Rigby Graham - Watercolours, Oils and Stained Glass

Rigby Graham goldmark 2010

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Rigby Graham Goldmark Gallery has been showing the work of Rigby Graham for nearly 25 years. We have been delighted recently to see him honoured with a Doctorate from Leicester University and an M.B.E. in the Queen’s 2010 Birthday Honours List. At nearly 80, he continues to go out painting.

Over the years he has attempted to furnish me with some sort of art education.

I suspect he feels that he has failed but his advice has been invaluable and his determination to continue, often against all the odds has been inspirational.

Years ago I found a letter that John Piper had written about him: I’ve known Rigby Graham and have admired his work for a good many years.

He has an unusual and indeed enviable capacity to make romantic and dramatic images out of ‘simple’ scenes – sometimes almost totally deserted ones. I put simple between inverted commas because of course they are not simple at all but full of his own personal and temperamental vision. Two or three people walking in a landscape under a wild sky, and a garret cottage in the distance; the base of an Irish round tower of which only the bottom four or five courses of stone remain, with a flank of a well observed mountain in the background; a row of decaying wooden fence posts with some straggling bits of barbed wire amid cow parsley and grass with a wide, open, empty landscape yonder; the wheelhouse of a Cornish tin mine, ruinous, on a cliff with a sea below – these are among his favourite subjects. . . . he is a real graphics man, and that would nail him down and mark him out, were he not such a good landscape painter and draughtsman too. More power to his elbow, and to his hand and brain as well.

John Piper, Fawley Bottom Farmhouse, 8th April, 1986

Rigby Graham’s IRISH VOYAGE Rigby Graham’s IRISH VOYAGE

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Our feature length film of Rigby Graham is now available on DVD complete with slide shows and extras.

A gentle and revealing portrait of Rigby Graham as he paints his way across Ireland.

£15 plus £2.50 uk p&p

Travelling across Ireland with Rigby Graham was a revelation. There is hardly a corner of this fascinating country that he cannot illuminate with his experience and vision. The man has been working in Ireland for more than thirty years and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of its past, its people, its pain and its passions.

The film is a kind of 'retrospective road movie' visiting many of the artist's old haunts and creating dynamic new work along the way.

Graham has a dry sense of humour and enlivens the film with his own cryptic commentaries written daily on postcards home.

It was a challenging film to make, not least for Graham who, in his seventieth year, had to undergo a journey as demanding in its way as those of his forebear Ulysses. Enduring rough roads and stormy seas, it culminated in a spectacular climb amidst the puffins to an ancient monastery perched on a rocky island sanctuary set deep in the Atlantic: a pilgrimage that inspired profound reflections on his life and works.

Charles Mapleston

Watercolours

RIGBY GRAHAM WATERCOLOURS OF MALTA Text and poems by Victor Fenech Preface by Mike Goldmark, Coda by Derek Deadman Hardback, 23 x 23 cm, 128 pages with over 90 full colour illustrations of Rigby Graham’s watercolours Published by Miranda, Malta

ÂŁ25.00 inc uk p&p order on 01572 821424 Rigby Graham's visits to Malta resulted in some brilliant watercolours depicting the island's light in a new interpretation of its flora and its architecture, with a stress on textures, in a manner so different, so cerebral, so talented as to inspire concern and delight in both the naive and the discerning.

Baron Nicholas de Piro, The International Dictionary of Artists who Painted Malta

1. Fort St Lucian, Malta, watercolour, 1995, signed, 40.5 x 50.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

2. Church at Mtahleb, Malta, watercolour, 1994, signed verso, 35.5 x 45 cm, ÂŁ1200

3. Blockhouse, Paceville, Malta, watercolour, 1994, signed, 35.5 x 45 cm, ÂŁ1200

4. Zebbug Hal-Muxi, Malta, watercolour, 1995, signed, 40.5 x 50 cm, ÂŁ1200

5. Manoel Island, Malta, watercolour, 1994, signed, 40.5 x 50 cm, ÂŁ1200

6. The Citadel Victoria looking towards Ghasri and Zebbug, watercolour, 1995, signed, 50.5 x 40.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

7. Barracuda, Balluta Bay, Malta, watercolour, 1994, signed, 40.5 x 50 cm, ÂŁ1200

8. English Cannon, St Julians, Malta, watercolour, 1995, signed, 38.5 x 48.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

9. Zebbug, Malta, gouache, 1995, signed, 40.3 x 50.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

10. Rabat, Gozo, gouache, 1995, signed, 40 x 50.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

11. Ta Pinn, Gozo, gouache, 1995, signed, 39 x 49.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

12. Marsalforn Valley, Gozo, watercolour, 1995, signed, 40.5 x 50.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

13. Riber Castle from Middleton, Derbyshire, watercolour, 1989, signed, 40.5 x 50 cm, ÂŁ1200

14. Heage Morley Park Farm, Iron Blast Furnaces, watercolour, 2009, signed, 39 x 57 cm, ÂŁ1200

15. Watnall Brickworks, watercolour, 2009, signed, 39 x 56.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

16. Someries Castle, gouache, 2009, signed, 39 x 57 cm, ÂŁ1200

17. Eyam Moor, Derbyshire, in a Storm, watercolour, 2008, signed, 38.5 x 57.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

18. Lime Kilns, Moira Furnace, Leicestershire, watercolour, 2005, signed, 38.5 x 57 cm, ÂŁ1200

19. Kenilworth, watercolour, 2004, signed, 39 x 57 cm, ÂŁ1200

20. Brochel Castle, Isle of Raasay, watercolour, 2002, signed, 38.5 x 56.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

21. Slea Head, Co. Kerry, watercolour, 1981, signed, 38 x 48 cm, ÂŁ1200

22. Naxos, watercolour, 2004, signed, 39 x 56.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

23. Lindos, watercolour, 1997, signed, 39 x 49 cm, ÂŁ1200

24. Etna from Taormina, watercolour, 2004, signed, 38.5 x 57 cm, ÂŁ1200

25. Castelmola, Sicily, watercolour, 2004, signed, 39 x 57 cm, ÂŁ1200

26. Les Ecréhous, Channel Islands, watercolour, 1997, signed, 38 x 56.5 cm, £1200

27. Peel Castle, Isle of Man, watercolour, 2005, signed, 39.3 x 57 cm, ÂŁ1200

28. Derelict Refinery, Dubrovnik, watercolour, 2002, signed, 39 x 57 cm, ÂŁ1200

29. Beneath Fort St Lawrence, Dubrovnik, watercolour, 2004, signed, 39 x 56.5 cm, ÂŁ1200

30. Figures in a Loggia, Trogir, watercolour, 2005, signed, 39.7 x 57 cm, ÂŁ1200

Oils & Stained Glass

31. Carrick Kildavnet, Achill, stained glass, ed 3, 2002, 93 x 55 cm, ÂŁ7450

In 2001 Nicholas Bechgaard, the stained glass maker, visited the gallery. Graham had not previously designed for stained glass but happily accepted a commission to make 3 panels that, unusually, would not be site specific. As so often happens when one works with Rigby Graham, the project grew, resulting in seven remarkable windows.

32. Straw Figure, stained glass, ed 3, 2002, 93 x 55 cm, ÂŁ7450

33. Stone at Avebury, oil on board, 1969, signed, 34.5 x 26 cm,

34. Eightacuna Alignment, Waterville, ÂŁ2250

oil on board, 1971, signed, 34.5 x 26.2 cm,

ÂŁ2250

35. Neale Church, Ireland, oil on canvas, 1969, signed, 46 x 35.5 cm, ÂŁ3000

36. Rathborney, Co. Clare, oil on board, 1981, signed, 60 x 60 cm, ÂŁ3750

37. Mycenae, Greece, oil on canvas, 1988, signed, 44 x 49 cm, ÂŁ3000

38. Innishmoor, Aran Islands, oil on canvas, 1994, signed, 49 x 44 cm, ÂŁ3000

39. Tin Mines, Cornwall, oil on canvas, 1999, signed, 49.5 x 45 cm, ÂŁ3000

40. Vai Crete, oil on board, 1999, signed, 44.5 x 59.5 cm, ÂŁ2750

Life size bronze, 2009

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Sculpted by Etienne Millner Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors President of the Society of Portrait Sculptors

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