Art & Contemporary Art

Rob Moore

Rob Moore is a full time professional artist and was formerly Dean at Hull School of Art and Design. Educated at Sheffield College of Art and Design, Rob has been committed to his practice as a painter and printmaker since being awarded the prestigious Granada Fellowship in Fine Art at The Institute of Advanced Studies at Manchester Polytechnic. Rob Moore has an impressive track record of exhibitions across the UK with many works in public and private collections. His work is highly sought after and collected.

Rob’s work does not fit neatly into a category and he continually modifies and explores his ideas and processes free of fashionable consideration. His work demonstrates a sensibility and craft that results in images that are sensitive and memorable. In recent years after a long interest in the abstract his work started to show the influences of his rural location and many visits to high places in Europe and further afield with a sense of landscape shimmering through obsessive exploration of marks and surfaces.

Art & Contemporary Art

Colin Black

My work is primarily mixed-media and landscape based. My most recent series focusses on the monasteries and priories of Yorkshire. It’s their juxtaposition of architectural geometry and irregularity of decay that holds my attention. Even though it is their physical locations that inspire me it is back in my studio that a piece will take emotional shape, and the spirit of the place is realised. I love colour and express this through a variety of materials that includes oil, acrylic and water-based paint, oil pastel, collaged imagery, particularly maps, I will add and take away until its required “rightness” is achieved, through the creative process of distillation.

I studied at the Royal College of Art and the Chelsea School of Art in London. I worked as a graphic designer and taught art and design for many years. I spent twenty-five years living in Scotland, and now live in York with my wife Sallie, where we run Seek Art School. I work and teach in Seek Studio.

I have had work exhibited in solo and annual group exhibitions for the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Watercolours and Visual Art Scotland. I have also been accepted for York Open Studios for the last two years.

Art & Contemporary Art

Kirsty Whyatt

Kirsty Whyatt was born in Saddleworth, Greater Manchester but is now based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Kirsty gained a degree in Exhibition Design at Humberside University (now the University of Lincoln) before embarking on a career as a freelance photographic stylist, which she has done for over twenty years.

Kirsty began her artist career in 2017 when she took the plunge and converted half of her garage into a studio. For Kirsty the light in a painting is the most important thing, it brings atmosphere “like nothing else”.

Art & Contemporary Art

David A Parfitt

David A Parfitt RI was born in Cornwall but lives near Bath. He is a landscape painter, working with watercolours and water-based media. Although David knew that he wanted to draw and paint from an early age, it was many years before he could devote himself full time to painting (working as a civil servant for 27 years).

‘I had no art training and am totally self taught, but managed to paint while working and I eventually started selling my work in local galleries. This encouraged me to make the change to part time working so I could develop my painting further full time as an artist in 2007, helped by the fact that our children had left home’.

David was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 2011.

David A Parfitt RI won The Neil Meacher Sketching Prize in the RI 200 Exhibition (2012), the Frank Herring award in 2014 and the Winsor & Newton award in 2016 for ‘the group of paintings judged to be the most outstanding contribution to the exhibition’.

I am passionate about watercolour, with its fluidity and uncontrollable nature; to find how the medium can be used to express and convey a feeling for the moods and atmosphere of the landscape. Although my work is placed within the traditional or representational sphere, my aim is to create something which has a sense of place without looking too contrived or deliberate. The whole approach is about experimenting and developing as I attempt to push the water-based medium as far as I can without the use of opaque or white pigment.

In the past few years, I have found that I spend the majority of my time working in the studio whereas previously I completed around 60% of my work en plen-air. I still believe that it is essential to work on paintings outdoors, with the challenge to get things done quickly and simply, but more often than not these days, I take long walks with my sketchbook, a small box of watercolours and a camera (my phone). I use the sketches and photographs back in the studio to make paintings and monoprints giving thought to experimentation or to work purely from memory.

Art, Contemporary Art & Illustration

Jane Ray

Jane Ray was born in London, studying art and design at Middlesex University. This is where she began her career in art designing greetings cards, book jackets and posters, before moving into children’s book illustration, where she now specialises in fairy tales, mythology and folk tales. Jane has worked with many different publishers.

Notable titles include; Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar, Stories for a Fragile Planet, retold by Kenneth Steven and Zeraffa Giraffa, a lively and characterful children’s book by Dianne Hofmeyr for Frances Lincoln. Original works of art from all these titles as well as limited edition prints are all available from the Watermark Gallery.

Jane’s work frequently takes her into schools where she finds the thoughts and responses of children to be invaluable. Recently this has involved a project creating 200 mythical beasts for a pop-up festival in a London primary school, a set of painted murals for Enfield children’s library as well as ongoing art workshops for refugees in Islington.

In addition to her work as an illustrator, Jane Ray enjoys writing books and we are very pleased to offer original artwork from her title, The Dolls House Fairy, in the Watermark Gallery collection.

Art & Contemporary Art

Tessa Pearson

Tessa Pearson ARWS studied Printed Textile design at UCA Farnham and the Royal College of Art, where she won the Courtaulds Prize and was commissioned by Liberty of London to produce a collection of printed silks.

As Tessa Lambert she opened her own print studio and gallery in London and successfully sold her distinctive hand painted silks around the world. In recent years Tessa has worked almost exclusively on paper creating bold abstract paintings and monoprints using her original woodblock techniques.

Renowned for her exceptional use of colour, Tessa’s current work has evolved from sketches of patterns and colour experienced in inspirational gardens and interpreted in her very recognisable style.

Tessa exhibits regularly in galleries and art fairs in the UK and internationally, and has work in private and corporate collections worldwide. Tessa continues to live and work in Surrey with her family and puppy, Rosie.

Tessa Pearson will be exhibiting her latest work in a solo show called The Artist’s Garden at Watermark Gallery from 3rd to 30th September 2021. Further details here.

Art & Contemporary Art

Robert Newton

Born 1964, Robert Newton studied Fine Art at Sunderland University and is currently living and working in Northumberland. Never afraid to use colour, his work explores both composition and expression, yet always maintains his painterly approach. Robert sees his work as ‘painting nature’ not only in context but as a vehicle to express the medium, its plasticity and how it conveys an illusion of reality.

“I describe my work as ‘painting nature’, as a direct response to my immediate surroundings; exploring colour, composition and expression yet maintaining the very traditions of British painting. Making sketches as well my own visual notes I paint intuitively and expressively with bold sweeping brushstrokes that sum up whole passages of the landscape that is before me. Painting on location and in the studio, I often rework paintings intuitively to produce a completed work.”

Robert’s work has become very collectable over the last few years and we are very pleased to include this new selection of monotype prints. These unique artworks are a great opportunity to buy affordable, original art which captures his painting style and themes.

For information on how Robert created his monotypes read his blog, or visit Robert’s own site at www.robnewton.co.uk.

Contemporary Art

Stephen Heward

Stephen Heward’s paintings are an evolving dialogue with the elements that celebrate the experience of being part of the landscape, often at the edge of daylight.

He combines a loose and spontaneous painting technique with a deep understanding of the landscape from a lifetime of close observation. For more than 30 years he has studied landscapes and skies all over the world as a landscape architect, then as a pilot and painter. He is inspired by the solitude of the sky and the desert, of an empty beach or stretch of moorland.

Most of his work is a response driven by memory and the emotional experience of the landscape, charged by his connection to the ever changing light and weather of the Northern British landscape. It lies somewhere between figuration and abstraction, and is largely concerned with the visual pleasure provided by the interplay of marks, colours, textures and forms.

He works instinctively and directly onto the canvas without preparatory studies or much conscious thought, using brush, knife and hands.

His work is in private collections in the UK and the USA.

Art & Contemporary Art

George Hainsworth

George Hainsworth was born in Leeds in 1937. He studied at Leeds College of Art (1955-60) followed by the Slade School of Fine Art (1960-62) where he was taught by, amongst others, Sir William Coldstream. He was awarded the Gulbenkian Scholarship in Sculpture at the British School in Rome (1962-63).

There followed a 40 year career in teaching, initially at Leeds College of Art then Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Beckett University). He retired from his professorship in 2002 and now lives in East Yorkshire with his wife, artist and printmaker, Lucy Hainsworth (nee Rogers). Throughout all this time George Hainsworth has created and exhibited art in a variety of media, notably oil painting on panel and canvas, pastel and sculpture. His work has been exhibited throughout the UK as well as in Holland and the USA. It can be found in corporate and private collections in Europe and the USA.

Category: Original Paintings

Art & Contemporary Art

Rob Moore

Art & Contemporary Art

Colin Black

Art & Contemporary Art

Kirsty Whyatt

Art & Contemporary Art

David A Parfitt

Art, Contemporary Art & Illustration

Jane Ray

Art & Contemporary Art

Tessa Pearson

Art & Contemporary Art

Robert Newton

Contemporary Art

Stephen Heward

Art & Contemporary Art

George Hainsworth

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