Time Flies When you...

are having fun, working hard and making plans.

Here we are getting ready for another foray up to London, the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park, 23rd to 27th October

We have some brand new, wonderful,energy-rich drawings by Miles Heseltine.

Georgous, take your breath away, interiors by Andrew Tozer,

Beautiful, iconic dreamlike paintings by Paul Wadsworth

Light filled, romantic paintings of interiors and gardens by Sarah Wimperis.

 

Fantastic and exciting new work from Chris Rigby and some of Ashley Hold's soulful and powerful night paintings.

What a rich and delightful mix, we cant wait to display them all and very much look forward to meeting old friends and new.

If you would like free tickets you can ask us to send you some or you can download half price tickets on our web site.

 

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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.

Spring, Just Around the Corner...

 The daffodils are blooming, there is a blooming cold wind but its dry, there have been blue skies and on Tuesday the 5th of March it is St Piran's day (the patron saint of Cornwall)

All in all, spring is springing and we are in joyful mood.  To celebrate and herald the start of a lovely season our resident painter and decorator has redecorated the upper gallery...

 The rich winter crimson has become bright spring yellow, the colour of Monet's dining room at Giverny. 

Downstairs the joyful theme continues as we have the catalogue selection for Andrew Tozer's new exhibition "Cornish Sunshine" which opens on the 8th of March... a fuller blog post about that later.

Happy Days
300mm x 450mm, acrylic on board
£825

So it is hurrah for Spring and "Happy Days" all round.

Spring Cleaning Big Style

Spring is in the air...well the daffodils are being picked, it has stopped raining and the days are getting longer.  The gallery is closed for a few days for some serious spring cleaning...

Actually I think it goes beyond spring cleaning and is becoming a refurbishment! 

 

Thank goodness that we have such a great team at Beside the Wave, our posh frocks and business suits are hanging up at home and the overalls are on, brushes, hammers and drills are in hand...

 

 

watch this space for some serious cosmetic surgery (on the gallery of course, we are just lovely as we are!)

A Warm Welcome

 For those of you that are far away you can now see our beautiful upper gallery in all its glory.  For those of you who are closer there is always a very warm welcome, come in from the cold and enjoy some stunning painting, interesting sculptures, unique jewellery and beautiful ceramics.

 There is something for everyone, the perfect place to find that special gift.  As we get closer to Christmas we will be offering mulled wine, to keep out the nasty weather and to cheer us all up.

We are open right up to and including Christmas Eve, so pop in and say hello.

Start Your Collection

The gallery is looking brilliant at the moment, hung with some beautiful paintings by our very talented artists but that is not all... if you wander along or visit on line you will find the most amazing offers. 
We want to encourage people to start collecting real art by real artists, we already have the own art scheme which allows you to purchase in ten, interest free, monthly instalments but now for the next week only we are offering you the opportunity to purchase beautiful paintings at specially reduced prices.
Of course, if you already collect art by any of our participating artists don't worry, you are not excluded from this offer, it could be an opportunity to expand your collection. 
We have 150 works of art included in this very special event, have a look, you never know what you may find and...there is only one week left.

Inside The Gallery

If you are a regular visitor to Beside The Wave you may have noticed some changes, we have got a little bit bigger!  Knocking through to the space next door we now have a dedicated home for our growing collection of limited edition prints.  We also have more space for ceramics, jewellery and very soon there will be a wonderful range of our own art cards available. 

the gallery from outside

We are in the process of getting the signs done for the front but inside all is bustling.

inside our new space

The entrance to our new area is right beside the fireplace,

the main gallery

This is what the main gallery looks like now, for those of you who cant actually visit us.  This is where we show our latest exhibitions and host lovely previews where you can enjoy a glass of wine and often have a chance to meet the artist.  Upstairs is yet another space...

the "treasure trove" with a changing display of just a tiny fraction of the 700 plus original paintings that we have in the building, this is a room where you can sit and enjoy the paintings, or wait while we fetch paintings from the store that you may want to see and own.

Representing 30 artists we have something to suit most tastes, from very figurative to expressive and abstract, new impressionists and wonderful colourists.

the view from the back of the gallery

We also have a fantastic view.
So if you haven't visited us in a while, make a point of coming along this summer.  If you have never visited then why not came and see us, if you are too far away you will have to make do with this blog and our web site.  We can send work all over the world and often do.  We are open seven days a week and can be contacted by email or phone.
Next instalment on this blog will be what goes on behind the scenes!

View From The Gallery
by John Raynes

Still Lifes

Simon Stooks
1930s Boat with Cornish Cup

Still Lifes, quiet places and silent moments.  It is January, misty and grey outside.  Take the time to pause for a while and look around an imaginary room.

Emma Jeffreys
Still Life with Pink Bag

A vase of flowers sit beside a cup, a bowl and a glass, before them are scattered four shells and a fallen bloom and beneath a glorious splash of pink in the form of a plastic bag.  Look again and a blue and white jug is echoed by a blue paint pot.

Simon Stooks
Paint Pot and Cornish Cream Jug

Three elegant and superbly simple pots sit on a white shelf,

Paul Lewin
Three Alice Gaskell Pots

Light is reflected in rosy hews from apples placed in unconscious arrangement upon a china plate.

Robert Jones
Three Apples

In the corner of this imaginary room is the stillest life of all, a television set, closed to the bustle and shriek of the world outside, reflecting back, as if through a glass darkly, your still life.

Ashley Hold
Off

Petals fall and rest on patterned cloth, shadows move imperceptibly and a small harvest ripens on a windowsill.

Philip Hogben
Farmyard and Flowers

Beside the Wave is celebrating the still life genre of painting with a beautifully fresh exhibition of work from some of our artists.  Paul Lewin has come inside, away from the cliff edge to paint calm and elegant works with a limited and very beautiful pallet.

Paul Lewin
Interior, After Gwen John.

Anne -Marie Butlin is celebrating exotic pattern and rich colours with her paintings of flowers and everyday objects that burst with a powerful femininity.

Anne-Marie Butlin
Blue Shoes

Simon Stooks and Emma Jeffryes present us with beautifully composed paintings that have a deceptively simple altered perspective.  Robert Jones and Philip Hogben give us domestic still life and steep their subjects in the rich painterly tradition of this genre.  Ashley Hold has painted interiors, desperately empty, still and peaceful yet brimming with unspoken comment.

Ashley Hold
Ocean

Still Lifes opens on Friday 27th January, with the Private View, 6-8pm and continues until Wednesday 8th February.

Private View. Andrew Tozer

Own Art

Do you know about Own Art Loans?  Have you thought about Own Art Loans? 

These are interest free loans which can really help spread the cost of buying  a painting that you have fallen in love with.  They are repayable in 10 monthly instalments and as they are completely interest free you never pay more than the advertised price.

Here are a few examples:   This gorgeous painting by Paul Lewin could be yours, to enjoy every day, to transport you to a cliff top perch on Gwennap Head.  And that could be possible for just  £99.50 per month, for 10 monthly payments.  ( That is approximately £24 per week or £3.42 per day.)

Or this beautiful little painting by Debbie George could be yours for £20 per month, or £5.00 per week or 71pence per day. 

You could own an Amanda Hoskin for £55 per month for 10 months

Or a put a wonderful , joyful Emma Dunbar on your walls for £140 per month for 10 months

You can apply for as little as £100 or as much as £2,000 for the purchase of original works of art by living artists in any media including paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glassware, and artist made jewellery.

The gallery is open until 8pm today, Thursday, for the last late night shopping before Christmas. Tomorrow it is Christmas Eve and we are open until 3pm.  After the big day and Boxing Day we open again through to the New Year, all the times are on our web site.

Winter Exhibition 2010

"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!!" (but not tomorrow please, if that's OK)

As you might imagine, getting into the Gallery has been something of a challenge these past couple of days, with the hills and back streets resembling a downhill skating rink as children (including ours) bodyboard down the steepest of them. If it doesn't thaw, tomorrow's mulled wine and mince pies, will be rescheduled to Saturday...so do watch this space.What a winter show we have for you though...!

 

As we speak, Cornwall's fields and hedges are blanketed, white and clean, purple shadows paint the land, bright blue skies hover above sparkling seas. What a contrast for the Cornish Riviera more accustomed to the sway of palm trees than landscapes of the frozen north, so wonderfully captured in this painting by Sarah Wimperis...

Blue by Sarah Wimperis
160mm x 300mm, oil on board

And as everyone who knows Cornwall intimately knows, Cornwall shows us her soul in the winter. Gone are the bright emerald necklaces of woodland along the river banks, the shimmering silks of turquoise seas, the bustling flocks of tourists; and those of us remaining are left to stand in a quiet landscape, to breathe in cold still air infused with muted greens and subtle browns, to look across a glassy sea towards a lighthouse bleached pale by a winter sun.



St. Anthony's Lighthouse, Roseland by Myles Oxenford

300mm x 350mm, oil on board

...whereas last week we were bracing ourselves before the mighty power of the sea, salt spray on our lips, dazzled by surf beating on the solid grey cliffs and a wind so strong that you can lean into it....

Storm at Porthleven by John Raynes

510mm x 610mm, oil on canvas

...As we walk, on once busy beaches, solitary specks beneath leaden skies, before a pale jade sea, heading home before the last light of the sun disappears, before the rain, to tea by the fire.



Rain Clouds, St. Ives Bay by Mike Hindle
520mm x 620mm, gouache on paper



...Or perhaps we're looking out, across the bay as a little boat nods goodbye to the day while a cupful of winter red polyanthus brightens the room.



Evening Sky by Debbie George

400mm x 400mm, acrylic on board

If all this outdoor stuff is making you feel cold then come inside, there is a beautiful painting that has a summer theme but manages to hold us enthralled at Christmas as well with its stunning colours of rich reds, splashes of gold, snowy whites and touches of silver leaf.

Summer Bunches and Strawberries by Emma Dunbar
450mm x 680mm, acrylic and silver leaf on board

So as you can see, Cornwall is looking beautiful and Christmas is coming! This really is an exhibition that displays Cornwall in all her glory, there is much more to see and talk about, you will be able to visit the exhibition from 6-8pm on Wednesday 1st December (weather permitting) and it will continue until Saturday 8th January.  You can view (and purchase) all of the catalogue paintings on our web site www.beside-the-wave.co.uk and the whole exhibition will be on our web site from 6pm on December 1st.

Limited Edition Print Show

We hope that it is not too early to be thinking about Christmas with just over four weeks to go! If that thought, combined with grey November days and the evenings drawing in, is beginning to fill you with dread then perhaps  we can help.  Take the Beside The Wave prescription towards a sunnier outlook with our Limited Edition Print Show.  Bring back the bright colours of a Cornish summer, flowers over sparkling seas, bright cottages wedged between deep green trees against an azure sky, ripples in the sand, all of them can be yours to brighten even the darkest winter.

Not only will you be able to buy limited edition prints from our existing collection but we have published twelve new images.  The new images have been chosen of paintings that we feel have been the ‘star of the show’ during their exhibition at the gallery over the course of the last year.

We have chosen two classic Amanda Hoskin paintings, 'Summer Grasses towards Menabilly' and 'Foxgloves and Bright Water, Alldays Field'. 

Both of these images feature the sparkling seas, dramatic skies and beautifully painted wild flowers that Amanda is rightly known and admired for.

Two new prints from Emma Jeffryes, 'Harbour of Sea Greens' and 'Blossom over Town, St.Ives',

depict iconic views of St Ives harbour with warm turquoise seas, golden sands and delicate spring blossoms.

For John Raynes we have chosen three very different images, 'Porthtowan Cliffs'

and 'Porthleven Harbour, Low Tide' are classic examples of John's studies of pattern, form and light.  'North Coast near Bassets Cove' is a stunning exploration of colour and light.

Two of Andrew Tozer's paintings were chosen for their warm palette and popular views of Falmouth and Mousehole. 'Summer Heat, Mousehole’ evokes the warmth and colours of beautiful summer days by the shore while 'April Colours Falmouth'

captures the well loved view over the rooftops of Falmouth and King Charles church across to the Roseland peninsula.

Finally, three images from Richard Tuff complete the collection with an unusual composition, 'Durgan from Glendurgan'

a classic view, 'St Ives Pier' and an image from his much loved series of domestic scenes, 'Daffodils by the Porch'.

All the prints are produced using the highest quality photographic and reprographic print processes. Prints are available unframed, mounted or fully framed in editions limited to 50. Each image is printed on high quality art paper and mounts are acid-free to ensure long life and perfect presentation. Frames are of natural tulip and the print is preserved behind glass.

You will be able see these new prints at the exhibition to be held in the gallery from 10am on Saturday 20^th November until Saturday 27th November, they can also be viewed on line at the gallery web site.

If you would like to receive a catalogue or to make a purchase please contact the gallery on 01326 211132.

So come along, banish the winter blues and possibly solve your Christmas gift worries, we will be very happy to see you.