Howard Flanagan is an emerging international artist, widely known for his individual highly detailed paintings. A finalist in the 2017 Sunday Times Watercolour Artist of the Year competition, Howard has worked this year almost exclusively with the organisers of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race and the children’s charity UNICEF, to produce 12 paintings, […]
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Four artists – glass artists Celia Goodman and Kathy Collins, potter Martin Collins and watercolourist Jasper Jacob – display their varied skills in the Courtyard Gallery, inspired by the liminal spaces in landscapes and seascapes where water meets land and desert, where field and forest meet sky. They have joined forces for ‘Edge’ to demonstrate […]
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Popular local painter Julie Oldfield will be showing her latest series of paintings in the Courtyard Gallery, that focus on skyscapes rather than seascapes, which she is more known for. Having set a challenge to explore the moodiness and unpredictability of rapidly changing skies, Julie uses experimental techniques that themselves have unpredictable results, like working […]
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Colourful vistas of semi-abstracted summertime Dorset scenes are showcased is this solo Courtyard Gallery exhibition of work by Caroline Liddington. Her narrative paintings explore unexpected views through doorways and windows. Some images incorporate many smaller vistas; others focus on a single aspect producing a more abstract impression. All the work celebrates a courageous use of […]
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In the Courtyard Gallery, this is the second joint exhibition Anna Hillman and Pauline Lerry have had at the Town Mill. Both had careers in the fashion industry and share a lifelong interest in painting, drawing and printmaking. Dorset-based Anna is landscape inspired and is currently working with drypoint printmaking, continuing her experimentation with approach […]
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Valerie Barden studies at Yeovil College of Art, read Art History with the Open university and has been exhibiting professionally since 1994. Although painted in a figurative manner, Barden’s work exemplifies the qualities of abstraction and flatness specific to modern painting and their subject matter place them in a contemporary context. This series of paintings […]
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Exhibiting in The Malthouse, Richard Kaye is a printmaker who is candid about enjoying the kind of subject matter that most people and artists would tend to ignore. This has led him to produce series of prints on trees, telegraph poles, communication masts, cranes and even scaffolding. Using copper plates and a traditional hand-pulled technique, […]
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This is an eclectic exhibition in The Malthouse, of work by five local artists using different media. Hilary Buckley’s love of colour and pattern comes through in her vibrant paintings highlighting the shapes and contours of the local landscape, a sharp contrast to Philip Winstone’s cool and subtle coastal scenes with their emphasis on texture […]
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In this new exhibition, Zee Jones and Pam Allsop continue to explore mixed media, collage and colour. There is always something fresh in their work that encompasses themes of sea and landscapes, still life and flowers, as well as abstracts. For both artists, working in collage brings together their love of painting with their skill at […]
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This exhibition in The Malthouse explores Chelsea Davine’s inspiration for her large scale oil paintings through photography and drawings. “In my working practice I draw upon memories and images of the Dorset coastline and the details of the surrounding landscape as well as the energy and vibrancy of the architecture of the city I live in, […]
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