Framed Originals

Brin Edwards

I have been fascinated by the appearance of birds for as long as I can remember � in fact one of my earliest memories is as a six year old drawing a picture of a Black Naped Oriole which I saw in our garden in Singapore. My parents moved there for a couple of years in the early sixties and the intense saturated colours of tropical birds had a huge impression on me. Making drawings of birds became an itch I had to scratch.
After studying Biology and Ecology at University I spent the next twenty years or so as a freelance illustrator producing work for many UK publishers and charities including the National Trust, The RSPB and The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.
Nowadays I spend most of my time painting birds in oils with a looser more abstracted style than my precise illustration work. Here I�m trying to make bold statements and capture the essence of the birds rather than get bogged down in too much fussy detail.
The ideas for my pictures relate to direct observation and often a spit-second glimpse of a bird will set in motion an idea for a composition. Sometimes an image will arrive, fully formed in my head and will demand urgently to be resolved but often ideas will rattle around for some time before I commit them to canvas.
I also throw and decorate stoneware bowls with ceramic stoneware bowls decorated with birds which in turn are beginning to influence my painting style.
I�m very fortunate to live in and work in the beautiful Suffolk countryside and much of the inspiration for my paintings comes from close to home. I work from a straw bale studio which I also use as a classroom for my teaching courses.
I am a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists and exhibit at their annual exhibition in The Mall Galleries, London

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Giles Ward

Experimental contemporary Wye Valley artist Giles Ward�s paintings explore the intricate details, patterns and shifting colours of his sea life subjects. Inspired by the natural world he examines the hidden kingdoms of colour and texture found in nature�s close up detail.
Originally from Yorkshire he studied fine art in Sheffield before moving to Exeter to study illustration and design. Now he worlds predominantly in oils and his canvases take on other-wordly textures with the addition of acrylics, inks, spray paint, varnishes and anything else he can lay his hands on.

Limited Edition Print under Art Glass

Anna Dillon

I was born in Wallingford in 1972 and attended Falmouth School of Art where I studied illustration. I was a graphic designer for over sixteen years before deciding, in 2010, to become a professional landscape artist.
For most of my life, I have lived in the small village of Aston Tirrold which is in South Oxfordshire and is right on the edge of the Berkshire Downs.
Since my first solo exhibition in Wantage in 1994, I have exhibited at galleries and museums in many counties in the South of England. I regularly participate in Oxfordshire Artweeeks Open Studios and throughout the rest of the year I volunteer my time as a director on the Oxfordshire Artweeks board. I am also a member of the Oxford Arts Society.
My paintings tell stories that connect people, land, heritage, culture, environment and communities. Absorbing life and landscape in my home counties has had a profound influence on my interest in chalk landscapes, with an especially close interest in ancient landscapes and prehistory.

Original Acrylic on Board.

Stuart Roper

Stuart sees the play of light as if refracted through a prism. He builds his compositions through gestural marks working in much the same way
as the Impressionists, creating compositions that dance on the canvas.�
Jenny Blyth Fine Art

Born in England and brought up in Scotland he studied design and illustration in Aberdeen, he is now based in the South of England.

He works in a variety of media including watercolour, gouache, acrylics and oils.

His paintings show the influence of the Scottish Colourists, yet he has a deep affinity with the English landscape. Since moving to the Welsh Marches in early 2018 his new work reflects his response to the beauty of the Welsh landscape. With work exhibited in a number of galleries throughout the UK and with paintings in many private collections, he has growing reputation that has attracted the attention of fine art buyers across the globe. Magdalen College, Oxford have recently purchased two pieces of his work for the their extensive collection of artworks.

In addition to painting, his practice includes illustration (mostly pen and ink) for a variety of applications from children�s books to maps and murals, and is much sought after as a teacher for adult education and master classes. He has exhibited throughout the UK over the past 45 years beginning with the young Scottish artists in Edinburgh in the 1970�s, through collaborative and solo exhibitions in London and the South East.

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Jean-Yves Taborout

Motor Racing is like Art: both are about describing a line�.

Rarely has this been truer than in the work of Jean-Yves Tabourot. In a �former life� Jean Yves was leading a team of remarkable people building cutting-edge gearboxes for Williams F1 and latterly the build and development of the Jaguar CX75, famously featured in James Bond �Spectre�.

All these years combining engineering with artistry have led JYT on fascinating journeys of creative discovery, working with and immortalising the cars he and his clients love in his distinctive way, capturing the style and soul of these beautiful machines through their exquisite lines, details and features.

He is based in the heart of the UK�s illustrious �motorsport valley� � the famous strip of Oxfordshire that is home to such notable names as Williams, Alpine, Mercedes, Aston Martin and Red Bull. Jean Yves� work is now focussed mostly on exclusive commissions paintings for classic car owners and corporate work, but his portfolio is almost entirely available in limited edition prints; these are gicl�e printed on high quality Hahnem�hle etching 310 grs paper, all numbered and signed by the artist, so we are delighted to showcase some of his work in Dolphin Gallery.

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Julia Whitehead

Working from her garden studio in Witham on the Hill, the study of human crowds and moving figures is the main focus of Julia�s series of paintings on display. Using a variety of photographic reference material collected on regular trips to London and other towns and cities, plus her own imagination, Julia captures the spirit of society on the move. Paintings, of whatever scale, start with a brightly coloured acrylic background onto the white canvas. The abstract nature of her background paintings often dictates which direction the final painting will go and elements of the paint layers are left to show through the overpainting to varying degrees. Oil paint is built up over several layers, sometimes wet on wet, other times the oil is allowed to dry sufficiently to paint over, often resulting in a highly textured surface which creates shadows of its own. The focus on these figure paintings originated with a fascination of the shadows cast by figures when viewed aerially. The beautiful shapes cast on pavements are generally hard to appreciate when life is moving all around but are mesmerising when freeze framed in a photograph. Equally, the patterns made by bodies moving in a crowd or seen from unusual angles, have an artistic quality of their own.”I enter into a slightly meditative state when painting, especially with the more impressionistic figurative crowd scenes. As in life, each small figure takes on a characteristic of its own and has its own individual relationship to the figures that surround it. People seem to enjoy the paintings as they see something new in them each time they look at it.

Glass Sculpture

Sue Avery

Born in 1967, in the West Midlands, Sue has had a love of art from a very early age. She won art prizes at Edgbaston High School and at Huddersfield Polytechnic where she was awarded best first year student, and was a finalist in the 1991 BBC Clothes Show knitting competition. She moved down to Oxfordshire in 1994 and married. Following a career in knitwear design and garment technology, Sue took a break to have children. She subsequently became a primary school teacher. Sue fell in love with making glass following a course whilst on holiday on Cornwall in 2017. She now makes glass at her home in Moulsford, South Oxfordshire.

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Bob Rudd

Suffolk artist Bob Rudd was born in 1944 and into quintessential England at a time when Britain were emerging from troubled times. Studying at Bath academy of art between 1969 � 1973, he became a member of the Royal institute of painters in Watercolours in 1995. Going on to exhibit extensively in Galleries across London and throughout the Uk, including Solo spots in London, Edinburgh and The isles of scilly, Bob has achieved having his works displayed in the new parliament buildings and Westminster, the house of lords and along the way, attaining many prestigious awards. Bob paints a lot of Scottish landscapes and came to do so by simply being approached by a gallery in the highlands, they say that visitors buy a painting of these surroundings, so it is practically a given to paint the landscapes all around. There are much easier ways of making a living he says, but no, there has to be more than that for him� It�s all about the seeing. Finding in a landscape something that is interesting without necessarily reproducing it as would a photograph. It�s an assembly of impressions gathered as weather crosses the scene or theatre in paint. Bob�s paintings are recognisable, but they are never reproductions. On the other hand, they are not the result of randomly applied paint either: every mark is deliberate and deliberated upon. He paints as he wants and they sell, how pleasing is that! Most of his coastal paintings use still water and reflection to evoke the drama of cliffs and headlands, looking for the darks; applying the watercolour in glazes over and over to deepen the shadows and highlight the colour of sky, sea and sand. And then to add in the unexpected: perhaps that solid sweep of purple, that spot of blue glimpsed beyond the sea arch, that electric green of moss.

Cast Bronze Resin

Fiona Everett

My journey into clay sculpting began while living in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the mid-1990s. It was an accidental one. Following a period of illness and unable to work full time, I discovered a neighbour who taught clay sculpting. After a casual enquiry about observing her life class, I was given a lump of clay and an instruction to �have a go�. From the outset, I found translating what I saw into a clay figure utterly natural, and it opened the door to a new world for me. That discovery led me to 25 years of joy as I have developed my skills, keeping me grounded through many family relocations, always providing me with a focus, and in the end building my own small studio in Rowledge, Surrey.

My fascination with the human form has always been central to my work and working with life models key to that. However, access to a life model has not always been possible and my love of organic natural forms inspired by the time I lived in South Africa and my passion for gardening, has seen my practice expand into producing pieces for the garden environment.

In finally finding a family home in Rowledge, I was lucky enough to discover my artistic home too; at Farnham�s West Street Potters Studios. It is here that I have been able to hone my sculpting skills at the Life Sculpting Classes but also develop my understanding of hand-building and glaze techniques. Thus, allowing me expand my repertoire of work and more recently to have some pieces cast (with happy results) and move forward into the next stage of my artistic journey.

Limited Edition Canvas on Board

Anthony Dobson

Born in 1971 Anthony Dobson spent much of his childhood sketching rather than doing homework. This passion quickly gained momentum and before long Anthony had a number of private commissions coming in from collectors. This gave the budding artist a new confidence and he decided to turn down a place at university, choosing to focus on his artwork instead. Since then, Anthony has successfully balanced his artistic career with involved practical work in the arts including framing and printing. Working commercially with artists and building up portfolios for clients cannot have failed to add to his keen eye for colour, line and form.

Working exclusively in oils, Anthony paints a moment in time, aiming to capture the sense of movement and emotion present in his subject. Painting animals gives the artist boundless opportunities to express these moments and encourages the artist to study his subject in wonderful detail. His signature �detailed, yet not overworked� style is used to great effect in this manner and lends a wonderful emotive expression to his work.