Lot 1: Mike Bernard

Great Lantic Beach, Cornwall

28 x 37 cm - Mixed Media - Gallery Price £1400

Mike was born in Dover and studied at the West Surrey College of Art and Design and at the Royal Academy Schools London.
His initial starting point is to collect on the spot sketches, where subjects will vary from harbour coastal scenes to street and market scenes and occasional still-life. He is selective when describing detail wanting to portray only the essence of the subject. He now paints almost exclusively in mixed media, combining collage, acrylics and pastel. Mike enjoys the way textures, shapes, colour and ‘happy accidents’ steer the direction of his paintings.

Current Highest Bid: £100

Lot 2. Colin Allbrook RI RSMA SWAc

Winter on Dartmoor

35 x 43 cm - Watercolour & Bodycolour - Gallery Price £495

Colin has painted all his working life. He joined a studio in London after leaving school, and while there attended evening classes at St Martin’s School of Art before pursuing a career as a freelance artist. Since then, his paintings have been widely exhibited in the UK and abroad and featured in national and international art magazines. He is an elected member of both the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Institute of Painters in Watercolour and has received many awards for his work including, the Turner Watercolour Prize and the Rowland Hilder Landscape Award.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 3. June Arnold PS SWAc

In the Wings

43 x 55 cm - Pastel - Gallery Price £1150

June began painting after graduating from the Kingston College of Art and a 30-year career in Interior Design. She was a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers. Her Dartmoor surroundings, Interiors, Figurative, Greek life and travels around India are the main source of her paintings. She has exhibited widely in the UK, been featured in UK and International Art magazines, produced a book of her India paintings, and is a member and multiple prize winner of the Pastel Society and SWAc.

Current Highest Bid: £200

Lot 4. Peter Brown PNEAC

Carrer d’en Tararntana, Barcelona

30 x 25 cm - Oil on Board - Gallery Price £2850

Peter prefers to work directly from the subject on site, in sometimes the foulest of weathers doing what he calls ‘see and put’. He works across the UK with a particular passion for London but also loves to paint abroad with trips to New York, Havana, Vietnam, India, Canada and Europe. He has shown with Messum’s, Cork Street since 2004 and the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath since 2000. Peter is currently President of the New English Art Club and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Pastel Society, Bath Society of Artists and an honorary member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Peter is affectionately known by his followers as ‘Pete the Street’.

Current Highest Bid: £350

Lot 5. Ray Balkwill SWAc

Quiet Anchorage

18 x 20 cm - Mixed Media - Gallery Price £500

Ray graduated from Exeter College of Art, thereafter making a career in advertising as an Art Director. In 1990 demand for his paintings led him to give up his job to become a professional artist. He has held many successful solo exhibitions and his work has featured in numerous group and open exhibitions. He has been teaching painting throughout the UK and running painting holidays in Cornwall for 20 years. An art instruction film ‘Capturing Estuary Moods’ was made by APV Films and his work has featured in many publications, he is a regular contributor to The Artist Magazine and is author of six books including, ‘Ray Balkwill’s Exe Estuary’ and ‘A Picture of Devon’, published by Halsgrove. In 2006 he was elected an Academician of the South West Academy and has been a member of the St Ives Society of Artists since 1999.

Current Highest Bid: £100

Lot 6. Rod Ashman SWAc

Lynmouth

40 x 40 cm - Acrylic on paper - Gallery Price £250

Rod was born in the West Midlands and attended Wolverhampton Art College. He spent his working life teaching in Cheltenham and gained a Postgraduate in Art from Birmingham. He recently moved to Exeter where he continues passing on his knowledge through workshops and tutorials. Rod’s painting is always evolving in subject matter, and through constant experimentation with media. He works on location where initial responses are recorded and then later serve to feed larger, more considered studio work. His work is expressive both in interpretation of the subject, and in the application of whatever media he uses.

Lot 7. Simon Ashby SWAc

Springtime

30 x 41 cm - Oil - Gallery Price £495

Simon paints en plein air whenever possible and within a two-hour time frame, to try and capture a scene that changes constantly with the weather. ‘The moving light across a landscape is a real challenge’, he explains, but the final result ‘offers a loose and interesting result’.

Simon started painting as a hobby which quickly became a passion. “My route to this has simply been enthusiasm, dedication – and lots of practise”, he says. Simon’s preferred medium is oil, although he periodically returns to acrylic and watercolour.

Lot 8. Baroness Floella Benjamin DBE DL. Hon Patron SWAc

Global Warning

30 x 25 cm - Oil on Board - Guide Price £1000

An actress, presenter, writer, independent producer, politician, advocate for children throughout the world and best known for the iconic TV programmes Playschool and Playaway. Floella received a BAFTA and JM Barrie Award for her legacy to children’s creative arts. Her latest book, a picture version of ‘Coming to England’ is a best seller. From 2006 to 2016 she was Chancellor of the University of Exeter and in 2010 elevated to the House of Lords. In 2020 she received a Damehood for her charitable work. She currently chairs the Windrush Commemoration Committee, which is commissioning a central London monument to the Windrush Generation.

Current Highest Bid: £100

Lot 9. Claire Barnett SWAc

Field of Rape

34 x 44 cm - Oil on Canvas - Gallery Price £475

Claire is a British artist noted particularly for her expressive abstract paintings and her deeply personal interpretations of land, sea and the natural world. Born in Surrey she completed her BA at Camberwell School of Art and her MA at the University of Arts, Brighton. Claire has exhibited widely, most notably at The Royal Academy, The Royal West of England Academy and The South West Academy. Claire lives and works in Dorset, close to the Cranborne Chase, a world-renowned Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, that provides boundless inspiration for Claire’s imaginative and thought-provoking work.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 10. Michael A.E.Beach SWAc

It takes Time to Lure a Catfish

30 x 28 cm - Oil on Board - Gallery Price £500

Michael trained at Farnham College of Art, gaining an NDD in Illustration and Graphic Design. He has worked freelance with companies including; Oxford University Press, MacMillan’s, Disney UK and White Dwarf and his illustrations have appeared on BBC Television. Michael was Head of Art and Design in Surrey for over 30 years and instigated the National Award Winning A2 Video Workshop, with short film and animation productions shown on television and at the National Film Theatre. Since retiring to Devon, he has concentrated on mostly figurative subjects in oils. He has exhibited regularly with SWAc.

Current Highest Bid: £175

Lot 11. Alan Bourne SWAc

Fracture

60 cm x 60 cm - Acrylic - Gallery Price £500

Born in Surrey, Alan studied both art and music in London. After 30 years a musician he moved to Devon and followed a career in painting. His work has been shown at the Royal West of England Academy, Plymouth City Art Gallery and the Penwith Gallery. In 2012 he was awarded the SWAc Lionel Aggett painting prize. He was until recently a Trustee of the South West Academy and a member of the Plymouth Society of Artists. His paintings are abstract, mostly in acrylic and are inspired by landscape.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 12. Andrew Thomas SWAc

Ladies Podium

H 35 x W 17 x D 8 cm Tulipwood, Brass, Stainless Steel, Phosphor Bronze Gallery Price £1200

Andrew is a professional sculptural artist based in Wareham, Dorset with a lifelong career in the arts spanning more than 30 years. He has exhibited in the UK’s most prestigious events against many of the great masters of art and contemporaries of our time. His visionary artistic expression reflects the depth of his research across multiple subjects of interest, noted for its innovation and outstanding technical distinction, winning numerous top international awards, and can be found in private collections worldwide. Andrew is also a private tutor and published author, who has written prolifically about his subject with his own title and over 80 international publications.

This sculpture is designed to represent a winner’s podium with the heads of the figures being gold, silver and bronze. The tulipwood I chose for the project has the design of the figures carefully positioned between the sapwood and heartwood, which symbolises the cultural unification of sport. The part-circular podium they stand upon symbolises the world.

Current Highest Bid: £350

Lot 13. David Brooke SWAc

Whilst I was Swimming a Fish Leapt over My Head

28 x 33 cm Acrylic on Paper - Gallery Price £475

David attended an Art Foundation Course at Yeovil School of Art and a BA Graphic Design Course at Hull College of Art. He is a past President of the Society of Graphic Fine Art. David is an Academician of the South West Academy, and also a member of the National Acrylic Painters’ Assoc, and the Bath Soc of Artists. For 3 years David was the Arts and Administration Manager of the Yeovil Arts Centre, and afterwards was employed by the Octagon Theatre, Yeovil, as their Visual Arts Co-ordinator. He is currently a full-time artist living in Bridport, Dorset.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 14. Rupert W Brooks SWAc

Somerset Cider

30 x 20 cm Oil on Canvas Gallery Price £700

Born in Devon, Rupert was an Art Scholar at Blundell’s School before going on to study Fine Art and Art History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He exhibits often in the South West and at the Mall Galleries in London. His work has been regularly selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual show. Other exhibitions include; The Lynn Painters Stainers Prize, Discerning Eye, Colombia Threadneedle Prize and second prize in the Artist and Illustrators' Artist of the Year award. Rupert has won both the Messum Prize and the Marine House Gallery Award for paintings shown with the SWAc, before becoming an Academician in 2013.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 15. Michael Carter SWAc

Landstrip 3

50 x 60 cm Photography Gallery Price £240

Michael studied Arts and Humanities subjects at the Hatfield Polytechnic and the University of Oxford. In his landscape photography he avoids idealised images of environmental states but seeks to convey evocations of the uncanny and prospects of enchantment. An abiding theme is the corrupted pastoral, which describes how artificial forms collide and combine with the natural. His more recent work is in colour abstraction in the diptych form. Also a writer and a photographer of faces, his commentaries on artists and their portraits can be found in South West Academy: Art, People, Place (2014), and The Penwith Society of Arts: Portraits of the Artists (2018).

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 16. Phil Creek Hon SWAc

Sidmouth, Storm Receding

60 x 45 cm - Acrylic on Canvas - Gallery Price £1450

A former Honorary Treasurer, and recently elected Chair of SWAc for a second time, Phil is an Honorary Academician of the SWAc and President of Otter Vale Art Society (OVAS). His work explores the landscapes and seascapes in the southwest of England, Europe and on the east coast of America. Although preferring to work en plein air Phil often undertakes his larger paintings in his East Devon studio. His recent exhibitions include; The Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, The Brook Gallery, Budleigh, The Royal Society of Marine Artists at The Mall Galleries, London and The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.

This painting is on the cover of the new South West Academy book ‘Light in The West’ by Simon Butler. A signed copy will be presented to the purchaser of the painting.

Current Highest Bid: £300

Lot 17. Annie Field SWAc

Ethiopian Landscape

52 x 64 cm - Oil on Board - Gallery Price £600 - £700

Annie was an interior designer for 30 years and devised & co- presented the first ITV programme about interior design,filmed in the UK and USA. Having studied at the Sculpture Academy in London, Annie now works from her studio in Dorset. She produces a wide range of figurative and abstract sculptures, paintings and drawings. She is a committee member of the Chelsea Arts Society, the South West Sculptors Association, and the Chelsea Arts Club. Her work reflects her desire to explore her surroundings and forming her own visual language. “One of the most important things in life is freedom of spirit, which I try to express through my art. Colour, movement and sensitivity determine the final images.”

Current Highest Bid: £100

Lot 18. Ashton Chadwick SWAc

Grazing

80 x 77 cm - Charcoal Gallery Price - £450 to £500

Cornish artist Ashton trained at Falmouth School of Art, is a Royal Academy Schools Postgraduate, former Head of Putney School of Art and former Principal of Blackheath School of Art, London. Exhibitions include; Bucheli Gallery, Bath, Coombe Farm Gallery, Dittisham, Burlington Fine Art Gallery and the New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London, Chapel Gallery, Saltram House, Plymouth, the D’Art Gallery, Dartmouth, White Space Gallery, Totnes and Greenaway House, Kingswear. Ashton curated an exhibition of the S. W. Royal Academy Alumni at the Somerville Gallery, Plymouth. He has work in collections in the UK, France and the USA.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 19. Alan Ridley SWAc

Easter Bonnet

56 x 38 cm - Watercolour - Gallery Price £300

Alan learned figure drawing at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. He became a doctor and consultant neurologist at the Royal London Hospital and on retirement, studied watercolour painting at Hampstead School of Art. His artistic association with the South West began in 1998 when he moved to Exeter.

Lot 20. John Piper

Winter Farm

30 x 15 cm - Oil on Board - Gallery Price £750

John was born in 1946 and moved to Cornwall in 1963. He is one of Cornwall’s leading artists and his paintings are instantly recognisable with their hallmark palette of blues and ochres which generate great depth and vibrancy. Influenced by the West Cornwall landscape, the recurrent themes in his paintings are big skies, rugged coastlines, windswept fields and moors and tough solid settlements with a history of farming and mining. He imparts his understanding of this environment with the viewer and the work generates a compelling desire to know and share John’s remote and magical world of West Cornwall.

Current Highest Bid: £120

Lot 21. Philip Clayton SWAc

Path to the Big Glen Scotland

2021 41 x 41 cm - Oil on Box Canvas - Gallery Price £375

Philip trained at Hornsey, Sir John Cass and Central St. Martin’s. He has headed and developed several departments of Art/ Design, Media and Performing Arts in London and the provinces, including HMP with young offenders. He has organised school clubs, ‘venture play’ days in challenging areas, and an ‘Arts Fest’ programme, established a successful gallery for a charity and a design company with his partner since college. Exhibiting widely, including the Royal College, the RWA, The Mall, Moscow, France and Spain by invitation. Philip now concentrates on commissions, curating and lecturing, combining his painting practice with running a Community Interest Gallery. Philip is active with the Charity, ‘Art for Youth’.

Lot 22. Babette Cole 1949 – 2017

If I were You…

25 x 27 cm - Watercolour - Gallery Price £1200

Babette was described as outrageous, entertaining and fearless and one of the finest illustrators of her generation. She was born in Jersey and studied at Canterbury College of Art. Babette began her career in television, assisting on programmes such as Bagpuss. The quality and charm of her illustrations brought her awards for books such as Nungu and the Hippopotamus (1978) and The Wind in the Willows Pop-Up Book (1983), but her anarchic tale of the school mum who is also a witch, The Trouble With Mum (1983) brought real commercial success and began a series of books subverting the traditional characters and plots of children’s literature, exemplified by perhaps her most famous creation, Princess Smartypants (1986).

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 23. Charlie O’Sullivan SWAc

Underground Quarry, Beer

40 x 70 cm - Acrylic on Birch - Gallery Price £2695

Charlie is an established artist who creates narrative and landscape paintings with extensive use of colour and interwoven personal memories. She has exhibited both in the United Kingdom and internationally, most recently showing at the Mall Galleries in London with the Royal Society of British Artists, Society of Women Artists and the New English Art Club all in 2020/21. Charlie has a studio at Dartington Hall Estate.

Current Highest Bid: £400

Lot 24. Debbie Coles SWAc

Beautiful Weeds

20 x 20cm - Oil - Gallery Price £300

Debbie was born in the West Country and lives on the Jurassic Coast, a constant source of inspiration for her plein air practice, painting quickly to capture the light and a sense of place. Of late she has spent more time working from her studio, depicting the evolving seasons in oil paint through her portrayal of still life subjects, from summer roses, autumnal fruits, winter berries and the emergence of the new life of spring. Light, colour harmony and sensitive brushwork are constant threads running through her work. Debbie has exhibited widely including RAMM, Exeter and the Mall Galleries, London and her work is in private collections across many continents. She is a Trustee of the South West Academy.

Lot 25. Alan Cotton FRSA Hon SWAc

Co Kerry – The Road to Dingle

46 x 61 cm Oil - Gallery Price £7500

Alan is represented internationally by Messum’s Fine Art. He has work in the Royal Collections and public collections worldwide. Alan is President Emeritus and a founding member of SWAc, an Honorary Academician and Past President. In 2006 the University of Exeter awarded him an Honorary Doctorate (D.Litt) for his ‘outstanding contribution to the Arts’ and in September 2011 he was appointed Hon. Professor for the Arts at the University of Bath, where in 2019 he was awarded an Hon Doctorate of Arts. Alan accompanied HRH the Prince of Wales as Tour Artist to Sri Lanka, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand and travelled as Expedition Artist to Mount Everest with explorer David Hempleman-Adams in 2011. A Retrospective exhibition of his work was staged at the University of Bath and at the RAMM in Exeter, in 2015.

Current Highest Bid: £600

Lot 26. Isabel Coulton SWAc

Turning towards You

59.4 x 42.09 cm - Sanguine powder, pen and ink and white emulsion paint - Gallery Price £400 - £500

“Sculpture combines a glorious mixture of science, play and the search for form.” Since Isabel’s early years she has loved trees, nature, boulders shaped by rivers, soil that is red, white, green or brown which led her to working with wood, stone, clay, pigment and words. As a student she immersed herself in the historic arts of carving, gilding and polychrome finishes. With these skills she enjoys the challenge of creating in a multitude of ways, which, she says, ‘keeps her work fresh and exciting’. Isabel lives in Devon and is a drawing tutor and author.

Current Highest Bid: £100

Lot 27. Jo Dixon SWAc

Lost for Words

22 x 22cm - Oil on Board - Gallery Price £450

Jo is primarily a figurative artist and a member of both the South West Academy and The Society of Women Artists. She works mainly in oils and charcoal and her travels through India, North Africa and The Far East have inspired much of her art. Drawing is very important to her and underpins all of her work. She will be exhibiting from the autumn onwards at The Zari Gallery in the West End of London.

Lot 28. Laurel Keeley Hon SWAc

Ceramic Bowl

H 10 cm x D 19 cm - Gallery Price £145

Laurel has been a potter for 40 years. Her work in clay has been pre-occupied with surface rather than with utility, and so her Ceramics have always stood between Craft and Art. She has a BA Hons in English and American Arts from Exeter University and an MA gained in Toronto, Canada. It was while working on a PhD in American Literature at Exeter University that she transferred to Exeter College of Art to pursue Ceramics – ‘an affair of the heart with clay and pots’, that had endured since childhood. Her first Pottery was established in Devon in 1977, and since then her work has been continuously exhibited and collected throughout the UK.

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Lot 29. Judi Spiers

Edna’s Gladioli 51 x 41 cm

Oil on Panel - Gallery Price £600 - £700

Judi began her career as an actress. After training at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, she worked in the theatre before joining Westward Television as a continuity announcer and then moved on to present programmes. In the late 80’s she joined national BBC presenting Pebble Mill’s daytime programme where she interviewed some of the world’s top musicians, actors, producers and writers. In the 90’s she hosted her own Saturday morning Radio 2 show before returning to Devon and joining Radio Devon where for 15 years, she had a hugely successful daytime programme. She is now much in demand for corporate work and writes for local newspapers and magazines and is a keen supporter of many local charities.

Current Highest Bid: £100

Lot 30. Ken Cosgrove SWAc

Port Royal

29 x 36 cm - Oil on Linen - Gallery Price £675

An American native, Ken trained at Ringling School of Art and Design where he earned a BFA studying classical painting. His early years as an abstract painter were influenced by the structural simplicity of the works of contemporary painters such as Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. In recent years he is strongly influenced by the New York Ashcan School painters of the early 20th century, Robert Henri and George Bellows among others. Ken has also explored his craft through commercial design and illustration. Clients have included The White House, Apple Computers and The National Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Current Highest Bid: £100

Lot 31. Mark Fielding SWAc

Sunlight at Porthmoina Cove

50 × 50 cm - Acrylic on Canvas - Gallery Price £450

Mark has painted all his adult life. He was taught by Robert Lenkiewicz in Plymouth and has a varied output which includes portraits, the coastline and rivers of Devon and Cornwall. He is always exploring new areas of interest. He established his Studio Gallery in Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard, Plymouth in 2015 from where he runs a weekly Portrait Clinic. He has exhibited in the Mall Galleries in London as part of the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition. He was shortlisted for the Jacksons Art Competition in 2018 and reached the second round of the BP Portrait Award in 2020.

Current Highest Bid: £200

Lot 32. Anthony Frost

Morvah Flow

15 x 21 cm - Acrylic on Card - Gallery Price £500

‘All art constantly aspires to the condition of music’.

Anthony is a prominent member of the artistic community in Cornwall and has an international reputation for his brilliantly colourful abstract paintings, prints and collages.

He has had innumerable Exhibitions, Collections and Residences to his credit. His ‘Colour and Sounds’ Beaux Arts London, opened in June 2021 and he will be ‘Artist in residence’ at Eton Art School London, in November. His ‘One person print show’ continues at Advanced Graphics London.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 33. Lydia Corbett: ‘Sylvette’ (Picasso’s Model)

Magritte Presence of Mind

70 x 58 cm - Watercolour with pen & ink - Gallery Price £2750

Lydia also known as Sylvette David, is a French artist and former artist's model known for being ‘The Girl with the Ponytail’ in Pablo Picasso's Sylvette series of paintings. She lives in South Devon and is a painter and ceramicist. Her main body of work comprises of watercolours with pen and Indian ink, which depict her entire life. Her style has often been likened to that of Chagall. Her parents were both reputable painters: this upbringing, and her chance meeting with Pablo Picasso, are all factors influencing Lydia Corbett’s work. Now 86, Lydia paints predominantly in oils, in a bold and striking manner.

Current Highest Bid: £375

Lot 34. Sonia Fynn SWAc

From the Stairwell, Venice II

21.5 x 24cm - Acrylic on Paper - Gallery Price £500

Sonia has worked as an artist and illustrator since leaving college where she studied fine art, painting and sculpture. For 30 years she maintained a painting practice, while also working as an in-house, and later freelance illustrator, for the Examining Boards, designing and illustrating papers for European, Asian, and African language examinations. Her work has been commissioned by Longmans and other publishers.

For the last 20 years Sonia has been a full-time painter, working first from her studio in Columbus Ohio, USA, and then in Chagford, Devon. A former Trustee of the South West Academy, she has been a member for fourteen years.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 35. John Hammond SWAc

Exploring the Old Town, Nice 25 x 20 cm

Acrylic on Board - Gallery Price £1400

John studied at Wimbledon College of Art before going on to graduate from the Bath Academy of Art in 1982. Over his long painting career, he has taken the medium of acrylic and made it his own. With his paintings and working methods being the subject of a number of books and films, he is widely regarded as one of the country's leading landscape artists in this medium. Broadly impressionistic in style, and with his ability to observe and capture the unique quality of light and atmosphere of his chosen subject, his paintings evoke a true sense of 'being there'. John is a member of SWAc, having been selected for an award in its inaugural exhibition. He has over 20 solo exhibitions to his name, his work is constantly in demand and held in many private and public collections.

Current Highest Bid: £100

Lot 36. Ann L. Roe (Jones) Hon SWAc

Sweet Peas

47 x 42 cm - Oil on Canvas Board - Gallery Price £575

Ann studied painting, art and design in France, London and Brighton and is an Honorary Academician and Trustee of the South West Academy. Ann paints landscapes and still life but her particular interest is portraiture. A former Head of Art and Design at Colyton Grammar School, Devon, she has tutored numerous painting courses in the UK and abroad. Her portraits include Lord Bath, Sir Patrick Moore FRS, The Chelsea Pensioners, Magicians Ali Bongo and David Berglas, West End producer Sonia Friedman, Marine commando Captain Jon White and mosaic artist Elaine M Goodwin. Recent work has included the painting of otter sculptures in aid of the Dartmoor Conservation Project.

Lot 37. Zoe Hyde SWAc

Sunlight

40cm x 50 cm - Acrylic on Canvas - Gallery Price £400

Zoe grew up with an artistic family in a remote area of North Cornwall and today lives and works in North Devon. She has a Fine Art degree which included two residencies at the Cyprus College of Art.

Her work is held in collections across the UK, France, Spain and America. She has exhibited internationally as well as the UK including the RWA and Grand Designs. She has received a sponsorship from The Arts Council England and is an Academician at the South West Academy. Zoe is represented in America.

Current Highest Bid: £276

Lot 38. Sean Jefferson

The Calming of the Waves

22 x 10 cm - Oil on Panel - Gallery price £2500

Sean is self-taught tracing an artistic lineage from 'fin de siecle' Symbolism with developments taken from Surrealism and The Brotherhood of Ruralists.

In the 1990's he collaborated with Ida Jongsma to create murals for the Hotel Filosoof, Amsterdam. Jefferson has exhibited with major dealers in London and Glasgow and had solo exhibitions in London, Moscow and Amsterdam. In Dec 2020 he had a major exhibition at Messum’s, London with whom he continues to exhibit. Currently living next to an 11th C. Church Jefferson has been influenced by and is working with Christian Symbolism.

Lot 39. Vin Jelly Hon SWAc

German Shepherd Portrait

40 x 30 cm - Mounted Watercolour on Paper - Gallery Price £400

Jelly was born in South Yorkshire and has lived and worked in Devon since 1982.

He has exhibited widely and has work in collections at home and abroad. He has won various awards for painting. He was on the founding committee of SWAc, has served as a Trustee, and was made an honorary member in 2012. Recent portraits have been exhibited at the RP and were selected for their press campaign. Sketching videos can be seen on his youtube channel - Vin Jelly Fine Art.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 40. Jonathon X Coudrille SWAc

Ithaca: la Lenteur de la Nuit

90 x 60 cm - Oil on Canvas - Gallery Price £3455

Jonathon started life at Landewednack on The Lizard in 1945. Trained as a painter, he joined the Saint Ives community from 1959 but left after his first solo exhibition in 1966, for a career as Television political satirist, song writer, composer and musical director. Whiplash caused spinal damage in 1972. During convalescence he wrote and illustrated (books include 1974 ‘A Beastly Collection’, the 1976 award-winning ‘Farmer Fisher’ and ‘Love Death and Bad Behaviour’, 2014). Receiving the Melody Maker Soloist award in 1974, he toured internationally with Russian ensembles. He returned to painting in the ’80s, and to Cornwall in 1989.

Ithaca: la Lenteur de la Nuit. A sickle moon hangs over the wine dark sea. Outside on a bone-white deck stands a figure, unclothed but for a loose skein of bandage, or grave wrapping, that covers her eyes. She nonchalantly holds a human skull, and there in the middle of the room is the open grave, part-concealed behind a purple drape. A guitar leans, disregarded, silent. In the foreground, a dice lies pierced, purged of numbers and hence, of power or meaning. The empty seashell symbolises the body, the perfect glass sphere is the soul. They are now separated. You have reached Ithaca. The map on the wall is blank. Your journey is over.

Current Highest Bid: £400

Lot 41. Carolyn King MA SWAc

The Jolly Dunes (study for the Felicity and Rose series)

40 x 50 cm - Pastel on Pastel Board - Gallery Price £300

After a 15 year business career Carolyn graduated from Sir John Cass, Central St.Martins’ and Chelsea School of Art, working and exhibiting in 2 and 3D including the RA, the Mall, the RWA (selected painters). National Museums, Newlyn Orion, HMP Service and Russia. She has had several Public and Fine Art commissions and has illustrated for major publishers. Her northern roots, and London, Paris and Cornwall, influence Carolyn’s satirical observation of daily life where the figure always intrigues. It is the traditional British seaside which inspired her children’s books and continues to be the focus of her most recent work.

Lot 42. Marie Noëlle Davies SWAc

The Elements Marble from Caunes en Minervois, France

25 cm H x 20cm W x 13cm D - Gallery Price £750

Marie-Noëlle was born in France and living mainly in England. She has a degree in Fine Art from Exeter Art College. Following her degree, she sailed for 2 years in the Mediterranean. Her first solo exhibition in Rhodes, (1987) was of works completed during the voyage with marble from various Mediterranean countries. Marie-Noelle has had solo exhibitions in Exeter and Topsham, Devon. The principle works are in marble with themes of the natural world, while some are substantially figurative.

Lot 43. Shirley Kirkcaldy SWAc

Summer Skies, Gwithian

15 x 15 cm - Acrylic and Oil on Card - Gallery Price £175

Shirley is a contemporary landscape artist whose work explores the thin edge between direct observation and emotional response. Sketches made on location provide a critical resource for recapturing a sense of place and, using a variety of tools, she lays down paint in a loose, expressive style whilst incorporating texture and mark-making. With a fascination for colour, light and shade, final images worked in oil or mixed media are seeking something beyond the obvious, whereby what lies underneath is as important as what can be seen on the surface, much like the landscape itself. Shirley’s work is held in private collections in UK, USA, Europe and New Zealand.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 44. Alexandra Jacobs SWAc

Dartmouth Gardens

40 x 44 cm - Oil on Board Gallery Price £200

Born in Bideford, North Devon, Alexandra graduated with an Honours Degree from West Sussex University College of Art and Design, Farnham. In the past she has engaged in public art and private commissions, teaching and commercial work. She is a former Trustee of the South West Academy. She has exhibited at The Mall Galleries and in galleries across the South West. Alexandra describes herself as a colourist painter often working from memory. She loves the solace of landscape, wild places and evidence of past habitation on Dartmoor. Her favourite time of day is that magical moment at last light, when everything is intensified and stands still, when time, both past and future, seems to merge and become one.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 45. James Lester SWAc

The Garden Shed by the Apple Tree

29 x 34 cm - Oil - Gallery Price £800

James was born in Kent and established a successful career as art director in advertising and publishing and worked on many national advertising campaigns. His paintings were being exhibited in many London exhibitions, including the RBA and the RA. James became a member of the Society of Botanical Artists, and the world of flowering plants is a recurring theme in his work. He is also co-author of a book on flower painting. He has run numerous painting courses and workshops across Devon and been proprietor of an art gallery, exhibited at the RWA and served as a Trustee of SWAc.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 46. Sue Luxton SWAc

Lemons

50 x 35 cm Oil - Gallery Price £450

Sue studied Illustration at the University of the West of England which gave her the opportunity to explore figurative topics. She explains that, ‘Including figures in a painting produces a narrative, giving a painting another layer of meaning’. She considers composition as problem solving; trying to find that perfect balance between shape and colour. She has exhibited widely in the West Country and in galleries in London, Bristol and Bath.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 47. Karen McEndoo SWAc

Standing Stones. 50 x 50 cm

Acrylic on Canvas - Gallery Price £450

During her childhood Karen lived in various countries in Africa including Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya which had a huge influence on her life. Once the family returned to England, she embarked on an art foundation course in Barnstaple before going to Somerset College of Art in Taunton where she completed a Diploma in Graphics and Illustration. Karen’s work has evolved into abstraction and she is a regular exhibitor and associate member of the Penwith Gallery as well as with ND Arts at the Broomhill Art Hotel and with ‘WhoBidArts’ in her hometown of Bideford, North Devon. Karen is a member of the St Ives Society.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 48. Peter Mallison SWAc

Girl with Red Ribbon

Oil on Canvas - Gallery Price £1500

Peter is an established portrait and figurative artist. He studied at Wolverhampton College of Art and Camberwell School of Art and obtained the National Diploma in Art and Design. He had an early career as fashion design director based in London. He was elected to the South West Academy in 2007. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in the UK, including The Royal Academy, London, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, The Mall Gallery, London, The Piccadilly Gallery, London. His work was short listed with the BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, 2012 & 2018.

Current Highest Bid: £100

Lot 49. Tony Williams SWAc

Boats at Bideford

51 x 60 cm - Oil - Gallery Price £1200

Elected as a full member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists in October 2020, Tony studied life drawing and graphic design at Sutton Art School, and was Creative Director for a national company for many years. He has been awarded the RSMA Charles Pears Award, the £1,000 Marine House at Beer prize at the South West Academy, the 2019 RSMA TOPBOND Marine Award and the ‘People’s Choice’, Marine House Prize at the South West Academy 2019 Exhibition. Inspiration for his paintings comes from the rural South West and industrial/marine images from art school days.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 50. Ken Howard RA OBE Hon SWAc

Sun Shelter Sennen

25 x 30 cm - Oil on Board - Gallery Price £4500

Ken studied at Hornsey School of Art from 1949 to 1953. He then did his National Service with the Royal Marines before returning to study at the Royal College of Art from 1955 to 1958. He went on to win a British Council Scholarship to Florence from 1958 to 1959. In 1979 was appointed by the Imperial War Museum as official war artist in Northern Ireland.

Ken says, “All my life, my basic inspiration has been drawn from light, whether the silver grey of winter or the sparkle of summer. In the studio nudes, the figure has always been just a vehicle to express light within the space of the studio. Cornwall and Venice are inspirational in similar ways, due to the proximity of water and the effect this has on light.”

Current Highest Bid: £200

Lot 51. Cathryn Nettles

Horse Play

59.5 x 49 cm - Oil on Board - Gallery Price £600 - £700

Cathryn has been painting since 2018, after she treated herself to a day workshop and hasn’t stopped since. She lives in north Devon and draws inspiration from the landscape, normal day to day activities and from the horses and donkeys living on her farm. Oil is her favourite medium. She says, “I have tried to capture the energy and dynamics of a group of horses taking shelter against the Devon hedge. It was one of those glorious moments when the sky, and most of the light is dark and ominous with shafts of low-lying sunshine lighting up, like a spotlight, only certain objects”.

Lot 52. David Norman SWAc

Pernod

28 x 29 cm - Watercolour - Gallery Price £500

David is a prominent and award-winning English watercolourist who has divided his time between studios in his native South Devon and the Dordogne. His watercolours are figurative and underpinned by a strong sense of draughtsmanship, a legacy from a rigorous training in architectural drawing and rendering.

David has had many solo exhibitions, and his paintings are in collections throughout Europe, America, and the Far East. He is the author of two books on watercolour painting, ‘The Complete Watercolourist’ and ‘Watercolour, Artists Questions Answered’ and a DVD ‘Taking a Chance in Watercolour’. David was recently short listed for the ‘Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Final’.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 53. Helen Ridehalgh

Hare - Relief Sculpture

38L x 28H x 7 D cm - Gallery Price £800.00

Helen trained in Fine Arts at Bath Academy of Art before becoming a lecturer on BA (Hons) degree courses and later specialising in ceramic sculpture at Camberwell School of Art where she continued to teach drawing to the department. During this period, she created finely modelled ceramic Torsos for which she became known and was invited by The British Council to represent her work in ‘Aspects of British Ceramics’ Heidelberg 1992. She is further renowned for her skill in historical portraiture and has received several commissions, two internationally. In 2020 her portrait ‘Devon Man’ was selected by The National Portrait Society’s FACE 2020.

Current Highest Bid: £100

Lot 54. Clark Nicol SWAc

Storm Over Brentor

50 x 50 cm - Acrylic and Oil - Gallery Price £495

Clark studied painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee under Alberto Morocco and Jack Knox, during which time he was a prize winner in the Scottish Open Art Competition at Arbroath while resident artist at Hospitalfield House. Frequent visits to Devon led to his discovery of Dartmoor and the North Devon coast, which have since then been a great source of inspiration. In 2002 he moved with his family to West Devon and has focused almost exclusively on the local landscape. In 2016 and 2018 he was shortlisted for the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Competition and Cornwall Life Landscape Painter. His work is in many private collections in UK and abroad, including the Angus Region collection, Forfar, Scotland.

Current Highest Bid: £200

Lot 55. Janet Mitchell SWAc

Fusion

30 x 30 cm - Fabric Collage - Gallery Price £325

Dyed and waxed cotton, or linen fabric, provides the material for Janet’s work that is representational or abstract. There is a strong tactile quality working with fabric, and she particularly enjoys using the pieces that demonstrate someone else’s skill such as embroidery This work then becomes collaborative or a correspondence. After a four-year degree in art and art history, Janet taught art in London for many years. Three years living in the USA studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston introduced her to new methods of working and experiments with abstraction. Exhibitions include RA, RWA, RSW and the Mall Galleries and her work is in collections in Europe, Australia and USA.

Lot 56. Jan Phethean SWAc

Arboretum Study 30 x 21 cm - Gallery Price £445

Red Moon River 46 x 36 cm - Gallery Price £690

Leaf Litter 60 x 40 cm - Gallery Price £745

All Acrylic on Board - All 3 Price £1800

Jan worked internationally as a mural painter and award-winning interior designer for 30 years prior to moving to Cornwall in 2003 to paint full time. Her corporate designs were an international success, winning many awards. In the 90’s she was responsible for creating and developing the Clubhouse concept for Virgin Atlantic’s Upper Class Airport Lounges in the UK and the USA, and the re- launch of the glass bottle for Coca Cola, among many other prominent global clients. Her work is inspired by ancient field systems and reflects her deep passion for nature and the environment.

Current Highest Bid: £200

Lot 57. Dame Judi Dench CH DBE

Beloved Scotland

20 x 30 cm - Watercolour Guide Price £1500

Dame Judi Dench made her stage debut in 1957, playing Ophelia in the Old Vic’s production of ‘Hamlet’. Now, over sixty years later as Britain’s most celebrated and much-loved actor, she is still working and her latest film ‘Six Minutes to Midnight’ was released in May this year. To try to condense Dame Judi’s illustrious career into a hundred or so words, would be like trying to pour a massive pot of gold into a teacup. Impossible! Many millions will have seen her on stage and in many memorable films and as ‘M’ in eight of the Bond films. Few, however, will know, that she is also a talented watercolour artist. She doesn’t sell her work but occasionally generously donates paintings to raise money for charity. In 2017 as Patron of Exeter Northcott Theatre’s 50th Anniversary, she donated ‘Isle of Mull’, for its Gala Evening auction. We are thrilled that she has agreed to support the South West Academy by donating another watercolour, ‘Beloved Scotland.’ This is a rare opportunity to acquire a signed, original work of art by Dame Judi Dench.

Current Highest Bid: £225

Lot 58. Michael Morgan RI SWAc (1928-2014)

Sketchbook drawing, 2002

20 x 20 cm - Pencil, Indian ink & watercolour wash on paper - Gallery Price £250

Michael was a renowned West Country artist who enjoyed two distinguished careers firstly in academia and latterly as an artist whose ground-breaking style is widely considered to have added new life to the watercolour medium and subsequently influenced and guided many young artists. Michael became an agent for change, breaking free from traditional watercolour work and through experiment with gesso as a base, adopted new and bolder colours, working intensively with texture, to create powerful, evocative images in watercolour. The results were paintings filled with subtle surprises. They draw in the viewer and evoke memories of places visited and enjoyed. Michael was a founder member of SWAc.

The sketch appears in Michael's book The Road less Travelled (2013) and is one of a number of sketchbook drawings included in that work in order to illustrate the artist's consummate skill as a draughtsman. The sketch was given by the artist to the author and publisher Simon Butler in thanks for contributing an extended essay to that book.

It's a pleasure to know that the sale of the work will help support SWAc and its chosen charity.

Current Highest Bid: £177

Lot 59. Michael Norman SWAc

Sunset Over Turf Locks

30 x 40 cm - Pastel - Gallery Price £750

Michael lives and works in Exmouth. He used to paint mainly in oils and watercolours before discovering pastels. Michael was elected to membership of the Pastel Society UK in 2007 and the South West Academy in 2013. In 2015 he was awarded the title of ‘Master Pastellist of the French Pastel Society’ of which he is now a member. He has won 7 major awards at the Pastel Society’s annual exhibitions, an award at a French pastel exhibition and in 2014 was ‘Guest of Honour’ at the French Pastel Society’s exhibition at Feytiat, near Limoges, France. He has had feature articles in the Pastel Society Magazine, the French Magazine ‘Pratique des Arts’ and the Pastel Journal of America.

Current Highest Bid: £150

Lot 60. Adrian Parnell SWAc

Lily of the Valley

53 x 53 cm - Oil on Board - Gallery Price £3500

Adrian went to school near Bideford, Devon and studied at St Martin’s and the Slade 1970-77. He taught part-time at St Martin’s, Dartington and Plymouth. He has exhibited continuously nationally and regionally since 1977 including at the London Contemporary Art Fair, the New Grafton Gallery, London, the Fairfax Galleries, Waterside Gallery, Penwith Gallery and Hybrid Gallery.

Lot 61. Chris Sampson SWAc

Porthmeor Breaker

78 x 63 cm Oil on Canvas - Gallery Price £520

Chris was born in Bristol, where drawing and painting was central to his activities, strongly stimulated by the immediate urban environment. A Fine Art BA at Cardiff College of Art followed by a Post Graduate Art Teacher’s Certificate preceded a teaching post at a large community college on the Southern edge of Dartmoor and a role as Principal Subject Tutor to students from Exeter University, Graduate School of Education. The change of environment was reflected in the subject matter of his painting which is now mainly focused on local land, coastal and waterscape.

Lot 62. Geoff Shillito SWAc

Vine Tomatoes 18 x 18 cm

Oil on Board - Gallery Price £300

In 2005 Geoff was elected a member of the Bath Society of Artists and elected a member of the South West Academy in 2020. He exhibits mainly in London and the South West, notably at The Royal West of England Academy, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Society of British Artists, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The Holburne Museum. Geoff has recently focused on small, appealing still life paintings employing his fascination with the intimate, close-up and oblique perspectives, a theme often demonstrated in his established figurative work.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 63. James Tatum SWAc

Hawthorn (Dartmoor)

40 x 50 cm - Mixed Media on Paper - Gallery Price £950

James moved from Canada to the UK in 1987. He has drawn and painted for most of his life. After a career in industrial design and engineering, he moved from London to Devon in 2007 in order to paint full time. His landscape paintings begin en plein air and are completed in his studio in Exeter. He regularly exhibits throughout the UK, USA, Holland and Switzerland where his paintings are in collections as well as Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He was elected Academician of the South West Academy in 2014 and voted ‘Landscape Painter of the Year’ 2017 Devon Life.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 64. Martin Dutton SWAc

Vine fields of Crete

43 x 58.4 cm Oil - Gallery Price £980

Martin went to art school aged 16 and, after 65 years of painting, his creative energy is still effervescent. In 1996, after a career in education, culminating as a Head of Department at Bradford College, he retired and moved to Devon to focus on painting. He has continued to paint and explore both figurative and abstract interpretations of the physical world around him and the world of imaginative visual narrative and emotional recollection. This exploration still continues in the form of a thematic working process. His work is in collections across the UK and abroad.

Lot 65. Keith Stott SWAc (Died 2020)

Evening calm

38 x 28 cm Pastel - Gallery Price £695

Keith was a Yorkshireman, trained as a Wool Textile Technologist and Designer with a speciality in furnishing fabrics, a career which took him to work in India and Pakistan. He always had a love of wild places, since wandering as a boy on the Pennine moors and eventually seizing the opportunity to spend time mountaineering in the Himalayas, both in India and Pakistan. Thus, a love of Dartmoor was inevitable on his move South Devon 30 years ago - the Moor provided his main inspiration. Keith painted exclusively in soft pastel over his last eighteen years, a medium n which he was self-taught and which he enjoyed pushing to its limit.

Current Highest Bid: £50

Lot 66. Richard Thorn SWAc

What Lies over the Hill

63 x 66 cm - Water Colour - Gallery Price £995

Richard’s career began in the early 80s showing work with galleries in the South Devon area. Since then, his work has been shown in galleries across South West of England, the Home Counties and Yorkshire. More recently his work has been sold in China, America and France. Over the years he has enjoyed many exhibitions with prestigious galleries including; The Bourne Gallery ( John Robertson). The John Davies Gallery & Panter & Hall. For the last 4 years his work has been accepted into the R.I. (for painters in watercolour) where it has earned him 2 awards in 2016 and 2017. His book, ‘Down an English Lane’ was published by Halstar Publications in 2016. In 2018 he was invited by the Chinese watercolour association to exhibit work in their Quigdao Watercolour Exhibition and has also been invited back to China to teach.

Current Highest Bid: £360