The Prince's Trust Evening of Art

Evening of Art 100 per cent of the profits to support disadvantaged young people

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Dear supporter, On behalf of The Prince’s Trust, I am delighted to present this wonderful collection of works, generously donated for our inaugural Evening of Art by some of the country’s most renowned artists.

We are most grateful to them for their support.

This special event offers you the chance to acquire some truly outstanding Art. Our aim is to raise £50,000 by auctioning over thirty-five pieces in one evening. The auction also presents the opportunity for you to help some of the most disadvantaged young people in the South West of England. I am pleased to announce that with thanks to our sponsors Coutts & Co, Smith & Williamson, Withy King, Reside Bath and Knight Frank, all money raised on the evening will go towards helping to change the lives of young people. We are also grateful to Dreweatts Bloomsbury Auctions and www.the-saleroom.com who are conducting the auction at no cost to The Trust.

Today’s extremely challenging economic environment means that youth unemployment in the UK remains a huge problem. Unemployment levels have been steadily increasing in recent months and are now extremely close to record levels. This inactivity generates many associated problems including crime, anti-social behaviour and mental health issues, and of course, the cost to the taxpayer.

We have seen a culture of resentment, hopelessness and social isolation explode this summer. It is crucial that we reach out to these young people and help them to improve their confidence and skills in order to develop personally and move on to a positive and happy future.

With this in mind, I am grateful to the committee of volunteers who have worked tirelessly over the last 18 months to help plan this event and to the wide ranging pro-bono support we have received. These invaluable contributions will undoubtedly help us to achieve our ambition of raising £50,000 to help support disadvantaged young people.

There are a number of ways in which you can take part in the auction: by making a bid in person on the evening itself (strictly invitation only), by commission bid, by telephone bid or by making an online bid through www.the-saleroom.com. More information on these methods can be found on page five of this catalogue.

Once again, my sincere thanks to the artists for their extremely generous donations, and to you for your support of The Prince’s Trust

Rick Libbey Director, The Prince’s Trust Cymru and South West England

Evening of Art Wednesday 7th December 2011 Viewing and registration from 6.30pm, Sale starts at 7.45pm Sale No: 20492 The Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2QH Specialists Mary McCarthy mmccarthy@dnfa.com 077663 66620 Sale registration enquiries Abbie Barker abarker@bloomsburyauctions.com Full sale listing can be viewed at www.dnfa.com Tel: +44 (0) 20 3291 2832 Fax: +44 (0) 20 3291 2834 Viewing lots by appointment and all Prince’s Trust enquiries Beth Sutherland beth.sutherland@princes-trust.org.uk Viewing By appointment only: Monday 31st October to Monday 5th December Monday to Friday from 9am - 5pm, and on the Sale Day from 6.30pm - 7.45pm Please contact Beth Sutherland to book an appointment.

Free live online bidding for this sale: www.the-saleroom.com There is no surcharge for using this service

The Prince’s Trust, 9 Marsh Street, Bristol, BS1 4AA Tel 0117 943 4948 www.princes-trust.org.uk

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IMPORTANT NOTICES Please see Terms and Conditions at the back of this catalogue Buying at The Prince’s Trust Evening of Art auction There are several ways you can bid at this auction; in person, by leaving a commission or absentee bid, on the telephone where available and live via the internet – please make arrangements before the sale.

Please see below for more details.

Bidding in Person If intending to buy you are required to register your name and details before the event or at reception prior to the commencement of the auction. You will then be allocated a bidding number, which you use when bidding for an item.

Condition Bidders must satisfy themselves as to the condition of each lot. Condition reports are available on request – see the Conditions of Business at the back of this catalogue for more information regarding condition reports. Requests for condition reports must be submitted by 4pm on the day prior to the auction.

Commission Charges This is a charity sale so there is no Buyer’s Premium on the hammer price of each lot purchased.

Live Internet Bidding To register to bid live via the Internet or to follow the sale go to www.the-saleroom.com. The Prince’s Trust and Dreweatts does not accept liability for any failure of these services.

Payment Payment will be accepted, if you are a successful bidder, by debit card issued by a UK bank, by bank transfer direct into our bank account, Bank Details: Coutts & Co, Villiers Branch, Account Name: The Prince’s Trust Trading Ltd, A/C 06482449, Sort Code 18-00-02; in cash up to £12,000 (subject to relevant money laundering regulations), or by all major UK issued credit cards registered to a UK billing address with the exception of American Express and Diners Club. A surcharge of 3 per cent is payable on all payments made by credit card. This surcharge does not apply to debit card payments. Payment may also be made by Sterling personal cheques drawn on a UK bank account but The Prince’s Trust regrets that purchases paid for by this method can not be collected until your cheque has cleared.

Bidding Increments The Auctioneer will advance bids in the following preset increments, and is under no obligation to accept bids between these increments. £200 £320 £550 £1100 £2200 £3200 £5500 £11000 £22000 £32000 £55000 £110000 £220000 £320000

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Collection or Delivery Before being able to collect your purchases you are required to pay the hammer price, and obtain a receipt acknowledging payment. Collection of the purchased lots is at the purchaser’s risk and expense and whilst The Prince’s Trust do not provide a packing and despatch service. The Prince’s Trust can suggest some carriers.

Once paid for in full items for this sale can be collected on the night of the sale or afterwards from 12pm on Thursday 8th December at; Coutts & Co, 33-35 Queen Square, Bristol BS1 4LU Please contact The Prince’s Trust at evening-of-art@princes-trust.org.uk to arrange collection.

The Prince’s Trust also require that all purchased items are collected within three working days of the sale to avoid a storage charge being applied.

Further Information The colours printed in this catalogue are not necessarily a true reflection of the actual item.

All weights and measures given in the catalogue should be regarded as approximate.

Valuation Services Dreweatts Bloomsbury provides a range of confidential and professional valuation services to private clients, solicitors, executors, estate managers, trustees and other professional partners. These services include auction valuations, insurance valuations, probate valuations, private treaty valuations, valuations for family division or for tax purposes. For more information, please see our website: www.dnfa.com.

RAFFLE A raffle will be held on the evening of the auction. If you are attending the Evening of Art in person, you will have the chance to take part and win one of these special prizes: ➔ Lunch for four in the Director’s Dining Room at Coutts’ Head Office in the Strand, kindly donated by Coutts & Co. This prize is valid until 31st March 2012 ➔ One night’s accommodation in a suite at The Royal Crescent Hotel in Bath, inclusive of breakfast and a bottle of Ruinart Champagne, kindly donated by The Royal Crescent Hotel The prize is valid Monday to Thursday night until 31st May 2011, but is not available during Easter ➔ Lunch for two at the House of Lords on a mutually agreeable date within the first six months of 2012 Terms and Conditions apply

1 Nick Park CBE (British, b.1958) Gromit Reads Pluto’s Republic, 2011 Watercolour and ink on paper Signed in black ink middle right 260 x 360 mm (10¼ x 14¼ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £1,500-2,000 Director/Producer Nick Park is a four-time Academy Award winner, with three in the category of Best Animated Short Film (Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave) and one more recently in the category of Best Animated Feature Film for The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit. All four films were created and produced at Aardman, where Nick is a co-director with founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton.

Nick has been an Ambassador of The Prince’s Trust for over 15 years, supporting the charity in a huge number of ways. Nick has donated two special watercolours for the Evening of Art, and created Gromit Reads Pluto’s Republic especially for this event. This is a rare opportunity to acquire a piece of history.

Nick became interested in animation as a child and started making films in his parents’ attic at the age of 13.

One of his earliest works, Archie’s Concrete Nightmare, shot on standard 8mm film, was shown on BBC television in 1975. He went on to earn a degree at Sheffield Art School in 1980, before moving onto the National Film and Television School. At the NFTS Nick began working on A Grand Day Out, marking the introduction of Wallace and Gromit. In 1985 he joined Aardman where he completed the film.

In 1990 both Creature Comforts and A Grand Day Out were nominated for the Best Animated Short Film Academy Award - giving Nick the rare distinction of having two films nominated in the same category in the same year; Creature Comforts won. Both films were also nominated for a BAFTA and this time A Grand Day Out was the winner.

Nick won his second Academy Award and second BAFTA for The Wrong Trousers and his third Oscar and BAFTA for A Close Shave, both starring Wallace and Gromit. In 1996, Nick and Aardman were honoured with a BAFTA Special Award for Original Contribution to Television.

In 1997, Nick was awarded a CBE, while in June 2000, his first feature film Chicken Run, co-directed with Aardman co-founder Peter Lord, was released worldwide to critical acclaim and box office success. In 2005 the first Wallace and Gromit feature film The Curse of The Were-Rabbit was released worldwide. Along with co-director Steve Box, in 2006 Nick picked up his fourth Academy Award, this time for Best Animated Feature Film.

Wallace and Gromit’s A Matter of Loaf and Death was broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 2008 to a record beating 16.15m viewers. The film won the BAFTA for Best Short Animation, and in the US, the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject.

The artist’s website: www.aardman.com

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2 Mark Houlding (Iranian, b.1950) Cherries, 2008 Spirit stain on board Signed and dated in silver ink lower right 815 x 815 mm (32 x 32 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £1,000-1,500 Mark Houlding’s work is an exploration of shape and colour. He trained as a printmaker and has always held on to the disciplines involved. He likes to work with a strong method and is often inspired by the medium he is using.

His early fruit pieces were made using a 2” printmaking roller and thick oil based printmaking inks. Recently he has found a new process entailing the use of spirit based wood stains. These are tipped, poured and squirted onto the surface and allowed to flow and merge, resulting in an amazing freedom and luminosity.

The subject of fruit continues to fascinate. The shapes are simple and yet very sensual, the image is a simple carrier for the continued love of colour and composition.

Mark studied at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art. The artist’s website: www.houldingandhoulding.co.uk

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3 Rob Ryan (Cypriot, b.1962) Starry Night silkscreen with water based inks, 2010, signed in pencil lower right, numbered AP, on wove paper with full margins 840 x 1140 mm (33 x 45 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £500-700 Rob Ryan is a fine art printmaker who has become best known for his work in paper cutting. Working from his studio in London, he has collaborated with Paul Smith, Lulu Guinness, Liberty of London, Fortnum and Mason and Vogue, along with many other established companies.

Born in 1962 in Akrotiri, Cyprus, Rob studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art, London where he specialised in Printmaking. His work often consists of whimsical figures paired with sentimental, grave, honest and occasionally humorous pieces of writing which he readily admits are autobiographical.

Although he views himself first and always as a fine artist, since 2002 he has become renowned for his intricate papercut work, which adapts itself readily to screenprinting and has then transferred to ceramics, fabrics, lasercutting and other surfaces.

Recent exhibitions have included The Stars Shine All Day Too at London’s Air Gallery on Dover Street and Your Job is to take this world apart and put it back together again... but even better! - an exhibition of papercuts and ceramics at The Shire Hall Gallery Stafford.

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4 Judith MacGregor (British, b.1981) Victorian Park Scene, 2011 Silkscreen printed in colours on fabric over board Signed and dated in black ink verso 700 x 976 mm (27½ x 38¼ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £150-200 Judith MacGregor is a textile designer and illustrator living and working in Bristol. She creates designs from her imagination, childhood memories and by capturing all the wondrous things around her.

She grew up in the highlands of Scotland and studied at Heriot-Watt University in Galashiels (previously The Scottish School of Textiles), gaining a 2:1 in Textile Design.

She uses screen-printing, painting and photography to create her designs and is currently in the process of setting up her own business to offer bespoke fabrics and artwork to those in need of a bit of escapism or nostalgia within their homes.

She takes much inspiration from 1950’s design, naive art, nature, unusual objects, architecture, machines, and robots, and mostly from her daydreams.

Judith is currently setting up her business with the support of The Prince’s Trust.

The artist’s website: www.judithmacgregor.co.uk

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5 Richard Neville (British, b.1960) Evening Rush in New York, 2011 Watercolour on paper Signed in watercolour lower right 310 x 440 mm (12 x 17¼ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £300-500 Richard Neville is a Senior Client Partner at Coutts in Bristol and sits on the South West Regional Council for The Prince’s Trust. He has been painting watercolours for many years and believes in pushing the boundaries of the medium. He has painted extensively in Northern Spain, Italy and Scotland.

He says, “My style has been influenced by my good friend Alvaro Castagnet, one of the world’s leading watercolour painters. I believe paintings need to exude a mood and passion and I hope mine do.”

Richard is a member of the Clevedon Art Club and has exhibited locally.

The artist’s website: N/A

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6 Robbie Wraith RP (British, b.1952) Acropolis, Early Evening and Acropolis, Afternoon (two works), 2009 Watercolour on paper Signed in pencil lower left Each. 220 x 300 mm (8¾ x 11¾ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £1,500-2,000 Robbie Wraith studied with Pietro Annigoni in Florence. He has had 26 one-man exhibitions in Britain, Europe and the USA, and is a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

His work is in the collections of HM The Queen, HRH The Prince Of Wales, The Royal Collection Windsor, Chatsworth, the Vatican, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Eton College, The National Trust, Shell, Hoares Bank, Blarney Castle, The Duke of Devonshire, George Michael and The Fremantle Foundation Museum.

Portraits have included HM The Queen, Nelson Mandela, the 11th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (commissioned by HRH The Prince Of Wales), the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Prince Dimitri Obolensky, Roger Waters and many others. Other commissions too numerous to mention include two series of Highgrove House and gardens and a series of HMY Britannia for HRH The Prince of Wales; and frescoes in two Italian churches.

The artist’s website: www.robbiewraith.com

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7 HRH The Prince Of Wales (British, b.1948) Cym Berwyn lithograph printed in colours, 2008, signed and dated in pencil, numbered AP 8/20, on wove paper with full margins 317 x 450 mm (12½ x 16 in) Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from HRH The Prince Of Wales and displayed in a leather bound presentation case Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £1,500-2,000 His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales’ passion for watercolour painting is well-documented. His aptitude for art has found its place in his extensive charitable work, both in terms of raising funds and providing opportunities for young artists as president of The Prince's Trust.

HRH The Prince of Wales founded The Prince's Trust in 1976. Having completed his duty in the Royal Navy, His Royal Highness became dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged young people in the UK, and founded The Trust to deliver on that commitment. On The Trust's launch in 1976 twenty-one pilot projects were set up around the country. Grants were given to a 19-year old woman to run a social centre for the Haggerston Housing Estate in east London, and for two ex-offenders to run a fishing club. Funds also allowed the hire of swimming baths in Cornwall to train young life guards and for a self-help bicycle repair scheme.

Thirty-five years later, The Prince’s Trust has helped more than 650,000 young people overcome challenges such as abuse, depression, addiction and homelessness, with more than three in four moving into work, education or training.

His Royal Highness first explored the Cambrian Mountains when he was a student at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1969. He asked an artist friend to go and seek out some paintable views in the area and to bring back some photographs to choose from. His Royal Highness selected a view from which to paint a watercolour of Cwm Berwyn near Tregaron, seen from the top of Rhiwdywyll with Pantshiri on the left and Craig y Fintan on the right.

The resulting watercolour is being featured in branding for farm produce marketed as part of His Royal Highness’s Cambrian Mountains Initiative, supporting the sustainability of communities in upland mid Wales.

The lithograph being auctioned as part of our Evening Of Art is one of a limited edition of 20 Artists Proofs from HRH The Prince of Wales’s original watercolour; the printing of the image was supervised by The Prince of Wales who has signed each numbered copy, and on completion of the printing all the plates have been cancelled. The watercolour is framed and presented in a blue leather box.

For more information about His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, please visit: www.princeofwales.gov.uk

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8 Amal Barwell (French, b.1976) Light Across The Bay I, 2011 Acrylic on canvas Signed in acrylic paint lower right 1000 x 1000 mm (39½ x 39½ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £800-1,200

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9 Amal Barwell (French, b.1976) Light Across The Bay II, 2011 Acrylic on canvas Signed in acrylic paint lower right 500 x 500 mm (19¾ x 19¾ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £600-800 Amal Barwell is a French artist and illustrator, currently living in Fowey, Cornwall.

Amal studied Art, Graphic Design and Art History at the University of Strasbourg, specialising in book illustration.

Passionate about primitive and African art, she lived for some time in Brazzaville in the Democratic Republic of Congo, producing a substantial body of work that was later presented at an exhibition in Basel, Switzerland.

Today, Amal still travels extensively and sails throughout the world and in Cornwall, which is one of her principal sources of inspiration.

For more information about this artist, please visit: www.toeinthewatergallery.co.uk

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10 Madeleine Floyd (British, b.1969) Coastal Birds, Farmland Birds, Woodland Birds and Marshland Birds (4 works) giclee print in colours, 2011, signed in pencil, numbered AP 4/6 on 3 works and AP 3/4 on Marshland Birds, published by Aquarelle Publishing Ltd with their blindstamp, on wove paper with full margins Each. 420 x 420 mm (16½ x 16½ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £200-300

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11 Madeleine Floyd (British, b.1969) Cock A Doodle Do, 2010 Ink and watercolour on paper Signed and dated in black ink verso 132 x 132 mm (5¼ x 5¼ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £300-400 Madeleine Floyd is one of Britain’s best loved artists, her illustrations combining sensitivity with humour. With just a dip pen and a pot of ink she captures the essence of a subject with the most minimal and elegant use of line. Her work is both accessible and sophisticated, immediate and engaging.

Born in 1969, Madeleine studied Fine Art and Illustration at Camberwell College of Art. Her creative talent is one of remarkable depth and variety - she paints, draws, writes and illustrates. This versatility has allowed Madeleine to produce exhibitions, write and illustrate her own books and undertake commissioned work for corporate clients.

Her work is available on a growing number of licensed products, currently being expanded with the National Trust. Working from her studio in London, she is widely commissioned around the world.

The artist’s website: www.madeleinefloyd.com

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12 Tessa Coleman (British, b.1964) Chateau Le Rame, 2010 Oil on gesso board Signed, dated and titled in black ink verso 850 x 320 mm (33½ x 12½ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £1,200-1,800 Tessa Coleman is a painter who has a particular interest in the interplay of the three-dimensional subject with the geometry of the picture plane it is being translated into, and her work attempts to bring that quality out in the final image.

After a previous life as a Japanese investment manager, Tessa now paints both portrait and architectural commissions as well as other work. She has exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Lynn Painter Stainers Annual Art Prize, the New English Art Club Annual Exhibition and other group exhibitions in London and elsewhere. In 2009 she won first prize at the New English Art Club annual exhibition and was elected to membership of the NEAC in 2010.

She says, “Both my figure paintings and other work are done from preparatory drawings and direct from life, and in that sense all the pieces are ‘portraits’ whether the subject is a person, object or architectural. In all cases the subject being portrayed becomes less important in itself but provides the starting point to explore and describe the spatial, geometric, and colour relationships of the image. My first degree was in Pure Mathematics and I use my classical geometry background when composing a picture. The other key to my work is the discipline of drawing to discover the subject and underpin the composition.”

The artist’s website: www.tessacoleman.co.uk

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13 Darren Baker (British, b.1976) London Nights I giclee print in colours, 2010, signed in pencil, numbered 96/195, on wove paper 230 x 230 mm (9 x 9 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from DeMontfort Fine Art, Lichfield £150-200 Outstanding British artist Darren Baker has received numerous awards; as one of the leading painters of the classical realism genre, his contemporary paintings are increasingly sought after, hanging in both public and private art collections including those of Downing Street and St James’s Palace.

Born in 1976, Darren was originally helped by The Prince's Trust to kick start his artist career. After graduating from art college he exhibited in London and New York, and in the same year was appointed official artist of The Professional Footballer’s Association.

Darren has produced an impressive portfolio of portraits for sports clubs and personalities. He has worked alongside such star names as Lewis Hamilton, Jonny Wilkinson and Steven Gerrard, and his non-sporting portraits include HRH Prince Charles and Tony Blair.

In 2011 Darren painted HM The Queen for her 85th birthday. Darren is also now an Ambassador for The Trust.

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14 Annie Ovenden (British, 1945) Down By The Riverside, 1999 Oil on board Signed and dated in pencil lower right 590 x 430 mm (23¼ x 17 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £3,000-4,000 Annie Ovenden is a figurative fine artist and a member of Sir Peter Blake’s Brotherhood of Ruralists. Despite Channel 4’s repeated showings of a film about her Village Portrait Project, Annie is probably best known for her tree studies and paintings depicting the landscape of Cornwall where she lives.

In 1975 Sir Peter Blake asked Annie to join a group of seven like minded artists, subsequently called The Brotherhood of Ruralists. The Ruralists’ first public showing as a unified entity took place at the Royal Academy in 1976, followed by an exhibition at the Bath Festival in 1977. From these showings until 2007 The Ruralists maintained a vigorous exhibition programme. In 1981 a major exhibition of work by The Ruralists - presented, not so much as a retrospective, but more as a report on work-in-progress - was organised by The Arnolfini, Bristol and The Camden Arts Centre, London. Funded by The Arts Council of Great Britain, the exhibition included visits to Birmingham City Museum and The Third Eye, Glasgow.

The Ruralists final show together was at Horsham Museum in 2007. In 2008, a major touring exhibition was organised

by Southampton University on the English Pastoral Tradition subtitled From Samuel Palmer to The Ruralists.

Annie has had many solo exhibitions and is a member of St Ives Society of Artists. Represented by TwentyTwenty Gallery in Much Wenlock, Red Rag Gallery in Bath and Clerkenwell Fine Art in London, her work is in many private collections worldwide and appears in various publications.

The artist’s website: www.annieovenden.com

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15 Peter Randall-Page (British, b.1954) Entomology V111, etching in aquatint, 2010, signed, dated and titled in pencil, numbered AP, on Japanese hand pulled paper 330 x 240 mm (13 x 9½ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £200-300 Peter Randall-Page is an internationally recognised sculptor, inspired by the study of organic form. His work is held in collections throughout the world; his public sculptures can be found in many urban and rural locations in the UK and he is represented in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum amongst others.

Peter was born in the UK in 1954 and studied sculpture in Bath. As a member of the design team for the Education Resource Centre at the Eden Project in Cornwall, he influenced the overall design of the building incorporating an enormous granite sculpture at its heart.

Recent commissions include Give and Take in Newcastle which won the 2006 Marsh Award for Public Sculpture and a major one person exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

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16 Bev Houlding (British, b.1955) Cricket On The Beach, 2003 Oil on board Signed in black ink lower right 815 x 815 mm (32 x 32 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £1,000-1,500 Bev Houlding’s work evolved through years of making screens, during which time all sorts of materials and techniques were used. She became well known for her carving and painting of these pieces.

Bev continues to carve and paint her images and she now has a unique signature in the field of contemporary art.

The work continues to explore themes of human relationships, always observing and drawing as fleeting glimpses and settings pass by. The sketches are then honed down and composed with architectural meticulousness. Once satisfied with the drawing she then transforms them into wood panels of sublime textures, held together with her trade mark palette of colours.

The artist’s website: www.houldingandhoulding.co.uk

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17 Anton Nickson (British, b.1944) Cardinal Blocks, 2005 Oil and string on wood panels Signed and dated in oil paint lower right and signed, titled and dated in black ink verso 920 x 920 mm (36¼ x 36¼ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £800-1,200 Born in Brighton, Anton studied painting and sculpture at St Martin’s School of Art, London. As a child he lived in Malaysia, and visited both West Africa and India. After selection in 1967 as a ‘Young Contemporary at the Tate’ he began exhibiting across the UK, in London and the South West.

He worked as a freelance architectural designer in Paris, Italy and London and also taught printmaking at Croydon College. Upon moving to Cornwall he settled in St Ives in 1994, turning a Methodist Sunday School into a dual living and working space. His work is often quirky and explorative of historical and literary concept, and he constructs much of his work from ephemera, creating thought-provoking pieces, often within boxes.

For more information about this artist, please visit the Lemon Street Gallery website: www.lemonstreetgallery.co.uk/anton-nickson-exhibition.asp

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18 Daisy Sims-Hilditch (British, b.1991) My Father, 2010 Oil on canvas Signed and titled in black ink verso 1525 x 1220 mm (60 x 48 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £600-800 Young artist Daisy Sims-Hilditch has always enjoyed observing objects, people, and situations and, having focused on portraiture, has become particularly inspired by the painting technique of Lucian Freud.

Born in 1991, Daisy is a former pupil and Art Scholar of St Mary’s Calne. As Daisy pproduced more and more paintings throughout her A level year, her technique developed and became more fluent as she better understood how the oil colours worked; some receding into the canvas, others jumping out. One of her biggest progressions was when she started to analyse Freud’s painting techniques. Daisy learnt a great deal about how to work the paint on the canvas and her final pieces, which portrayed her father, were on a larger scale, using similarly large brush strokes. This gave them a more contemporary feel than her earlier work.

In January 2011, Daisy was one of twenty young artists to have her work, Paul, a painting of her grandfather, shortlisted from 18,000 entries for the prestigious Saatchi Gallery – Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools.

Daisy is currently studying French at Bristol University.

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19 Anita Klein (Australian, b.1960) Nige Clears The Pool, 2006 Oil on board Signed and dated in black ink lower right 1520 x 1220 mm (59¾ x 48 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £3,000-5,000 Anita Klein is a painter and printmaker, one of the best-loved working in Britain today. Her work celebrates the small domestic moments we all share; she says that these everyday events are what she would miss most “if it all was taken away”.

Anita Klein studied at Chelsea and the Slade Schools of Art. She works in London and Anghiari, Italy and has exhibited her prints and paintings extensively in the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia. In 2003 she was elected president of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and she has work in many private and public collections including the Arts Council England and the British Museum.

While family photo albums record our lives as one long round of birthdays and holidays, the very moments we should most value are almost always ignored and forgotten. Anita’s prints capture those moments, and are often used as sketches for large oil and acrylic paintings which are exhibited regularly in London and elsewhere

by The Fine Art Partnership and Advanced Graphics London.

John Russell Taylor says of her, “Ravel said he wanted his music to be complex, but not complicated. Anita Klein might say the same of her art. There is a grand simplicity to her works, but that is not the same as saying they lack subtlety and ambiguity. On the contrary, they have the sort of unselfconscious directness that comes from living and breathing art for so long that it becomes second nature.”

Vincent Eames of The Fine Art Partnership says, “At a time when the art world seems to be full of artists attempting to shock and denigrate, Klein’s intimate, life affirming work comes as a welcome breath of fresh air. Her works convey a unique pleasure in the everyday moments that make life special.”

William Zimmer of the New York Times calls her work “A blithe demonstration of intimacy,” while Mel Gooding says, “[Klein’s] is an art of stillness, of action caught and suspended in the transfiguring moment.... These are the elements of abstract style... found in the quattrocento modernism that placed such revolutionary value upon the depiction of ordinary men and women in extraordinary circumstances, conferring dignity upon them by abstract formalities of figuration and placement. Klein puts these grand principles of ‘artistic style’ to work in the transformation of the South London quotidian, creating out of household events and holiday pleasures images of a resonant contemporary myth of love.”

The artist’s website: www.anitaklein.com

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20 Susan Derges (British, b.1955) 4th House C-Type print in colours, 2010, edition 1/9, on aluminum 460 x 320 mm (18 x 12½ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £2,000-3,000 One of the most critically acclaimed and respected artists working in photography today, Susan Derges specialises in camera-less photographic processes, most often working with natural landscapes.

Born in London in 1955, Derges studied painting at Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. From 1980, she lived and worked in Japan; returning to Britain in 1986, she brought back with her the influence of Japanese minimalism and combined this with her discovery of ‘camera-less’ photography techniques.

She has exhibited extensively in Europe, America and Japan and has works in many museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

The artist’s website: www.susanderges.com

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21 Sir Peter Blake CBE RDI (British, b.1932) Star: Marilyn Monroe photo collage, silkscreen and diamond dust, 2010, signed in pencil, numbered AP 15/15, on wove paper with full margins 750 x 575 mm (29½ x 22½ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £800-1,200 Widely referred to as the Godfather of British Pop Art, Sir Peter Blake is best known for his limited edition prints and the design of the sleeve for The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Born in Dartford, Kent, Sir Peter studied at Gravesend School of Art before being accepted into the Royal College of Art in London. After graduating in 1956 he travelled extensively, drawing inspiration from the countries he visited. When he emerged in the early 1960s as a key member of the burgeoning Pop Art movement, Sir Peter’s fate was sealed as one of the best-known British artists of his generation. He was at the centre of ‘swinging’ London, coming into contact with leading figures of popular culture.

Sir Peter Blake has been a Prince’s Trust Ambassador for over 12 years. Sir Peter and his wife, Chrissy, have supported The Trust in many ways over the years by donating personal prints to auctions such as Invest in Futures.

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22 Anouk Mercier (French, b.1984) Bonne Fête, 2011 Graphite on paper Signed and dated in pencil lower right 176 x 125 mm (7 x 5 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £200-300 Anouk Mercier is a Bristol-based artist whose drawings rely on the nostalgia of Romanticism, mythology and storytelling to depict melancholic worlds and characters.

After studying at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, Anouk went on to read Art and Visual Culture at UWE, Bristol. In 2008 she won the Innes Wilkin Art in Architecture Prize and has since gone on to exhibit in a number of group shows including exhibitions at the RWA, Spike Island and the Bristol Drawing School. In June 2011 Anouk had her first solo exhibition at La Galerie, Clamecy, France.

Celebrating the power of the imagination to escape the quotidian and the mundane, Anouk’s work presents a continuous search for escapism whilst also exploring the mysterious, the abysmal and the uncanny that often lurks behind idylls. Combining fragments from 17th and 18th Century landscape etchings, references to vintage postcards as well as her own mark making, she confuses the boundaries of what is ‘real’, taking on a dreamlike quality and encouraging the viewer to create fantastical narratives.

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23 Peter Clossick (British, b.1948) Study 4 Pebbles, 1995 Chalk and charcoal on paper Signed in pencil lower right 550 x 720 mm (21½ x 28¼ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £600-800 Peter Clossick is a fine art painter who conceptually approaches painting directly from life. He predominantly works in oils with a model in the studio, with ideas formed through the physical act of painting and drawing.

Educated at Goldsmiths College and Camberwell School of Art, Peter has been in shows regularly since 1978, including the London Group, Whitechapel Open and the RA Summer Shows. In 1989 he had his first one-man exhibition in Sweet Waters Gallery and has exhibited at the the Royal Portrait Society, the Mall Galleries, and many others. Internationally he has shown in the USA and around Europe. From 1997 to present he has exhibited with the Gallery Duncan Terrace in London.

Peter says that he is drawn to oil paint because of its’ open-ended process, “...Putting the paint on and taking it off, until I arrive at something that surprises me and I believe has a totality. All I can truly say to myself is just draw, whatever the medium.”

He is challenged by portraiture; to arrive at some underlying essence of character with the added urgency of someone sitting in his studio. “I like to draw with paint wet into wet, using a limited palette, with the sitter in front of me,” he says. “Predominantly working in oil paint, pen, ink and charcoal, it is a process of continual drawing and arriving at a statement through evolution rather than pre-planning. Paintings can sometimes become physically heavy with so much material applied to the surface, and paper becomes torn and scarred.”

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24 Annya Sand (Kazakhstan, b.1983) Mist, 2008 Oil on canvas Signed in oil paint lower right 760 x 760 mm (30 x 30 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust £1,500-2,000 Annya’s work is predominantly abstract - though often inhabited by figures, her paintings never sit within a conceptual framework. They flow from an innate and intuitive place.

On closer inspection her work also traces a deep history, hinting with subtle inflections at a worldly perspective and layers of tradition.

In Annya’s paintings, colours live in harmony rather than competing for space. Her subtle uses of earthy tones, occasionally overlaid with flashes of more intense colour, have become a trademark of her work and have won her a strong following.

She says, “My art is very ornate, and very sensual. I work with oils because I think it gives the work life. I create very thick layers yet try to keep the texture quite light. I like layers of colour, so you can sometimes see the original colour underneath.”

Painting from a very early age, Annya was heavily influenced by her father and grandfather and the creative environment in which she was raised.

Just as she avoids the static energy of the portrait, attaining dynamism through graceful strokes, her work also contains a strong spiritual element.

“Most of my work is an expression of my feelings and my views on life. Everything I do is a reflection of my soul at that specific moment in time. The biggest inspirations for my work are the positives and negatives of life. I truly believe in the powerful effect of personal energy. Whatever you put into life is what you get back.”

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This image is not for sale and is an example of a Head and Portrait commission by this artist.

25 Sam Wadsworth (British, b.1980) This artist is offering to the winning bidder a head and shoulders portrait commission Oil on canvas 560 x 457 mm (22 x 18 in) Please note that the artist will travel to the buyer’s premises if within an hour’s commute from his studio in Northampton (reasonable travel expenses to be met by the buyer). Alternatively, the buyer would be welcome to make an appointment at the artist's studio or the artist will work from a photograph, albeit this is not the preferred method as a more accurate result is achieved if the artist photographs and meets his clients in person.

Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £3,000-4,000 Sam Wadsworth is an award winning Northampton-based painter. He is a regular exhibitor with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and in December 2009 was made a member of the Livery company of the Worshipful Society of Painter Stainers, London.

Born in Cheltenham, Sam studied Fine Art at Northampton University and at the Prince’s Drawing School, London; he later taught at the Northampton School for Boys. Once Artist in Residence at the University of Northampton and Maison Crème Anglaise Studio and Gallery in Burgundy, Sam has also worked in Japan and was voted Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Federation of Small Businesses UK. Sam was helped into business by The Prince’s Trust.

He continues to work out of his Northampton studio where he has recently painted Northampton’s own Dr Who, Matt Smith.

The artist’s website: www.samwadsworth.co.uk

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26 Robin Eckardt (Dual British and American, b.1980) Yacht Speed, 2007 Mixed media on canvas Signed and dated in black ink verso and signed in oil paint lower right 1220 x 1830 mm (48 x 72 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £3,000-4,000 Robin Eckardt is a fine art painter mainly recognised for her large cityscapes of New York and London. Instantly recognisable, her work is highly charged with energy, rich and vibrant with colour, and sculpted with texture.

Born in Puerto Rico, Robin spent the first ten years of her life in the Caribbean. Her vibrant childhood strongly influenced her outlook on the world, particularly in her depiction of colour and texture - both important aspects of her paintings today. From a very young age Robin had a passion and natural flair for art which was encouraged by her parents, fuelling her enjoyment of the subject and giving her the freedom to develop and experiment with painting techniques.

Robin aims to capture the world and the environment around her in her paintings; although her work is, to an extent, impressionistic, she tries to seek out the figurative and an essence of reality. She works spontaneously and instinctively, often happening upon unexpected effects that take the paintings on a journey of their own resulting in fresh, unique images. Each canvas acts as Robin’s pallet as she mixes all the colours directly onto it, and working with mixed media she heavily layers translucent glazes and resins to achieve depth and added dimensions.

Known for her cityscapes of New York and London, Robin acknowledges these to be ideal subjects for her style of painting as the speed, lights, reflections on buildings and rainy streets all come into play. The marks and colours on the canvas accurately translate the scene, but as the colours melt together other senses than just the visual are stimulated.

Robin has exhibited at the Henley Festival for the last three years running; she has also had numerous solo shows in London. Internationally she has exhibited in New York, Paris, Dublin, and Amsterdam and has sold work in the USA, Russia, Vancouver, and throughout Europe, as well as selling work to 5* Hotels in London and renting art to London Corporate businesses.

Over recent years Robin has increasingly concentrated on working with a handful of charities such as Vision, the Rainbow Trust, and Indian Oceans Disaster Relief; and now Robin is extremely happy to offer support to The Prince’s Trust.

The artist’s website: www.robin-eckardt.co.uk

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27 Lindsay Telling (British, b.1960) Before The Tide Comes In, 2011 Three glass panels with copper wire and cobalt oxide mounted with steel fixings on wood Signed, dated and titled in black ink verso 540 x 1000 mm (21¼ x 39½ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £800-1,200 Lindsay Telling is a Bristol based glass artist. Her inspirations to date have come from John Piper and Graham Sutherland, but for our auction piece Before The Tide Comes In she has been influenced by the works of Kurt Jackson and Andy Goldsworthy.

Lindsay trained for four years at the Bristol School of Art, and her passion for glass, rekindled by an artist in Fowey and her love of Cornwall, has now brought her back to creating new work with Bristol collective WorkInGlass. Before The Tide Comes In is the first of a series currently taking shape in Lindsay’s Bristol studio.

Comprising two layers of glass that have been fused together, the piece incorporates varying sizes of coloured glass called ‘frit’ with copper wire and cobalt oxide. Lindsay’s intention is to take nature in its simplest form and translate it into glass in an evocative way.

Lindsay exhibited last year at The Beachcroft Space in Bristol and currently has work in a gallery in Fowey.

In April 2012 she will be exhibiting at The Clevedon Pier Gallery.

For more information, please contact the artist direct at lindsaytelling@hotmail.co.uk

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28 Andrew Macara (British, b.1944) Winter, Black Rocks, Wirksworth Derbyshire, 2009 Oil on canvas Signed in oil paint lower right 360 x 405 mm (14¼ x 16 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £1,000-1,500 Andrew Macara has one of the most distinctive styles of any present day contemporary figurative artist.

Frequently exhibiting at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Society of British Artists, and the New English Art Club, his paintings are in collections worldwide, and he is listed at the Cortauld Institute.

Born in Derbyshire in 1944, Andrew considers himself to be predominantly a self-taught artist. He travels extensively, gathering images for paintings from around the world, but his native Derbyshire continues to feature in many paintings – particularly the Winter scenes. Other subjects with strong demand are Andrew’s British seaside paintings.

Recently he has been exploring a new subject matter of reflections, involving a more abstracted painting style.

Andrew was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1981 and in 1984 was elected to the New English Art Club. Royal Academician Ken Howard says, "Andrew Macara's work is deservedly popular for he touches the everyday joy of life. His paintings celebrate life and show us a new way of seeing; this quality is that which underlies all true art." William Gear, also of the RA, says, "This artist has developed his own unique way, using colour, to describe perspective."

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29 Paul Robinson (British, b.1959) Milly Looked at Charlie With Pride, While Over The Road, ‘I Wonder Where Milly Got Her Mac? I Thought They Only Did Them In Black’, Oil on board Signed in oil paint lower left 245 x 245 mm (9¾ x 9¾ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £600-800 Paul Robinson is a Norfolk-based painter. Described as naïve in style, the humour in his paintings is unmistakeable and yet essential to much of his work. Increasingly collectable, his work is now included in private, corporate and public collections worldwide.

Born in Cumbria in 1959, Paul began his career in London as a freelance illustrator, working for publications such as the Sunday Times and Radio Times, whilst exhibiting his personal work at the Thumb Gallery in Soho with many well-known peers.

Moving to North Norfolk in 1999, Paul left behind the world of illustration to concentrate on painting full time, focusing his attention to the subjects on his door-step. From rainy days to romantic interludes, his oil paintings are evocative and nostalgic, and yet skilfully executed in his unique, contemporary style.

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30 Rupert Grint (British, b.1988) Untitled, 2011 Acrylic on canvas Signed in acrylic paint lower right 305 x 410 mm (12 x 16 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £150-200 After achieving an A* grade for his GCSE, Rupert has continued with his interest in Art, not only with his own drawings but as a collector too. Rupert has a keen eye for the interesting and quirky; he follows several artists closely and has become an avid supporter of their work.

Born in Harlow in 1988, Rupert grew up in Hertfordshire and found recognition at an early age by winning the role of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film adaptation series. Whilst between scenes on set he would always have a good stock of sketch pads and pencils to hand, drawing to pass the time.

Today he jumps at the chance to get involved with any art projects, and loves to push himself, trying different techniques to achieve his aims.

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31 Jonathan Pugh (British, b.1962) Calling Him Jensen Was A Bit Mean, 2011 Ink on paper Signed and dated in black ink verso 150 x 95 mm (6 x 3¾ in) Provenance: This image was produced as a cartoon for the Daily Mail, July 2011 and now reproduced as an original drawing and kindly donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £100-150 Jonathan Pugh is one of the UK’s best-loved cartoonists. Five-times winner of the Cartoon Art Trust Pocket Cartoonist of the Year, and the 2001 British Press Awards Cartoonist of the Year, he joined the Daily Mail in January 2010 as their daily pocket cartoonist after nearly fifteen years at The Times.

Born in 1962, Jonathan knew he wanted to be a cartoonist at the age of just five. He studied Law at university which presented him with hours of doodling practice, and after a brief stint as an art teacher, he began his career as a freelance cartoonist in 1987.

Jonathan's work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Punch, Spectator, Private Eye and the Tablet.

Influenced by Quentin Blake and Carl Giles, he works mostly in pen and ink on paper.

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32 Diana ArmfieldRA RWS (British, b.1920) Sunset Sky, Piazza San Marco, Venice lithograph in colours, 2010, signed in pencil, numbered 54/110 on Curwin Chilford paper 455 x 375 mm (17¾ x 14¾ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £150-200 Diana Armfield studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts. She is known not only as a painter but also for her early textile and wallpaper designs which are included in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Landscape is a major subject in her work, as well as still lives and interiors. She invariably works within a small format never exceeding 50 x 60cms.

Commenting on her work, Diana Armfield has said: ‘If I’m landscape painting, I may be looking for the subject in those places which appear at first unruly - wild country, sea or sky, tumbling rocks. All are subject to the big ordering forces of the weather, growth of seasonal change…. Or I look at those parts where man has modified the landscape; vineyards, olive groves, quarries, towns’.

Since 1965 Diana Armfield has been a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, New Grafton Gallery, New English Art Club and Browse and Darby, London, amongst other venues. She has work in the Royal West of England Gallery Permanent Collection as well as numerous other public and private collections. She holds membership to the Royal Academy, Royal Watercolour Society, New English Art Club and the Royal West of England Academy. In 1985 Diana Armfield was Artist in Residence, Perth, Australia and in 1989 Artist in Residence, Jackson, Wyoming, USA. Twice she reached the finals of the Hunting Prize in the 1980’s and she won the Agnew’s New English Art Club Prize in the early 1990’s.

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33 Ken Howard OBE RA (British, b.1932) Winter in Slovenia, 2005 Oil on board Signed in oil paint lower right and signed, dated and titled in black ink verso 240 x 190 mm (9½ x 7½ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £800-1,200 Professor Ken Howard OBE is a figurative painter and Royal Academician. In 1998 he was elected president of the New English Art Club, and in 2010 he was awarded the OBE for services to Art. Born in London in 1932, Ken studied at the Hornsey School of Art and first exhibited at the Royal Academy aged just 20. After completing National Service, he studied at the Royal College of Art, and thereafter embarked on a career that culminated in 2011 with the publication of his autobiography, Light and Dark.

In 1973 Ken was appointed the official war artist in Northern Ireland by the Imperial War Museum, and between 1973 and 1980 he worked with the British Army in Germany, Cyprus, Oman, Hong Kong, Nepal, Norway, Canada, Belize and Brunei. He has held one-man exhibitions almost every year since 1966 both in the UK and internationally: in London, Plymouth, Folkestone, Hong Kong, St Helier in Jersey, Nicosia in Sicily, Delhi, Johannesburg and Cape Town.

His work has been commissioned by The Drapers Company, the States of Jersey, HQ British Army of the Rhine, UN forces in Cyprus, The London Stock Exchange, Lloyds of London, and Banque Paribas; it appears in public collections at the Royal Academy, Plymouth City Art Gallery, Sheffield Art Gallery, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, Ulster Museum and Art Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, London and The National Army Museum, London.

Says Ken, "For me painting is about three things. It is about revelation, communication and celebration. By revelation I mean giving people a way of seeing, revealing the world around them in a way they have never seen before, opening their eyes. By communication I mean revealing the world with a personal language, speaking directly in an instantly recognisable style. The artist spends his life refining that language in order to express his personal world more clearly and directly. My last criterion, celebration, is perhaps more difficult to explain.

We all suffer in our lives, we lose loved ones, we suffer illnesses. But I want art to raise me above that; when I look at painting I want it to be elevating, I want it to celebrate life whether it be human dignity expressed by Velasquez or Cezanne, or the wonders of nature expressed by Corot or Monet. For me my main inspiration is light and it is through light that I want to celebrate my world."

The artist’s website: www.kenhoward.co.uk

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34 Paula Lundy (British, b.1979) Into The Moondust, 2011 Mixed media on canvas Signed in silver ink lower right 1500 x 1195 mm (59 x 47 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £800-1,200 Paula Lundy is a contemporary artist living and working in the South West of England, whose unique style comes from her passion for combining heavy texture with strong visual metallics. Distinctive in appearance and textured form, her art frequently compels the viewer to reach out and touch it.

After studying for seven years and experimenting for fifteen, with a vast array of painting styles and mediums, a love of sculpture and an ever expanding use of materials, Paula’s current work is characterised by an amalgamation of paint and sculpture on canvas. In 2009 Paula attended The Prince’s Trust Explore Enterprise Course and received a small grant to help her develop her business idea selling her work.

Paula is inspired by architecture old and new in Bristol and the South West. She is particularly fascinated with the way in which the moon illuminates the night and picks out the more interesting features of English architecture, and it has now become a prominent focal point in many of her paintings. “I have always been intrigued by the folklore which surrounds it,” she says. “Ancient civilizations believed the moon to be made of silver and to be associated with dreams and the imagination; that's why I always use real silver to create the moons in my paintings.”

The artist’s website: www.paulalundy.com

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35 Deirdre Dyson (British, b.1943) Pears and Plums, 2005 Oil on canvas Signed in oil paint lower left 1020 x 1020 mm (40¼ x 40¼ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £2,000-3,000 Deirdre Dyson is probably best known as a leading bespoke carpet designer with a showroom on the Kings’ Road, Chelsea, but she is also a painter in her own right, exhibiting both watercolours and oils in group exhibitions throughout the UK, and holding successful solo shows at the Simon-Capstick-Dale galleries in London and New York, the Grosvenor Gallery in London and the Albemarle Gallery in London.

Deirdre trained at the Byam Shaw School of Art and Wimbledon College of Art. Her most recent work has been a large triptych for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal United Hospital, Bath.

The artist’s website for her handmade carpets: www.deirdredyson.com

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36 Ben Dearnley (British, b.1964) The Gift, 2011 Hand carved Bath Stone Inscribed with artist’s signature and dated verso 1150 x 925 x 565 mm (45 x 36 x 22 in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £8,000-12,000 back Ben Dearnley is the official sculptor for the 2012 Olympics. Living and working in Bath, he is influenced by the Great Masters of the past − Rodin, Michelangelo and Canova; all sculptors involved with the figure and its expressive nature, truth and beauty. Ben has produced The Gift especially for the Prince's Trust Evening of Art, created out of an 800kg block of Bath Stone, generously donated by Bath Stone Group.

Ben was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in 1964 and spent much of his life surrounded by music. His late father, Dr Christopher Dearnley, was first organist at Salisbury Cathedral and then organist and Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral, London, so from an early age Ben was witness to the majesty of music and sculpture of the highest order, both of which have been major underlying influences for him.

Ben's work is focused on the figure: his narrative fuses the traditional techniques of the past with a contemporary approach. He draws the viewer into a personal dialogue with the sculpture by presenting them with a seductive surface of the fragmented figure. The pose of the sculpture reflects an inner truth, which Ben develops within the hidden spaces of the form.

His latest works are pushing his understanding of material and the ability to reach new forms of expression.

Ben is now fully engaged in the direct carving of stone, looking at ways of exploring a return to the pure forms of the past with a modern contextualization, creating a vibrant expression of truth through beauty.

The City of Bath 2012 Olympic Legacy sculpture of Mark Foster has given Ben the opportunity to run an open studio this summer, which has proven most rewarding. His Avenue of Champions series has been created in collaboration with some of the world’s finest Olympic and Paralympic athletes, who have been a huge inspiration for him.

"The strength and determination they show in each of their disciplines has a tremendous effect on me,” he says. “When the work of carving by hand gets too much and it all feels like it is going nowhere, I only have to reflect on their incredible achievements to find the next level of personal strength to keep going."

The Avenue of Champions will be shown in Salisbury Cathedral throughout next summer Ben’s work is in public and private collections from as far afield as Australia, South Africa and Europe to the Bahamas, as well as in the Royal Academy of Music, London Many of his works can be seen on his website: www.bendearnley.com The cost of transporting and positioning the sculpture is to be met by the buyer.

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37 Quentin Blake CBE FCSD RDI (British, b.1932) Explorers, 2011 Watercolour, crayon and black ink on paper Signed, titled and dated in black ink 550 x 750 mm (21¾ x 29½ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £3,500-4,500 Quentin Blake is probably the UK’s best-known and best-loved illustrator, renowned for his collaboration with writers such as Russell Hoban, Joan Aiken, Michael Rosen, John Yeoman and, most famously, Roald Dahl.

Quentin was born in 1932 and has drawn ever since he can remember. He studied English at Downing College, Cambridge, followed by a postgraduate teaching diploma at the University of London and life classes at Chelsea Art School.

He has always made his living as an illustrator, as well as teaching for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, where he was head of the Illustration department from 1978 to 1986. His first drawings were published in Punch while he was 16 and still at school. He continued to draw for Punch, The Spectator and other magazines over many years, while at the same time entering the world of children’s books with A Drink of Water by John Yeoman in 1960.

His books have won numerous prizes and awards, including the Whitbread Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award and the international Bologna Ragazzi Prize. He won the 2002 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the highest international recognition given to creators of children’s books. In 2004 he was awarded the ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French Government for services to literature and in 2007 he was made Officier in the same order.

Now in his 70s he is recognised, according to The Guardian, as ‘a national institution’. In 1999 he was appointed the first ever Children’s Laureate, a post designed to raise the profile of children’s literature. In 2002 his book Laureate’s Progress recorded many of his activities and the illustrations he produced during his two-year tenure.

Quentin created Explorers especially for The Prince’s Trust Evening of Art. The artist’s website: www.quentinblake.com 50

38 Nick Park CBE (British, b. 1958) Wallace and Gromit The Techno Trousers Kicking Foot, 2004 Watercolour and ink on paper Signed and dated in black ink lower right 240 x 340 mm (9½ x 13½ in) Provenance: Donated by the Artist to The Prince’s Trust Evening Of Art Sale £1,500-2,000 Nick has been an Ambassador for The Prince’s Trust for over 15 years, supporting the charity in a huge number of ways. Nick has donated two special watercolours to The Prince’s Trust for the Evening of Art, and created Gromit Reads Pluto’s Republic especially for this event. This is a rare opportunity to acquire a piece of history.

The artist’s website: www.aardman.com Please see lot 1 for full biography.

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This is because such lots are sold using the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme and it should be noted that the VAT included within the Premium is not recoverable as input tax.

5. Descriptions and Conditions. Condition reports are provided on the Dreweatts site or upon request. The absence of a report does not imply that a lot is without imperfections. The detail in a report will reflect the estimated value of the lot, and large numbers of such requests received shortly before the sale may not receive a response to all lots. Members of staff are not trained restorers or conservators and, particularly for higher value lots, you should obtain an opinion from such a professional. We recommend that you always view a lot in person.

6. Export of goods. Buyers intending to export goods should ascertain (a) whether an export licence is required and (b) whether there is any specific prohibition on importing goods of that character because, e.g. they may contain prohibited materials such as ivory. Ask us if you need help.

7. Bidding. Bidders may be required to register before the sale commences and lots will be invoiced to the name and address on the registration form. Some form of identification may be required if you are unknown to us.

Please enquire in advance about our arrangements for telephone bidding.

8. Commission bidding. Commission bids may be left with the auctioneers indicating the maximum amount to be bid. They will be executed as cheaply as possible having regard to the reserve (if any) and competing bids. If two buyers submit identical commission bids the auctioneers may prefer the first bid received. Please enquire in advance about our arrangements for the leaving of commission bids by telephone or FAX.

9. Methods of Payment. The following methods of payment are acceptable.

Debit Cards drawn on a UK bank, there is no additional charge for purchases made with these cards.

Bank transfer direct into our bank account, all transfers must state the relevant sale number, lot number and your bid / paddle number. If transferring from a foreign currency, the amount we receive must be the total due in pounds sterling (after currency conversion and the deduction of any bank charges). Our bank details can be found on the front or your invoice or in the sale catalogue under ‘Important Notices’.

Sterling cash payments of up to £12,000 (subject to money laundering regulations) All major UK issued credit cards registered to a UK billing address with the exception of American Express and Diners Club. A surcharge of 3 per cent is payable on all payments made by credit cards.

Sterling personal cheques drawn on a UK bank account and made payable to ‘Prince’s Trust Trading Ltd’. It will be necessary to allow at least six working days for the cheque to clear before collecting your purchases.

10. Collection and storage. Please note what the Terms and Conditions state about collection and storage. It is important that goods are paid for and collected promptly.

Any delay may involve the buyer in paying storage charges.

11. Droit de suite royalty charges. From 14th February 2006 all UK art market professionals (which includes, but is not limited to; auctioneers, dealers, galleries, agents and other intermediaries) are required to collect a royalty payment for all works of art that have been produced by living artists.

This payment is only calculated on qualifying works of art which are sold for a hammer price more than the UK sterling equivalent of EURO 1,000 – the UK sterling equivalent will fluctuate in line with prevailing exchange rates.

It is entirely the responsibility of the buyer to acquaint himself with the precise EURO to UK Sterling exchange rate on the day of the sale in this regard, and the auctioneer accepts no responsibility whatsoever if the qualifying rate is different to the rate indicated.

All items in this catalogue that are marked with are potentially qualifying items, and the royalty charge will be applied if the hammer price achieved is more than the UK sterling equivalent of EURO 1,000.The royalty charge will be added to all relevant buyers’ invoices, and must be paid before items can be cleared. All royalty charges are passed on to the Design and Artists Copyright Society (‘DACS’), no handling costs or additional fees with respect to these charges will be retained by the auctioneers.

The royalty charge that will be applied to qualifying items which achieve a hammer price of more than the UK sterling equivalent of EURO 1,000, but less than the UK sterling equivalent of EURO 50,000 is 4 per cent. For qualifying items that sell for more than the UK sterling equivalent of EURO 50,000 a sliding scale of royalty charges will apply – for a complete list of the royalty charges and threshold levels, please see www.dacs.org.uk. There is no VAT payable on this royalty charge.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The property offered in this Sale and listed in this auction catalogue (the “Catalogue”) (as that property is amended by any posted notices or oral announcements during the Sale) (the “Property”) will be sold by Prince’s Trust Trading Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under number 3161821.

Prince’s Trust Trading Limited is a company which has covenanted to pay its net profits each year to The Prince’s Trust, a charity registered with the Charity Commissioners under number 1079675 in England and Wales and SC041198 in Scotland.

These terms govern the contract for sale (the “Contract for Sale”) of any lot by Prince’s Trust Trading Limited (the “Seller”) to the Purchaser (as defined at paragraph 6(c) below).

4. The Seller reserves the right to reject a bid from any bidder. Property may be offered subject to reserves.

In the event of any dispute between bidders, the auctioneer will have sole and final discretion either to determine the successful bidder or to re-offer and resell the lot in dispute. If any dispute arises after the Sale, the Sale records of the Seller will be conclusive in all respects.

5. If the auctioneer determines that any opening bid is not commensurate with the value of the particular lot offered, he may reject the same and withdraw that lot from Sale, and if, having acknowledged an opening bid, he decides that any advance thereafter is insufficient, he may reject the advance.

Any questions in relation to the auction should be directed to the Seller and not to the auctioneer, who serves merely as auctioneer for the Seller in conducting the Sale and participates on the following terms and conditions which govern the sale of all the Property:

6. The sale of any lot is complete and the Contract for Sale is made when the auctioneer announces its completion by the fall of the hammer. Thereupon, the highest bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer for any lot is the purchaser (the “Purchaser”) of that lot (the “Lot”) and is contractually bound to:

1. The Seller assumes no risk, liability or responsibility for the authenticity or the authorship of any of the Property (that is, the identity of the creator or the period, culture, source or origin, as the case may be, with which the creation of any property is identified herein);

(a) assume the risk and responsibility of the Lot; (b) sign a confirmation of purchase of the Lot; and (c) pay the full amount of his highest bid for the Lot (the “Purchase Price”).

the Property is sold with all faults and imperfections and errors of description;

7. Title to the Lot remains in and is retained by the Seller until the Purchase Price and all other sums payable by the Purchaser to the Seller have been paid in full, and received in cleared funds by the Seller. The Seller is entitled to withhold possession of the Lot from the Purchaser until this time. The Seller is only required to hold the Lot for 90 days from the date of the auction, after which, if the Purchaser has not collected or arranged for collection of the Lot, the Seller may, at its sole discretion, send the Lot to external storage for the account and at the risk and expense of the Purchaser. Any charges associated with the transport and storage if the Lot are to be borne by the Purchaser and will be added to the Purchase Price.

the Seller does not make or give and does not agree to make or give any representation of fact, undertaking, obligation, guarantee, contractual promise or warranty or undertake any duty of care of any kind or nature, expressed or implied, in relation to any description (which shall include inter alia physical condition, size, quality, rarity, importance, genuineness, attribution, authenticity or provenance) of any of the Property or any estimate in relation to it, nor in relation to satisfactory quality of the Property or its fitness for purpose. No statement made in the Catalogue, at any time before, during or after the Sale in any Sale invoice or elsewhere, will be deemed such a representation of fact, undertaking, obligation, guarantee, contractual promise or warranty.

2. Any of the Property may be withdrawn by the Seller at any time before the Sale.

3. Unless otherwise announced by the auctioneer at the time of the Sale, all bids are per lot as described in the Catalogue.

8. Risk in the Lot passes to the Purchaser at the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer in respect of the Lot. The Seller will thereafter not be responsible for the Lot and the Purchaser will indemnify the Seller and keep the Seller fully indemnified from and against all claims, proceedings, costs, expenses and losses arising in respect of any injury, loss and damage caused to the Lot after the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer until the Purchaser obtains full title to it.

9. All lots must be claimed within 12 months of the Sale, unless otherwise noted.

13. In no circumstances will the Purchaser be able to rescind the Contract of Sale.

10. If the foregoing conditions and other applicable conditions are not complied with, without prejudice to any other remedies available to the Seller by law, which for the avoidance of doubt includes the right to take legal proceedings against the Purchaser for any sum due under the Contract for Sale and/for damages for breach of contract, the Seller, at its sole discretion, is entitled to exercise one or more of the following rights:

14. Subject to paragraph 16, in no circumstances will the Seller be required to refund any amount paid in respect of any lot to the Purchaser.

to terminate the Contract for Sale immediately for breach of contract; to retain possession of the Lot; to be paid interest on any monies due at the annual rate 5 per cent per annum above the base rate of National Westminster Bank Plc from time to time to be calculated on a daily basis; to retain as liquidated damages all payments made by the Purchaser; to resell the Lot by auction, private treaty or any other means to any third party, on three days’ written notice of intention to sell to the Purchaser, following which the Purchaser will be liable to the Seller for payment of any shortfall between the Purchase Price and the sum of the price achieved upon resale all other charges due hereunder and any incidental damages.

The Seller is under no obligation to achieve an optimum or fair market value for the Lot upon resale.

11. The Purchaser will indemnify the Seller against all legal and other costs of enforcement, all losses and other expenses and costs incurred by the Seller (whether or not court proceedings will have been issued) as a result of the Seller taking any of the steps under paragraph 10.

12. Payments for purchases made in the Sale must be made in pounds sterling (unless otherwise noted) and in any one of the following forms: cash, cheque (backed by cheque guarantee card) or major credit cards (excluding American Express).

15. The Purchaser will be wholly responsible for any removal, storage, shipping, delivery costs, other charges and expenses incurred by the Seller in connection with the Lot and for complying with all import or export regulations in connection with the Lot. 16. If the Seller is prevented from performing its obligations under the Contract for Sale by circumstances beyond its control or if performance of its obligations would by reason of such circumstances give rise to a significantly increased financial cost to it, the Seller will not, for as long as such circumstances prevail, be required to perform such obligations. In such circumstances, the Seller will not be deemed to be in breach of the Contract of Sale, or be liable for failure to fulfill any of its duties thereunder and will only be liable to refund the Purchaser such sum that is equal to the Purchase Price (where this has been fully paid by the Purchaser) less any costs incurred by the Seller in connection with the Lot. 17. References in these Conditions of Sale to the singular will include references to the plural (and viceversa) and reference to any one gender will include reference to other genders.

18. These Conditions of Sale, as well as the Purchaser’s and the Seller’s respective rights and obligations hereunder, will be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

19. By bidding at an auction, whether present in person or by agent, commission bid, telephone or other means, the bidder will be deemed to have agreed to these Conditions of Sale and to have consented to the exclusive jurisdiction of Courts of England and Wales.

With thanks…

The Prince's Trust would like to thank the following people and organisations who have generously donated their time and effort to help make tonight a very special evening.

First and foremost our sponsors; Coutts & Co, Smith & Williamson, Withy King, Reside Bath and Knight Frank.

All at Dreweatts Bloomsbury Auctions and www.the-saleroom.com for conducting this evening's auction at no charge to The Prince's Trust, especially Mary McCarthy, auctioneer Richard Madley, Donal Savage and Abbie Barker.

Jacki Connell and all at Jamm Design for kindly designing our invitations and auction catalogue at no cost to The Trust and Cambrian Printers in Aberystwyth for their contribution to the auction catalogue.

We’d like to thank Elaine Marson and all at The Bath Stone Group for generously donating the stone for Ben Dearnley's sculpture; Sharon Love and the team at The Royal Crescent Hotel for their ongoing support and for kindly donating one of tonight’s raffle prizes; the pupils and teachers at The Royal High School in Bath for this evening’s musical entertainment; Emily Luff our copywriter; Misha Ostromecki and the other photographers for capturing the Art and this evening’s guests so beautifully; Laurent Perrier for the champagne; Coutts & Co for kindly donating one of this evening’s raffle prizes; Roger Henderson and all at Bath Signs for the logo boards; Michael Malloy at Bang & Olufsen for the screens; Steve Miklos and all at Bath Magazine and Flowers by Passion for the wonderful Christmas tree.

Lastly, our thanks to an incredible committee who have dedicated so much time and passion to this event over the last 18 months – to Richard Neville, David Taylor, Gordon Glass, Benjamin Emms, Christine Penny (www.christinepenny.co.uk), Rebecca Phillips of Bath Contemporary (www.bathcontemporary.com) and Sharon Love mentioned above.

We would also like to thank all those supporters who have offered their assistance and support since this catalogue went to print as well as all of this evening’s guests and volunteers.

DSN1531. Prince’s Trust Trading Ltd is a Registered Company No: 3161821. All net proceeds from this event will be donated to The Prince's Trust, a registered charity, incorporated by Royal Charter, in England and Wales (1079675) and Scotland (SC041198).

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