Christmas Cracker Small Wall

Small Wall £550 or less 13th November - 24th December

Byard Art, 14 King's Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1SJ info@byardart.co.uk

+44 (0)1223 464646

www.byardart.co.uk

All artworks available to purchase immediately online or over the phone.

Call us: +44 (0)1223 464646 Email us: info@byardart.co.uk Just click the artwork to buy online!

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All prices VAT deductable if shipped outside the UK.

Interest free credit available on artwork over £100 using the Own Art Scheme.

We are offering: Free local delivery on purchases over £100 Free delivery to London on purchases over £500 Anything in this catalogue is eligible!

Come and see the show in person 9 - 6 Monday to Saturday 12 - 5 Sunday

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Winter Exhibition Small Wall A Collection of Artworks, all £550 or less.

This catalogue features a collection of work included in Byard’s Small Wall, recurring annually for our Christmas Cracker Exhibition.

Each piece of work is £550 or less, and is lovingly created by a range of our artists, boasting a wide array of styles, disciplines, and genres.

Each piece is available online or in person, and is eligible for swift, secure international shipping.

Browse our catalogue and find the perfect gift for your loved ones, or get yourself a well-deserved treat!

Contents: 6 - 9 : Frances Bloomfield 10 - 13 : Frances Campbell 14 - 17 : Charlotte Cornish 18 - 19 : Gerdine Duijsens 20 - 25 : Jack Frame 26 - 29 : Melanie Goemans 30 - 33 : Maureen Mace 34 - 37 : Relton Marine 38 - 41 : Fletcher Prentice 42 - 47 : Sam Read 48 - 53 : Rosemary Trestini 54 - 57 : Claire Turner 58 - 63 : Teresa Winchester

Frances Bloomfield

Frances Bloomfield is an artist living and working in Brighton.

Notable shows include Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and at the German contemporary show Documenta VI, where she was a guest of Joseph Beuys. Alongside this she has worked as a freelance graphic designer with a wide and varied range of clients. Recently she designed the typography for a new public art piece in Ebbw Vale. She lectured in Graphic Design in London for several years at Sir John Cass School of Art & Design and the University of the Arts.

Frances creates fascinating dreamscapes, exquisitely created in threedimensional collage. Each stage set-like piece, plays with space and perspective to draw the viewer into the artist’s curious imagined worlds. Although her subject matter is drawn from the world we exist in, her work always contains a suggestion of parallel realities.

It might be a juxtaposition of what is considered ‘real’ and what is imagined or desired, or the conflict between the facade and what could really be occurring behind it. However, the meanings are far from prescriptive and it is for the viewer to contemplate and reflect upon these mysterious scenarios.

Inspiration for the work comes from an eclectic range of sources; industrial ruins, the back streets of several European cities, geometry and wiring diagrams, maps and plans, detritus from the seashore, unusual found objects and various texts, most notably writing from R.D.Laing, Gaston Bachelard and Italo Calvino.

Les Reves Perdues 1 24cm x 37cm x 7cm Mixed Media £520

Temps Perdu 1 24cm x 36cm x 7cm Mixed Media £520

Dialogue Domestique 95 24cm x 36cm x 7cm Mixed Media £520

Conflit Cosmique 5 24cm x 36cm x 7cm Mixed Media £520

Frances Campbell

Following a degree in Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art in the late 1980s, Frances Campbell returned to her home city of Cambridge, finding inspiration in the local area. Her recent seascapes and landscapes explore the balance between realism and abstraction. They are inspired by the movement of water and light, minuscule details that are easily overlooked.

Frances begins each work with lots of quick sketches, aiming to capture the essence of a place and to narrow down the parts that really interest her. Back in the studio these are developed into paintings with acrylics, collage and a mix of printmaking and drawing techniques.

Colours are built up, blended and then often scraped away, sometimes over weeks or months to create rich textures and colours.

Across The Dunes II 30cm x 30cm, Framed Mixed Media £295

Across The Dunes III 30cm x 30cm, Framed Mixed Media £295

Along The Board Walk I 25cm x 25cm, Framed Mixed Media £195

Kicking Up The Leaves I 21cm x 21cm, Framed Mixed Media £195

Autumn Takes A Bow I 21cm x 21cm, Framed Mixed Media £195

Autumn Takes A Bow II 21cm x 21cm, Framed Mixed Media £195

Charlotte Cornish

Charlotte finds her inspiration from places she has travelled to, using photographs of past trips as initial starting points for her compositions. Her works end up a mixture of elements from the visual world, with her own emotional responses and experience.

Charlotte explores both paint and print mediums working primarily with acrylic, screen print and lithograph. She prefers quick drying acrylic as it allows her to build up multiple layers in parts of her work, contrasting with directly applied, thicker marks.

Charlotte Cornish spent six years at art college, graduating in 1990 from the University of Brighton with a degree in Fine Art. She then went on to study at the Slade School of Art and Central St. Martin’s. Her work is regularly exhibited at major art fairs and galleries across the UK.

Well Spring II (Study) 24cm x 24cm, Framed Watercolour and Acrylic on Paper £450

Well Spring III (Study) 24cm x 24cm, Framed Watercolour and Acrylic on Paper £450

Garden IV 28cm x 23cm, Framed Watercolour £490

Garden VII 28cm x 23cm, Framed Watercolour £490

Gerdine Duijsens

Gerdine Duijsens is a Dutch artist based in Amsterdam, whose recognisable and strongly stylised work has generated a steadily growing club of aficionados worldwide.

Gerdine’s work is a synthesis between the figurative and the abstract. Her free and painterly style works well with the often inebriated characters she depicts. These gluttonous socialites are shown mid-party; slurping oysters and huge piles of strawberries or demanding excessive quantities of champagne.

Dining scenes have now become Gerdine’s trademark, featuring a cast of large, exaggerated, comically sloppy characters.

Happy Single 1 40cm x 40cm Acrylic on Canvas £550

Happy Single: Susan 40cm x 40cm Acrylic on Canvas £550

Jack Frame Critically acclaimed Jack Frame graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2007 with a sell-out degree show. He was tipped early on as one of the most collectable young artists in the UK, after receiving the GSA Painting award and the Prize for Landscape Drawing. In 2009 he won the Jolomo Landscape Art prize. While artist in residence at The Lomond School, Jack was included in the BBC Documentary ‘Glasgow Boys’ exposing his work to a wider audience.

Jack is most noted for his striking depictions of trees and sky. His works have a haunting grace and solemnity.

Trees have always been a focal point of the artist’s work, the blossoming cherry in particular a recurring theme throughout his practice. As if with the awe of a child, he paints these trees as monuments, as the compositional focal point of each work and often set against his trademark gold backdrop.

Jack’s work is included in many public and private collections including the Standard Life building, Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh building and Friends of GSA. His patrons include Muriel Gray, Mathew Bellany from the band Muse and Kate Hudson.

Prudence 26cm x 31cm, Framed Oil and Gold Leaf £550

Fallen Angel 1 32cm x 44cm, Framed Oil on Silk £550

Fallen Angel 2 32cm x 44cm, Framed Oil on Silk £550

Fallen Angel 3 32cm x 44cm, Framed Oil on Silk £550

Fallen Angel 4 32cm x 44cm, Framed Oil on Silk £550

Fallen Angel 5 32cm x 44cm, Framed Oil on Silk £550

Fallen Angel 6 32cm x 44cm, Framed Oil on Silk £550

Fallen Angel 7 32cm x 44cm, Framed Oil on Silk £550

Fallen Angel 8 32cm x 44cm, Framed Oil on Silk £550

Melanie Goemans ‘In the early morning I walk between the railway line and the river. Small seasonal shifts, incidental things we might rush past usually, become more noticeable walking the same paths like a ritual. I look at what is permanent and fixed, and what is transient and temporary, and conclude that everything is changing, even in this moment. What I photograph and paint is not there now and the painting becomes like a ghost, a trace of a memory of something that inevitably will never be exactly the same again.’

‘Working from projections of photographs I’ve taken, I trace the lines loosely with a fine square ended brush, and the marks build up the complicated patterns of the whole. Using traditional materials and composition, my work gives these fleeting moments status and draws attention to their value.’ – Melanie Goemans, 2020 Melanie grew up in the Lincolnshire fens, spending time in Italy before studying Florentine Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (BA and MA) followed by Fine Art, Painting at the School of Art, University of Gloucestershire (MA). After a series of residencies and teaching posts, she relocated from London to Cambridgeshire and now works from her studio in Ely.

Love in the Mist V 22cm x 22cm, Framed Acrylic, Copper Leaf £425

Study 23cm x 33cm, Framed Acrylic, Silver Leaf £475

Mimosa I 23cm x 33cm, Framed Acrylic, Silver Leaf £475

Mimosa II 23cm x 33cm, Framed Acrylic, Silver Leaf £475

Silver Jasmine II 23cm x 33cm, Framed Acrylic, Silver Leaf £475

Forget Me Knot I 22cm x 27cm, Framed Acrylic, Silver Leaf £475

Maureen Mace

Maureen Mace lives in Cambridge where she spends her time painting and teaching art to small groups in her studio.

Cambridge is a huge influence in her work. She loves the beautiful, historic city with its wide, open spaces, great architectural buildings, old university traditions and, of course, its cows. Maureen adds into her works the rich night skies, shining moons, and her taste for Medieval Art to form the basis for these intricate, dream-like paintings.

Maureen studied visual communication and worked for several years as a graphic artist and illustrator before qualifying rather late in life as an art teacher. Her early professional background still influences her work and she gets carried away with intricate detail using brushes that are far too small to delve into her whimsical, almostmagical-realist world. Recently, Maureen became a reader at the Parker Library at Corpus Christi where she draws from the illuminated manuscripts.

Ad Astra 29cm x 29cm, Framed Acrylic, Oil £475

Strawberry Ripples 29cm x 29cm, Framed Acrylic, Oil £475

Topiary Tree 29cm x 29cm, Framed Acrylic, Oil £475

Sakura 29cm x 29cm, Framed Acrylic, Oil £475

Relton Marine West Yorkshire-based artists Christine Relton and Tom Marine have been painting collaboratively for almost two decades, working together on each canvas. They begin each work with the memory of a real place or particular event, discussing their rough ideas of the composition, and then working together through a process of over-painting and adjustment. Tom is primarily in charge of under-painting. This initial step is crucial in giving depth and texture to the finished work. Christine is more interested in the overall composition, transforming Tom’s abstract marks into a specific landscape.

The artists don’t tend to work together at the same time.

Rather, they get together during the process to discuss what is and isn’t working. At this stage it isn’t unusual to change the entire composition and repaint whole areas again. The artists’ collaborative process allows them to paint with the ultimate freedom and stops them from getting too precious about their work. They use acrylic paint as it dries fast and allows a lot of manipulation and repainting.

They consider each work finished when the balance and composition feel right. Often the most successful works are amalgamations of imagery rather than specific places. The results are fresh and full of energy. The idea is to leave the viewer to interpret to a certain degree what they are looking at and leave space for their ideas to give meaning to the painting.

Five Phesants II 30cm x 30cm Acrylic, Oil £550

Five Phesants III 30cm x 30cm Acrylic, Oil £550

Five Phesants IV 30cm x 30cm Acrylic, Oil £550

Five Phesants V 30cm x 30cm Acrylic, Oil £550

Fletcher Prentice

Fletcher’s work is a celebration of the natural world, but also a celebration of paint itself. The textures, colours and freedom of paint fascinates the artist, and through his work he explores this medium in the same way as he does his chosen subject.

‘My work is a constant striving to balance on the one hand my fascination with the object – using paint and enjoying the qualities of paint, breaking down and semiabstracting the subject matter and surface – and on the other hand my desire to retain and capture the natural beauty of the subject, whether the human figure, an animal or a single bird.’

Although the exuberant characters and colours of exotic bird life are an inspiration to him, he has recently become drawn to wildlife closer to home - the more domestic beauty of the birds and plants in his own rural garden.

Pink and Green Parrot Tulip 31cm x 31cm Oil £450

Striped Tulip Study 26cm x 26cm Oil £350

Pink and White Striped Tulip Study 26cm x 26cm Oil £350

Sam Read Sam’s art making is centred around equanimity, change, assurance, timelessness and mystery. The single figure is the anchor, the multiple layers become my way into a conversation that is felt rather than explained. Her work deals with her past and memories and how they relate.

‘The role of ‘memory’ is crucial. Our memories help us make sense of what has gone on in the past, and the past is the cornerstone of what gives us our sense of being who we are today. Memory, however, can be very selective and easily influenced.’

Sam Read specialised in Illustration during her BA hons Degree in graphic design at Exeter College of Art and Design.

After graduation she soon replaced her Graphic Design workwhere she was obliged to stick to precise briefs, with mixmedia works of her own interpretation and imagination.

Sam now lives and works inside Richmond Park as a gardener in a private house, alongside working in the art department of a Grammar school. She is never without a sketchbook to hand- jotting down fleeting images, memories and feelings that often develop into more in-depth ideas and detailed images.

Although her works contain a dark mystery, the artist is not afraid of nostalgia and sentiment. She paints people, birds and flowers- a combination that often creates an unspoken symbolism to each work.

Honesty 37cm x 37cm, Framed Mixed Media £425

Sakura 47cm x 47cm, Framed Mixed Media £525

Not Forgotten 37cm x 37cm, Framed Mixed Media £425

Restore 37cm x 37cm, Framed Mixed Media £425

Simon Tozer

Simon studied a Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art. He uses screen printing to draw on influences from popular Art and children’s illustration. Using humour within his work, he tries to illustrate human desire, our fears and frailties, often through the representation of animals, but also through machines, cars and ships.

Simon says, ‘I find that making pictures is rarely straightforward; it is a process of trying to reach for thoughts and feelings that are usually submerged beneath the day to day.’

PigeonFace 15cm x 17cm, Framed Mixed Media £275

Green Beak 16cm x 28cm, Framed Mixed Media £275

Takeoff 18cm x 28cm, Framed Mixed Media £275

Rosemary Trestini

Rosemary Trestini studied at St Martin’s College of Art in London, going on to do an MA at the Royal College of Art. While there, she came under the influence of Professor Carel Weight and Roger de Gray, and her work moved from abstraction to the figurative.

She realised she wanted to paint landscapes and moved out of London to the West Country, to surround herself with the subject matter that newly inspired her.

Whether in the every-changing weather conditions along the coast line of Tresco, or reflecting off the Thames, meandering through the city of London, light permeates Rosemary’s pictures.

Describing herself as a ‘romantic painter’, she is drawn to powerful landscapes; the Isles of Scilly, the wide bleak vistas of the East Anglian fens. She often includes figures, miniscule amongst the overwhelming forces of nature that surround them. Endless variations of land and sky.

Snowfall 32cm x 32cm, Framed Oil on Canvas £550

Kings Cambridge 32cm x 32cm, Framed Oil on Canvas £550

Walking The Dog 32cm x 32cm, Framed Oil on Canvas £550

Robin 4 32cm x 32cm, Framed Oil on Canvas £550

Sparrow 2 32cm x 32cm, Framed Oil on Canvas £550

Claire Turner Images of Cambridge

Claire Turner was born in 1950 and studied Art and Education at Goldsmith’s College, London, specialising in Silkscreen Painting. She works with a variety of textile techniques constructing pictures using selected fabrics, which she then draws, paints and stitches on to.

Her resulting pictures are highly atmospheric and colourful depictions of architecture and cityscapes. The city of Cambridge and it’s variety of buildings are a particular source of inspiration for the artist. Claire has taken commissions for private clients of places in the UK, Spain and Greece. Byard Art have represented her work since 2007.

Botanic Gardens & Beyond, Early Autumn Colours 29cm x 35cm, Framed Textile £165

Early Autumn Colours, Fellows Garden Clare College 29cm x 35cm, Framed Textile £165

Late Summer Flowers Trinity Hall 29cm x 35cm, Framed Textile £165

Punts at St John’s College, Early Autumn Colours 29cm x 35cm, Framed Textile £165

Trinity Bridge with Punt II, Late Summer Colours 29cm x 35cm, Framed Textile £165

Early Autumn Colours, Fellows Garden Clare College 29cm x 35cm, Framed Textile £165

Teresa Winchester

Teresa Winchester lives and works in Brighton, having studied printmaking at Goldsmiths. She makes her prints using an antique Columbian press at the BIP studio in Kemptown.

A love of the natural world and the beauty of plant and animal life enriches Teresa’s work. As a child she loved to curl up in a chair with a book and read of magical worlds, brave deeds and princesses. The only pastime she enjoyed more than this was to draw the pictures these stories suggested. And this has never changed. Her prints tell stories, invoking magic and dreams. To view them can seem as if one has inadvertently slipped into a subconcious world, where girls dance with hares and rabbits garlanded with red flowers race through dark forests.

Treasure Found 51cm x 82cm, Framed Lino-Cut Print £395

Adventures Ahead 30cm x 60cm, Framed Lino-Cut Print £385

Black Beauties 30cm x 40cm, Framed Lino-Cut Print £305

Autumn Princesses 30cm x 40cm, Framed Lino-Cut Print £305

On The Lake 30cm x 40cm, Framed Lino-Cut Print £305

All artworks available to purchase immediately online or over the phone.

Call us: +44 (0)1223 464646 Email us: info@byardart.co.uk Just click the artwork to buy online!

We ship worldwide.

Contact us for a quote.

All prices VAT deductable if shipped outside the UK.

Interest free credit available on artwork over £100 using the Own Art Scheme.

We are offering: Free local delivery on purchases over £100 Free delivery to London on purchases over £500 Anything in this catalogue is eligible!

Come and see the show in person 9 - 6 Monday to Saturday 12 - 5 Sunday

Follow us on social media for gallery updates and information.

Byard Art, 14 King's Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1SJ info@byardart.co.uk

+44 (0)1223 464646

www.byardart.co.uk