Three artists from different backgrounds and influences enjoying coming together through their work. 

ERIC BAILEY – Painting
Working predominantly in acrylics 

 VICTORIA GARLAND – Printmaking 
Original limited edition etchings and drawings, all in a figurative style 

 CAROLINE HUGHES – Ceramics
Mainly wheel-thrown vessels: simple forms or more intricate pieces – cut, pierced or embellished  

2 painters, a ceramicist and a sculptor all creating vibrant, exciting and colourful pieces of work. Bold and adventurous colours and shape, fired clay, bronze resin and bronze casts. A wealth of variety of paints, inks, metal foils and papers are used to create theses different works. 

The artists are Sandy Roberts, Janet  Parker-Laird, Sally Dhurev and Jane Shepherd. 

This exhibition will also be open on Sundays, 10am – 4.30pm.

2 painters, a ceramicist and a sculptor all creating vibrant, exciting and colourful pieces of work. Bold and adventurous colours and shape, fired clay, bronze resin and bronze casts. A wealth of variety of paints, inks, metal foils and papers are used to create theses different works. 

The artists are Sandy Roberts, Janet  Parker-Laird, Sally Dhurev and Jane Shepherd. 

This exhibition will also be open on Sundays, 10am – 4.30pm.

Helen Baddeley, Brady Turner and Jane Barnard have colour at the heart of their practice to express their feelings about landscape and the world around them. Although varied in media and styles, they have a delight in making work that is expressive and powerful. This exhibition is the first time they have shown together. 

Wessex landscapes have great appeal and walking, camping and sketching prompt ideas, forming the basis for paintings based largely on mood and memory. I have been much influenced by a year’s Diploma Course at the Norfolk Painting School which stresses a grounding on traditional techniques. 

Dorset printmakers Jayne Soakell & Sarah Humby have been exploring the Dorset countryside and coastline for many years.  

Field Trips is an exhibition of new work based on expeditions into the landscape made before and after lockdown. A mixture of studio work and drawings made directly in the field.  

Dorset printmakers Jayne Soakell & Sarah Humby have been exploring the Dorset countryside and coastline for many years.  

Field Trips is an exhibition of new work based on expeditions into the landscape made before and after lockdown. A mixture of studio work and drawings made directly in the field.  

A colourful exhibition by three local friends, collectively known as ‘Creative Chameleons’. 

Original acrylic artwork, prints and cards by Moira Ladd.  Fused and leaded glass set into wood and stone by Claire Waters, alongside useful and decorative items created by Jason Fermor, using resins and locally sourced wood.  

They say that every picture tells a story – packed with tantalisingly touchable textures, that is certainly the case with my felt pictures.   

Being a Shaftesbury girl my felted observations of community life provide a fresh, new burst of energy and originality to scenes with which we are all too familiar.  

An Exhibition of  work by Southern Contemporaries  selected by Frances Hatch.  Responses made from a high point in the landscape or a personal watershed.  

Southern Contemporaries stems from  the proud tradition and history of  Bournemouth Arts Club which celebrates its  centenary at the Russell Cotes Gallery this Autumn.  

An Exhibition of  work by Southern Contemporaries  selected by Frances Hatch.  Responses made from a high point in the landscape or a personal watershed.  

Southern Contemporaries stems from  the proud tradition and history of  Bournemouth Arts Club which celebrates its  centenary at the Russell Cotes Gallery this Autumn.  

My starting point is always a love of drawing landscapes -but this sometimes develops into surreal or semi-abstract treatments.  

The North Cornish coast is a favourite area as well as the Jurassic Coast, not to mention woods near Bull Mill.

Stephen is a painter and ceramicist inspired by the sea and landscape surrounding his home on Portland, Dorset.

Holly produces mixed media 2D and 3D work combining acrylic with stitch. She is also inspired by the landscape and natural world around her.

The exploration of light plays a very important role in Sue’s work. She enjoys capturing moments of translucence and opaqueness. Although based in London, Sue has also lived in Somerset for the past 25 years. Many of her paintings of fauna and landscapes are evoked from travels through Wiltshire and Somerset. 

My paintings are for the most part small acrylics that explore a few subjects that I return to frequently – the Annunciation, the Visitation, the journey to Bethlehem and the journey of the Magi. My training was as a stained glass artist at Kingston & the Royal College of Art. I no longer make windows but this influences both what I paint & how I paint it.  – David Marl.

Walking feet – we are a group of four friends who have been meeting and working together for the last ten years. At the time of the first lockdown, we were working towards an exhibition, but of course that was cancelled. 

We could only meet on Zoom but began to take it in turns to set challenges for the group to produce small pieces, choosing a subject as a starting point, and sometimes stipulating size as well.  

In all we have each set four challenges, and these pieces are the results. I think it is fair to say that we all like some of our pieces more than others, and that we found some challenges more challenging than others, but at least that gave us something to worry about other than COVID. 

The pieces will be on show in September so do come and see how we used or wasted our time. 

Karren works in oils, watercolours, charcoal and pen and ink to represent her version of the world around her.  She is excited by the relationship of colours and the play of light on landscapes and objects.  Since the first lockdown in March 2020 her focus has shifted from landscape to her local surroundings and dead flowers.

An exhibition of paintings by Rachel Sargent and poetry by Catherine Simmonds exploring the places they sought solace during lockdown restrictions.  

In times where a walk might be our only outlet, sanctuary becomes a  common quest – to distance the bad news or find connection with something deeper than our everyday difficulties. 

An exhibition of paintings by Rachel Sargent and poetry by Catherine Simmonds exploring the places they sought solace during lockdown restrictions.  

In times where a walk might be our only outlet, sanctuary becomes a  common quest – to distance the bad news or find connection with something deeper than our everyday difficulties. 

Maggie Wyman and Maxine Chandler have produced new and exciting work for their first exhibition together. Maxine is a skilled and imaginative glass artist specialising in stained glass and leaded work. Maggie has a love for flowers and abstract painting in acrylics and oils. Together they look forward to inviting you, to what they hope, will be a great show that will be well worth a visit. 

Popular seascape painter Kim Pragnell is exhibiting another exciting collection of sea-related paintings this autumn. Well known for the often wild and dramatic depictions of the coast around our shores, Kim hopes this selection will be more varied and perhaps, more tranquil. One to put in the diary!

Though I have been, my life, an artist I started painting finished landscapes ten years ago. Starting in Watercolour, I moved to Oil after five years and have enjoyed developing in them, occasionally with reference to much loved Dutch Landscapes. In the last year or two I have added some still lifes of collected artefacts and other oddments. This Exhibition will hold some favourite paintings of the last ten years and one or two new ones after my latest fashion. 

Annabel Carington is an artist, illustrator & writer working from her rural studio on the Wiltshire/Dorset border. 

‘Nocturne’ is an exhibition of new work exploring Annabel’s fascination with moths through a series of drawings, paintings and installations conceived from a combination of close observation, historical understanding and contemporary ideas & concerns.  

Paintings and drawings by Nick Andrew, exploring the landscape within walking distance of the studio. A collection of unique wildlife paintings by Tanya Hinton on reclaimed wood.

Nick and Tanya work from their studio at Bull Mill Arts, Crockerton, on the banks of the River Wylye. They have both exhibited widely throughout the UK and abroad, with work in many public and private collections.

Continuing with his series A Sense of Place, this year Ravi is exhibiting landscape photographs taken during the pandemic, on daily walks within a mile radius from his home.

My untitled exhibition is a collection of my work from the last few years focusing on the landscape and it’s connection with the weather throughout the seasons. 

It’s only recently that Neil Colclough has returned to painting and, by using Oils and Ink, he captures the atmosphere and realism of today’s world and places he visits.

It’s only recently that Neil Colclough has returned to painting and, by using Oils and Ink, he captures the atmosphere and realism of today’s world and places he visits.