Sladers Yard
Contemporary British Art, Furniture, Craft & Café
West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL
www.sladersyard.co.uk
info@itrefurniture.co.uk
T: 01308 459511

Press release

A NEW LEASE OF LIFE: WEST COUNTRY LANDSCAPES
Julian Bailey Mavis Freer Vanessa Gardiner John Hubbard David Inshaw
Alex Lowery James Lynch Tim Nicholson Robin Rae Alfred Stockham Michael Williams with furniture by Petter Southall
21 September until 9 November 2008

Eleven masters of the art of landscape painting come together in a celebration of the countryside in all its many forms.

Joyful, painterly seascapes by Julian Bailey show his talent for depicting people at ease. His bright summer light captures the essence of holiday.
Mavis Freer has also painted Ringstead Bay but looking inland at tumbled rocks and twisted roots in confident watercolours.
Vanessa Gardiner has painted these powerful clear pictures during her immensely popular one-man show at Sladers Yard. She is represented by the Hart Gallery in London where she goes from strength to strength.
John Hubbard’s lyrical watercolours of Shipton Hill near Bridport bring the texture and subtlety of his abstract oils to a well loved local landmark.
David Inshaw is a star of English landscape painting particularly for the atmosphere he brings, here to a friend’s garden in the evening light.
Acclaimed for his distinctive and visionary paintings often of West Bay, Alex Lowery’s new works take his ideas further even than before.
James Lynch’s soft and waxy romantic landscapes have a wonderful sense of light and a real appreciation of rural Wessex as it is now.
Tim Nicholson’s playful way of painting brings pattern and colour to a new way of seeing, whether close up and watery or far off and particular.
Robin Rae’s paintings are filled with feeling. His empathetic wryly humorous eye makes every small pebble seem important.
Alfred Stockham’s paintings have a magical quality unique to him. He says they’re just colour and tone yet they have the power to transport.
Michael Williams is a master of watercolour, producing works of an exceptional luminous quality, here in the ruffled surface of the sea.

Sladers Yard is the primary outlet for Petter Southall’s exuberant furniture, individually handmade in English hardwoods with many steambent components.
An unreconstructed massive Georgian warehouse in the harbour village of West Bay, Sladers Yard makes a stunning setting for the highest quality contemporary artwork.

Petter Southall's showroom with Philosophy - Julian Bailey, Derek Nice and Petter Southall - West Bay - Beatitudes featuring Cheryl Campbell - Miranda Creswell's paintings and drawings - West Bay - Beatitudes by David Inshaw - Alfred Stockham, Miranda Creswell and Petter Southall - Out to Sea - Bailey Nice and Southall - The Need to Dream - Vanessa Gardiner - Tim Nicholson - Sladers Yard Christmas Show - Robin Rae - Petter Bjorn Southall - A New Lease of Life - Angels and Demons Christopher Row - Alex Lowery - Akiko Hirai - Andrea Stemmer - Andrew George - Asaf Tolkovsky - Gerry Dudgeon - Goldfinger Jewellery - Ian McKay - Kate Lynch - Linda Bloomfield - Lindean Mill Glass - Makeba Lewis - Margo Selby - Matt Fothergill - MissPrint - Nawal Gebreel - Peter Swanson - Petter Southall - Svend Bayer - Tim Nicholson - Wallace Sewell