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.

Kittie Jones

Kittie Jones SWLA is a fine artist based in Edinburgh. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University in 2008; she currently works from her studio at Coburg House Art Studios in Leith and regularly exhibits around the UK. Kittie was elected as a professional member of the Society of Wildlife Artists in 2016 and has been a professional member of Visual Arts Scotland since 2013. Her monotype Feeding Curlew was awarded the RSPB Award at the Natural Eye exhibition 2018 and an early screen print ‘Night Herons’ was jointly awarded the Maude Gemmell Hutcheson Prize by the Royal Scottish Academy in 2011.

Kittie’s practice focusses on drawing and printmaking – she produces mixed media drawings on paper out in the landscape, unique multi-layered monotypes and small edition screen prints. Kittie is inspired by the full sensory experience of time spent outdoors, most often along the East coast of Scotland. Much of her work is completed outside and other sketches provide a starting point for prints and studio drawings.

‘My work is concerned with the experience of time spent looking and interpreting the natural world. I am drawn to places which have an abundance of nature – sea bird colonies, fertile coastlines and remote islands. On drawing trips I will settle in a promising spot and start to develop work from there. The energy in the work comes from the constantly changing elements of the natural world – birds moving in and out of vision and the shifting quality of weather and light. My attempts to capture the change are what interests me, as well as my enchantment with a world which, as a human, I will only ever occupy the edge of.’

Alongside her work as an artist, Kittie Jones teaches on the Portfolio Course at Bridge House Art in Ullapool over the winter and regularly delivers a variety of fine art workshops at Leith School of Art and for the National Galleries of Scotland.

Kittie Jones Artist sketching on the cliffs

Modern British

Norman Clifford Jaques

Norman Clifford Jaques (1922 – 2004) was born in Manchester and studied at the College of Art and Technology 1937- 42. He taught printmaking at Manchester Polytechnic from 1950-1982. He became Senior Lecturer there as well as Head of Art at Stretford Grammar School for Girls in the late 1960’s and early 70’s.

He was a member and served as President of both The Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and The Manchester Art Club. He was also an illustrator and book designer as well printmaker. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the V&A. Examples of his work can be found in the V&A and galleries at Manchester, Oldham and Stockport.

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.

Art & Contemporary Art

Andrew Farmer

Andrew Farmer ROI was born in 1985 in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

He studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Canterbury Christ Church (2005-2008) achieving a First Class Honours, followed by a postgraduate, ‘The Drawing Year’ at the Royal Drawing school, London (2008-2009).

Since first exhibiting with the Royal Institute Of Oil Painters in 2014, Andrew Farmer ROI has been awarded 1st and 2nd prize in the Winsor and Newton Award for painting, and in 2019 the Menena Joy Schabe Memorial Award.

“I love to paint the ordinary, analysing simple subjects that will encourage the viewer to look more closely at the many wonderful and beautiful things surrounding us daily.”

Andrew is a member of the Brit Plein Air group, The Northern Boys Painting Group and most recently he has become a full member of the prestigious Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI).

Andrew ‘s last solo show was called North Landing (October 22). He is currently painting on the Northumbrian coast in preparation for another solo exhibition at Watermark Gallery in June 2024.

Modern British

Edwin La Dell

Edwin La Dell ARA (1914-1970) was born in Rotherham and attended Sheffield School of Art. From 1935, he studied at the Royal College of Art under the guidance of John Nash.

He later became head of lithography at the College until his death in 1970. His place in post-war printmaking was enormously influential and his works are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate and Government Art Collection.

Modern British

Bernard Cheese

Bernard Cheese RCA, RE (1925-2013) was married to the artist, Sheila Robinson, and their daughter, Chloe Cheese, is also a printmaker.

Bernard Cheese lived in Great Bardfield in the 1950s. He studied at the Royal College of Art, where he was influenced by Edwin La Dell, and his work often contains the same quirky humour that is also discernible in Edward Bawden’s work (source: Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden).

Archives: Artists

Art & Contemporary Art

Tessa Pearson

Art & Contemporary Art

Robert Newton

Kittie Jones

Modern British

Norman Clifford Jaques

Contemporary Art

Stephen Heward

Art & Contemporary Art

George Hainsworth

Art & Contemporary Art

Andrew Farmer

Modern British

Edwin La Dell

Modern British

Bernard Cheese

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