CONTEMPORARY ART
ALICE SHEPPARD FIDLER
British multi-disciplinary artist Alice Sheppard Fidler works across many mediums, mostly found objects and materials, This series brings together compositions comprised of discarded ephemera and paper based materials, paper cuts, and basic principal line drawing. Her work is absorbing, layered, and fully formed. This artist is working at a high level, presenting through all her mediums a complete picture of what it is she represents. Her work is an impressive addition to the British contemporary art realm, and a serious proposition for any art admirer or collector.
ENAS NASHIF
COMING APRIL
Enas Nashif is a Palestinian editorial lifestyle photographer who captures rich, diverse experiences that shape who we are and the expressions that come through our lives and work. Her still life photography is inspired by where her photographic journey began; in the heart of my mother’s world, the kitchen. These intimate still life photographs focus on a primary ingredient, and reveal their cherished meaning and the fundamental comfort and appreciation food brings to our lives.
SATOKO INADA
Satoko Inada’s work was perfectly described by artist English Alice Shepherd-Fidler as ”Beautiful, discrete, considered, yet light of touch.” It is gentle work conceived of many small marks and brush strokes. Such detailed, meditative application, realises the joy in her work, and unfolds into a voice that is entirely and inimitably her own.
WILLIAM BALTHAZAR ROSE
William Balthazar Rose is a well-established English artist who is most known for his Cooks series; an ongoing dialogue with mischievous characters, his reflections into art history, and the intrigues of man. His tennis players and musicians also capture a spirit of lightheartedness and fun, and sometimes the genres collide with playful effect.
CAMILLA WORDIE
Eat to Live or Live to Eat presents 10 people, with 10 photographers, showcasing 10 ingredients. The idea of portraiture through food had been brewing with artist Camilla Wordie for many years, having always found humour, joy and intimacy in learning about other's food habits, whether they be close friends or strangers. This is because Food defines us. Are we fussy or adventurous eaters? Do we make time for lunch or have it on the go? What would we have for our last meal?
LLAEL MCDONALD
Llael McDonald is an Australian artist who captures the glory of food, feasting, and the rich colours and atmosphere of gastronomy. Her work is inspired by a heady mix of greats that have gone before her, notably Edward Hopper, and the Pre-Raphaelite and Flemish Masters.
SARAH EDWARDS
“My work is often based around a single image I have visualised or frequently inspired by other photographers and painters working in different fields such as fashion, documentary and still life. In any image it may be the colour, background, or the mood. The journey of the image starts at one point and transforms through many stages until reaching that moment of completion.” - Sarah Edwards
ALICE ANDREA EWING
Alice Andrea Ewing is a sculptor based in Suffolk, UK, and founder of the studio Pomarius. Her work explores place, ecological value, and embodiment, with a focus on the Renaissance Investment Casting process, adapting the Lost Wax technique to bronze.
SATOKO MORISHITA
COMING MAY
Satoko Mokishita is a new artist to the Among the Pines gallery, who comes from Okayama, Japan. Her delicate work, gracefully portrays dove, fruits, mules, and simple landscapes. Her fabric sculpture are an accompaniment to her paintings lifting her figures into 3D form.
ZEYNAP TEKINER
COMING SOON
Zeynap Tekiner is a Turkish - American artist based in New York. She paints sitting or reclining figures seemingly at leisure in landscape such as the beach and on lawns, where people tend to enjoy outings. However, there is a detachment to these introspective figures and a sense of isolation surrounding them. Tekiner’s colours, brushtrokes and compositions, make for gentle and relatable imagery.
NATHAN ISAAC
Nathan Isaac is an artist and designer based in Newport, Rhode Island. His storied, mid-century imbued collages present stirring imagery of the invisible and imagined with a connective energy. Each piece is expressively constructed from vintage and sustainably sourced materials, pigment-based inks, and natural adhesive.
TABBY BOOTH
Tabby Booth is a young British artist whose work is on everyone’s wish list! Her unique perspective speaks of primitive depictions that are an homage to mysticism and the magical animal kingdom. All framed in antique frames chosen to compliment their occupant.
KYOKO DUFAUX
My work often features monkeys, birds, and dogs—companions from Japanese folktales that travelled with me during years spent living in Côte d’Ivoire. The daily landscapes there felt like scenes from a picture book, shaping the timeless quality of my paintings. Rooted in nature and influenced by haiku, I focus on quiet attention rather than negation or conflict. Each piece reflects slow, meditative creation with oils or coloured pencils. Kyoko DUFAUX
JAMES BEDFORD
James Bedford is a Travel, Food and Interior photographer, who has captured many corners of the world over the past 30 years. He has been a major contributing photographer for many Conde Nast Traveller and travel publications, and it’s from from his rich adventures that I have chosen a small series of his limited edition photograph prints for Among the Pines…..
JENN STACK
I discovered Jenn Stack’s joyful work on a recent trip to Harbour Island. Jenn grew up in the Bahamas of old, and her paintings hark back to the simplicity, and day-to-day unity of island life. It captures the colour, atmosphere, sights, smells, and sounds, keeping true to the island’s flair with colour, and the area’s relaxed vibe.
EDMUND SUMNER
British photographer Edmund Sumner, grew up poring over the pages of Domus, Blueprint and Architectural Review. Blueprint in particular (under Editor Peter Davey) opened his eyes to architectural photography as a stand-alone genre. His work features in many international publications including the above, Arch Digest, and Wallpaper. It is a priviledge for Among the Pines to show an exclusively sized series of some of Sumner’s more recognised images.
APPLIED ART
SUSAN HALLS
COMING MAY
Susan Halls is an English artist who has been making her distinctive animal sculptures for forty years. Although incredibly experienced, her style blends varying techniques, effortlessly switching from hand building to wheel throwing, majolica painting to scraffito, raku to stoneware firing. Her ceramic sculptures are full of character and reveal her mastery and magic of her craft.
GLENN DANE
Glenn Dane creates pieces from his garden studio in Cambridgeshire that reflect his connection with nature and the local environment. He transforms responsibly sourced green wood into unique vessels, some infused with botanical pigments from foraged berries, seeds, and earth from the surrounding landscape. Each piece tells the story of each tree's life and location.
TAKASHI TSUSHIMA
COMING MARCH
Takashi Tsushima’s hand built and painted ceramic plates return to Among the Pines this Spring. Tushima is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives in Fukuoka in southern Japan. He is well known in Japan for his illustration of children’s literature, and his fabric designs. Takashima’s magic lies in his ability to paint “motifs that blend animal forms with floral shapes while evoking human emotions, manifesting his belief that in the harmony of nature, we all live together as one.”
MAKO & NAOMICHI SATO
Naomichi and Mako Sato live in a quiet residential area in southern Okinawa. They make their beautiful ceramics, side-by-side in their garden workshop. Both scratch marks into the clay to add to the design and texture of their inimitable and collectible plates, cups, and bowls.
MARIA BALDA
‘My curious soul has led me to explore new forms, always using clays of various colors and textures to bring diversity to my collections. Inspired by Brutalist architecture and the Japanese technique Kurinuki, I continue to create pieces for my BRUTALIST collection. Creating pieces in a wide range of sizes, from small cups to large bowls and lamps. In my new collection, Imperfect Geometry, I play with (imperfect) straight lines, creating fruit bowls and vases. Each piece is unique and entirely handmade.’
— Maria Balda
LOUISA TAYLOR
Louisa Taylor gained a BA (hons) degree in Ceramics, at Bath Spa University, followed by a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, London. Examples of her work are held in private and public collections in the UK, and she has received numerous design awards and accolades.
MAGGIE ROBERTSON
First inspired by the tremendous decorative appeal of Delftware and Chinese blue and white, Maggie Robertson has developed the “Country Gentleman Collection“. These stoneware creations embrace the perfectly imperfect aesthetic of her hand built platters and vessels and are lavishly hand painted in scenes of the countryside and familiar animals in classic blue glaze.
FABIENNE JOUVIN
Fabienne Jouvin is a cloisonne artist based between Paris and Provence. Her inspirations come from travels that span Tokyo to Havana, the streets of Paris to the sea beds of the Maldives. She sketches her inspirations both real and imagined, and works with artisans from the border of Mongolia to the workshops of Limoges, Provence, and Paris, to create her multi-disciplinary pieces.
ÉRIC HIBELOT
Éric Hibelot is a French ceramicist who works with white porcelain, which he hand rolls, folds and paint.s He draws inspiration from everyday objects such as jerry cans, oil canisters, milk cartons, and Bilibo toys, toying with their iconic forms to create chic vessels identifiable by their French flair. .
SAIMA KAUR
NEW SERIES COMING SPRING
Saima Kaur is a textile artist specialising in hand embroidery inspired by Indian folk art. With its bold shapes, bright colours and areas of pure stitch, Kaur’s work has a strong graphic quality. Her joyful embroideries combine people, animals and patterns to create works that suggest otherworldly stories.
LUCY MCCALL
Lucy McCall is an English ceramicist who uses slab and hand building techniques to make highly covetable ceramic pieces! Lucy paints dreamlike scenes of mermaids, cowgirls, and heroines inspired by women in mythology and sirens. The shapes of her vessels complete the picture of her inimitable style.
KIM DONALDSON
Kim Donaldson is a British ceramist based near the Georgian city of Bath. Her inspirations come from uncontrived compositions of everyday life. Arrangements of colours and textures that find themselves within a frame and catch her eye: fallen leaves by a rusted pipe, flowing patterns through streams of water, a bird sitting amongst sun dappled branches, and nature’s debris lying by everyday, unobserved manmade objects. She translates these observations into spontaneous, uplifting, and gentle patterns that are painted, stencilled or scratched into her hand built ceramics.
SUE FUSCO
Sue Fusco designs a large range of wrought iron furniture and other useful, beautiful household items, as well as jewellery and clothing collections. She uses new, found and recycled items, scrap metal and second-hand cloth, creating desirable and dynamic items from thrift. She usually sells out at East African fairs, and is regularly commissioned to create interiors for private houses and safari lodges throughout the region. Sue has always worked with a small team of “fundis” (the Swahili term for artisans and tradesman), who now do the hard work of realising her designs.