Gallery

Allan Morgan

Breezy Day

oil on canvas panel

10" x 12"

£249

Allan is a full-time artist living in the beautiful border country of Herefordshire and Powys.
Born in 1952, Allan studied at both Swansea and Coventry Art Colleges, graduating from the latter with a degree in Fine Art.

For a number of years, he was involved with illustration, working for most of the major British publishers, but gradually drifted back to his first love – landscape painting – specialising in pictures of the Gower Peninsular and the Mid-Wales area.
His work has been influenced mainly by the Pre-Raphaelites and Impressionists such as Monet and Degas, though recently he has extended his style to encompass a more "colourist" approach.

His professional painting career has focussed on landscape painting. The basis of his inspiration remains largely his love of light, colour and atmosphere in landscape. Having formerly spent many years living near the coast, he regularly returns to this subject matter.

Sue Howells

The Cliff House

watercolour

15" x 13"

£265

Sue Howells is a self-trained artist now working full-time as a painter.
Known for her interpretation of landscapes and buildings Sue has developed a bold and vivid style to express her view of the world and bring perspective to her paintings. Sue works mainly in watercolours but loves to experiment with other media.
Sue continues to broaden her range of subjects, maintaining her energy and colours by using an economy of brush strokes. She works as loosely as possible as watercolours can be controlled but never bullied.
The colours she uses take on a wide range of hues when she adds light and dark, giving a translucent quality coupled with brush texture and an ability to use contrasting colour to very good effect.
Sue Howells has had many exhibitions, national and international, and recently was voted best selling female artist in the U.K. by The Fine Art Trade Guild. A talented artist, Sue Howells' work has become very collectable.
Since the year 2000 Sue Howells has exhibited annually at the Royal Institute of Painters, Mall Gallery, London and the Womens Society of Artists, Westminster Gallery, London.

Joel Kirk

Family Unit

pastel

9" x 12"

£285

Joel's love of wildlife stems back to his school years, where his animal paintings dominated competitions and were him his main subject matter. He has donated many paintings to help fund-raising for charities, working with Virginia McKenna, the Born Free Foundation and the Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund.

Joel was born in Dorking in 1948. After leaving school, he studied at Southend College of Art for three years, then became a freelance artist, working for a number of publishing houses, including leading publishers Felix Rosenstiel's Widow & Sons.

Joel Kirk’s supreme quality and accuracy has built him a world-wide following and his pictures have a ready market in North America, Australia, Japan, Europe and the U.K.

Henry Samuel Merritt (1884 - 1963)

Haystacks

oil on panel

8" x 12"

£330

Merritt was a painter in oil and watercolour of landscapes and Cornish harbour scenes. In his early years Henry Merritt lived in Essex and was a member of the Essex Art Club. He exhibited widely in London and the provinces, with one-man exhibitions at the Batsford Gallery in 1945 and 1947 and also at the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne. Henry Merritt was an Official War Artist 1939-1945 and sketches of London after the bombing are in the Imperial War Museum. He also contributed illustrations to ‘Recording Britain’ in the 1950’s. He died in Bromley in 1963.

Address: Chingford, Essex 1908; Kent 1927; c/o Pope & Son, London 1934.
Exhibited at the London Salon, Manchester City Art Gallery and five times at the Royal Academy.

Bibl: Dictionary of British Art Vol V ‘British Artists 1880 -1940’ J.Johnson & A Greutzner
‘Hidden Talents, A Dictionary of Neglected Artists working 1880 1950’, Jeremy Wood

Henry Samuel Merritt (1884 - 1963)

Village By The Sea

oil on board

10" x 14"

£490

Geoffrey Chatten RBA

Walberswick

oil on board

8" x 10"

£490

This artist was born in Gorleston-on-sea, Norfolk, in 1938.

A keen interest in nature led to his first job with the Forestry Commission. In 1960 he was encouraged to start painting, and has been a professional painter ever since.

He paints landscapes, seascapes and coastal scenes in oil.
Over the past 30 years Chatten has developed and mastered a technique of painting, which is completely his own, and when he utilises his vibrant palette, his paintings positively illuminate a room.

The intimate quality of his work displays a freedom of personal expression and exploration and his paintings show a great ability to capture the feeling and atmosphere of his subject.

Still living and working in Norfolk, he regularly exhibits in East Anglia, nationally and internationally.

Chatten was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1994.

Exhibitions at: Royal Academy
Royal Society of British Artists
The Maritime Trust
Royal Institute of Oil Painters

His work is found in many private collections in the United Kingdom, and the USA and his work has been commissioned by the Maritime Trust.

Sonia Martin

Ancient Mysteries

oil on canvas

14" x 18"

£1450

Sonia Martin’s paintings present us with a sense of the uncanny, evoking notions of expectancy, suspense and anticipation. At the heart of her work lie ideas of journeys and transformation and a subtle awareness of the ephemeral space that resides somewhere between ‘being’ and ‘becoming’. Her atmospheric compositions, combined with a distinctly direct and pared down use of colour and stroke, create an interesting tension that pulls the viewer in, capturing and engaging the imagination.
Martin’s suggestion of solitude creates a sense of mystery and of ‘the unexplained’. Each painting, rather than presenting an obvious narrative, is open ended, enabling the work to offer itself afresh.
Sonia studied painting at Byam Shaw and City &Guilds Art Schools, and gained a Masters Degree in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art. She has since exhibited in both solo and mixed shows, both in England and internationally, and her work is held several public collections.

“…Her imagery is in a state of both being and becoming. Just as Degas’s famous figurine of a dancer is both static but poised to step forth - so Sonia Martin’s figures capture moments of transience and becoming.” - Diana Dworetzsky

Sonia Martin

Siren Song

watercolour

9" x 13"

£85

Miles Christopher Fairhurst

The Breakwater

oil on board

8" x 10"

£490

Born in 1955 in Norwich, the son of artist and art dealer Joseph Fairhurst. He studied at the University of Aix-en-Provence, France and under his father but is largely an autodidact.
His main influences are the great East Anglian artists, such as the Norwich School of the 19th century, and Seago, Munnings and Arnesby-Brown of the 20th century. These artists were principally concerned with the effects of light and the resultant atmosphere, something that Miles strives to emulate in his own work, the actual subject matter sometimes taking second place to the impact of the painting. He shares the great love of the East Anglian landscape, the broad skies and wild places, the mile upon mile of almost deserted beaches and marshland which are such an inspiration and complement his Impressionist handling of the subject.
He has shown his work in galleries in London and in various mixed exhibitions in Yorkshire, the Cotswolds, Hampshire and East Anglia, having a first substantial showing at Park Grovenor Galleries, London in 1992. He is currently at several galleries in East Anglia and London. He has also shown his work at the Royal Society of Marine Artists annual exhibition.
He returned to East Anglia in the late 1980’s to concentrate on painting and currently lives in Suffolk.
He has many paintings in private collections in Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
More information can be obtained from the “Dictionary of British Artists since 1945” by David Buckman 1998.

Colin Ruffell (b.1939 – Kent)

Storm Clouds Over The Downs

oil on panel

15" x 19"

£425

After a turbulent childhood that included wartime evacuation, broken homes, boarding schools and running away, his schooling finished prematurely when he was expelled from a prestigious but stuffy grammar school.
So by the age of 15 Colin was working in an advertising agency in London, but he left a year later to study art.

For five and a half years he studied at Hornsey Art College in London and at Portsmouth Art College in Hampshire, where he gained his degree.
During and after his college studies he has worked as a male-char, coypu-catcher, scaffolder and accounts clerk as well as a spell as a qualified secondary school teacher.
Colin has been a professional artist since 1965.

Nick Andrew

Concorone

acrylic on paper

11" x 11"

£280

Nick Andrew was born in 1957 in Oxfordshire. He studied Art and Graphic Design in Oxford, London and Cheltenham. Since graduating in 1979, Nick has been working as a painter, based in Wiltshire and Dorset, and has exhibited widely throughout the UK, mainland Europe, and the USA.

He has a studio in part of a watermill on the upper reaches of the River Wylye in South Wiltshire, where he lives with his wife Kate and their daughter.

He describes his work as follows:
“In my work, I am referring to quiet, intimate, secluded places within the landscapes, places that I can get to know well, where I walk and draw often, observing changes from day to day and season to season. Generally this tends to be close to my home and studio near the River Wylye in South Wiltshire. I would like to think that I convey through my paintings the sense of quietness and ‘solitary involvement’ with the River, the Forest or the Downs.

Nick Andrew

Rubeo

acrylic on paper

11" x 12"

£280

Brandon Cross

Brandon is self taught and has been painting professionally for over 30 years. Although best known for his military subjects, his work ranges across a variety of themes and his signature “ladies that lunch” series has won admirers throughout the world.

Rolling Land

acrylic on board

11" x 14"

£295

Brandon Cross

The Lower Paddock

acrylic on board

9" x 11"

£265

Hugh Boycott Brown R.S.M.A. (1909-1990)

Westleton, Suffolk

oil on board

7" x 9"

£340

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The coastal waters of Norfolk and fine dramatic skies are both hallmarks of Hugh Boycott Brown. Very early on he began to paint in the open air, capturing fleeting effects of light and colour. Old sailing barges and other interesting craft were always popular subjects, but cloud formations were of particular interest – he kept detailed charts linking prevailing winds to cloud forms in order that he could use them to best advantage in his work. Many of his best landscapes were painted in what is described as broken weather.

From a family of artists, Boycott Brown learned to paint with his father Allan Robert Brown. He went on to study at Heatherley’s School of Art under Frederick Whiting and Bernard Adams, subsequently going on to teach painting until the outbreak of war.
Eventually he resumed his teaching career and, in 1947, he bought a cottage at Blakeney so that he could continue to paint the Norfolk coast in his spare time. He lived there permanently after his retirement in 1970, and continued to paint until his death in 1990, at the age of eighty one. He is emerging as one of the most significant moderns.

Hugh Boycott Brown exhibited at all the leading societies, including the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Institute of Painters in Oils, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and the Royal Society of Marine Artists, of which he became a member. He also exhibited in East Anglia and the USA.

“To paint sincerely and seriously from nature leaves no room for the arrogant artist. If one does not approach outdoor painting in a humble and dedicated frame of mind, it is better not to do it.”