Quartz Exhibitions Paintings

Quartz will be open to the public from September 29th - 8th October, inclusive, from 11.00am until 5.00pm. Last year's exhibition sold over £35,000 of work at prices from £200 to £2000. Artists & Sculptors We always welcome the chance to look at work by new artists and sculptors for consideration (open to artists living in the South West). If you are interested in taking part in the Quartz exhibition in 2011, please get in touch by clicking on the e-mail link here. Tell us a bit about yourself and if possible include a JPEG image of your work. Alternatively, ask for an application and Conditions of Entry form to be sent to you. Charlotte Lampard, Curator
Mark Abdey Mark Abdey b.1968 Mark has been living and working in Devon as an artist for the past twelve years. He has held over twenty five exhibitions and sold paintings to collectors from America to India. Starting as a watercolourist, painting small intense landscapes, over the years he has moved to working in oil and more recently acrylic, allowing a fast spontaneous style that captures the light and atmospheric quality of the region.	Mark Abdey
Halina Bayfield Halina Bayfield is a potter who likes to paint. She paints whats around her from the pots on her kitchen table to the flowers in the garden. She uses gouache on board and acrylic on canvas.	Halina Bayfield
Kathy Ramsay Carr I am experimenting with texture more and more and now make my own gesso, applying it in many layers to the wood initially before beginning to paint. The first application of oil colour is very diluted and much will covered with thicker paint as I change brushes for knives. I have started using beeswax too, as well as rabbits skin glue and scrim to make create texture. I walk along the Devon and Cornwall coastlines and on Dartmoor. The solitary open spaces give me quiet reflection to absorb my surroundings which later becomes the motivation to recreate the colours, textures and mood. My paintings are about a spiritual and emotional response to landscape.	Kathy Ramsay Carr
Merlyn Chesterman Merlyn is a woodblock printmaker, and a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and the Devon Guild of Craftsmen. Her work is concerned with the natural world. She cuts her blocks on elm, lime, poplar and plywood, and usually prints by hand, using a burnisher.	Merlyn Chesterman
Andrea Clark Andrea' s work is largely inspired by her interest in charcoal and pastels as well as the array of animals that she is surrounded by at her home on Martock,Somerset.Her move towards printmaking and painting has provided a different dimension to her work in recent years.	Andrea Clark
Leo Davey Leo Davey studied illustration at Falmouth College of Art. He now lives and works in West Somerset as a illustrator/artist/designer with works ranging from travel posters through to book illustration. He exhibits his paintings throughout Southern England and has growing number of collectors. To see more work by Leo visit www.leodavey.com.	Leo Davey
Ann Farley Ann lives and works on Exmoor. She describes her work as being about the everyday and at the same time about the miraculousness the extraordinariness that underpins our daily lives. She works in many different mediums, oil ,watercolour, print, and more recently has returned to bas-relief. Anns' work is held extensively in Private collections in the UK, France, Holland, Germany and the USA. She has had many private exhibitions has also shown as part of SAW since 1994 and has had work at Cambridge Contemporary Art and at the Black Swan Gallery in Frome as well as several more local galleries. Her work was extensively published by Paperlink from 1992-2000 She can be contacted via ann.farley@btinternet	Ann Farley
Averil Gilkes Painting for me is about developing my feelings and thoughts about a subject, drawing out the essence and building the intensity and, at times, allowing the painting to almost move on its own.	Averil Gilkes
Susan Gradwell Susan Gradwell is a painter and printmaker based in Moorlynch, Somerset. After studying at St. Martin's School of Art (BA) and The Central School of Art (MA), Susan worked in London, before moving to the West Country, where she continues to live and work. Her paintings and etchings are inspired by buried relics from archaeological finds, with a contemporary twist. It is the idea of discovery of surviving traces and remains of lost, decayed, buried artefacts from archaeological explorations that continually influences her. She is a member of the Bath Society of Artists, Spike Print Studio, Artists 303, Somerset Printmakers and Bath Artist Printmakers. www.susangradwell.co.uk	Susan Gradwell
Jenny Graham Stylised drawings and photo-etchings of the natural world, especially the West Country landscape.	Jenny Graham
Sue Jenkins I work both in oils and pencil and gouache. The colour richness and softness of oil allows me to explore my passion for colour and abstraction whilst drawing allows me to explore my interest in figurative work and my rural surroundings, the farm animals and farming life. My enjoyment comes from the rich mix of both disciplines and trying to capture the essence and softness of that individual animal whilst evoking character, colour and expression.	Sue Jenkins
David Hinchliffe Since September 2009 I have been re-acquainting myself with the mediums of oil and acrylic paint. The work I have undertaken this year has related to the local landscape. More latterly, and particularly in the larger paintings I have become interested in the impact of light as it is diffused through trees and the overall surface and colour of the painting.	David Hinchliffe
Alison Jacobs Alison is a full time artist from Somerset. Having worked for many years in London as a graphic designer Alison has returned to the countryside to rediscover the rural landscape and environment which is now an important influence on her work. Alison paints mainly in acrylic painstakingly applied in many thin layers to achieve the clean, modern look with the detail she desires. She endeavours to render realistic looking animals avoiding stylised cliches which she found so prevalent and disturbing in her former career. Alison explores ways of representing animals in a naturalistic and engaging way to help the viewer feel that they could almost be part of that moment. The animals are removed from the landscape to echo our own disassociation from food production and working animals. Alison was a prize winner at The Atkinson Gallery Open Exhibition at Millfield School in 2007 and the Bockingfords postcard competition 2009. She was awarded the Peoples Award in 2010 and 2011 at The Bath and West Show Open Exhibition. More information at www.alisonjacobs.com	Alison Jacobs
Anthony-Noel Kelly Kelly is an artist who works using traditional methods to represent organic matter in its many guises during the cycle of life: vegetable, insect or animal, and human, both live and dead. Yet the inter-relationships in his work, whether photographic, sculptural or painted, reveal an ongoing concern with natural as opposed to idealised form, which is to be seen as a thread running through all his work.	Anthony-Noel Kelly
Ann King Painting has allowed me to developed and explore the medium of oil in relation to landscape, my home and the river Dart. This is an on-going fascination and engagement.	Ann King
Simon Ledson Graduated, 2011 from UWE with MA in fine art. My work deals with ideas around perception, distortion of vision and time and it is these elements, which I continue to develop within my practice. I emphasise the simplicity of form and the contemporary interaction between the light with haunting tone and texture combined with emotions. These are a study of low light observations capturing the atmospheric mood - a form of time and awakening source of light and shadow delivering a calming and mysterious echo. My feelings towards the paintings create an unease of something that appears to have happened but may not have happened at all. These paintings are a personal journey and still searching, affected by sleep deprivation that has the power to distort the idea of day and night. Vision can be the result of some form of unconscious reference, a matter of making assumptions and drawing conclusions from incomplete data, based on previous experiences. The land and seascapes are an ongoing enquiry into the relationship of what I see, a mere reflection of light on a surface, the reality of a reflection.	Simon Ledson
Sue Luxton Sue studied Illustration at the University of the West of England and now works from her studio on the Somerset Levels. Drawing is the basis of her work, covering subjects we see daily in cafes or in a crowded street. Currently she is working on circus images in paint and print. Her images are vigorous and life affirming, striving to find the perfect balance between shape and colour.	Sue Luxton
Caroline McMillan Davey Caroline's principal aims are to portray the light, colour and atmosphere of the landscape with an honest and spontaneous approach, resulting in a striking and vibrant painting. Since having her first solo show at the Century Gallery, in Henley-on-Thames, 15 years ago Caroline has exhibited with many leading London and provincial galleries. Her work has become increasing sought-after, with examples in private collections throughout the UK and overseas.	Caroline McMillan Davey
Isabel Merrick I am an artist working in Devon. I have been self employed since 1996 doing painting/printing and ceramic's. I sell nationally through exhibitions, galleries and shows. My work is generated by interpreting my inner and outer experiences creating visual imagery and making it my own, based on my local surroundings and my imagination. The work is ongoing and often has a figurative visual narrative.	Isabel Merrick
Angie Rooke Living in the country gives me so much inspiration. I feel incredibly lucky to be a landscape painter -I get to wander the hills and woods with my dogs when other people have gone to work, then back home to get stuck into paint and canvas as I try to distil the feelings I have about a place into an image that does it justice. What I get from painting is the chance to look hard at the world around me; be aware of the turning of the year: notice the incredible colour that things are.....	Angie Rooke
Sarah Thompson-Engels Sarah Thompson-Engels is a self-employed artist living in Somerset .She was educated and did her Foundation Art course in Taunton and went on to gain an honours degree in Fine Art from Wolverhampton University. Sarah's paintings, prints and homewear designs adorn private homes, restaurants and corporate buildings in and around the UK and internationally.	Sarah Thompson-Engels
Clare Schmidt Norris Inspired by both the natural and the manmade world, Clare explores different ways of combining materials and creating multi-layered surfaces: she uses a combination of digital technology with more traditional techniques of painting and collage to bring new and exciting dimensions to her finished art. In her most recent work she transfers elements of her digital photos on to plexiglass and then layers them over a prepared surface, often using translucent and reflective materials, to create images with great luminosity and vibrancy of colour.	Clare Schmidt Norris
Mary Sumner When I start a piece of work I illustrate experiences of my daily life, things I have seen during the course of a day, a particular building, a group of animals, the colours in a garden, anything that interests and amuses me. I walk most days observing my subject matter. This is how my ideas formulate, I may take a photo, collect a "found" object, jot down a phrase or do a pencil sketch.	Mary Sumner
Louise Waugh Paintings from travels and particular moments. Figurative yet contemporary worked up from sketches in oil and acrylic on canvas. This year Louise has shown at the RWA in Bristol and the RWS open 21 at The Bankside Gallery, London; a three man show at the Hybrid Gallery, Honiton, Bristol Affordable Art Fair, and a three man show at The Sadler Street Gallery, Wells, Somerset.	Louise Waugh
Claire Western Claire's increasingly sought-after work consists of vivid images of the land and seascapes of the south west. She concentrates largely on changes in the weather, fleeting moments in the light and texture of the land. She works from quick sketches made outside. Back in the studio, she combines many materials, using gesso, oil, acrylics, dyes, sand, glazes, gold leaf and many natural materials. These colours and textures are all layered and drawn and painted over until she achieves the expressive image she seeks. The scale of her current work varies tremendously from small, jewel-like images to massive textural work on canvas.	Claire Western
Tilly Willis Born into a family of artists Tilly Willis was brought up and still lives in Somerset. She trained during the 1980's at SCAT and the Byam Shaw in London. An established portrait painter, she also paints landscapes, still life and interiors in oil and watercolour, often working to commission. Much of her work is inspired by her lifelong passion for travel, particularly in Africa. She visits Senegal regularly to paint and visit family. She now enjoys international popularity due to the extensive publication of her African paintings as prints, cards and calendars. Tilly is a founder member of The Recessionists, a group of mainly Somerset based artists who have exhibited locally to great acclaim. They now plan to exhibit nationwide.	Tilly Willis
George Winter The majority of latest work has been a desire to emphasise a very fluid and free approach using mixed media on heavy handmade paper. Sometimes the piece is purely translucent, however I often re work again and again to create a denser more opaque texture as a contrast to the translucent passages.	George Winter
Judy Willoughby Judy's work is about spirit of place and it is not so much about getting a true representation as expressing a feeling for the subject through colour and texture. She also brings her imagination into play. She is also a printmaker and she exhibits regularly at The Bankside Gallery, London	Judy Willoughby