A New Light
Exhibition continues until 4 October 2014 Catharine Davison Bridget Moore RBA Jemimah Patterson David Ralph Simpson Richard Southall Nick Tidnam RBA Jane Wheeler
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A New Light
Exhibition continues until 4 October For the inaugural exhibition at David Simon Contemporary, work by six painters, Catharine Davison, Bridget Moore, Jemimah Patterson, David Ralph Simpson, David Taylor and Nick Tidnam are featured alongside ceramics by Jane Wheeler and bronze sculpture by Richard Southall. This exhibition shows a strong body of semi-figurative work, introducing the latest addition to Bath’s vibrant gallery scene.
Catharine Davison Winner of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2014, Catharine Davison’s painting is an ongoing documentation of the places she visits. Drawing or painting directly from observation underpins her work.
The City at Dusk oil on panel 40 x 45cm ÂŁ850
City Dog Walkers oil on panel 40 x 45cm ÂŁ750
The Hermitage oil on panel 40 x 45cm ÂŁ750
Summer in the City oil on panel 40 x 45cm ÂŁ1,600
Bridget Moore RBA Elected a member of The Royal Society of British Artists in 1989 and a member of The New English Art Club in 2005 she has exhibited continually since leaving art school. Her work has been seen in mixed and solo shows in many London galleries and across the UK including Royal Academy Summer Shows and also in the USA. Amongst some of the prizes awarded her she was a runner up in the Lynn Painter-Stainers prize for 2006. Bridget’s work often touches on childhood memories from Whitstable (where her family still live), trying to evoke and recapture the atmosphere and qualities of experiences distilled over the years. Other themes such as decayed opulence, the rich colours and lights of theatres, circuses and fairgrounds also hold a particular fascination for her. Her ability to capture such rich scenes led the then Spectator critic Giles Auty to describe one of her works in the Royal Academy Summer Show of 1992 as a “small, intense treasure”.
Woman Putting on a Black Stocking oil on paper 72 x 72cm ÂŁ1,750
Washing the Dog oil on paper 22 x 25cm £850
Pam at Innesfree oil on paper 28 x 28cm £850
Changing Room oil on paper 27 x 32cm £850
Ta-Dah oil on paper 20 x 22cm £800
Jemimah Patterson Born in Reading in 1978, Jemimah Patterson completed her foundation at Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design in London between 1997 and 1998. She continued on to complete her BA (Hons) at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2001. Jemimah’s work is heavily influenced by the fact that she is one of a conjoined set of identical twins. This twinning creates resonant psychological dimensions that are reflected in her compositions, for instance paired or mirrored motifs recur throughout her work, often creating surrogate double portraits. Her magnetic attraction to doubled imagery emerges in her manipulation of shadows and mirrors in her latest body of work. Training & Awards 1998 – 2001 University of Oxford, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art 2:1 BA (Hons) Fine Art MA Oxon 2000 Bendum Prize in support of new work 2000 SEH travel bursary to continue research in New York 1997 – 1998 Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London Diploma in Foundation Studies Collections Her Royal Highness Sheikha Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi The Dorchester Hotel, London Numerous private collections in the USA, UK and UAE
Ajar oil on mirror inside vintage games compendium 20.5 x 55 x 12cm ÂŁ4,400
Journey’s Rest oil on glass on double painted vintage stretcher 39 x 31cm £2,950
Pause oil on glass on vintage stretcher 46 x 36 cm £3,500
The Calling Box oil on glass, mirror, electrics inside a Victorian cabinet 32 x 28 x 20cm ÂŁ5,000
Sisters oil on glass & vintage stretcher 23.5 x 27cm ÂŁ1,950
Detachment oil on glass & vintage stretchers Diptych 16 x 48cm overall ÂŁ2,950
David Ralph Simpson Born 1963 in Plymouth, David Ralph Simpson studied Fine Art at Newcastle University in 1985. His paintings were featured in David Simon Contemporary’s opening exhibition in August 2014. David Ralph Simpson has held regular solo exhibitions in London and galleries across England since 1987. His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. David Ralph Simpson has undertaken commissioned projects for Land Securities, London 2005, Glyndebourne Opera 2004, Glyndebourne Opera 2000, Exeter City Council 1995, Television South West 1989 and the Royal School for the Deaf, Exeter 1988. Prizes include Bridport Open Prize 1994, Laing Competition 1994 & ’90 and Brewhouse Open 1986. His work can be found in private collections throughout Europe and the United States of America.
Beside Hartland oil on canvas 76 x 91cm ÂŁ4,200
Ships That Pass in the Day oil on board 18 x 18cm £795
The Rising oil on board 18 x 23cm £795
Adrift oil on canvas 92 x 102cm ÂŁ5,900
Pétanque. The Importance of Small Distances III oil on board 18 x 18cm £795
Pétanque. The Importance of Small Distances IV oil on board 18 x 18cm £795
Returnings oil on board 64 x 85cm ÂŁ4,200
Richard Southall Richard Southall’s contemporary work, diverse in style and subject matter, is based on a deep understanding of form. “I feel that the socio-political issues that my early work represents, expresses things in a way that non-figurative styles fail to achieve.” His sculpture was securely grounded in figurative art during his formative years at art school, studying under Stuart Osbourne RA. Osbourne had close associations with Sir Jacob Epstein whilst a student at the Royal College of Art. This tuition emphasised the study of form to portray and express meaning. Osbourne was often heard to say, “I don’t want any artists on my course” suggesting study first, creativity later. Consequently Richard’s work stands outside the modern trend.
Leopard cold-cast bronze 71x29x15cm £1,750
Torso cold-cast bronze 38x22x18cm ÂŁ1,050
David Taylor Born in Lancashire David Taylor began his career as an architect. After having extensively travelled the world, he returned to London to concentrate on his passion of landscape painting and becoming a contemporary artist. Now painting full time, Taylor uses his visual memory as his main point of reference. His style often described as ‘Turneresque’ are paintings based on simply, land sea and sky, in his eyes the essence of landscape painting. The forces of nature just waiting to be immortalised on canvas. Using oil as his choice of medium, he manipulates the paint with palette knife and brushes to build depth and atmosphere into his work, that reflect the dramatic weather conditions he enjoys painting. His work described by many has having a spiritual quality that leaves the viewer to establish an horizon and to engage in the semi abstract forms that fuse together making the landscape come to life. His paintings hang in private collections in Europe, The Middle East, Asia and the USA.
Breaking Light on Barren Land oil on canvas 100 x 100cm ÂŁ2,500
Blaze of Light oil on canvas 45.5 x 45.5cm £750
Rosada Sky oil on canvas 40.5 x 40.5cm £750
Sky and Swell oil on canvas 45.5 x 55.5cm ÂŁ850
Nick Tidnam RBA Born in Leicestershire and brought up in London, Nick Tidnam studied at Camberwell School of Art in the sixties under tutors including Christopher Chamberlain, Dick Lee and Michael Rothenstein. In 2001 Tidnam was elected a member of The Royal Society of British Artists. In 2003 he contributed to the publication ‘Learn to paint and draw’ and ‘Oils and Acrylics’ by Cassell Publications in 2004. His works are in public and private collections in the UK and private collections in the USA, Australia, Germany, Greece, India, and France.
Winter River oil on paper 18 x 28cm ÂŁ650
Spice Market oil on paper 19 x 28cm ÂŁ650
Flax oil on paper 19 x 28cm £395
Night Fields oil on paper 19 x 28cm £395
Jane Wheeler Jane Wheeler was born and raised in Norfolk and stucied ceramics at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. She returned to ceramics in 2003. For Jane, the vessel is a space-containing hollow form that offers the richest language for working in clay. Its conceptual simplicity allows readings which allude to our most distant cultural pasts, and to the state of being human. Its limitations are those for which the potter’s tools and equipment are designed; it is a familiar scenario within which to work. Thus, it becomes necessary for Jane Wheeler to make working and the work uncomfortable in some way, to push the boundaries in order to attempt discovery of new or hidden qualities of this profoundly significant, yet ordinary object. Jane’s vessels are made of stoneware clay bodies with added coarse grog, sand, quartz and feldspar granules. reduction fired to 1260-1300 º C with gas. Layers of oxide, slip, and chun glaze producing the textured surface which both reflects and absorbs light and refracts it where the chun gathers into thick runs full of miniscule bubbles.
Tall Frozen Snow Flagon ceramic 51 x 22cm ÂŁ820
Spring Rain Bottle ceramic 30 x 23cm ÂŁ420
Spring Rain Bottle with Clematis Stems ceramic 48 x 21cm ÂŁ850 Spring Rain Bottle ceramic 26 x 19cm ÂŁ360
Large Black Ice Flagon ceramic 53 x 38cm ÂŁ1,250
Spring Rain Oak Leaf Bottle ceramic 20 x 16cm £190 Spring Rain Bottle, Oak Stem & Acorns ceramic 16 x 12cm £160
David Simon Contemporary opened its gallery in Bath in August 2014. David has been dealing in contemporary fine art for over fourteen years, managing galleries in London, Bristol and Bath and has represented artists at art fairs across Europe and the USA. Article, an artisan homewares shop, is in the adjoining building, selling hand-poured candles, fresh and dried flowers, hand-printed textiles and functional ceramics, gifts and cards.
Bridget Moore RBA, Ta-Dah, 20 x 22cm ÂŁ800
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