Current Exhibition
RICHARD PIKESLEY
8th - 26th October 2022
Richard Pikesley started his artistic career at the Harrow School of Art before going to study at the City of Canterbury College of Art in 1970. His art education valued both tradition and drawing, and instilled in him a love for landscape and the effects of light and weather. As a result, his paintings are fresh, immediate and compelling. When he paints, Richard aims to capture the ‘spirit of the place’, not just to extol its beauty. His work presents a lively painterly surface coupled with a fascinated love of the landscapes and scenes he depicts.
We will be exhibiting a stunning selection of his paintings of the Dorset coast and local landscapes, as well as other subjects.
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NICHOLAS HELY HUTCHINSON
12th - 30th November 2022
Nicholas Hely Hutchinson studied at St Martin's School of Art and Bristol Polytechnic. His fresh, colourful sweeping paintings now feature in many private and corporate collections. Nicholas gets much of his inspiration from the Dorset countryside and coast, as well as traveling to paint in 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….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.”