A post type for Watermark Artists.
Henrietta Corbett studied Fine Art at Wolverhampton Polytechnic under Anish Kapoor and Nicola Hicks and has since become one of Leicestershire’s most recognised artists.
Her paintings, prints and ceramics are full of texture with a simple yet dynamic form. Henrietta’s work is inspired by animals carved into chalk hills and prehistoric cave paintings, you can see these birds and horses in her abstracted landscapes.
Henrietta will be exhibiting in our Small Painting Show 2023.
Selborne Pottery is run by well known ceramicist and maker Robert Goldsmith who set up his business over 35 years ago. The pottery takes it’s name from the picturesque village of Selborne in Hampshire, where Robert gains much of his inspiration for the designs and rich hues of colour seen throughout his work.
Watermark Gallery is pleased to stock a comprehensive range of tableware all of which is hand-thrown and individually decorated in Robert’s distinctive style. From small espresso mugs and jugs to olive bowls, serving dishes and platters, Selborne Pottery is both stylish as well as immensely practical. Take the the thumb-hold on the larger mugs (and jugs) – a simple design which makes holding a hot mug of tea just a whole lot easier!
Please do ask us if you are looking for an item in a particular colour or design. If we don’t have it in stock here, we may have it in our Harrogate gallery or we can order direct from Robert himself. This range of ceramics does make the perfect wedding gift set and we can certainly help make up a selection.
Katie Coston opened the first form of Illyria Pottery in Greenville, South Carolina in 2008. Between 2009 and 2010 Katie was the artist-in-residence at The Gallery Upstairs and Torquil in Henley-in-Arden, UK.
In 2012 Katie and her husband moved to Oxford. There she opened her own ceramics gallery in Jericho, Oxford. After seven years Illyria Pottery has now moved online and in galleries across the country.
Katie Coston (Illyria Pottery) now works from her studio in her home near Oxford.
Jane Kell is a British painter currently based in London, after relocating back to the UK from Washington DC.
Jane studied a BA in History and Theory of Art at Essex University. She worked for many years in PR, including roles such as Publicity Director of Phaidon Press and Head of Press at the National Gallery in London. Jane pursued her artistic career in 2010 painting still life and landscapes inspired by British painters like William Nicholson and Mary Fedden, where colour and light were the focus.
From 2014 Jane has taught oil painting classes in West London, enjoying the contact with students and the insight different students give her. In 2017 she completed a residency in rural France painting predominantly plein air. This allowed her to deepen her connection with the landscape in a more immersive way.
Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in England. He became a leading exponent of abstract art and a recognised figure of the British art establishment.
Babs Pease is an artist and printmaker who specialises in the relief print method, hand carving and hand printing linoleum to create intricate limited edition prints. Working from her studio in a converted farm building on a small farm in Perthshire, Babs is surrounded by beautiful flora and fauna in the surrounding countryside. Most of her print ideas start out as sketches taken on long walks in the surrounding areas.
Babs Pease exhibited in our NEST 2022 exhibition which included a variety of artists using birds as their inspiration and subject matter.
Darren Woodhead is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, London. A life-long naturalist, all his work is produced outside on location and drawn directly in brush. By working direct from life, he aims to retain the freshness and energy that working outside gives, working alongside the elements and outside conditions to breath a sense of being there to the maximum.
He is the author of two books, ‘Up River, The Song of the Esk’ (2009) and ‘From Dawn Till Dusk’ (2005). He exhibits widely and has won many awards including the prestigious Swarovski / Birdwatch magazine Artist of the Year twice. After receiving the Artists for Nature Foundation award, he has been invited to work on expeditions in India, Peru, Ecuador, Israel, Portugal, the Spanish Pyrenees and most recently Sark. He is a member of The Society of Wildlife Artists and has served on their council. His work is held in many private collections, including a commission for the Duke of Edinburgh’s 90th birthday.
He combines been a professional Artist with teaching, talks and demonstrations, thrives in this contact with the public and is so passionate about spreading his love of nature and Watercolour, and is proud to be an Ambassador for Carl Zeiss Sport optics.
A proud life-long Naturalist, Conservation is at the top of his agenda, and he has recently been part of two trips to Israel and Malta, where raising funds and awareness of the critical issues our Migratory birds face, raising over £27,000 in the process. He has worked with the Naturalists and TV presenters Chris Packham and Simon King, being ‘The Artist in Residence’ for the BBC’s Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch series and painting live on BBC2 as part of the process, was one of his proudest moments so far.
This exhibition at The Watermark Gallery is his first in a gallery back in his beloved home county, ‘I am so proud of my roots every single day,’ and though Scotland is my adopted home, no truer are the words that you can take the man out of Yorkshire, but never Yorkshire out of the man’.
‘I just want to help communicate the love and passion that I feel for the natural world that we are so lucky to have around us, we have to listen, nurture and saviour it and especially in the current climate. For me, I try and do this through working purely from life with Watercolour, a medium like nature itself that is so pure, delicately simple, yet utterly complex at the same time. Its just a case of balance.’
Darren Woodhead, March 2022
Amanda Notarianni and Charlie Macpherson have been working together to make award winning contemporary glass for over 20 years. They have a passion for design excellence and an exceptional commitment to creating works of art that are unique.
Their signed innovative ultra modern pieces are hand made in Poundbury, Dorset. There work is in public and private collections both nationally and internationally.
“We specialize in working with superyacht designers and high end corporate art consultants, to design and create large-scale sculptural art in glass.”
Joanna Oliver:
‘I started my life as a potter at Standpoint Studios in Hoxton under the guidance of Nicola Tassie, later setting up my own studio in South Oxfordshire.
My workday starts with blowing the inevitable layer of dust off the ipod, putting on overalls and wedging the clay. It never ceases to amaze me the magic of being able to create something beautiful (hopefully) from a ball of mud. Perhaps this is only beaten by the moment you open the kiln after a glaze firing to see all the glistening hot bowls inside. Just like opening a treasure chest.
There’s real alchemy involved with glazing, the unfired glaze bearing no comparison to the fired one. Glaze recipes are generously shared between potters – many that I use are oriental and have been used for hundreds of years. I particularly like ash glazes and that involved gathering certain wood types from the countryside around us and then reducing them to ash in our stove. Washed and sieved they become an all important ingredient.
I work in various stonewares and porcelain and the results, I hope, are practical, lovely to use and pleasing to look at. My stoneware is fired to1250 degrees making it safe to use in a domestic oven or microwave. It’s fine in the dishwasher too.’
