Gallery

Sue Howells

The Cliff House

watercolour

15" x 13"

£265

sold

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.

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

Colin Ruffell (b.1939 – Kent)

Storm Clouds Over The Downs

oil on panel

15" x 19"

£425

sold

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

Joel Kirk

Family Unit

pastel

9" x 12"

£285

sold

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.