Summer Exhibition Catalogue

Summer Exhibition 4 July to 8 August

Cover image Untitled (Orange and Green Spiral) by Terry Frost Framed acrylic on canvas, 1996 64 x 64 cm

Summer Exhibition 4 July to 8 August 2015 at Zimmer Stewart Gallery 29 Tarrant Street Arundel West Sussex BN18 9DG open Tues to Sat 10:00am to 5:00pm tel: 01903 882063 email: info@zimmerstewart.co.uk

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Coconut Palm (Kew Gardens) 95 x 95 cm by Katharine Le Hardy Couple ceramic sculpture 50 cm high by Lilia Umana Clarke

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his June we are pleased to present our popular annual Summer Exhibition.

his year, being the centenary of his birth, we celebrate the work of Sir Terry Frost, RA - one of the leading British abstract artists of the 20th century. We will have several unique works, as well as prints and a few rare/signed books. There are two major retrospectives of his work this year at Leeds Art Gallery from 19 June to 30 August and 10 October 2015 to 10 January 2016 at Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange in Penzance, Cornwall.

These special exhibitions bring together a selection of the artist’s most significant paintings, collages and sculptural forms from public and private collections across the UK.

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lso this month, a monograph on Tom Hammick’s paintings and prints will be published by Lund Humphries: “Wall Window World” sets Hammick’s art within the context of contemporary debates about painting while relating it to the twocenturies-old Romantic tradition. Julian Bell explores in depth the artist’s working processes, imagery and career to date, arguing that Hammick’s work constitutes one of the richest imaginative achievements in late 20th- and early 21st-century British art. The publication coincides with a museum tour of Tom Hammick’s paintings starting at Bridport Arts Centre and ending at Flowers East, London.

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e will have a small number of the deluxe limited edition of Tom Hammick’s book which includes a three part etching “Fallout”.

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ee the following pages for all the artists represented.

ome of you may have already seen our much expanded online shop which now has original works, prints, sculpture as well as artist deluxe books and rare & signed books.

NICK BODIMEADE Nick Bodimeade is a painter & printmaker of everyday life, the familiar, often intimate scenes we all see. That is not to say the paintings are commonplace; his subjects include structures, beach scenes, dogs and lorries. These are chance, random and perhaps unexpected sights.

Composition is important in all of these works, Nick Bodimeade encourages the viewer to move his/her eye over the painting using diagonals, horizontals, negative/positive space as well as focal points.

Nick Bodimeade is seemingly able to present his subjects with the minimum amount of information. Outlines are created with “negative painting� where the background is painted around the objects/figures.

Light also plays a pivotal role in the works, with shadows and highlights, with expressive use of paint and colour.

The paintings are well observed and executed by an artist now well established across the South of England, with regular exhibitions in St Ives, Chipping Campden, Lewes, London and with the Zimmer Stewart Gallery.

Nick Bodimeade has extensive teaching and advisory experience at a number of UK art colleges at Foundation, HND, BA and MA levels: Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College; University College Chichester; Canterbury Christchurch University College; Amersham & Wycombe College; Northbrook College, Worthing & North Oxfordshire College of Art and Design, Banbury.

We also have a range of his low edition woodcuts, etchings and dry points.

Midday III - oil on linen 130 x 100 cm Landing Zone I (Seville) - oil on linen 106 x 122 cm

KATE BOXER Kate Boxer was born in Sussex in 1961. In the early 1990s she took classes in London art schools and has exhibited in galleries and at art fairs since 1994.

The filmmaker Bruno Wolheim has written about her work and her ‘idiosyncratic and deeply felt’ subject matter. He points out how in her cowboy paintings ‘Howard Hawks meets high camp, High Sierra and Frank O’Hara. High fun meets high seriousness.’

Discussing her animal images in paint and print, Wolheim notes their ‘engaging eccentricity’ that comes ‘from a fierce understanding of their innate spirit. The snake, bison, or sand-bird are above all themselves, they express their own independence and individuality, with all the implicit comic tragedy they are free.’

As George Melly once described Kate Boxer, she is ‘a remarkable creative spirit: her images and the means to realise them are at one.

Kate Boxer uses a number of print techniques in her work including dry point, carborundum and chin colle as well as hand colouring. This gives each print in an edition a slight variation to others, and engenders her works with an individuality akin to that found in the animal and plant worlds.

Her prints are exciting, vibrant and sometimes quirky, but always made with integrity and a high degree of skill. It is no wonder that they are much in demand.

Blue Wolf - dry point 75 x 99 cm Napoleon in the Snow - dry point with gouache 75 x 72 cm

LILIA UMANA CLARKE Born in Colombia, Lilia Umana Clarke trained as an architect at the University of America before coming to the UK in 1979.

Lilia Umana Clarke studied Art at the University of Hertfordshire, graduating with a BA (Fine Art) in 1985.

She began to specialise in ceramics in 1989 and studied ceramics at Kingsway College, London before establishing her Albion Square Studio, Hackney in 1992.

A great source of inspiration in her work comes from the ceramics of early South American civilisations and their symbolic use of human and animal imagery. Lilia tries to explore ideas about relationships and states of mind, combining geometric abstraction with more expressive sculpture.

Lilia is currently working on large sculptural forms in stoneware using a combination of oxides and glazes.

Lilia has exhibited regularly at CCA Galleries and the Battersea Contemporary Art Fair as well as many other London galleries from 1998 to date.

Tall Standing Hare - ceramic sculpture 70 cm high Horse Head - ceramic sculpture 18 cm high

TOM FARTHING Tom Farthing’s new paintings are landscapes, some of London.

As with his portraits exhibition in March 2015, Tom chooses his subjects carefully and although these are not obvious choices, in his hands and with his colour palette they work very well.

Tom Farthing gained his MA in 2013 from Chelsea College of Art, and his BA in 2005 from theRuskin School, Oxford University.

Recent exhibitions include: Pentimenti at Maybe a Vole Gallery, London 2014; The End is Where We Start From, Slate Projects, London 2014; S.I.T.E CCW Alumni Show, Chelsea College of Art 2013; Sunday Salon at Oakley Road Project Space, which he co curated; Westall/Sorrell in association with FAD Contemporary; Strarta Art Fair, and The Saatchi Gallery, London 2013.

Tom Farthing was born in Boston, MA, USA (1982) and shortly afterwards his family moved back to the UK. His lives and works in London.

Regents Park Canal II - oil on canvas 85 x 65 cm Regents Park Canal I - oil on canvas 110 x 91 cm

SIR TERRY FROST, RA Terry Frost is widely recognised as one of the leading British abstract artists of his generation. He lived for many years in Cornwall, and was a central figure in the post war St Ives School.

During the 1990’s Terry Frost’s work (both paintings and prints) featured spirals. Arizona Spirals from 1990 is a large example of this in the collection of the Tate: it started a relationship with the “idea of foreverness.”

C & D shapes were part of Terry Frost’s vocabulary since 1950, but by the late 1960’s they took on new roles. He was intrigued by the intervening shapes and rhythmns they set up. he said “You can can do so much with curves. The tension brings vitality to the white space around them - they ooze authority and life”.

Terry Frost began reading Lorca’s poetry during the 1970’s and was inspired by the poet’s visual imagery, particularly his emotive descriptions of colour. Recalling this period of his life, Frost proclaimed his admiration for the poet, saying, “Lorca is so simple, and so direct, and so full of colour and ideas. I was so much in love with the poetry at that time” (from Terry Frost: Six Decades).

Elected a Royal Academician in 1992, he was knighted in 1998.

He exhibited extensively in Britain and the United States, and his work is held in museums and galleries worldwide, including Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert and the British Museum.

In 2000 the Royal Academy staged a major retrospective of Frost’s work to coincide with his 85th birthday. Sadly Terry Frost died in 2003. During 2015 there are several retrospectives organised, to celebrate the centenary of Terry Frost’s birth, in conjunction with Tate St Ives.

Lorca 1990 - crayon on paper 25 x 34 cm Untitled 1968 - ink on paper 15 x 15 cm Red and Black Sundburst 2003 & 2010 - etching

ANTHONY FROST Anthony Frost, born in 1951 in Cornwall, studied at the Cardiff College of Art (1970-73).

From 1975 to date he has exhibited widely throughout the UK, with regular shows in St Ives and London. His most recent shows have been at Beaux Arts, in Cork Street (2008 & 2009) and at Tate St Ives (‘Art Now’ in 2008). Later this year, in November Anthony Frost’s prints will be shown at The Armoury in New York with Advanced Graphics.

His work is in a number of corporate, public and private collections including Bank of America, Lloyds TSB, The Nuffield Trust, John Moores, Contemporary Art Society, Whitworth Gallery (Manchester) and Standard Life. In April 2009, Chichester University purchased “Ricochet Man” for the Bishop Otter Collection.

In July 2009 Anthony Frost was awarded “Master of the University” in honour of services to the arts by the Open University, via Plymouth University (college of Art & Design).

Anthony Frost’s paintings are bright, full of colour and expression.

They include repeated motifs (lines, triangles and dots) and a mix of materials (acrylic, hessian, sail cloth, string and other materials that come to hand). This hints at a complexity in the work, which at first sight appears quite straightforward.

Although there is an element of planning in each work, there is also a random element which manifests itself in the creative process: Adding a piece of material or a tie that can change the painting’s direction in unplanned ways.

Yellow Buzz - mixed media on canvas 12 x 18 cm Zoomster - mixed media on canvas 25 x 25 cm

LUKE FROST Luke Frost is an artist who lives and works in Penzance, UK. He has exhibited widely since graduating from Bath Spa University College in 1998.

Luke participated in the ‘Art Now Cornwall’ exhibition at Tate St Ives in 2007. He was also Artist in Residence at Tate St Ives for a year during 2008 followed by a solo exhibition in the gallery in early 2009.

In 2010 he held a solo show at Beaux Arts London and exhibited recently in Baltimore, USA. To accompany these exhibitions several catalogues have been published containing essays by Matthew Collings, Tony Godfrey and Michael Klein to name a few.

Cobalt Teal & Light Green Volts - 35 x 15 cm Deep Scarlet Volts - 20 x 20 cm Both oil on aluminium

FLEUR GRENIER Fleur Grenier is one of the UK leading pewtersmiths with over 20 years’ experience; she trained at The Royal College of Art, London and has since established a studio in West Sussex . Fleur Grenier is a member of The Sussex Guild, The Surrey Guild , Contemporary Glass Society and a Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Pewterers.

Her designs range from one-off sculptural pieces to tableware such as cheese knives, serviette rings to desk clocks and vases.

Fleur also works to commission and runs short courses in pewter casting and etching.

Fleurs designs are individual and sculptural in style, movement and fluidity are the main influences for her work each piece is designed to capture these elements. She now also goes glassblowing at the Smithbrook Glassblowing Studio in Cranleigh and is combining the pewter and glass in her pieces with great success the two materials complement each other perfectly.

Her current range of work has developed from a series of drawings of molten lava, the pewter and glass swirling and moving. Some have been created to look like the glass is flowing over the pewter and others show the flow but also intense variations of colour between the static cooled lava and the flowing lava stream.

She has won several awards for her designs, such as the International Design Network Federation, New York (IDNF) and The Worshipful Company of Pewterers and commissions include a pewter and glass bowl that was presented to the Countess of Wessex at the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, the RFU (Rugby Football Union) Commemorative gifts and in 2010 had her book Pewter Design and Techniques published by The Crowood Press.

Blue Connected Lava - bown glass & pewter sculpture Acorn Centrepiece - pewter sculpture

GARY GOODMAN Gary Goodman paints images and writes with a resounding directness - the figure at the forefront, unbothered by artistic selfconsciousness, ego and politeness. Simply saying “hello” to the world as it passes him by.

This produces work of intense human understanding that belongs to a lineage of artists that include Jean Dubuffet, Vincent van Gogh, EL Kirchner and Edvard Munch.

Gary Goodman has exhibited extensively: In France, USA, New Zealand, Germany, Italy and throughout the UK (National Portrait Gallery, Art First, Mall Galleries, Charlston Farmhouse and the Royal College of Art for the Hunting Prize). During 2010 he exhibited at the Menier Gallery, London; Emily Ball at Sea White and “Got to be Somewhere” Group Show in Brighton.

Gary Goodman is a featured artist in both “Painting the Figure: a New Approach Printmaking” by Emily Ball (2009) and “Traditional and Contemporary Techniques” by Ann d’Arcy Hughes (2008), and has been published in various poetry anthologies inc. Java Monkey Poetry Anthology (Kodac Harrison USA 2009) and Frogmore Press 2010.

For the past 20 years Gary has taught on a variety of courses at various universities and colleges and continues to run workshops in printmaking (inc at West Dean), drawing and painting.

Gary Goodman works from his shed at the end of the garden in Sussex.

All on a summers Day - acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm Close My Eyes Series - inks on paper 43 x 53 cm

TOM HAMMICK Tom Hammick, award winning painter/printmaker, studied art history at Manchester University (1982-85), and Camberwell School of Art, London (1987-92) gaining a degree in Fine Art and an MA in Printmaking. He is currently senior lecturer in Fine Art, Painting & Printmaking at University of Brighton.

His printmaking output includes etching (with acquatint, chin colle, sugalift), reduction woodcut sometimes with hand colouring and often in “edition variable”.

He was Artist in Residence on MV. Radnes, to the Artic Sea (1995); O.T. Unit, Royal London Hospital (1999) and Ballenglen Arts Foundation (1996); at Glyndebourne in 2007, 9 & 10 and Charleston in 2008; and at ENO, London in 2014.

In 2015 Touring Show will be at Bridport Arts Centre to coincide with the publication of Wall Window World, a monograph on Hammick’s paintings & prints written by Julian Bell.

His solo shows include Flowers (London and New york); Galerie Prodromus, Paris; The Eagle Gallery, London; Brighton Museum; The Redfern Gallery, London; Terrestial, Northern Print, Newcastle; Atlantic Provinces, Paul Kane, Dublin, Ireland and Studio 21, N.S. Canada. His work has been in many group shows including The Hunting Prize, Royal College of Art, London (1997,2002,2003,2004); Jerwood Drawing Prize (2000, 2001, 2004); The Royal Academy Summer Show (2004, 2005, 2008 to 2014 inc). In 2011,12 & 13 he was shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize and Daiwa Foundation Prize (2012).

His work is held in various public and private collections worldwide, including The British Museum; Yale Centre for British Art, Deutsche Bank; De Beers; ING Barings; Arthur Anderson; British Arts Council and The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

Getaway - reduction woodcut 60 x 80 cm Canopy I - multi plate etching 50 x 60 cm

KATHARINE LE HARDY Katharine Le Hardy (born 1981) studied Fine Art at the University of the West of England in Bristol graduating in 2003.

Since then she has regularly shown her work in London and throughout the UK, including the Chichester Open in 2005 and Smithfield Gallery, London in 2010 (solo show) and Chapel Row Gallery, Bath in 2009 (mixed show “Lay of the Land”).

Katharine is known for her contemporary Beach scenes with surfers and people enjoying the seaside, these are of the South West and also in Scotland.

She says - “Landscapes are a constant source of inspiration for me. I am particularly interested in approaching this traditional subject in an interesting way by looking at different viewpoints and unusual horizon lines.”

Working from sketches and photographs, Katharine endeavours to create a window on an imaginary space. The absence of obvious landmarks and identifiable features enables the images to exist as timeless, dreamlike expanses, inviting the viewer into a restorative space and opportunity for reflection in calm solitude.

Katharine likes to use gestural marks and loose impasto brushwork to engage the viewer and charge the composition with movement and dynamism, whilst still maintaining balance, building up the paint and alternating transparent and opaque layers, dripping, washing, splashing, allowing it to take its own fluid course and give the image a life of its own.

Kew Gardens - oil on board 30 x 40 cm Blue Waters Study - oil on board 20 x 25 cm

CHRISTOPHER MARVELL Christopher Marvell is passionate about sculpture, and makes both large and small bronzes in editions of 5-7. He enjoys the physical work and atmosphere of the foundry, the process of working from drawings and macquettes means that he is never quite sure how the finished piece will look.

His subjects include figures, heads and various animals and birds. The sculptures present themselves as seemingly blunt facts, but on deeper reflection they initiate a subtle dialogue that encourages the viewer to consider not only the relationship between human and animal, but also between the human/animal archetype and the human/animal condition itself.

Somehow, his animals do not contain individual character, but rather they suggest the character of their species as distilled through human convention and consciousness.

His Sea Dog, Cat and Sheep, for example, do not remind one of, say, Fido, Felix or Flossie, they ask us to re-think our concepts of dog, cat and sheep in their own generic terms.

Christopher studied at University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and currently lives in Cambridge and St Ives.

His sculptures are in public and private collections in the UK, USA, France Spain and Germany. He exhibits widely, mostly in St Ives and London, and sometimes with his wife, painter, Elaine Pamphilon.

Talking Philosophy - bronze 102 cm high Long Boat - bronze 40 cm long

VICKY OLDFIELD Vicky Oldfield’s strong images are created using collagraphs, an experimental form of printmaking.

The prints are taken from plates which have been collaged with a variety of materials, card, fabric, paper, string, sand and anything else that may come to hand; it’s recycling at it’s most creative!

The plates are then sealed and then inked up and printed in intaglio or relief on damp paper using an etching press. The embossed textural quality of the print is unique to this method.

Thanks to the process itself, she is able to make small editions of the image. The editions are variable due to the process and her desire to experiment with collage and hand colouring, which means each print is unique.

Continually inspired by plants, objects and the animals that surround her, her pictures are an atmospheric response to the beauty and drama of her daily life.

Vicky studied (BA Hons) Design at Staffordshire University and then advanced printmaking at Richmond School of Art. She has worked as a freelance designer/illustrator in recent years, clients include, Villeroy and Boch, Dorma, Crown, Venelia, The British Museum, Lings cards, Phoenix Trading, Wedgewood, Art Crazy and Papercraft magazines. Before freelancing she worked as a studio designer for Triodes International in Paris and Crown Wallcoverings in London.

Vicky Oldfield exhibits her work throughout the UK, and has had her work accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition several times.

Feathers and Flowers - collograph 55 x 90 cm Spear Thistle - collograph 60 x 90 cm

PIERS OTTEY Born in London, Piers Ottey trained at Chelsea School of Art in the 1970’s and has been painting professionally ever since. He moved to West Sussex in 1980 and set up The Mill Studio Art School in 1994.

Painting mostly in oils, his subject matter has often been influenced by his travels (to The Alps and Europe) but he always returns to painting from the human form, London and local Sussex landscapes.

Pier’s work has been exhibited in London, the provinces and abroad and can be found in private and corporate as well as public collections around the world. In June 2007 Piers won the University of Bath painting prize.

The paintings are very personal with a mischievous quality, bordering on the subversive. For Piers, the edges of the picture are important, so is the geometry between the edge and the centre. The square is his most common format; primary red and blue form his initial drawing.

Mary Rose Beaumont, art historian and critic, writes “Artists with a sense of humour are agile, deft and defy categorisation, which is wonderfully refreshing when the work is as challenging as is Piers Ottey’s. He revels in his power to puzzle the viewer, both visually in the paintings and verbally in some of his titles.

He has a propensity to leave out important features in his landscapes whilst still titling them as if they were there, in other words the artist plays at being a conjuror.”

Lone Beech, Arundel Park - oil on linen 72 x 92 cm Into the Light (Redchurch Street) - 160 x 90 cm

PHIL TYLER Phil Tyler studied initially at the East Ham College of Technology (Foundation in Art 1982-83) then Loughborough College of Art & Design for his BA Hons Fine Art (painting) degree graduating in 1986. During these years he spent some time at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA on their BFA Fine At Course. Phil Tyler completed his studies with an MA in Printmaking at Brighton Polytechnic (1988 to 1990).

Since the early 90’s Phil Tyler’s central preoccupation has been with the figure or with groups of people in urban environments looked at collective behaviour, the hive mentally of daily routine.

He is interested in both the illusory aspect of painting but also the physicality of the medium.

Phil Tyler is an accomplshed, expressive painter and printmaker.

He is currently working on a book on drawing to be published in 2015.

Phil Tyler has exhibited widely throughout the UK and his works are regularly selected to be featured on Saatchi online.

Airstream - oil on canvas 101 x 70 cm China Town - oil on canvas 76 x 101 cm

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