 and has been the recipient of many awards; Stowells of Chelsea Prize Winner, David Murray Landscape Scholarship, WH Patterson Prize, the Fabrica Painting Prize, the Windsor and Newton Best Artist Award and the de Laszlo medal at the RBA . John's paintings have featured in the Tatler Magazine, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and International Artists Magazine. Sold Work

“I live on the Isle of Oxney in Kent and paint outside in all weathers. My work is an immediate response to what I see and feel when immersed in the everchanging landscape. This process has opened my eyes to the beauty that can be found everywhere, even in the mundane. I paint landscapes and cityscapes both here in the UK and abroad. Whilst I have drawn and painted for most of my life, I have had no formal training. I have however been fortunate to paint with many of the UK & USA ‘s finest living landscape painters. I`m am proud to be a member of The Royal Society of Marine Artists, The Wapping Group of Artists and the Rye Society of Artists. This camaraderie between painters continues to inspire and challenge me.” - Karl Terry Sold Work

Lotta is normally based between London and Italy, though has recently moved to Moldova. In recent years she has lived in Jerusalem, Bangkok and Pakistan. Having been educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School and the University of Edinburgh, she qualified as a barrister and pursued a career in international development for 14 years and lived for many years in Sierra Leone and Pakistan. Lotta was drawn to painting at a young age, taking courses at the Slade and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris early on. However, the exigencies of a legal career did not allow her to pursue it, and she came to painting full-time only in 2018. Since painting full-time, Lotta has exhibited in a wide range of public exhibitions, including many at the Mall Galleries (NEAC, SWA, RSMA, ROI, and ING), as well as the Royal West of England Academy and the London Art Biennale. She is a member of Chelsea Arts Club and prints of her work can be found at John Lewis. She won first prize in the British Art Prize, 2021, supported by Panter & Hall and Artist and Illustrators Magazine.  In 2024, Lotta was elected a full member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Sold Work

Born in 1970, Luke is a London based artist who was educated at Eton before gaining a First in English and Modern Languages at Oxford.  He studied briefly at The Heatherley School of Fine Art in London before beginning to paint professionally in the 1990s. Luke’s versatile output encompasses portraiture, landscape, still life and illustration.  He has regular shows in the West End of London and a thriving portrait practice. Luke discovered a passion for landscape painting at an early age, and plein air painting, whether on his travels or in London, is still an important part of his work. He is also happy to accept portrait commissions of all shapes and sizes, from family groups and children to more formal or official subjects.  Highlights of the last five years include painting Her Majesty The Queen visiting Eton College and a full length portrait of the Lord Mayor of London. He exhibits publicly, notably achieving in 2003 Runner up in the Garrick/Milne portrait competition.  In 2010 he travelled to India with Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall as official tour artist.  His work is collected by writers and royalty alike, and is held in many public and private collections including the Royal Collection. Luke is past President of the Chelsea Arts Society. - Karl Terry Sold Work

Born in 1962, Marc Yeats is a self-taught artist and composer whose work intricately connects both disciplines. His compositions influence his painting techniques, while his visual art inspires his musical creations. Yeats explores the representation of surfaces in sound, colour, form, and texture, drawing inspiration from geological processes and diverse English landscapes. His artistic influences range from classic artists like Van Gogh and Turner to modern figures such as Pollock and Bacon. Yeats primarily works with oils, acrylics and mixed media, focusing on the interplay of light, shadow and atmosphere in landscapes. He abandoned realistic depiction in his twenties, opting instead to capture impressions and memories through bold, gestural mark-making. Yeats's creative process is spontaneous and fluid; he allows his work to emerge organically rather than starting with a specific subject. This approach involves layering materials until recognizable forms develop, which he then refines to resonate with his memories. In addition, Yeats is an accomplished composer. His music has been performed by notable ensembles like the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He is also a published author, with works discussing his artistic practice and a recent collection of over 230 poems reflecting on his experiences as an artist. Sold Work

Born in 1958 Marion Thomson studied initially at Glasgow School of Art and then for three years at Glasgow University. Since 2000 Marion has concentrated on her painting, exhibiting her work on a regular basis. In her work one senses the influence of the twentieth century Scottish landscape painters whilst seeing her own interpretation and unique approach to the Scottish landscape. Describing her technique she says of her approach to starting a subject:“The unique landscape of the Scottish west coast and its many islands have always attracted me. Each of these islands have their own character and outlook. Over the years I have walked or cycled most of them from Islay in the Southern Hebrides to Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, there is a sense of something different in these islands. The quality of light here is also of a more intense nature, bouncing off a glittering sea, making the colours of the big sky and mountains seem more alive and complex. I enjoy the whole experience of being there from the amazing birdlife and plants to the ancient remains of past settlements. Back in the studio I can start distilling my material into a finished work. I prepare my own canvases in order to have a surface on which I feel comfortable painting. Introducing layers of colour and texture as I go helps me recreate that feeling of light and colour from the islands”. Sold Work

Born in 1958 in London, Mark Coreth was brought up on the family farm in Kenya until 1971. He was commissioned, in 1976, into the Blues and Royals where he served from 1979 – 1993, with distinction in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, the Falklands, Germany. Teaching himself to sculpt during his time in the Army, Mark can genuinely be described as entirely self-taught. A commission, in bronze, was the Household Cavalry's wedding gift to The Duke and Duchess of York. Mark retired from the army in 1993 to sculpt full time. Mark Coreth’s first solo exhibition was in London in 1986, with subsequent exhibitions around the world, located in New York, Europe and in 2021 in Moscow. Throughout this period Mark Coreth has undertaken many commissions including a monumental dragon, positioned on the entrance gate, for a vineyard in St Emilion. A life size bronze of the race horse Frankel is at the Ascot Race Course. In 2016 Mark was commissioned by The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital to create a sculpture for their garden and clinic in the Muristan in the Old City of Jerusalem. His sculpture, The Tree of Hope, is an olive tree forged in bronze, surrounded by a canopy of Swifts. Mark sculpts field studies in the wild with the subjects in front of him, these are his ‘sketches’, they add to his memory bank. These form the backbone of work for him to develop when in his studio. By working in this way and alongside local guides he gains a deep knowledge of the subject in a way that he could never achieve otherwise. His journeys have taken him to some harsh and wonderful places other than his beloved Africa and in particular, Kenya. He has travelled to Ladakh, the High Arctic and the Russian Far East. Sold Work

Welsh Artist Martin Llewellyn was born in Neath in South Wales in 1963. A completely self-taught Welsh painter, he takes his inspiration from the dramatic coastline and landscape of his native land. Although beginning as a watercolour painter he has in recent years discovered the dramatic possibilities of working in oils with a palette knife. Martin is making a name for himself on the contemporary Welsh art market and we are delighted to be introducing his stunning work to our collectors east of the border. His paintings are steeped in the traditions of his antecedents in the twentieth century Welsh Art school, particularly Gwilym Prichard, Charles Wyatt Warren and of course Sir Kyffin Williams. His richly textured oils in a subtle, muted palette beautifully capture the distinctive atmosphere of North Wales whether depicting the drama of Snowdonia or the Irish Sea breaking against the shores of Anglesey. Sold Work

Mary Fedden studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1932 to 1936. She went on to teach Painting at the Royal College of Art from 1958 to 1964 where she was the first woman tutor to teach in the Painting School. She then taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School from 1965 to 1970.Fedden exhibited in numerous solo shows throughout the UK; the Redfern Gallery, London from 1953, the New Grafton Gallery, London from the 1960s, the Hamet Gallery from 1970, the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London in the 1990s. A major exhibition of her work was held at the Royal West of England Academy in 1996. Fedden also received many mural commissions, notably the Festival of Britain (1951), the P & O Liner Canberra (1961), Charing Cross Hospital (1980) along with her husband, the artist Julian Trevelyan, and Colindale Hospital in 1985. Mary Fedden was President of the Royal West of England Academy from 1984 to 1988 and was elected a Royal Academician in the Senior Order in 1992. She received an OBE and a Doctor of Literature, Bath University in the 1990s.Mary Fedden died in June 2012. Sold Work

Born in 1971, Mhairi McGregor studied at Glasgow School of Art gaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and while there she received awards including from the Glasgow School of Art Landscape Drawing Prize and a John Kinross Scholarship - 3 months working in Florence, Italy.  After graduating in 1993 she spent some time painting in Australia and has also painted in Arizona, New Mexico and Canada, as well as in the United Kingdom. Having previously lived in the South of France, she paints many pictures using her knowledge of the light and landscape of this area.  Mhairi says ‘I never want to lose sight completely of what it was that inspired me to paint a particular scene.  I love colour, especially layers of colour on top of one another which gives both a depth of paint and sometimes a glimpse of what was there before.’Mhairi’s emotional response to subjects comes through in her paintings.  Initial sketches are developed into more abstract works and her landscapes evoke a sense of place affected by a rich, fluid impasto paint surface.  The spontaneity of her painting is apparent and this is because she does not re-work a canvas and, if she is not satisfied with the composition, will begin again with a fresh canvas. She has been awarded a number of prizes and scholarships and has exhibited in London and throughout the United Kingdom. Mhairi's work has been exhibited at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, of which she is a member, Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, and Royal Glasgow Institute. Sold Work

Michael Alford lives and works in London. He is known for an expressive painting style that fuses classical technique with a sharp, modern sensibility, he exhibits extensively in the United Kingdom, the United States and continental Europe. Michael’s varied body of work reflects his interest in many types of painting. He is well known for powerful cityscapes of contemporary urban centres—especially London—and for landscapes that capture diverse geographies through the eyes of a passionate traveller. His paintings of figures, clothed and nude, are sought after for their combination of fine draughtsmanship, acute observation and sense of drama. A sensitive portraitist, Michael is frequently commissioned to paint individuals and groups. Michael’s earliest art training came from his father, a colonel in the Royal Engineers, who taught him to draw in perspective from a young age. After a stint in the Royal Marines, Michael studied Spanish and Arabic at Durham University. He travelled extensively in South America and the Middle East, keeping detailed sketchbooks to record his experiences. He later studied art at the Slade School and the Chelsea School of Art. Travel remains and important source of inspiration for Michael’s work. Driven by a love for plein air sketching and painting from life, Michael’s recent trips have taken him to India, East Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the Caribbean and North America. He has been appointed war artist to the British Military, accompanying troops to Helmand Province in 2011 and again in 2013 and later in Iraq in 2016; his work is to be found in the permanent collection of the National Army Museum, among other institutions. Michael has been awarded several prizes including the Green and Stone Oil Painting Prize, the Agnes Reeve Memorial Prize for best painting of London, and the Prima Luce Mural prize. Michael is a member of the Chelsea Arts Society. Sold Work

Michael Clark, who will be familiar to most of our clients, is exhibiting his evocative and atmospheric work later this year. Still lifes, figurative scenes and landscapes.

Born in Ayr, Michael studied at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1979 - 1983. Through an early love of film he began working for the BBC in Glasgow before moving to London in 1989 to work as a freelance art director and illustrator. A simultaneous career as a fine artist proved very successful and he has held solo shows across the country. He has won numerous awards for his work over the years, including the Art Hire Prize at the Paisley Art Institute where he is an active member. He returned with his family to Scotland just before the millennium and now paints in his Ayrshire studio overlooking the River Doon. Corporate collections include the Royal Bank of Scotland, The Maclaurin Trust Collection and First State Investments Sold Work

A catch-all category used for decades to describe diverse British painting from the 1880s onwards. It has grown to encompass post war and pop art and includes artists who have enjoyed their greatest success in the twentieth century even though they may still be actively jabbing at an easel today.

We are excited to be showing some Modern British Art which will include work, among others, by Mary Fedden and Edward Seago.This will be on show upstairs at the same time as the exhibition of Vanessa Bowman's popular pictures on the ground floor of the Gallery.

Born in 1986, Nia Mackeown is a British artist who grew up in the Pembrokeshire countryside. Nia  focuses on landscapes, still lifes and interiors, exploring the subtle interplay of light, colour, shapes, tones and atmosphere,. Through fresh, instinctive mark-making, she seeks to capture the essence of familiar landscapes and objects, drawing inspiration from everyday life. Nia often works en plein air, using oils on small panels. These outdoor studies, along with sketchbook drawings, serve as the foundation for larger studio pieces. In the studio, she takes a more contemplative approach, expanding upon the immediacy of her initial impressions while refining composition and exploring emerging ideas. This process allows her to push beyond observation, experimenting with different possibilities that arise from both memory and imagination. Nia is a full member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and has earned several awards throughout her career. Her work has been featured in exhibitions by the New English Art Club, the ING Discerning Eye, Wales Contemporary, the Royal West Academy, the Royal Cambrian Academy, and The Artist and Leisure Painter Open Exhibition. Sold Work

Born in 1955, Nicholas Hely Hutchinson studied at St Martin's School of Art and Bristol Polytechnic.He gets much of his inspiration from the surrounding countryside and the coast. He also travels to some of his favourite places to paint – particularly Venice, Paris, the West of Ireland and Cornwall.“I wake-up most mornings thinking about painting. Usually it is something that I have seen the day before….A long straight sunlit road, lined with telegraph poles…A sparrow hawk flips over the hedge…These are possible elements for a picture.I am lucky to live in the middle of rural Dorset, not too far from the sea. The seasons and the constantly changing moods of the countryside are my inspiration. From large dramatic landscapes, where people and animals seem small under the passing clouds, to smaller things…A bird in a cold winter sky…This is what makes me want to paint… Moments of heart-breaking beauty, moments that take your breath away.” Sold Work

Norman Smith studied Art and Design at Bristol before qualifying as a teacher. He travelled extensively in India and the Far East, eventually arriving in Western Australia, where he worked for three years before returning to England in 1987 to paint professionally. Norman works predominantly in pastel, to depict the changing moods of landscape and it is here that the viewer can appreciate the influence the strong Australian light has had on his work. But he is also attracted to coastal and marine subjects as they offer different challenges, a huge variety of colour and constant movement. Although equally at home with oil paints, he is best known as a pastel artist, but rebuffs the general perception of pastel as either gentle or subtle. His technique is to apply solid patches of pure colour in thick layers that create a heavily textured effect, treating the medium much like oil paint. His dramatic, deliberately limited palette combines with a great talent for draughtsmanship and the pastel's vigorous application suggests a real passion for his subject. Now a very well established name on the contemporary English art market, he has had many successful one-man exhibitions throughout the United Kingdom and exhibits regularly with the Pastel Society at the Mall Galleries, where he won the Longley Memorial Prize in 1999. He was elected a member in 2000. He is also winner of the Inscribe Prize and in 2001 won the Thompson Gallery Award. His paintings hang in many collections worldwide. Sold Work

"Living in the Yorkshire Dales for the last four years and experiencing their dramatic ancient landscapes of Coverdale, Swaledale, Wensleydale and Richmondshire have brought new, thought provoking, ideas into my paintings. During these years I have painted the seasonal drama in this often remote countryside: depicting the turning of the wild purple heather clad moors during the middle of August, the extraordinary abundance of summer wild flowers, the first poppies and the inescapable harsh blizzards of winter snow. These atmospheric places encompass the arrival of the Curlews and their distinctive haunting call which resonates clearly over the lands inspiring my first thoughts for paintings. The ever-present stone walls are a constant element in my Yorkshire paintings and emphasise how parts of the landscape has not changed since medieval times and some of these tumbled down field boundaries date back to late prehistoric preserving Romano–British field systems. The irregularity of the stone walls and their moss covered and lichen-encrusted appearance give them a look of having grown organically from the landscape over centuries–all wonderful to paint as no two are the same! Over recent years I have been revisiting the West Coast of Scotland including the Isle of Mull, Kentra Bay, Ardnamurchan, Jura, and Arygllshire". -Oona Campbell Sold Work

Born in 1949, Patrick Cullen is a painter in oils, pastels and watercolours, known for his scenes of Tuscany, Andalucia and Southern France, in all seasons and weathers. Over the past fifteen years he has also made a number of trips to India, painting and sketching in the streets and markets of Rajasthan and Gujarat, culminating in solo exhibitions at Indar Pastricha Fine Arts, London W2 in 2010, 2013 and 2016. Trips to India with painters Ken Howard RA, Peter Brown NEAC and Neale Worley NEAC led to a four man show at Indar Pasricha Fine Arts in October 2015. Patrick became a member of the New English Art Club in 1997 and was elected President in 2023. He was also a member of the Pastel Society between 1990 and 2004. He has received numerous awards and prizes for his paintings. Most recently the critics prize at the NEAC annual show 2016. In 2015 he was a prize winner at the Lynn Painter Stainer Prize, having been a finalist for the previous three years. He is also a portrait painter. Sold Work

Often called the last of the Impressionists, Maze had a reputation as one of the great artists of his generation. He was born in 1887 into an artistic circle in Le Havre, where the young Maze learned the rudiments of painting from family friends that included Renoir, Monet, Dufy and Pissarro. His father, a tea merchant, sent him to school in Southampton where he began a life long love affair with all things English. On the outbreak of War, the sight of the Scots Greys disembarking at Le Havre inspired him to sign up immediately as their interpreter. A brave and highly decorated soldier, Maze was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal and bar; he sketched continually throughout the Great War, his pencil and paper never far from his bayonet.During this time he encountered Winston Churchill and a mutual interest in painting led to a lifelong friendship, often with Maze acting as Winston’s artistic mentor. Writing from Chartwell before the Second War Winston described Maze as “an artist of whose keen eye and nimble pencil record impression with a revealing fidelity.” This facility to record the events of his life wherever and whatever they were with distinctive immediacy led a British tommy to describe his work as “pictures done in shorthand”.Maze immortalized the English Season in art: Goodwood, Trooping the Colour, Henley Eights and Cowes Week where he was a familiar figure on the Squadron steps shrouded in tweed coats and a large hat, whatever the weather.Maze exhibited at a number of major commercial art galleries in London, Paris and America. In London he had shows at Marlborough and a major retrospective ‘Paul Maze & The Guards’ at Wildenstein in 1973.Maze’s fascinating life was reviewed in Anne Singer’s biography ‘Paul Maze – the Lost Impressionist’.   From 'The Passions of Paul Maze' exhibition catalogue at Panter & Hall in Feb/March 2016 - Jessie Paul Maze fell in love with Jessie Lawrie in the early 1930s, she became the second Mrs Maze in 1950 and the couple remained devoted to each other until Paul's death in 1979. He painted and drew Jessie constantly, almost to the exclusion of anyone else in their later years. It was his great friend and mentor Édouard Vuillard who convinced Paul Maze to adopt Pastel as his principal medium. He introduced the young Maze to his pastel maker the great Dr Roche, who had discovered a new formula for chalks that had allowed for 1,600 shades. Later Maze had described the experience as having been "taken by God to meet God". The medium was perhaps put to best use in his loving studies of Jessie. His simple glimpses of domestic moments are reminiscent of the later intimiste works of Bonnard and Vuillard finding beauty in the otherwise mundane. This intimacy found in his small pastels of Jessie, say much for his feelings for her. They are the most natural of all his subjects as, one would guess after years of living under the artists eye, Jessie appears oblivious to the viewer and artist as she carries on with her daily routine, bathing and dressing un-posed and undirected. Pomp and Ceremony As a highly decorated soldier in the Great War, Maze new the military arena intimately. In the Second War he commanded a battalion of the Home Guard interrupted by a spell on the continent on a yearlong special mission for Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris at SHAEF. He enjoyed the visual feast that a splendid martial and state occasion afforded an artist. His many contacts in the military establishment, including Sir Winston Churchill, who he'd first encountered in the trenches, allowed him privileged access to the annual Trooping the Colour ceremonies and he was often to be seen, a lone figure at an easel at Horse Guards or Windsor Great Park recording each event for posterity. Indeed for major state occasions, coronations and the like, the army erected a special wooden stand granting a unique perspective above the throng. Wildenstein's held a show of his work depicting military pageantry in 1973 entitled 'Paul Maze and the Guards'. After his death a memorial service at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea was organised for him by his friend General Sir Michael Gow. West Sussex In January 1950 the newly married Paul and Jessie bought Mill Cottage in Treyford, a small hamlet near Midhurst. Paul had been struck by the beauty of the countryside while commanding the local Home Guard and had decided to spend his remaining days there. He painted en plein air in the Sussex Downs in all seasons and weather until his death nearly thirty years later. Particular attention was paid to the garden at Mill Cottage, a mature garden to which the Maze's added a number of rare plants that Jesse ensured filled the interiors of Mill Cottage in summer. Maze adored the open countryside and most mornings set out with a low stool and a 'baby carriage' laden with hundreds of pastels carefully ordered so as to be chosen by touch so as not to lose concentration on the Sky, fields and woodland for a moment. In his preface to Paul Maze's 1948 solo exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art the Critic Simon Levy wrote  "To be able to capture nature in its moods and in its movement and to achieve in so delicate a medium as pastel so complete a self-expression is a consummation that one cannot but admire" Travels As a French Norman by birth and a naturalised British subject Maze spent the majority of his time between France and England. He fought in France in the Great War and took a studio in Paris between the wars settling for the most part in West Sussex from 1950. He had enjoyed a close friendship with Consuelo Balsan since the war and she lent the Maze's a mill house on her estate St Georges Motel, a château in a small commune near Dreux, about fifty miles from Paris. Consuelo (nee Vanderbilt) had been Duchess of Marlborough until her divorce in the 1920s and was still close to Winston Churchill who often visited to paint alongside the community of impressionists that gathered there. In the early 1950s the Maze's were introduced to Laurence and Mary Rockefeller who soon became firm friends and patrons. In 1952 the Rockefellers invited Paul and Jessie to stay in New York to attend Paul's large solo show opening at Wildenstein's. A planned month turned into a year's sojourn, having been lent a house in Centre Island they enjoyed invitations to Maine, Palm Beach and Fisher Island and another show was held at the Worth Avenue Gallery in Palm Beach. Although most of the post war period was spent in the rural idyll of Mill Cottage, Treyford the Maze's did summer occasionally in Monte Carlo and Majorca, the latter in a house lent by the Duke of Beaufort, who as David Somerset had organised Paul's exhibitions at Marlborough Fine Art. Influences Growing up in Le Havre at the turn of the last century Maze was fortunate to have both the encouragement of a father who patronised the contemporary artists of the day and to be surrounded by some of the greatest names of French painting of the day setting up their easels on his doorstep. He watched Pissarro paint and painted side by side by an indulgent and sometimes instructive Raoul Dufy. Georges Braque was a childhood and lifelong friend. After the Great War he returned to Paris and set up studio at 13 rue Bonaparte, fortuitously his neighbours on either side on the fourth floor were Andre Derain and Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac. They introduced him to their extraordinary circle of friends that included Jean Marchand and Ker-Xavier Roussel. Collette the writer amongst so many artists had a habit of nick-naming each member, dubbing Paul Maze 'Le Berger' - 'The Shepherd'. At this stage it was really only de Segonzac who had a significant influence on his career helping him mount his first exhibition at the Galerie des Beaux Arts in Nice in 1921. In 1932 Maze met Édouard Vuillard in London and they became great friends. Vuillard's Paris dealer Joss Hessel owned a small country house Les Clayes, near St Cyr which he would throw open to a general melee of artists, musicians and statesmen. Here Maze cemented his friendship with Vuillard and the latter convinced Maze to concentrate on working in Pastels, the medium for which he has perhaps become best known; even paying him the great compliment of introducing him to his personal pastel supplier in Paris. Sold Work

Born in 1952, Kuhfeld studied at Leicester School of Art between 1972 and 1976. In 1978 he secured a place at the Royal Academy School of Art. During this time he also studied under the painter Peter Greenham CBE, RA. While at the Royal Academy Schools Kuhfeld won various notable scholarships and prizes: 1978-79 David Murray Landscape Prize; 1979 Royal Academy of Art Silver Medal for Drawing, Royal College of Surgeons Dooley Prize for Anatomical Drawing; 1980 Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Scholarship and Richard Ford Scholarship for study in Spain.In 1985 the New Grafton Gallery in London gave Kuhfeld his first major exhibition, with the painter Christa Ga, which helped establish him as one of the up-and-coming members of the New English Art movement. In 1986 Kuhfeld was elected to membership of the New English Art Club. In 1992 he became an elected member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. In 2012 Kuhfeld was commissioned by HRH The Prince of Wales to paint the Royal wedding of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Prince Charles has been a patron of Kuhfeld who painted portraits for him of Prince William and Prince Harry in 1986.In 2020 The Prince of Wales commissioned seven artists to each paint a portrait of a survivor of the Holocaust. Kuhfeld was commissioned to paint the portrait of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch.  These seven portraits were unveiled in 2022 and have now entered the Royal Collection.  In 2023, Kuhfeld was selected by HRH King Charles III to paint the state portrait on the occasion of his succession to the throne.  Sold Work

Richard Pikesley was born in 1951 in London, and studied at the Harrow School of Art, the City of Canterbury College of Art and the University of London. He was elected to the New English Art Club in 1974 and to the Royal Watercolour Society in 1997.Richard regularly contributes to mixed exhibitions in Britain and abroad, including the RA Summer Exhibitions, The Royal West of England Academy, Minton Fine Art in Toronto, the New Academy Gallery in London, Valley House Gallery in Texas, and "The Discerning Eye". In addition, he has had over 10 one-man shows throughout the UK. In 1991 he was commissioned by Swallow Books to write book on landscape painting in a series edited by Ken Howard. This was published under the title of 'The Complete Artist' bound up with three other titles in series. Sold Work

Robert is a Yorkshire born artist specialising in city and landscape paintings around London and the North Yorkshire Moors. Most of his smaller works are painted directly from the subject and at all times of the year in all weather.Robert moved to London in 1988 to study for a Masters Degree in The Illustration and Rendering of Architectural Spaces at London University. Prior to that he had studied at Batley Art College and worked for several years as an architectural illustrator. He is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers (FCSD). Robert has a fine reputation as one of Britain’s leading representational painters of our urban environment. Through his series of London scenes, in a distinctively British impressionist style, he is now as familiar at the Mall Galleries annual shows as Ken Howard or Peter Brown. The work is layered with texture, painted in a subtle, almost monochromatic palette, that has become his trademark. It is this tonal range that so perfectly captures the London we all recognise on a winter’s day. Robert has a knack for conveying our sense the place - the damp chill of the city in the rain and the excitement and daily bustle of life in the Capital. Robert’s London is one we know and love well, not merely because we recognise the landmarks of our daily commute but rather that he captures our lived experience of it so perfectly. Sold Work

Sarah is a British artist, living and working in northwest England. She received a degree in Fine Art at St Martins College (Lancaster University), and subsequently taught painting and creative drawing on their Fine Arts BA and the teacher training courses. She has been exhibiting regularly since 1985, and her work, from large abstract canvases to minutely observed paintings and drawings has always been strongly influenced by the natural environment. Recently, Sarah has gained recognition with awards such as the Towry Award for the best artist from the North of England in the National Open Art competition and is shortly to become artist in residence at Brantwood, Cumbria. Discussing her influences: "One of the earliest influences of my work whilst growing up was that of Lake District artist and children’s author Beatrix Potter, whose botanical and entomological illustrations influenced my choice of observational drawings in my early teens. After poring over Beatrix Potter’s funguses, plants, dead mammals and birds, I then began to delve further into botanical and entomological studies. I grew up constantly drawing. My father was a draughtsman, and my mother was an artist whose subject was primarily wild life. I was lucky enough to enjoy a rigorous arts education at school where a high value was placed upon accuracy of drawing. At school, we also closely studied composition where I eagerly learnt to use Fibonacci’s famed sequence as a method to compose my work. The way in which I lay out the subject matter in my work today still complies with the principles of this theory. My decision to lay out my collected objects is also influenced by visits to the museum, especially entomology exhibits, as illustrated particularly by the frequent use of bees in my work.  The dramatic decline in bees is an issue close to my heart; increasingly diminishing, I fear these insects will soon only be found as objects of curiosity, laid out in sterile cases. Cutlery as a recurring motif in my work begins with my Grandmother. A cook for a large country house, my Grandmother allowed me to take old and tarnished knives and spoons thrown away by the household, starting my own cutlery collection. From a family of collectors, my father collected blown birds eggs in the 1940s, which I have incorporated into my works. My personal collection of beetles, butterflies and bees also frequent my compositions. In terms of artists, I find 16th and 17th still life painters, most notably Juan Sanchez Cotan fascinating, and I have been particularly inspired by his use of light and composition  - though where he hangs his objects, I prefer to lay mine flat. Like many artists and print makers using handmade linen paper, I cherish the decked edges and texture of the material, finding beauty in the paper itself. I believe it deserves to be seen and appreciated, hence my considered decision to float mount my work. The pins in the corners of my work are my own personal nod to entomology, the scientific study which served as one of the earliest influencers of my visual language, and continues to inspire and shape my work." Sarah is a great supporter of the British Bumblebee Conservation Trust - for more information on the wonderful work the BBCT do please follow this link - BBCT Website Sold Work

Born in 1958, Sarah Spackman studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw and Camberwell Schools of Art. Sarah has a fundamental belief in the value of drawing and the importance of creating relationships within the pictorial space. Ideas for paintings come from things she has read or seen, much-loved objects from the house or studio, or flowers from the garden. She has become well known for her still life paintings which are, in essence, landscapes. The eye travels around the table top encountering objects that inhabit the space, they are discovered and the space around them explored. The close observation of the objects gives them weight and substance. They become characters inhabiting a landscape, sometimes as groups and at other times as individuals. More recently conventional perspective is often discarded in pursuit of a greater understanding of the way the eye travels across the surface. Sarah works mainly in oils and her use of pale and muted colours show the influence of Morandi. The surface of the canvas is developed with many thin layers of paint, she makes her own primer with egg, oil and titanium white pigment, which adds greater luminosity to the subtle colours used. Sarah's work has been selected for both the Discerning Eye and the Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition since 2010 and her work is in public and private collections.She is member of the Royal Society of British Artists and a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Sold Work

Born in 1965, Sarah studied at Canterbury and Camberwell Schools of Art before going on to the Royal Academy Schools.  She paints places, people and things that she is most familiar with and, for instance, the coast where she has lived most of her life recurs frequently.  She is drawn to the quality of atmosphere in the sky and landscape, which is both visual and emotional.Sarah begins with a series of small sketches made outside in oil paint on cardboard.  These are not the end goal but the source of larger studio works.  She plays with elements gathered from different drawings until they make a picture which seems compelling.She was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 2006. Sarah has many major national and international awards, has taken parts in numerous exhibitions and her work can be found in both private and national collections. Sold Work

We pride ourselves in the depth and breath of our Sculpture offering at the gallery. From internationally renowned animalier works to delightful abstract casts there is something for every taste and pocket.

Siân Hopkinson was born in Hertfordshire in 1967. She attended Wimbledon School of Art and graduated in 1989. In her final year she became deeply engaged with the genre of still life, in particular the still life paintings of Spain in the 17th century where everyday humble objects become moving and miraculous. She took particular inspiration from the works Chardin, Velazquez, Manet and Morandi. Shortly after graduating she was commissioned by Euphrosyne Doxiadis to provide 36 pen and ink drawings for her book The Mysterious Fayum Portraits – Faces From Ancient Egypt (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995). She was further commissioned by the author to produce studies from Fayum funerary portraits in the British Museum which Doxiadis used during her lecture tour to illustrate elements of ancient technique. The beauty found in the art of this period continues to influence her today.  Her exquisite still life compositions, crafted with such gem like clarity are, in the words of the painter Jeff Stultiens, ‘the product of the sort of intensive search that was once the hallmark of good figurative painting.’ Sian exhibited her own work in and around London, including in many successful solo shows, before finding representation with Panter and Hall. Her work has been exhibited in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens and Istanbul, and has sold in both Europe and America. Sold Work

Born in 1958, Sonia gained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Staffordshire University in the 1980's following which she was invited to join the post-graduate Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at Brighton College of Art, gaining the highest grade of Honours. Following her studies at Brighton, Sonia was offered places on MA Fine Art courses at Edinburgh and Central Schools of Art, London. She decided though to pursue the direction of teaching in art education and had a successful career, achieving Head of Art in Oxfordshire. Since leaving teaching to concentrate on painting Sonia spent time developing her own work. Carefully chosen objects collected over many years, flowers and fragments of patterns are a constant source of inspiration. Something extraordinary happens when these everyday objects evolve into a still life on the canvas. The shapes and colours interact with the background textures displaying the sheer joy and exuberance of using paint that is a hallmark of her work. The paintings have a unique, rich, surface quality, and bold use of colour. Working in acrylic she will rub back the initial layer of pigment to create an undertone of colour that creates a texture and depth to the picture. Sold Work

Born in London, the son of the artist Sir Muirhead Bone he studied at the Slade School of Art from 1922 to 1924 under Henry Tonks, and in 1925 won a gold medal for wood engraving in the International Exhibition in Paris. From 1936 to 1939 he served on the committee of the Artists' International Association, helping artist refugees from Germany to live and work in Britain. During the Second World War he served as a civilian camouflage officer and later as an Official War Artist attached to the Navy. He was art critic to the Manchester Guardian from 1948, and in the 1950s emerged as a broadcaster, frequently serving on the panel of the BBC radio programmes 'The Critics' and 'The Brains Trust', and on the long-running and television programme 'Animal, Vegetable and Mineral'. He was also the author of the Shell Guide to the West Coast of Scotland. In 1957 he was briefly Director of Hornsey College of Art before his untimely death in London a year later. Sold Work

In an age before the camera became the principle means of social record and the flickering screen in every house monopolised domestic entertainment, the printed word in the form of daily and weekly journals still provided the man in the street with his window on the rest of the world. At the turn of the last century, Steven Spurrier, the son of a silversmith-designer based in the City, left a brief period of employment with his father to embark on a career as a fulltime illustrator. By the 1930s he was to become one of the nation’s most celebrated news artists, in constant demand by the leading papers and periodicals of the day. Throughout the Edwardian period Spurrier was a regular contributor to Madame Pearsons, Royal, and both The Daily & Weekly Graphic. He continued to paint full time, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1906 with great success, culminating in the purchase of his 1913 exhibit ‘Afternoon’ by the Empress of Russia. The outbreak of war found Spurrier serving as a Special Constable, however he lost no time in enlisting in the Artists’ Rifles before a weak heart thwarted his attempts to enter active service. In 1916 he was seconded to Military Intelligence to work with the Dock Police in Hull, continuing to record his experiences in his sketch books. His artistic talents were finally utilised by the War Office with his transfer to the navy as Dazzle Officer on the Clyde. While in Glasgow he was responsible for camouflaging the world’s first ‘flush deck’ aircraft carrier, HMS Argus, launched in 1918. After the war Spurrier joined the Illustrated London News and Graphic Weekly as ‘Special Artist’. By 1922 his fame as an artist had grown such that he was invited to contribute miniature drawings, complete with folio, to Queen Mary’s dolls house. Throughout the inter-war years Spurrier was every editor’s choice; his reputation for never missing a deadline, however short notice and his technical facility, mastering the demands of print reproduction, kept him constantly in work. His illustrative reportage was aided by a photographic memory that allowed him to sit through an important trial and produce an accurate account with only photographs of the empty court room and shots of the protagonists as a prompt. It was also at this time that Laura Knight introduced Spurrier to the circus world. He became friendly with the Mills Brothers, following a ‘tenting’ season around the country with the Bertram Mills Circus for several years. Many of Spurrier’s most important works were inspired by the characters and atmosphere he encountered there, particularly the impressive figure of Frank Foster, the Mills’ Ring Master, who became a close friend. He illustrated Noel Streatfield’s ‘The Circus is Coming’ and wrote his own book for children on the subject. Ironically, although the circus became his great fascination, it was a kick from a performing horse that ultimately finished his career. Never fully recovering from the injury, Spurrier became bed ridden in later life, unable to work in his last years; he died at his home in St John’s Wood in 1961. Spurrier had an innate talent for caricature and his many Royal Academy exhibits were often wickedly satirical, always incisive but never cruel. He was a great admirer of Thomas Rowlandson’s satires on regency life and felt he had a similar service to offer his twentieth century public.The publications he illustrated are too numerous to list but included most daily journals, magazines and periodicals and every issue of the Radio Times for several decades. He was a long serving Royal Academician and council member and a member of the Royal Society of British Artists whose galleries held the last exhibition before his death, opened by Sir Charles Wheeler PRA. Amongst the many public galleries who have purchased his work most notable are the Imperial War Museum and the Royal Academy. His painting ‘Yellow Wash-Stand’ was purchased by the Chantrey Bequest for the Tate in 1940 and the National Portrait Gallery holds a portrait of Sir Frank Brangwyn. Steven Spurrier was as familiar to the British reading public between the wars as the celebrity reportage photographers are today. The bulk of his best commercial works are now largely lost to us as is the nature of the print medium, and consequently as subsequent generations grow up with different illustrators he has been largely forgotten. With the discovery of this wonderful collection of original drawings and inks and through the ensuing exhibitions, Panter & Hall intend to bring Spurrier’s remarkable talent to a new generation of collectors. Sold Work

An exhibition of still life and interior paintings.  This exhibition will show how our artists interpret, in their individual styles, these two subjects.

A mixed exhibition including many of our favourite gallery artists on show throughout August.

Sue began painting professionally at an early age. Encouraged by her father, Robert Ryder VC, an enthusiastic amateur painter who imbued his daughter with a similar passion, she entered the prestigious Byam Shaw School of Art. There, her tutor, Bernard Dunstan, introduced her to the work of the post- impressionist Edouard Vuillard, whose gentle scenes of intimate interiors, domestic spaces and gardens in soft blurred colours proved a significant influence on her painting style and choice of subject for the rest of her career. Sue was only 18, and still a student, when she first exhibited at the Royal Academy. She married shortly after, spending the next decade juggling the demands of her career with that of her young family, painting both interiors and portraits. By 1981 her reputation as a portrait painter was such that HRH the Prince of Wales commissioned her to paint Diana, Princess of Wales in her wedding dress. In the ensuing three decades her career has been a blizzard of activity. She has won numerous prizes at the Mall Galleries and has been elected a member of both the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, serving the latter as Vice President from 2002 to 2008. Further recognition came in 1997 with a commission to paint HM The Queen from the Royal Automobile Club, in celebration of its centenary. Sue’s work away from portraiture has proved even more successful, to the extent that the name Susan Ryder now conjures up images of the glorious interiors and sunlit terraces for which she is so well known. She occupies a place amongst the great names of contemporary British Impressionism as represented by the New English Art Club – a society of like-minded artists that can trace its philosophical roots from John Singer Sargent and Augustus John, through Stanley Spencer, to the present day and now includes Ken Howard, Tom Coates, Fred Cuming and Jane Corsellis. As a leading proponent of the New English style, Sue’s paintings remain in constant demand despite the ascendency of conceptualism in the current market and other passing trends. Her regular solo exhibitions in London invariably sell out, fuelling an increasingly strong secondary market – an indication of the sustained interest and appreciation of her work. Sold Work

Tom comes from a long line of professional painters. His architect grandfather designed Gatwick’s first terminal whilst moonlighting as a prolific cartoonist for Punch and his father John is a respected professional watercolourist with an international following. With such an artistic heritage it is no surprise that Tom and two of his six brothers are also artists. Tom took a degree in history of art and has taken life classes at the Royal Academy but otherwise had no formal artistic training. He clearly has a natural ability and manifest technical ability, honed by years of continued application and practise. During the last decade Tom’s professional career has blossomed, his habit of immersing himself in each subject that inspires him has paid dividends and led to a succession of acclaimed solo exhibitions. A twelve month association with the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment saw him accompanying the Regiment on their official ceremonial duties and daily routine at Hyde Park Barracks. The Resulting exhibition in April 2012 firmly established Tom’s reputation both as an equestrian artist and a painter of the figure in movement. In subsequent years he spent time with Gifford’s Circus and journeyed to Transylvania to research circus life and its gypsy heritage. Sell-out exhibitions on the circus theme followed in 2013 and 2015. In the last few years India has proved his principal inspiration. In early 2016 Tom travelled through Rajasthan from Delhi to Jodhpur and out to the old fort in Nagaur for the annual cattle fair. A painting trip to Jaipur and Udaipur followed two years later. His Indian exhibition, another sell-out was held in late 2018. He has exhibited at the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of British Portrait Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Watercolour Society. Sold Work

Vanessa graduated from Winchester School of Art in 1993 with a First Class Honours degree in Printed Textile Design. During her time there she won the Eileen Bendall and the Sanderson prizes for drawing, and the Daler Rowney Young Artist award - for pastels exhibited in the Mall Galleries - two years running.Each of Vanessa’s still lifes observes the simple beauty of everyday objects - a moment captured in time. A vase of garden flowers, a bowl of lemons (their acid yellow placed against the deep magenta plum), a striped shell - each is placed deliberately within the framework of the painting combining muted subtle colour with jewel-like accents.Similarly her landscapes observe the pattern and texture of the countryside around her home. She paints features left by the working of the land, punctuated by seasonal land marks - such as skeletons of trees in winter or hedgerow flowers in summer. Detailed foregrounds of vibrantly coloured berries or hips, delicate snowdrops or cow parsley lead the eye into an intimate portrait of the Dorset landscape. Sold Work

View E Catalogue ● Sold● Reserved If you are interested in any of the reserved paintings, it is worth contacting the gallery as they may become available.

We very much look forward to a show of popular artist Vanessa Bowman's uplifting Still Lifes and Dorset Landscapes.This exhibition will be downstairs in the Gallery.  Simultaneously, upstairs, we are excited to be showing some Modern British Art which will include work, among others, by Mary Fedden and Edward Seago.

Vanessa Pooley was born in 1958 and studied at Norwich Art College and then at City and Guilds in London where she took a postgraduate diploma. She states that her sculpture has grown out of her fascination with the female form with its beautiful curves and flowing lines. Even as a child she remembers playing with handfuls of clay on Suffolk beaches. She still uses clay to create her sculptures because the responsiveness of the material allows her to play with the forms until they feel right. Now specialising in figurative bronze sculptures, she still enjoys playing with shapes, again and again. Her bronze sculptures tend to be in series. The Mother and Child series celebrates having children. The Dancer series represents sculptures which explore movement inspired by the ballet The Nutcracker. Her latest group of work is about hugging or snuggling up and look at the bond between two figures that do not need to hold on to each other. Vanessa exhibits extensively throughout the UK. Sold Work

Zarina Stewart-Clark is predominantly a landscape painter, working in egg tempera on traditional gesso ground and more recently in oils.  She is concerned primarily with the fall of light and darkness in landscape, the evocation of place and the spirituality of our landscape.  Her Dutch and Scottish ancestry has inspired her approach to painting. She is particularly influenced by the Dutch 17th Century landscape painters.  Her travels across Scotland and Suffolk remain her greatest inspiration where the changing light and great skies are so integral to her work. Sold Work