THE WYKEHAM GALLERY
20th September – 4th October 2025
Maureen Davies | Soraya French | Gareth Parry
Above: Soraya French
Birches in twilight
mixed media
19 x 25 in.
Front cover: Gareth Parry
Weather improving, scallop boat
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in.
THE WYKEHAM GALLERY
Maureen Davies | Soraya French | Gareth Parry
20th September – 4th October 2025
OPENING DRINKS | Saturday 20th September | 12 – 2pm
Monday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm
All work can be viewed on our website under Exhibitions/Forthcoming. All work is for sale immediately.
High Street | Stockbridge | Hampshire | SO20 6HE 01264 810364 enquiries@wykehamgallery.co.uk www.wykehamgallery.co.uk
MAUREEN DAVIES
Born in 1952, Maureen Davies studied art at the St. Alban’s School of Art, followed by a degree in Textile Design at the Central School of Art and Design in London. Over the last decade, she has exhibited widely in the south of England and at the Mall Galleries in London.
Maureen became a member of the SWA in 2011 and received the Princess Michael of Kent watercolour award at the Open Exhibition of the Mall Galleries. In 2007, she took the winning entry in the International Competition for the Society for All Artists and won the Frank Herring Award for The Pastel Society.
Her current work is concerned primarily with sunlight and with the way it transforms the landscape into colours and patterns. She has drawn inspiration from many diverse locations, different times of day and the changing seasons – winter sun flickering through trees or the evening sun at harvest time.
Maureen works in a variety of media including collage, watercolour and gouache, but has a bias towards pastels. Some works are literal in their interpretation, some are more abstract, but all share a strong focus on vibrant colour.
Maureen Davies lives and works at Rockbourne in Hampshire. The Wykeham Gallery now regularly exhibits her work.
Maureen Davies
Shimmering light
mixed media
26 x 22 in.
Maureen Davies
Storm passed Isle of Mull
media, oil and collage on canvas
31 x 40 in.
SORAYA FRENCH
International artist, tutor and author Soraya French works from her Hampshire based studio. She combines a successful exhibiting career with writing articles for the UK’s leading art publication “The Artist” and carries out experimental workshops both at home and abroad. The success of her art books, commissioned by Harper Collins, have brought her international acclaim and following.
Soraya works in all painting media but is particularly known for her vibrant mixed media paintings of flowers and people in everyday life situations. The use of vibrant colours, light and expressive textures are prominent features of her work. She takes inspiration from her travels, as well as the beautiful landscape around her. The ambiguity and evocative quality in her painting leaves something for the viewer’s imagination. She has been the recipient of a number of prestigious art awards in the last few years and her work is held in many private and public collections both at home and abroad.
Soraya is a director and past president of the Society of women artists.
French Morning errands mixed media · 18 x 13 in.
mixed media · 20 x 26 in.
Soraya
Soraya French Purple whispers
GARETH PARRY
Gareth Parry was born in the slate quarrying town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales, in 1951. After leaving school he went on to study at the Manchester College of Art in the late 1960’s. Following that, he worked at a local mine for two years before starting to paint once again.
For a long time he worked mostly on private commissions and “anything to make a living by the brush”. Then in 1980 he decided to concentrate on exhibitions, and as he says, “doing what I like”. For many years he painted en plein air only, “the best training I could ever have had”, before reverting to studio work based on sketches and memory, which he thinks of “as the companion of observation”.
His work is mostly about “Cymru” and “Y Cymry” (land and the people). The “people paintings” often reflect his own concerns about living in a changing Wales. His landscapes and seascapes, whilst inspired by his local environment of Wales, are more about weather and the natural elements than the place alone. He works predominantly with a palette knife, creating enormous energy and light with the paint. He allows the paint ‘to do the work’, creating paintings with great freedom and expression.
Gareth has exhibited for many years in both London and Wales, and his work can now be found in both Public and Private Collections both in the UK and abroad. In 2006 Gareth was elected a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy.
Gareth Parry
Evening Sicily
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in.
Gareth Parry
A mountain Tryfan, April morning
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in.
mixed media · 26 x 28
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Maureen Davies
Distant bridge
mixed media
23 x 26 in.
Maureen Davies
Bluebell fest
in.
Soraya French
Wild roses
mixed media
21 x 29 in.
Soraya French Himalayan market mixed media
24 x 28 in.
Gareth Parry
Town on a hill
oil on board
12 x 16 in.
Gareth Parry
Rain clearing the valley oil on canvas
20 x 24 in.
High Street | Stockbridge | Hampshire | SO20 6HE 01264 810364 | enquiries@wykehamgallery.co.uk www.wykehamgallery.co.uk
Maureen Davies
Autumn chalk stream
mixed media
23 x 26 in.