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Exhibitions:
The gallery has retained a number number of pieces of work from the exhibition, please call for information.
PRINTS AND CARDS AVAILABLE
Vicki Golden: Dreams
Feb 27th - March 11th
Meet the Artist: March 5th, 6.30 pm
My paintings are often autographical, featuring a female figure who is my alter-ego depicted doing things I would like to do. I enjoy inventing compositions and scenarios, and work largely from memory and imagination.
The gallery has retained a number number of pieces of work from the exhibition, please call for information.
Faye Jolley: Faces
March 13th - 24th
Preview Evening: March 12th, 7 pm
I have been painting all my life, winning many art competitions as a child, reading art at university, and am now a specialist portraiture painter perpetually endeavoring to capture the character of my subjects.
I find the human form the most fascinating subject matter, particularly the millions of different facial blueprints.
I am a local artist and work on commissions in my studio near Lymington. I have also travelled the world extensively and continue to do so in search of inspiration for new painting projects, taking my camera with me wherever I go. I recently spent a year living in Rome, researching the great Italian artists and painting scenes from the city and surrounding countryside.
My current body of work, 'Faces', will be entered into numerous competitions in the summer of 2010, including the BP National Portrait Gallery Awards and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The gallery has retained a number number of pieces of work from the exhibition, please call for information.
Jenny Sutton: A Feast for the Eyes
March 27th - April 13th
Meet the Artist: March 27th, 10.30 am
The Coastal Gallery, Lymington will be showing along side it's usual mixed show by gallery artists a new body of work by Jenny Sutton, well known in Hampshire for both her paintings in oil and her work promoting local and national artists in her former gallery.
Since closing the Saltgrass Gallery four years ago, Jenny has been able to devote all her time to developing her own paintings, with prolific results.
Her preferred subject matter is still life along with old waterside and farm buildings and of course the eternal mystery and charm of Venetian backwaters. At the Coastal Gallery, Jenny will be showing mainly still lifes. She says "I am a magpie when it comes to acquiring jugs, bowls, dishes and even flower pots. My studio shelves are overflowing with my finds, which compliment the real subject matter of food and flowers; - a freshly broken French loaf, a handful of cherries, cheese from the market, walnuts from Spain or a geranium from the greenhouse.
The paintings are strong in design and drawing and subtle and harmonious in colour. Jenny describes them as traditional with a modern edge. After a fine art degree at Reading University and a year at Hornsey College of Art she practiced as a graphic designer, after which with her husband Clive, a solicitor she converted three houses including their present home in Lymington where Clive and Jenny and their family have lived for thirty years. Then a life long ambition to run a gallery was realised when she was able to set up Hampshire Contemporary Artists and then the Saltgrass Gallery.
Since 2005 however, she has been painting full time and has been exhibiting widely in London and the provinces. This includes the Royal West of England Academy, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Society of Women Artists and the South West Academy. She also exhibits regularly at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, of which she was elected a full member in 2007.
Francesca McLeod: A Moment in the Light
April 16th - 29th
This selection of paintings show fleeting moments of life, each one suggestive of a possible narrative indicating what the image might become given time or with a change of light.
As an experimental artist, the works here feature oil on aluminium, canvas, board and wax on glass.
Bev Saunders: Boatscapes
May 22nd - June 5th
Open Morning: Saturday 22nd May, 10 - 12.30 pm
Bev is a guest artist at Coastal Gallery, Lymington. She is a graphic designer/photographer and has an MA from the Royal College of Art in London. She is based in Lymington, and over the last three years, has made digital photography the primary focus of her work. Bev is the only photographer whose work is featured in the gallery.
Bev's sources of inspiration are found in the local boatyards and coastal towns. She is fascinated by the ephemeral colours, patterns, textures and marks found on boat hulls. Created by the random effects of aging, weathering, osmosis and anti-fouling treatments, these "boatscapes" frequently go unseen, hidden for most of the time under the sea. According to Steve Richards, Coastal Gallery's owner, "Bev's composition, subject matter and use of the camera to create these abstract "boatscapes" give her work a subtle ambiguity; and means that it works well with the other painterly images in the gallery. Visitors are often unsure as to whether Bev's images are paintings, fine art prints or photographs, and lively debate ensues!"
Michael Turner: Stainless Steel Sculpture
July 3rd - 19th
Also featuring David Rogers Pottery
Summer Marine Painting Exhibition: Jan Nelson, John Scott Martin, Hilary Thorpe
July 18th - August 19th
Open Evening:
JAN NELSON
JOHN SCOTT MARTIN
Steve Richards, Brian Hayes and Frank Callaghan: Coastal Landscapes, Boats and Things!
July 20th - August 20th
Open Evening:
Steve Richards has painted regularly since the early 70's though largely self-taught, a regular at local adult education painting classes over many years and is currently undertaking a Fine Arts degree through the OCA.
Painting landscapes, in particular those of the hills and mountains of the North and the rugged coast line of the West was always a source of inspiration, but since moving to the South Coast the fascinating colour and texture of the Solent marshes and the decomposing clay cliffs and the effects of the ever changing light off the sea on the Hampshire coast is providing an abundance of exciting motifs and themes.
Classic still life compositions also remain a great source of inspiration and will continue to figure strongly in his work.
After gaining a Degree in Painting and Ceramics at Cardiff College of Art followed by a career in Art Education, Brian Hayes now concentrates on painting alone.
His affinity with the sea, the shore and the harbours of the world stems from his seafaring family background and draws him to the shapes and patterns of boats, both big and small, to the quays, the harbours and the cliffs of the World. Most Brian's paintings are based on these visual images, but often his use of colours divorces the images from their reality giving an added stimulus to the paintings.
Brian has exhibited widely over the years, paintings are in private collections in Wales, England, France, Hungary and the USA. Brian most recently exhibited with the Royal Society of Marine Artists at the Mall Galleries, London.
Frank Callaghan was educated in Norwich and trained in Liverpool, and after that studied at Exeter University and Southampton University. He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has taught Art and Design for over 40 years, in schools in Toxteth, Kettering, Exeter and Hampshire. Over half of that time he was a Headteacher/Principal.
Now that he has retired Frank has time to paint for himself. His studio is in East Boldre in the New Forest, and his preferences are landscape or seascape, and figure painting, with occasional forays into portraiture. His works have sold as far afield as Russia, Spain, and Sweden.
Will Rochfort and James Grimditch : An Exhibition Spanning the Spectrum of Painting
August 20th - September 2nd
Open Evening:
Will Rochfort
My reason for becoming an artist is because I love to create. There is rarely any strong meaning or message behind my work - narrative takes a large role because I like the work to be emotive through what is being portrayed, but creativity is always the driving force.
Painting allows me to apply this creativity to any subject matter; be it studies of a young Ballet class, ladies sat in the sunshine in nice hats at the Henley Rowing Regatta, or a young boy receiving an autograph from a winning British athlete at the 2012 London Olympics.
I am one of the Official Artists for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and this gives me the opportunity to take my work, and my creativity, in a whole new direction. I have worked with Olympic Gold Medalists, Paul Goodison and Zac Purchase to paint their portraits and, as previously mentioned, have displayed at the Royal Henley Rowing Regatta two years in a row - to great success.
As we get closer to 2012, as someone who lives in Lymington on the South Coast, my goal is to become the regional Olympic artist and to focus my work on the Olympic sailing and water sports. It is a fantastic opportunity for a young artist such as myself and I greatly look forward to seeing how it will shape and change my work even further.
While this Cultural Olympiad Program keeps me fairly busy, I always find the time to paint for my own purposes. It is this work that I enjoy the most as I feel I can be truly free and create something entirely new and un-restrained.
James Grimditch
James is an abstract artist working and living in East London. Since graduating as a Fine Artist from Kingston University in 2009, Grimditch has been looking to pursue painting as a full time profession with shows in both South London and his hometown, Milton Keynes.
'The content of my paintings rely very much on subconscious and creative imagination. They are free flowing collections of line and colour that represent unorganised thoughts of perhaps an unknown language. They revel in free expression with no preconceived conclusions.'
'A painting that is made up entirely of random lines and shapes can be difficult to interpret, yet if a person is asked or even forced to describe what they can perceive within that work, a number of doors can be opened. If they really set their minds to it, rediscovered forms, unforeseen areas can suddenly emerge.'
Grimditch has been inspired by artists such as Tomma Abts, Cy Twombly, Thomas Schiebitz and more notably Franz Ackermann. Automatic art has had a heavy impact on his manner of working, also his acceptance of accidents or unexpected process..
'I enjoy making a piece my own. I sometimes feel like a graffiti artist trying to claim a piece of space. The brilliant thing is I'm allowed to become lost along the way. The canvas presents the opportunity to be reflective, emotional and most importantly, original.'
Exhibitions:
| February 12th - 26th | Will Rochfort: A Study of the Ballet | Click here for details |
| Feb 27th - March 11th | Vicki Golden: Dreams | Click here for details |
| March 13th - 24th | Faye Jolley: Faces | Click here for details |
| March 27th - April 13th | Jenny Sutton: A Feast for the Eyes | Click here for details |
| April 16th - 29th | Francesca McLeod: A Moment in the Light | Click here for details |
| May 8th - 20th | Stewart Mechem: New Abstracts of Old Masters | Click here for details |
| May 22nd - June 5th | Bev Saunders: Boatscapes | Click here for details |
| June 5th - 18th | Pete Gilbert: Capturing the Landscape - An exhibition of new work | Click here for details |
| June 18th - July 1st | Claire Wiltsher: Land and Sea | Click here for details |
| July 3rd - 19th | Michael Turner: Stainless Steel Sculpture. Also featuring David Rogers Pottery | Click here for details |
| July 18th - Aug 19th | Summer Marine Painting Exhibition: Jan Nelson, John Scott Martin, Hilary Thorpe | Click here for details |
| July 23rd - Aug 12th | John Scott Martin: Under Sail | |
| July 20th - Aug 20th | Steve Richards, Brian Hayes and Frank Callaghan: Coastal Landscapes, Boats and things! | Click here for details |
| Aug 20th - Sept 2nd | Will Rochfort and James Grimditch: A Selection of Works by two artists spanning the Spectrum of Painting | Click here for details |
Will Rochfort: A Study of the Ballet
February 12th - 26th
Open Evening: February 13th, 7.pm
I have been establishing myself as an artist for the last four years. This had led me down many routes including an interest in narrative, to portraiture and painting Olympic gold medallists in association with the upcoming 2012 London Olympics. My passion is the figure, and I especially enjoy painting children for their innocence and unpredictable nature. Subsequently, as I am a local artist I approached The New Forest Dance Group based at the Community Centre and produced a series of works on the young ballet dancers.
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The gallery has retained a number number of pieces of work from the exhibition, please call for information.
PRINTS AND CARDS AVAILABLE
Vicki Golden: Dreams
Feb 27th - March 11th
Meet the Artist: March 5th, 6.30 pm
My paintings are often autographical, featuring a female figure who is my alter-ego depicted doing things I would like to do. I enjoy inventing compositions and scenarios, and work largely from memory and imagination.
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The gallery has retained a number number of pieces of work from the exhibition, please call for information.
Faye Jolley: FacesMarch 13th - 24th
Preview Evening: March 12th, 7 pm
I have been painting all my life, winning many art competitions as a child, reading art at university, and am now a specialist portraiture painter perpetually endeavoring to capture the character of my subjects.
I find the human form the most fascinating subject matter, particularly the millions of different facial blueprints.
I am a local artist and work on commissions in my studio near Lymington. I have also travelled the world extensively and continue to do so in search of inspiration for new painting projects, taking my camera with me wherever I go. I recently spent a year living in Rome, researching the great Italian artists and painting scenes from the city and surrounding countryside.
My current body of work, 'Faces', will be entered into numerous competitions in the summer of 2010, including the BP National Portrait Gallery Awards and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
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The gallery has retained a number number of pieces of work from the exhibition, please call for information.
Jenny Sutton: A Feast for the EyesMarch 27th - April 13th
Meet the Artist: March 27th, 10.30 am
The Coastal Gallery, Lymington will be showing along side it's usual mixed show by gallery artists a new body of work by Jenny Sutton, well known in Hampshire for both her paintings in oil and her work promoting local and national artists in her former gallery.
Since closing the Saltgrass Gallery four years ago, Jenny has been able to devote all her time to developing her own paintings, with prolific results.
Her preferred subject matter is still life along with old waterside and farm buildings and of course the eternal mystery and charm of Venetian backwaters. At the Coastal Gallery, Jenny will be showing mainly still lifes. She says "I am a magpie when it comes to acquiring jugs, bowls, dishes and even flower pots. My studio shelves are overflowing with my finds, which compliment the real subject matter of food and flowers; - a freshly broken French loaf, a handful of cherries, cheese from the market, walnuts from Spain or a geranium from the greenhouse.
The paintings are strong in design and drawing and subtle and harmonious in colour. Jenny describes them as traditional with a modern edge. After a fine art degree at Reading University and a year at Hornsey College of Art she practiced as a graphic designer, after which with her husband Clive, a solicitor she converted three houses including their present home in Lymington where Clive and Jenny and their family have lived for thirty years. Then a life long ambition to run a gallery was realised when she was able to set up Hampshire Contemporary Artists and then the Saltgrass Gallery.
Since 2005 however, she has been painting full time and has been exhibiting widely in London and the provinces. This includes the Royal West of England Academy, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Society of Women Artists and the South West Academy. She also exhibits regularly at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, of which she was elected a full member in 2007.
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Francesca McLeod: A Moment in the LightApril 16th - 29th
This selection of paintings show fleeting moments of life, each one suggestive of a possible narrative indicating what the image might become given time or with a change of light.
As an experimental artist, the works here feature oil on aluminium, canvas, board and wax on glass.
Stewart Mechem: New Abstracts of Old Masters
May 8th - 20th
Open Evening: Friday May 7th, 5.30-7.00 pm
This selection of complex, colourful and abstract paintings is the debut of a new series of work directly inspired by the Kardo Sessoeff collection of Old Masters at 22 Portsea Place, London W2 - a unique archive including important works by Constable and Rembrandt.
Stewart is a Lymington based self taught abstract artist working mainly in acrylic on canvas.All works here are from his time as 'artist in residence' at 22 Portsea Place London.
Bev Saunders: Boatscapes May 22nd - June 5th
Open Morning: Saturday 22nd May, 10 - 12.30 pm
Bev is a guest artist at Coastal Gallery, Lymington. She is a graphic designer/photographer and has an MA from the Royal College of Art in London. She is based in Lymington, and over the last three years, has made digital photography the primary focus of her work. Bev is the only photographer whose work is featured in the gallery.
Bev's sources of inspiration are found in the local boatyards and coastal towns. She is fascinated by the ephemeral colours, patterns, textures and marks found on boat hulls. Created by the random effects of aging, weathering, osmosis and anti-fouling treatments, these "boatscapes" frequently go unseen, hidden for most of the time under the sea. According to Steve Richards, Coastal Gallery's owner, "Bev's composition, subject matter and use of the camera to create these abstract "boatscapes" give her work a subtle ambiguity; and means that it works well with the other painterly images in the gallery. Visitors are often unsure as to whether Bev's images are paintings, fine art prints or photographs, and lively debate ensues!"
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Pete Gilbert: Capturing the Landscape
June 5th - 18th
Open Evening:
Pete Gilbert takes his paints and pastels with him to work on location in order to capture the immediacy of his subject and then uses those sketches either to finish them in the studio or to use them as a reference for larger canvases in oil.
Although his work is in the moment, he captures more than a snapshot, its about feeling the landscape.
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Claire Wiltsher: Land and Sea
June 18th - July 1st
Open Evening:
Claire Wiltsher's work explores different kinds of weather and light, to create evocative oil paintings. Her travel and walking experiences feed back into the work, she feels that "total recognition inhibits the imagination".
Michael Turner: Stainless Steel Sculpture
July 3rd - 19th
Also featuring David Rogers Pottery
Michael Turner creates unique sculptures in metal that are always one-of-a-kind. His particular speciality is in sculptures of animals but he enjoys working from a wide variety of subjects.
Almost all of Mike's sculptures are in stainless steel, which makes them fully weather-proof and ideal for the garden or other outdoor locations.
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Summer Marine Painting Exhibition: Jan Nelson, John Scott Martin, Hilary Thorpe
July 18th - August 19th
Open Evening:
JAN NELSON
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Steve Richards, Brian Hayes and Frank Callaghan: Coastal Landscapes, Boats and Things!
July 20th - August 20th
Open Evening:
Steve Richards has painted regularly since the early 70's though largely self-taught, a regular at local adult education painting classes over many years and is currently undertaking a Fine Arts degree through the OCA.Painting landscapes, in particular those of the hills and mountains of the North and the rugged coast line of the West was always a source of inspiration, but since moving to the South Coast the fascinating colour and texture of the Solent marshes and the decomposing clay cliffs and the effects of the ever changing light off the sea on the Hampshire coast is providing an abundance of exciting motifs and themes.
Classic still life compositions also remain a great source of inspiration and will continue to figure strongly in his work.
After gaining a Degree in Painting and Ceramics at Cardiff College of Art followed by a career in Art Education, Brian Hayes now concentrates on painting alone.His affinity with the sea, the shore and the harbours of the world stems from his seafaring family background and draws him to the shapes and patterns of boats, both big and small, to the quays, the harbours and the cliffs of the World. Most Brian's paintings are based on these visual images, but often his use of colours divorces the images from their reality giving an added stimulus to the paintings.
Brian has exhibited widely over the years, paintings are in private collections in Wales, England, France, Hungary and the USA. Brian most recently exhibited with the Royal Society of Marine Artists at the Mall Galleries, London.
Frank Callaghan was educated in Norwich and trained in Liverpool, and after that studied at Exeter University and Southampton University. He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has taught Art and Design for over 40 years, in schools in Toxteth, Kettering, Exeter and Hampshire. Over half of that time he was a Headteacher/Principal.Now that he has retired Frank has time to paint for himself. His studio is in East Boldre in the New Forest, and his preferences are landscape or seascape, and figure painting, with occasional forays into portraiture. His works have sold as far afield as Russia, Spain, and Sweden.
Will Rochfort and James Grimditch : An Exhibition Spanning the Spectrum of PaintingAugust 20th - September 2nd
Open Evening:
Will Rochfort
My reason for becoming an artist is because I love to create. There is rarely any strong meaning or message behind my work - narrative takes a large role because I like the work to be emotive through what is being portrayed, but creativity is always the driving force.
Painting allows me to apply this creativity to any subject matter; be it studies of a young Ballet class, ladies sat in the sunshine in nice hats at the Henley Rowing Regatta, or a young boy receiving an autograph from a winning British athlete at the 2012 London Olympics.
I am one of the Official Artists for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and this gives me the opportunity to take my work, and my creativity, in a whole new direction. I have worked with Olympic Gold Medalists, Paul Goodison and Zac Purchase to paint their portraits and, as previously mentioned, have displayed at the Royal Henley Rowing Regatta two years in a row - to great success.
As we get closer to 2012, as someone who lives in Lymington on the South Coast, my goal is to become the regional Olympic artist and to focus my work on the Olympic sailing and water sports. It is a fantastic opportunity for a young artist such as myself and I greatly look forward to seeing how it will shape and change my work even further.
While this Cultural Olympiad Program keeps me fairly busy, I always find the time to paint for my own purposes. It is this work that I enjoy the most as I feel I can be truly free and create something entirely new and un-restrained.
James Grimditch
James is an abstract artist working and living in East London. Since graduating as a Fine Artist from Kingston University in 2009, Grimditch has been looking to pursue painting as a full time profession with shows in both South London and his hometown, Milton Keynes.
'The content of my paintings rely very much on subconscious and creative imagination. They are free flowing collections of line and colour that represent unorganised thoughts of perhaps an unknown language. They revel in free expression with no preconceived conclusions.'
'A painting that is made up entirely of random lines and shapes can be difficult to interpret, yet if a person is asked or even forced to describe what they can perceive within that work, a number of doors can be opened. If they really set their minds to it, rediscovered forms, unforeseen areas can suddenly emerge.'
Grimditch has been inspired by artists such as Tomma Abts, Cy Twombly, Thomas Schiebitz and more notably Franz Ackermann. Automatic art has had a heavy impact on his manner of working, also his acceptance of accidents or unexpected process..
'I enjoy making a piece my own. I sometimes feel like a graffiti artist trying to claim a piece of space. The brilliant thing is I'm allowed to become lost along the way. The canvas presents the opportunity to be reflective, emotional and most importantly, original.'