Battersea Affordable Art Fair here we come

All packed up and on their way to London,

Paintings by...Chris Rigby,

Andrew Tozer,

Sarah Wimperis,

Miles Heseltine,

Paul Wadsworth,

 

and Ashley Hold

some amazing paintings and truly delicious framing:

Hope to see you there, you can still download half price tickets from our web site.

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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The Christmas Show

It's Christmas in the Gallery, the windows are rich and sparkling we have the most glorious collection of new paintings. 

I shall give you a little sample of what we have to offer...in the form of a virtual "Christmas Day"

Black Dog Watching by Myles Oxenford
 

First things first, no matter what day it is, someone needs their morning walk.  On this perfect Christmas day the snow has fallen overnight...

Fields and Hedge Rows in the Snow, near Zennor by Richard Stanley

The trawlers are waiting out the winter weather in the safety of the bay...

Waiting by Imogen Bone

Turning for home, up through the town, you turn to admire the view (bear with me, the snow has thawed)... 





A Walk Along Barnoon Terrace by Richard Tuff
 

And then its home to the warmth of the kitchen, to light the fire, put the dinner on...



Time Passes Slowly by Sarah Wimperis

Make merry with some champagne and oysters...



Oysters by Sarah Wimperis

Arrange the beautiful Christmas Roses in a favourite vase...

Christmas Roses by Anne-Marie Butlin

Have a daydream about warmer times, summer days on the Helford...

St Anthony in Menage by Andrew Tozer

Or a wonderful holiday in Venice...

The Beauty of a Venitian Building by Amanda Hoskin

Later on its time for a little fresh air, wander through the woods at the dying of the day...

Dusk in the Wood by Richard Thorn

And watch the sun going down over Bryher.

Bryher Sunset by Paul Lewin

 The end of a perfect day!

Come and see all of these paintings and many more, join us tonight for mince pies, mulled wine, magic cup cakes (they contain chance to win an original painting worth £150) from 6pm until 8pm at the gallery.

The exhibition continues until January 5th.

Preparations for London

 We are getting ready for Battersea Affordable Art Fair so the upstairs gallery is a confusion of lists, bags and paintings.  There is organisation buried deep within the bubble wrap...honestly!

 If you look at the top picture you can see two very long wrapped works of art, they are magnificent drawings by Miles Heseltine, one of which is already sold and coming up to London with us in the van.  The only problem is how to get them out of the upper gallery, down the windy staircase and round a corner into the lower gallery and into the van.  They are nearly 3 meters long!

 So its all hands on deck...out of the upper gallery, out of the window onto one flat roof...

Everyone out onto the roof, get a ladder down to the next flat roof and lower the paintings down...

 Paintings safely onto the second flat roof, one of us pops back into the gallery and runs down stairs out of the front and down the side alley while the other two begin to lower the paintings down to the next level...

 Into the alley below...

 Then they dash back up the ladders and back into the back window, down the stairs and out of the front door, round the back and we all carry the paintings into the front of the gallery.

 Its all in a days work for our fantastic gallery team.

If you are in or around London next week, 25th to 28th please come and visit us on stand H5 at the Affordable Art Fair, you will be able to see one of these beautiful drawings and much more, and now you know what lengths we go to in the name of art!

Bristol Here We Come

We are all set for Bristol, new paintings just dry, done especially for Bristol wrapped and packed, recent work chosen and sorted, labels made, the gallery upstairs looks...well, busy!
 It will be back to its normal tidy state tomorrow, when all the paintings are happily and safely on the way to the Affordable Art Fair. Its not too late to download a half price ticket from our web site, hopefully we will see you there.
If you cant make it in person then at least you can enjoy what we are taking by flipping through the flipping catalogue above. There are some brand new, never seen before paintings in there.

London Affordable Art Fair

We are getting good at this!  Having done the Affordable Art Fair in Bristol in May we felt much more confident as we drove the trusty van along the scenic route, via Dorset and the New Forest, to London.  Obviously an artist's route!  It was our first time at the Affordable Art Fair in London. 
Arriving, unloading and hanging is very hard work but we hit the deadline of 3pm on the Wednesday ready for the press, it was a bit like changing rooms, and our stand looked fantastic.  We all felt very proud of our artists and the work that we were showing.

Miles Heseltine had done some wonderful new paintings, his work attracted a lot of attention and many red dots. Sarah Wimperis and Andrew Tozer also sold extreamly well. Indeed, the influence of a Summer of Contempoary Impressionisim at the Gallery was apparent in their work and hugely appreciated by collectors.

Roy Goodman's evolving style and fresh colours were much commented on. Sarah Wimperis developed a fantastic selling plan which involved buying ceramics from other stands and then believing that this would help sell her own work.  It worked!  She also managed to very succesfully represented the other artists as well!!

Our stand was resplendant with a catalogue on an iPad and QR codes and a book full of red dots. We met up with a lot of our London based collectors and many new ones.
Now armed with even more Art Fair confidence we are heading for Edinburgh Art Fair in November, only three weeks away, paint, artists...paint!

Affordable Art Fair.

Been there, done that and most definitely got the tee shirt!
Cat Whitworth ( gallery staff and expert picture hanger ) and I, Sarah Wimperis ( artist, van driver and trying very hard to do as I am told) drove a van load of precious art works, carefully up to Bristol on the morning of Wednesday 11th.
The rest of the gallery staff had been working hard organising, cataloguing, wrapping and planning for months and were there to help us load the van but once we set off we were on our own.  We had a truck stop, like all good van drivers should, and managed to time our arrival in Bristol perfectly.
Then the hard work began.
We unloaded 90 paintings, tool boxes and one very heavy desk in just under one hour...

and began to hang.

Cat had a very well thought out hanging plan and by 4pm on the Thursday we were ready for the private view.  The pictures looked beautiful, colours flowed from one to the other, shapes were echoed and even horizon lines appeared to follow from one artists work right into the next.  I was impressed but then I shouldn't have been surprised as each exhibition at Beside the Wave is beautifully thought out.

The following three days were a blur of talking about the artists and the paintings.  Miles Heseltines' work sold very well and had at least two very emotional responses, which is a rare and fine thing.

Our fellow exhibitors were a very friendly and helpful crowd and we all had a thoroughly exuberant party on Saturday night.
Sunday was a rehang and then selling paintings. 
We met some old friends of the gallery and hopefully a lot of new ones and although it was an exhausting way to spend the weekend we both really enjoyed it.

Bristol Here We Come!

 We are loading up the van with beautiful paintings on Wednesday and hitting the road to travel up to Bristol for the Affordable Art Fair where we will be showing ten of our artists:
Andrew Giddens, Miles Heseltine, Mike Hindle, Alasdair Lindsay, John Raynes, Simon Stooks, Richard Stanley, Andrew Tozer Richard Tuff and Sarah Wimperis.
The private view is 6pm - 9pm on Thursday 12th May, invitation only, and the art fair is open Friday 11 am - 8 pm, Saturday 11am - 6 pm and Sunday 11 am - 5 pm.

If you are in the Bristol area we would love to see you, gallery staff will be Cat Whitworth and Sarah Wimperis, we are on stand E11.

You may have noticed a new name amongst our artists, Richard Stanley.  His colourful expressive paintings of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are an exciting addition to the gallery.