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. Exhibition opens at Berdoulat in Bath March 15th.
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.
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.
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.
MARY NORDEN
Spring sees a new series of still life work by British multi-disciplinary artist Mary Norden. Mary is a well established colourist, interior designer, stylist, and now textile artist, swiftly making a name with her inimitable “Fabric Paintings”. Each is crafted from her library of antique and vintage textiles collected over years of extensive travel, and capture quiet contemplation and the gentle passing of time.
WILLIAM BALTHAZAR ROSE
William Balthazar Rose is a well-established English artist who is most known for his Cooks series; an ongoing dialogue with mischievious 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.
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.
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…..
HENRIETTA DUBREY
I have always been smitten by Henrietta Dubrey’s kitten and cat drawings. She’s absolutely got the essence of their contrasting characteristics of friendship and indifference in her feline portraits. I asked Henrietta if she would draw a cat series for the Among the Pines Christmas Edit, and she generously said ‘Yes!’.So, here is a small series of mixed media drawings which capture the mood and moments we get with our feline friends.
BREON O’CASEY
All Breon O’Casey’s work, whether it be paintings, drawings, woodcuts, sculpture, jewellery, or weaves, have an important part to play in the modern and contemporary British art narrative. He became a master of them all, and yet remained a humble man, still grafting away at his various mediums into his early 70’s.
PTOLEMY MANN
When I first launched Among the Pines two years ago, I just knew I had to show Ptolemy Mann’s AMAZING paintings, and thankfully she said Yes! Herewith a new series of work, plus a few framed A4 pieces, from an artist whose star (and value) is in the ascendence….
JOSHUA KERLEY
Joshua Kerley is one of Britain’s youngest and yet foremost glass artists. He uses the pâte de verre glass moulding technique which allows him to achieve more variation in surface quality, texture and colour. The results are beautiful vessels that defy sensory logic, as the tiny grains of opaque powdered glass appear candy-like in glorious contrasting colours.
CHRIS THOMPSON
Chris Thompson’s paintings are a celebration of the everyday, the half noticed and the overlooked. From an isolated building next to a silent canal, an unremarkable row of houses to hidden passageways. They are places full of subdued dramas, brought to life by the patterns of shadows and the flickering
SOPHIE HARDING
Penzance based painter Sophie Harding, has created a small Summer Harvest series for Among the pines, inspired by the great William Scott, a mid-century artist from the renowned St Ives school. Sophie’s work is fresh, fun, and always filled with pleasing images and ideas.
BLYTHE BRUCKNER
“The hidden distance collection is a series of paintings using my norma process but with a common thread of the abstract paintbrush mark. These are either sunk beneath the layers or lie on the surface for added vigour.”
NAOKI KAWANO
Kawano is especially drawn to the use of delicate and sensitive materials that “…tend to arouse strong emotional reactions from the onlooker”. Colour, texture and symbolism are his ‘Holy Trinity’, with countless other ramifications invoked in each of his works.