Heart in the Arcades

By Lesley Banks

oil on canvas

h: 38 w: 33 d: 3 (cms).

Heart in the Arcades is inspired by graffitt in Venice, sometimes an eyesore and sometimes like this blue heart strangely appealing. i am drawn to patterns made by the sun and the question of who painted this heart.

£1750

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The Seduction

By Annie Guest

Acrylic paint and ink transfer on paper

h: 56 w: 56 d: 1 (cms).

All over the world women are at the forefront of promoting the environmental revolution by working with conservation projects.  This work celebrates these women and their close relationships with flora and fauna.

£540

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'Spring arose on the garden fair'

By Maggie Robinson

Mixed media

h: 48 w: 53 d: 4 (cms).

Daffodils bring such hope and joy and this painting was one of the first in my new series 'A moment in time' which I developed during the lockdown as being confined to home meant finding new inspiration for my subject matter. It is painted in acrylic with the introduction of some collage and charcoal.

The picture has a narrow mount around it and is included in the given measurement.

£500

£500 (Unframed)

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Fatemeh

By Zahra Akbari Baseri

Mechanical pencil

h: 20 w: 20 (cms).

My sister is my favourite subject to draw or paint,the knowledge I have of her personality helps me alot through composing and finishing the work.

£500

£450 (Unframed)

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The Bird Bath

By Annie Guest

Acrylic paint and ink transfer on paper

h: 56 w: 56 d: 1 (cms).

All over the world women are at the forefront of promoting the environmental revolution by working with conservation projects.  This work celebrates these women and their close relationships with flora and fauna.

£540

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Long Last Summer

By Annie Guest

Acrylic paint and ink transfer on paper

h: 56 w: 56 d: 1 (cms).

All over the world women are at the forefront of promoting the environmental revolution by working with conservation projects.  This work celebrates these women and their close relationships with flora and fauna.

£540

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What's The Time Mr.Wolf?

By Amanda Palmer

Pencil on paper

h: 69 w: 93 d: 4 (cms).

This drawing was created in direct response to the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Just before the lockdown happened, it felt as though a madness had swept over the country. The shops were being stripped, and basic foods and supplies, such as pasta and toilet paper, were being bought up and horded by some, leaving the rest of us without these everyday staples. 

My sister, a key worker in a small supermarket, told me customers were squabbling in the supermarket, as they panicked to snatch up produce. Her accounts, plus my own experience of the panic buying and empty shelves seen during this period were the catalyst for my drawing, 'What's The Time Mr. Wolf?'  In response to these events, I set up a still-life using two dolls posed as though fighting over pasta in a tug of war, surrounded by other old toys such as the teddy in the facemask. I began to draw these as a way to try and work through my incredulity at the madness which had swept over us. 

As the lockdown was enforced and my children were home from school, the drawing evolved. My kids and I spent our one trip outside playing, "What's the time Mr. Wolf?" The nature of the game felt pogniant to me somehow, as though it touched apon a the nerve and drew a strange parallel to the surrealness of that time. So our games of Mr. Wolf crept into the drawing and became central to the theme. The idea of the wolf also made me think of the nursery rhyme of, 'The Three Little Pigs,' as I envisioned us, like the little pigs, trying to stay safe inside and hide, while our house was under seige by something unseen, hidden in breath itself, as imaginary wolves huffed and puffed to bring our house down. 

£950

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Lifeline Parts 2A & 2B

By Melissa Cole

Steel

h: 182 w: 182 d: 182 (cms).

Lifeline 2A&2B  (KH4410 & WH5860)

126 H x 257 L x 103 W cm

Forged steel, waxed.

Depicting a to-scale three dimensional drawing of the ancient Wiltshire landscape, the journey from an old home to a new home - divided by the road between Walkers Hill and Knap Hill, this piece has a delicacy in contrast to the techinque from which it was made. The fine pin-point connections with the ground are intended to accentuate this fragility as the piece moves on its spindly legs.  

My practice is rooted in the ancient craft of blacksmithing but engages in a more sculptural way embracing modern making methods to create dynamic work as a reaction to moving through the landscape around me.

£8000

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Andy, Eating

By Ruth Batham

Oil on Canvas

h: 70 w: 70 d: 1 (cms).

My current work expands on themes that I have explored throughout my career. 'Andy, Eating' builds on the ideas of non verbal communication and the senses. I am interested in how we interact with the world around us, specifically connected to the ideas of societal norms and expectations. By taking a mundane act like eating and elevating it to oil painting status, I wish to focus you on an individual’s actions. The background melts away, the foreground abstracts; this mark making shows us that the person is key as the extra day-to-day details wash away. I research, question and think a lot about the difficulty of communication and, in making paintings, try to capture tensions between our inner selves versus what is represented to others. I want the viewer to connect emotionally to the painted people; painting allows the concrete to become secondary to hard-to-say thoughts and feelings. It allows space to explore absurdities of our everyday behaviours. When we speak we externalise internal thoughts aiming for shared intersubjectivity; a painting becomes another mode of communication reaching for this shared intersubjectivity. Whilst visually my work varies, the themes of information processing and human interactions are a consistent feature.

£725

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Snow Storm

By Fanny Lam Christie

Bronze and glass

h: 18 w: 50 d: 15 (cms).

Snow geese migrate from Greenland to spend the winter in the more temperate climate of Ireland and Scotland. This work depicts a migrating snow goose mid-flight, caught in an out-of-season snowstorm.  The work expresses our resilience to and anxiety of the effects of increasingly extreme weather. This duality is expressed in glass and bronze: two opposite materials, one extremely fragile and the other very robust.

£2000

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The last eyes they see.

By Jo Thompson

Oil

h: 60 w: 45 d: 1 (cms).

Steve Vale works as an Operating department Practitioner usually in the main operating theatres for the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. However during the pandemic he has been part of the rapid response emergency anaesthetic team. He says that he has always taught it but it is now incredibly important to realise that the face (albeit masked) but more importantly the voice as it is the last thing the patients may ever hear. They also make frequent trips to ICU to assist with the car of those patients.

I had to work from a photo that Steve took of himself at work, due to being in the throws of lockdown. It was such a powerful image that it made cry when I first saw it. Steve has the most amazing eyes which show such compassion, I couldn't help but wonder how many poor souls had not survived this horrible virus and who did see those eyes and hear his voice for a final time. I was also struck by the light in the background that looked just like a halo. Very appropriate for all that have literally put their lives at risk for us in these trying times.

£10000

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Garden Stories: Glorious Summer

By Karolina Franceschini

oil on canvas, mounted on board

h: 125 w: 130 d: 1 (cms).

My latest work is strongly inspired by nature, floral and botanical, but this one represents going back to traditions of still life. Just done my way.

£5100

£5100 (Unframed)

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Sunset over the Fens

By Margaret Mallows

Reduction lino print

h: 30 w: 40 (cms).

Reduction lino print, 20 colours over 2 lino blocks. On paper size 38 x 48 cm, an edition of 16. Supplied unframed.

£135

£135 (Unframed)

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Rock, Paper, Scissors

By Jane Andrews

oil on canvas

h: 117 w: 102 d: 5 (cms).

narrative painting, oil on canvas 

£5000

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A Face for Every Pocket

By Jane Andrews

feltunderlay, plaster, clay, wood, metal, straw

h: 137 w: 82 d: 28 (cms).

narrative sculpturw, suspended from the metalpole, with additional option of using invisable wire from fixing on either side of neck. to be hung in corner with ends of pole touching the walls 

£4000

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Interiors

By Kate Bentley SWA

Oil on panel

h: 72 w: 112 d: 1 (cms).

Oil on Panel..distressed surface and inspired by daguerreotypes

£2450

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Looking at me, looking at you?

By Kate Bentley SWA

.Watercolour ,egg tempera and ink.

h: 73 w: 83 d: 1 (cms).

Experimental pure watercolour ..detailing egg tempera and white ink.Inspired by my current  inside /outside theme and the #metoo campaign against Harvey Weinstein.

£2200

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Isolation (Blackwell )

By Kate Bentley SWA

Oil on panel

h: 67 w: 93 d: 1 (cms).

Oil on Panel.Inspiration from daguerreotypes and old etchings. Just before lockdown I was exporing the possibilty of a residency in a historic house and had been visiting regularly to gather material this painting came from that research .

£1995

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Submerged in thought.No 3.

By Kate Bentley SWA

Oil on panel

h: 56 w: 76 d: 1 (cms).

Oil on panel.

This piece came in the early weeks of lockdown as a follow on to a cancelled solo exhibition at the end of a 18 month residency at Ruskin's former home.

£1495

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Broken Shells -Beauty in Imperfection

By alison finch

Watercolour

h: 40 w: 30 d: 2 (cms).

Beachcombing is a favourite pastime and I love painting finds from the coast. Broken Shells shows the passage of time on the shells, their complex inner workings, the barnacles growing on the worn surfaces, and the effect of time on them as they travel through the oceans. Once perfect, they are still beautiful if you look closely.

£400

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Jeanne

By Carol Tarn

Oil on Linen

h: 76 w: 61 d: 2 (cms).

 Originally from Chicago, Jeanne Pacella is a designer of Vintage hats,headwear and Bridal headpieces.She takes bits of Vintage jewellery,discarded objects and a variety of materials and then injects them with new life to create a bricolage of beauty.She resurrects the old and brings it to life with romance glamour and wit.

Jeanne creates her wonderful pieces in her studio - located in the same building as my own studio and it was a pleasure to paint her portrait.I wanted to capture her unique personal style particularly her use of Vintage in her choice of accessories - a beautiful brooch,hat and glasses.

£1850

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Girl

By Pamela Lloyd-Jones

Ink and acrylic on natural canvas

h: 64 w: 54 d: 2 (cms).

A girl then, a girl now. That girl from half a millenium ago was just a girl, with hormones and parents and dramas.....

£2000

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Geography

By Jan Byrne

Ceramic and recycled, found objects

h: 34 w: 24 d: 20 (cms).

Hand-built, ceramic, hollow vessel with lid containing loose ceramic objects.

The sides are decorated with artwork symbolic of the continents. On the top of the piece ceramic transfers of flags decorate the top of the piece which also houses flags showing worldwide  activities which cross all boundaries. The lid depicts the axes and holds human hands, which in turn hold three juggling ball worlds.

£900

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Made in Britain

By Elizabeth Hammond

2b pencil and Sumi Ink on Dessin paper

h: 51 w: 38 (cms).

This drawing was created during the lockdown period, during this time my drawing practice faltered and stalled as my family needed me. I turned to using ink, a medium unfamiliar to me but gave quick, bold results and I started drawing the plants around me. I formed a new practice out of necessity but found that the medium echoed how I felt during this time, I had to learn acceptance and patience. This drawing was made to reflect my time consuming, controlled previous practice in pencil and the emerging practice of uncontrollable ink. The saucepan and spoon symbolise not only the overwhelming press of domestic duties during this time as a mother but also the NHS clapping. The plants represent the United Kingdom, Rose (England), Leek (Wales), Thistle (Scotland) and Clover (Ireland). I intend the viewer to reflect upon how we are together and unified through this pandemic but kept apart through borders and the unseen danger.

£110

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Self portrait with a blue background

By Freya Hoayun

Oil on canvas

h: 40 w: 30 d: 4 (cms).

This work started out as part of a series of paintings looking at expression.  The original idea was to have a very dark background in the same style as some other paintings I had recenty done but as the painting evolved and took on a life of its own I felt that it needed a stronger colour.  I was inspired by "Girl from Tate" by Simon Davis and went for a bright blue, this gave me freedom to play with colours and lighting and totally changed the direction of the painitng..

£450

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Julian with lockdown beard

By Kristin Rawcliffe

Oil paint on paper

h: 28 w: 18 (cms).

An alla prima portrait from life of my husband who has been able to fulfil his ambition of growing a beard during lockdown.

£300

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Portrait with a yellow background

By Freya Hoayun

Oil on canvas

h: 40 w: 30 d: 2 (cms).

This is a painting of my husband. After completing a self portrait using a strong blue I wanted to further explore the use of strong colours, I chose yellow as this is the colour I most strongle asssociate with him. This is part of a series of work looking at the use of background colour within the skin tone and lighting.

£450

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