Artists selling @ The Table
Welcome to my online shop here at The Table where you will find works on paper by artists who exhibit regularly with me in the gallery. I wanted an online presence for gallery artists between their exhibitions but I also wanted to show drawings for you my buyers; these pages offer an eclectic mix but also a more affordable price point as they are all unframed making them much easier to send out to you. Click on any artist and see their curated gallery page … enjoy!
Born in Hereford in 1946, Carolyn took up painting at the age of ten, at Saturday classes in the old College of Art in Hereford. She attended full-time at Hereford College of Art as a mature student, and then studied with Welsh artist Roger Cecil, who remained her mentor until his death in 2015.
Carolyn works at home in her studio amidst the gathered relics of flotsam & jetsam of her walks and travels. Her mainly abstract work is inspired by and concerned with landscape and the elements, geological faults, ley lines, chalk markings and ancient sites, always attempting to create connections between the organic, the archaeological and the spiritual. Paintings/drawings emerge through a process of layering paint and graphite, scratching and sanding until the traces of time and memory are transformed into a rich and resonant image.
Kate is inspired by the landscape of the Welsh borders where she lives. Her paintings do not set out to be precise representations, but a response to the changing rhythm and colours of the landscape.
Kate draws outside with charcoal, pencil and pastel, then back in the studio, she paints in oils, sometimes adding blocks of flat colour collage or newsprint to a composition. She also paints still life and flowers from her garden.
Before becoming a full time painter Kate was a journalist and worked on Vogue before moving to Wales after her marriage. Gradually the painting became all- consuming and she began selling her work in the gallery on Tresco where the family went every summer with their 3 children .
“I’ve lived in mid Wales for over 35 years and know the surroundings seep into my subconscious when I paint. There seems to be a deep-rooted composition in my memory that invariably emerges in a painting. I often walk to a favourite place to revisit a group of buildings or the steep dip of skyline over the hills; I unashamedly edit the view to make a picture work, taking out anything that confuses the composition. I love emptiness in a landscape, where the space is dissected by a grid of hedges or vertical marks of buildings, telegraph poles, church spires.”
Lois studied Fine Art at The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 1982 - 86 winning the South West Open Young Artists Award in 1986. She then went out to work for twenty years beginning with Textile Conservation at Hampton Court Palace and ending up on the set of a Harry Potter film. She gained an MA in Screen Design from the NFTS in 2002.
Since moving to Wales she has settled in Knucklas with her partner the potter, Tony Hall, and their twins, where they have established Castle Hill Arts and run a small flock of sheep.
"I love sketching and turn the small pen drawings that I make on walks into big landscape works. Small images are projected onto paper, ply and gesso and worked up into painted drawings in the studio. The landscape, the hill farms, the odd geometry of the shapes of fields and the weather all inform the paintings which I make in the studio".
In 2010 Lois won the ING Drawing prize at the Mall Galleries.
Charles trained at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (Dip. AD) and Brighton Polytechnic (Art Teachers' Certificate). After a period of teaching and working as an auxiliary nurse, he was awarded a major bursary by Southern Arts which enabled him to paint full time.
Initially painting landscape, he gradually abandoned this in order to paint more intimate subjects in a domestic setting. Through still lifes and interiors he tries to evoke in paint both the objects and the atmosphere of his everyday surroundings. Working slowly with muted tones and simplified compositions, stillness and calm predominate.
In 1986 he moved to Herefordshire where as well as exhibiting regularly he has curated a number of religiously themed exhibitions. He also exhibits in London with the Piers Feetham Gallery. In 2015 he was given a solo exhibition in Louisville, Kentucky as part of the Thomas Merton centenary celebrations.
Sophie Windham was brought up in the bucolic Gloucestershire countryside which has inspired her lifelong love of nature. She grew up in a family of artists with her mother, Annette de Mestre, and her aunt, the painter Rachel Windham who were both fundamental to her development as an artist. After training in London at Byam Shaw and Chelsea School of Art she worked for twenty years as a children’s book illustrator being nominated in 1997 for a ‘Greenaway Medal’.
During her early years Sophie travelled extensively, living and working in Venezuela and Los Angeles, but in 1994 she moved to the Welsh borders with her family and for the last decade she has been painting and exhibiting her work in Hay-on-Wye and London.
Sophie has work in private collections in America, Australia, Venezuela and Europe.
Moving from illustration to painting has been an important transition for me. Living just below the Black Mountains I feel a part of the land around me and I am absorbed into it. I use memories and photographs that I collect while walking in the hills. I paint straight onto the canvas, it’s not conscious, it just happens. Most of my paintings are worked on for months, two or three at a time, and there are many layers underneath the finished painting. I begin with the details and then gradually strip down the piece until I’m satisfied, leaving the essence of the landscape and allowing the viewer space for their own response.