Quartz will be open to the public from October 6th - 16th, 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 October 2010, 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

Ben Barrell

Pebble seats

Sculptural seats inspired by the dramatic landscape of the Cornish Coast. Natural, calming forms to create a sense of tranquillity. Initially designed for 2009 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Cancer Research UK Show Garden.

Materials: Marble composite in Chalk White, Black Marble and Cornish Granite. Dimensions: Small 75cm x 22cm, Medium 95cm x 28cm, Large 105cm x 32cm

Ben Barrell

Greta Berlin

Greta Berlin was born and brought up in and around St Ives during the 40's and 50's. And was inspired by Bernard Leach, potter and Philosopher and her father Sven Berlin, sculptor, painter, writer. After years of travel with a young family, Berlin settled in the New Forest to teach ceramics for the next 20 years. Making and showing ceramic-sculpture since '74. During her development she moved into stone carving and welded steel structures. In '92 she moved to West Dorset where she enjoys the space and big skies of her beloved West Country.

Greta Berlin

Tom Clark

Tom works mainly in limestone, strong, bold, clean, moving lines.

Tom Clark

Melanie Deegan

My work is strongly influenced by the desire to capture movement. The challenge is not just to suggest the action of an animal or figure in motion but also to give them a sense of purpose. Sometimes this can be as simple as trying to indicate the intention, the feeling of energy contained in the muscles prior to the realisation of activity.

Melanie Deegan

Felicia Fletcher

Felicia Fletcher creates conceptual sculpture in bronze, stone, wood, steel and scagliola - choosing materials in harmony with the concept of the piece. Inspired by nature, her work symbolizes life, exploring physical and metaphysical dualities, such as connection/separation and temporal/eternal. She aims to express the aspect of unity over division, in an attempt to create the peace that comes through integration and wholeness.

Felicia Fletcher

Johnny Hawkes

Johnny Hawkes has been invited to show his work in many international & national exhibitions. Recent commissions include 4x monumental Sphelix for NCL’s new liner the Norwegian Epic and The Derby Trophy. An outsider artist, dropping out of Art school, he started his studio in London in 1976. He has always been struck by the sheer variety and beauty of wood and his work splits into 2 distinctive styles Organic, deconstructing the wood, cutting and shaping it into sinuous forms influenced by nature, water and women and putting it back together again. His Sharp work of geometric forms and intersecting planes comes from man made objects and architecture.

Johnny Hawkes

Ian Marlow

Works by Ian Marlow explore the way nature effectively creates a balance that is visually stunning. These are the forms that surround us everywhere yet which few of us have the time to see or appreciate - the seed pod sprouting, the tip of the vine that twists and curls, the fish as its swims, the bird in flight, the tree as it bends in the wind, the blade of grass weighted down with rain and that drop of water just about to fall from its tip.

Ian's latest series of sculptures are his way of providing us all with the opportunity to share the wondrous simplicity of this natural phenomena, and yet they express much more than just balance; they are works of incredible form and beauty.

Ian Marlow

Scarlet von Teazel

After moving to Somerset I indulged myself by studying a fine art degree. During these studies, amongst many others, one important experience was meeting a controversial German artist, Anselm Kiefer, while working alongside him on his installation for the White Cube in London and later visiting him in his Paris studio. While still being strongly moved by his work, this encounter, together with meeting some other artists that have made the ‘lime light’, left me feeling somewhat cold and shivery. It has refuelled my existing uncertainty about the meaning and purpose of life – and this uncertainty strongly influences my art. I follow instincts and echoes of distant memories of my childhood and of old Prague, textures suffused with emotions, leading a dialogue with the unconscious to try to achieve a deeper understanding of our world. Through my work I try to connect with other people who like me feel at times a bit lost ...

Scarlet von Teazel

Clare Trenchard

When I make a sculpture it is the essence of the thing I am trying to capture rather than a likeness.

Clare Trenchard

Zac

Zac's work is inspired by nature. He feels that Nature in its most basic form comprises energy. It is this energy that Zac feels we are inextricabley linked to, economically, socially and spiritually. Whilst making the work, Zac is very aware of our ever increasing appetite and consumption of our natural environment's resources. As a result of this exploitation, Zac feels we have become divorced from nature. He hopes that by fusing the mediums he uses, manmade with organic, that the viewer will not only be inspired and reconnect with nature but will also be reminded of our precarious symbiotic relationship that we have with our natural environment.

Zac