Wednesday, 30 August 2017

All about....Jo Hodder

Jo has been painting successfully from her home in Sussex for over 30 years. Her work has been accepted by the Pastel Society, the Society for Women Artists and, since 2006, has been included in the Venice in Peril exhibition at the WH Patterson Gallery in Westminster.



Jo paints a variety of subjects and enjoys all mediums. This versatility leads to a high demand for commissions, including portraits, landscapes, homes and animals. Her more experimental impressionist work has received international acclaim.



Jo has won the Sussex Open Competition Club Award and was selected for the National "Art in Nature" exhibition. She was awarded the prize for excellence in the Southern Open Exhibition, which led to a commission to paint Cliveden House for a limited print run and the design for their Christmas cards.



She is a qualified teacher and has run successful private classes, workshops, weekend retreats and has given demonstrations to numerous art groups and organisations including the Law Society and Lloyds of London.

Now she devotes her time and talent to her commissions and exhibitions.

"A British Summer" ends on Saturday 2nd September.

Monday, 28 August 2017

A Painting a Day from Julian Sutherland-Beatson


Based in Sussex, Julian paints the landscape, coastline and urban areas in a style described recently as 'contemporary realism'.



He studied illustration and printmaking at Eastbourne College of Art for four years before embarking on a career in graphic design and illustration.

In 2004, two of his paintings were purchased by the House of Lords to complement an existing collection of period travel paintings and he has been painting and exhibiting in the UK and throughout Europe ever since.

Julian started creating a daily painting since 2008 and two years later, exhibited a collection of 200 of them at Glyndebourne Opera House. He has created a painting a day at Glyndebourne during the Glyndebourne Festival each year ever since.

He had two paintings included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition last year and recently won a prize at the annual PURE ARTS exhibition at the Powermills Hotel in Battle, East Sussex.



"The main theme of my work in the recent past has been the marking and celebration of a specific time and place," says Julian.

"I aim to mark the changing mood and seasons reflected in the world around me."



"A British Summer" ends on Saturday 2nd September.


Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Introducing....Gill Copeland


Gill grew up in Yorkshire. Qualifying with an HND in professional photography, she started her career as a travel photographer and later set up a commercial studio in London, winning numerous awards for her photographic work.



On starting a family, Gill had an eight-year break from photography and worked in the corporate sector. After being made redundant, she started heading out on a Monday with a camera and notebook and began to sell her coastal images.



Gill held her first photography exhibition in 2002 and within months had sold hundreds of copies of her work in special edition print. Today her work is sold, collected and published internationally.

In 2014 she combined photos from her weekly travels along the Sussex coastline with her reflections on life, publishing a book entitled "Going out on a Monday".



She is the founder of several galleries and was most recently a director of the Brighton Fishing Quarter Gallery.

Gill is a passionate public speaker on photography and the science of visual thinking and lives with her family in Sussex.

"A British Summer" ends on Saturday 2nd September.


Wednesday, 16 August 2017

David Fawcett: Painter, Notary Public and Ted Baker Collaborator...


Painting is David Fawcett's antidote to the daily commute to London.
"I try to paint every evening," he says. "After a day commuting and working in London, it's just what I need."



He is self-taught and works in acrylics.

"Over the years, I have developed a style that I'm happy with," says David, who has worked in London as a Notary Public since 1988.

Most of his paintings are based on his observations of people and reflect his day-to-day life - at home with the family, commuting to and from London, using the Tube and working in an office.

"I often try and look for a humorous element in my paintings - a situation which can be identified with or related to," says David. "To convey this idea, I have found that the title is often particularly important. If the title strikes a chord, it really enahnces the image."

Here's the perfect illustration of this.....

.........titled "Discussing Brexit".

Amongst the many David Fawcett fans is Ted Baker founder and CEO, Ray Kelvin, whose purchase of David's work led to an unusual collaboration.

"Ray Kelvin has bought my work and recently used three images for a holdall, wash bag and phone case design."

David regularly exhibits in London galleries and his work as been shown at the Royal Academy.

"A British Summer" continues until 2nd September.










Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Emma Bird...welcome back!


Regular visitors to the gallery will know that Emma Bird has exhibited with us many times before. We can always rely on Emma for a witty interpretation of the exhibition title and this time is no exception.



With their clear, simple lines her tenderly observed wire sculptures evoke nostalgic memories of summers past and perfectly capture scenes familiar to all of us.


"Can We Share"


"Carousel"


"May All Our Dreams Take Flight"

"A British Summer" continues until 2nd September.

Wednesday, 2 August 2017

Sophie Mutter: "We Are Mountain"

After graduating from a photography degree at Notingham Trent University in 1997, Sophie went on to have a successful career on the picture desk of OK! Magazine.

She loved the celebrity world but was always drawn to the sea and so in 2013 she finally took the plunge, leaving London for Sunny Worthing.



She set up "We Are Mountain", a group of family and friends creating original seaside-influenced original screen prints and linocuts, cards, fridge magnets and tea towels.



Sophie still freelances at magazines in The Big Smoke but having the space to create in her workshop by the sea means she feels she has the very best of both worlds.



"Living by the seaside, I cannot help but be inspired by all things nautical," says Sophie. "But there are a few garden birds and the odd dinosaur thrown in for good measure!"


"A British Summer" runs until 2nd September.