Sarah Holliday, April 2013

04 – 27 APRIL 2013

Private View Tues 9th April 6-8pm
Evening Reception with the Artist 17th April 6-8pm

Sarah Holliday, Bottles in a Row (11th June 2011),
watercolour & mixed media, 33 x 55cm,
£650 framed SOLD

This new collection of watercolour paintings by Sarah Holliday shows some of her more figurative work to date. Over many years her work has evolved through many degrees of representation and figuration, and this new work uses very defined objects set within often more ambiguous surroundings. The objects used are metaphorical comments, and reflect Sarah’s interest in ideas of classical beauty.

Sarah Holliday,Orchid (17th January 2013),
watercolour & mixed media, 89 x 66cm,
£1850 framed

Several works show the repeated use of bottles and jars, juxtaposed with other elements, some less expected than others; a leaf or feather, an architectural detail or a section of classical sculpture. Light and colour appears to radiate from within these containers, or from unexplained places, creating a space full of depth and mystery. Each element within the painting demonstrates Sarah Holliday’s exceptional talent in her draftsmanship and the use of paint and light.

Sarah Holliday, Horse Head with Two Feathers (2nd July 2012),
watercolour &mixed media, 70 x 64cm,
£1500 framed

In 1996 Sarah Holliday was elected Fellow of the Royal Watercolour Society, she has had regular exhibitions with New Academy Gallery since this time. She shows regularly with RWS and ‘Art in Action’, Oxfordshire. Awards include the Saunders Waterford Award, Royal Watercolour Society and the Arrobus Award for Watercolour, Camden Arts Centre. Her work features in many private and corporate collections in UK and abroad, including Babcock & Brown Ltd, the Inner Temple, BP Amoco and General Medical Council.

To view the full exhibition online click here

Mark Godwin, April 2013

These new works continue Godwin’s study of landscape, or more specifically, the local coastlines around Hastings and towards Rye, in East Sussex, where the artist lives. Godwin has a fascination with the intervention of the sea with the shoreline, and in particular how the local architecture and general marine apparatus has become weathered and eroded by the coastal climate.

Mark Godwin, Albion IX, mixed media on paper, 69 x 84cm,
£980 framed

Godwin does not consider himself a topographical artist nor indeed are his paintings site specific. His work is not about showing natural representations, or even specific moments in time. He is interested in shapes and colours and painterly mark-making as visual metaphors, evoking an idea of landscape or creating feelings about a possible experience within the space. The multiplicity of associations within the composition makes viewing Godwin’s work unique to each individual.

Mark Godwin, Vessel, acrylic on canvas, 92 x 122cm
£3600

Mark Godwin was born in Birmingham in 1957, studied at Central College of Art, then the Royal College of Art in London and also Cite Internationale des Artistes in Paris. He exhibits throughout the UK and in Europe and has work in many private and corporate collections.

Mark Godwin, Bouyant acrylic on canvas, 122 x 152cms
£5000

To see the full exhibition of Mark Godwin's work on the gallery website click here