What a Great Summer

It has been a very busy summer at the gallery.  A mixed show, "Cornish Light" throughout the summer with solo shows every two weeks.  Ben Warners was a fantastic collection, much anticipated and now almost sold out.  That was followed by a stunning collection of Andrew Tozers work, Cornwall in all its splendour, beautiful paintings which flew out of the gallery.

We have had several commissions completed by various artists, all of which have been received with much pleasure.

commission by Sarah Wimperis

commission by Andrew Tozer

We have a glorious exhibition on right now by Andrew Giddens, who has strayed away from the sea and gone into the landscape.

South Coast Farmland near Porthleven by Andrew Giddens
SOLD

Also beautiful paintings by Myles Oxenford, working on panels his clean, fresh paintings are like a cool breeze on a hot day.

Helford Passage
200mm x 1170mm, oil on panels by Myles Oxenford

 

We have some new jewellers, ceramic artists and painters to introduce.

Metal Drawings by Lisa Harrison

Silver Vessels by Nicola Bottono

Glass by Rosie Sutcliffe

Ceramics by Lincoln Kirby-Bell

Ceramica by Rob Nagorski 

Wave Light by Nigel Chamberlin

 

Ceramics by Tim Lake

jewellery by Becci Blanning

 

All together it is proving to be a sizzling summer which is not over yet...

 

 

 

Ben Warner Special Collection

Sailing, Falmouth Bay
155mm x 245mm, oil on board
SOLD

We have been showing a collection of new works by Ben Warner over the last week and, I am happy to report very busy selling them.  The painting above was tiny and absolutely exquisite.
There are still a few left on the walls if you want to wander along to the gallery and have a look.  He is an artist whose work has the most mesmerising atmosphere and beautiful depth.

Falmouth Docks
180mm x 265mm, oil on board
£695

Timeless pieces full of a glowing luminous light, suggested shapes giving the familiar skyline of Falmouth a new aspect.

Greenbank towards Falmouth Docks
380mm x 640mm, oil on board
£1250

 

They really benefit from viewing in person as the layers of paint, washed back and worked up to produce a wonderful patina, are fascinating in themselves.

Early Evening, Falmouth Docks
720mm x 770mm, oil on board
£1750

If you cant visit the gallery, you can visit our website where you are able to browse and purchase with one click. We deliver world-wide and can gift wrap anything!  Own Art, the brilliant interest free credit system, can help spread the cost of a painting and can be completed over the phone.

Amanda Hoskin, Landscape Stories

Watching the Sun Going Down, Not a Sound
300mm x 295mm, oil on paper
£700

Tomorrow we open a new exhibition of paintings by Amanda Hoskin.  Cornwall in all its lovely guises.  Quiet evening sunsets, silent river stillness, beautiful light across the bay, images framed with the glories of Cornish hedgerows, overflowing with wild flowers.

Towards Menabilly, Daffodils and Sunlight
330mm x 695mm, oil on paper
£1150

Amanda has taken her paints and her sketchbooks and explored her favourite places.  Living in Fowey many of these are also places that DuMaurier used as inspiration for her writing.  Both artist and writer capturing the mystery and magic of this ancient landscape.

“ I decided to visit many of the areas described in Du Maurier’s novels. Seeing these places through her books and her imagination and then using the way I work to connect with the landscape has been a very interesting process. Her fascination with Cornish history has also provided a sense of the landscape of the past. Working on Bodmin Moor, time stands still where only the sky or light seems to change or Polridmouth Beach on a stormy morning with the sky a pinkish grey and the rocks black and menacing, images of Daphne Du Maurier characters would come to mind. For me she has put into words the landscape of Cornwall.”

Silence of the River Fowey
565mm x 640mm, oil on paper
£1750

It is a lovely collection of paintings, infused with a peaceful mood and created in a very fine, seemingly magical, manner.  Amanda's sensitive splattering and perfectly placed marks working themselves into light on water, flowers on the cliff tops, distant masts and faraway homes.
Please join us at the gallery for an evening view with wine and canapés, on Friday 5th July from 6pm.  The artist will be there and there will be a chance to see her brilliant sketchbooks, which will take your breath away!
There is also a hard backed book published to compliment this exhibition which contains many pages from her sketchbooks and the paintings that those sketches inform.  It costs £25.00 and can be brought with a few clicks from our web site or from the gallery.

Morning Light Fills Pont Pill, View from my Kitchen
205mm x 540mm, oil on paper
£800

The exhibition is part of the summer long series of shows under the title of "Cornish Light".  Amanda's work will be in the downstairs gallery from Friday 5th July until Wednesday 17th July.

Secret Art For Water Tonight

The sale of secret art works begins tonight, we already have a queue forming, the doors will open at 6pm, wine and canapés will be served, you will be able to buy two secret arts then re-join the queue for another go!
All in aid of the Falmouth Rotary Club WASH project
COME ALONG AND JOIN THE QUEUE.

News From Our Artists

House and Cars. watercolour by
Danny Markey

Danny Markey is an award winning artist whose roots are in Falmouth and who Beside the Wave are very proud to represent. 
His work has been chosen for the Discerning Eye, Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize and the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.  This year he is one of the judging panel for the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.
"Now in its 26th year, The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition champions the beauty and diversity of the medium of watercolour, and celebrates all works produced in water-based mediums, whether abstract or figurative, contemporary or traditional. A total of £18,000 will be awarded to artists who demonstrate a high level of skill and creativity. Prizes include a First Prize of £10,000, Second Prize of £6,000 and the Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize of £1,500.



The 2013 judging panel is: Julia Farrer, artist; Danny Markey, artist; Dr Susan Owens, Curator of Painting, Victoria & Albert Museum; Desmond Shawe-Taylor CVO, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures; and Hugh Pearman, critic & writer, The Sunday Times. They will select approximately 100 works for an exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London from 16-21 September 2013, followed by the Smith & Williamson tour to venues throughout the UK."


Madelaine by Anne-Marie Butlin

Anne-Marie Butlin, better known at Beside the Wave for her exquisite still life painting, has been busy painting equally beautiful portraits and has had one of her portraits accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Lovely Morocco

Riad Terrace
200 x 280mm pen and ink
£195
 

The exhibition Moroccan Journey opened yesterday with more paintings and a selection of lovely pen and ink drawings.  We were blessed with Azure skies for the evening viewing.

view from the gallery last night

and the gallery looked lovely, wine flowed and the Moroccan style canapes went down a treat.  Even the flowers had an exotic twist!

 

City Shapes
320mm x 370mm
gouache on paper
£750

 These lovely paintings are selling fast.  Plus I am now an own art expert.  (I have been training today) Own art is the fantastic, interest FREE, loan that spreads the cost of an original work of art over ten months, so the painting above could be yours for only £75 a month!  That's £2.50 a day, more or less...whats not to like about that!

Souk Jedid, Essaouira
380 x 490mm
gouache on paper
£1150

Moroccan Journey

Through a Doorway
360mm x 450mm, gouache on paper
£950

W have just hung the catalogue selection of Richard Tuff's new exhibition, "Moroccan Journey" and I can honestly say that the first view of a set of framed and delivered paintings has seldom created such a fizz of excitement.  They are delicious.

Six Arches
320mm x 370mm, gouache on paper
£750

Beautiful, chalky gouache paintings.  Rich colours, existing side by side in wonderful and surprising combinations. Mustard yellows with rose pinks, wine reds with olive greens, deep blues and softest lilac, all applied with a joyous confidence.  These are the sort of paintings that certainly make you wish to visit Morocco but also make me want to dress in these colours, rush home and paint my living space in these colours.  They are paintings to wallow in!

Jemaa El Fna
730mm x 1130mm, gouache on paper
£3750

Richard Tuff has been represented by Beside The Wave for 24 years, known for his paintings of Cornwall he occasionally takes himself to distant shores and comes home with a treasure trove like this exhibition.  It is brilliant!  Come and see for yourself.  The catalogue selection can be viewed on line and in the gallery now, the complete show will be up on Friday 31st of May.  There will also be an evening viewing, 6 until 8pm, on the 31st where you will be able to soak up the colours and shapes of Morocco, meet the artist, enjoy a glass of wine and nibble on some Moroccan style canapés.

NEW LEP: Interior with Flowers (Edition of 50)
Image Size: 127mm x 127mm
Mounted £40

Secret Art for Water

Ever wondered if you could spot a Paul Lewin at 20 paces? How about an Amanda Hoskin? Just imagine getting your hands on a pocket sized Tozer, a tiny Tuff or a little Dunbar. Now is your chance!

 

 

Secret Art for Water is an exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized artworks in support of the Falmouth Rotary’s WASH project in Uganda. Hosted by Beside The Wave and supported by RTP Surveyors, the exhibition’s challenge is to raise £3,000 in support of this vital work. In achieving this target, the proceeds of the sale will unlock the final tranche of funding for a £124,000 project designed to bring clean water and sanitation to two Ugandan communities. This will result in improvements to health, education and economic development in two Ugandan communities.

The exhibition at Beside The Wave will include work by acclaimed and amateur artists, up and coming artists (graduates, undergraduates and school children from Cornwall and Uganda), as well as the odd celebrity.

Each postcard-sized work of art will be sold for just £35.00 and, with many of the works valued at ten times this amount, art lovers have the chance to bag a real bargain! Proceeds from the exhibition go in their entirety to the Falmouth Rotary WASH project.  The Rotary club is multiplying any donation by 3.5 so a postcard brought for £35.00 will in effect add £122.50 towards the project.

(not a Tozer postcard, an example)

 

 

Beside The Wave gallery will display the eclectic collection of postcards in a week-long exhibition. Works of art will also be available to view on line. Works can be purchased on a first-come-first-served basis on the night of the ‘Reveal’, in person and by telephone, and remaining work will be available for purchase via the web thereafter. Collectors will discover the artists’ identities only after purchase on the night and each work of art is signed and dated on the back.

(not a Wimperis postcard, an example)

 

 

Prospective purchasers must contact Beside The Wave for a Collector Number prior to evening sale that will enable us to gather the information necessary to claim the Gift Aid on any money raised. The evening will be sponsored by RTP Surveyors in association with Beside The Wave. Drinks and canapés will be served to guests between 6.00 and 8.00pm.

(not a Heseltine postcard, an example)

 

Secret Art for Water

Friday 14^th June – Thursday 20^th June

Evening Viewing and ‘Reveal’- Thursday 20^th June 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Year Of Flowers

The blog title should read "Dunbar has Done it Again" because she certainly has.  The gallery is alive with a collection of the most beautiful, glorious, colourful and happy paintings.


Five Small Pots of Flowers on a Red Table
410 x 400mm acrylic on board
£950

People have been wandering around the exhibition like children in a sweet shop... "I want that one, no I want that one more, I cant decide, I want them all, all of them...NOW!"

Sardines, Primula and Turquoise Water
455mm x 455mm, mixed media on board
£1100
SOLD
 

They are simply lovely paintings.  Emma paints flowers with the ease of a gardeners intimate knowledge, her Primula's grow right out of the paintings, her Anemones sing with vibrant voices.

Across to the Chain Locker
760mm x 760mm, acrylic on board
£2,700
(featured in Artist and Illustrator magazine)

Flowers painted with confidence and huge skill and a delightful carefree touch.  Her colour combinations are brilliant, vibrant and happy.
I so desperately want one of these pictures to have and look at forever.


Aubergines, Pan, Yellow Pepper
455mm x 455mm, mixed media on board
£1,100

I think, if I had to choose I would have this one. Just look at that splash of yellow pepper and the playful squiggle next to it, the big fat, black pan and the beautifully painted Aubergines, and the colours...ooh it makes me go all breathless!!  But, and here is the difficulty I also love this one...

Three Pansies and Chocolates
mixed media on board, 300 x 300mm
£575
 

The colours, and chocolate and those mugs! It is a gorgeous exhibition, well worth a visit and a dip into the wonderful world of Dunbar.  I think they should have a health warning though, they wont rot your teeth but they might make you so happy that you pop!
Another thing worth a mention is that you can now buy, with one click from our web site, have a look and if you are far away have a go before they are all sold!!

Cliff Top Flowers in Tin Mug
300mm x 300mm, acrylic on board
£575
SOLD

Painting of the Day

We are displaying a "painting of the day" in one of our windows, as well as on our face book page.  These paintings are chosen by members of our team simply because it is one of their favourites. Alongside the painting is a short sentence about why they like it.  It is always interesting to discover what people see in a painting, and you do not have to be an expert to fall in love with a painting.
If you would like to nominate a favourite painting by one of our artists have a look through our stock and drop us an email with the title and why you like it and we will display it in the window.
Have a look at our face book page to see the daily painting, and "like" the page to see them every day.

Let There Be Light

And so it is!  After what seems like months of darkness and miserable weather the sun is due to make a comeback which coincides beautifully with our new exhibition by Andrew Giddens, "Let There Be Light"

Morning Arrival
500mm x 1200mm, oil on canvas
£1795

This is a stunning collection of the most beautiful paintings of the sea, of light and of the sheer energy and power of the natural world.  Surf is booming and retreating in every painting.  The mood is calm and full of serenity in some works and brooding and powerful in others.

The Wind and the Whisper
700mm x 1000mm, oil on canvas
£1950

With wonderful titles, such as above, The Wind and the Whisper, these paintings have the ability to transport you to a different place.
Step back and view an almost photo real depiction of the ocean, step forwards and marvel in the texture of the paint application and the amazing array of colours used to make these images.

More Joy!
200mm x 500mm, oil on canvas
£575

Andrew Giddens has a true gift, he can paint water that appears glassy and clear whilst having the huge weight and swell of the sea, right there, inside the painting.
It is a lovely collection, the show runs from 10am on Friday 12th of April continuing until the 24th. 
There is an evening viewing from 6pm on Friday where you can enjoy a glass of wine, meet Andrew and be exhilarated by the swell of the sea.
And, for the very first time you can buy paintings and prints with the click of a button from our web site.