Galleries

November

GALLERIES

Photo essay by Terry Jeavons at Thelma Hulbert Gallery from 6 November

1 - 27 November

Jackie Middleton exhibiting her colourful collection of artwork. Water oils on canvas includes many subjects including landscapes, street scenes, gardens and much more. Come and have a look, viewing daily from 8.30 - 4pm at Unique Framecraft, Units 4 - 5 Millwey Rise Workshops, Second Avenue, Axminster. EX13 5HH. Telephone 01297 631614 or 07801 260259. Instagram :- uniqueframecraft.

1 November - 24 December

All Wrapped Up: Festive Exhibition of Handmade Gifts: open daily 10:30-4:30 Get festive preparation done early with the opening of SSW Shop’s ‘All Wrapped Up’: a special selling exhibition featuring some of the best handmade decorations, tableware, greetings cards and gift inspiration our local artistic community has to offer. The gallery has chosen to work with over 50 of the most talented artists and designer-makers in the South West region and have sourced thoughtful, one-off, gift ideas that will be suitable for even the most difficult person to buy for! 3 - 26 November

Amy Albright Feature Exhibition Amy Albright has developed a visual language that alludes to the interconnecting natural forms and patterns that surround us. Open Wed - Sat 10-5pm Artwave West, Morcombelake, Dorset DT6 6DY www.artwavewest.com

6 - 19 November

Amanda Popham Annual Solo Show. 10am – 5.30pm. Steam Gallery at Beer Fore Street Beer Nr Seaton Devon, EX 12 3JB Phone: +44 (0) 1297 625144 Email: info@steamgallery.co.uk

6 November – 24 December

UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties - COP: a photo essay by Terry Jeavons. Photo essay capturing images from the COP conferences of Doha, Warsaw and Paris, showing the venue, formalities, routines, protests and intense final negotiations to move the climate change arguments forwards. Open Thursday – Saturday, 10-5. Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LX, 01404 45006 www.thelmahulbert.com

Until 7 November

‘What are you looking at?’ Angela Charles. 11am - 5pm Thursday to Saturday. 11am - 3pm Sunday. OSR Projects, Church Street, West Coker, Somerset, BA22 9JR Ellen Watson New paintings at White Space Art, 72 Fore St, Totnes TQ9 5RU and online at whitespaceart.com Christine Allison: The Sky Is The Limit. Sou’-Sou’-West Arts Gallery & Shop, Symondsbury Estate. sousouwest.co.uk 01308 301326 lymebayarts.co.uk.

Until 10 November

Ann Armitage, Caroline Frood, Bryan Hanlon and Mhairi

McGregor. Still Lifes and Landscapes. The Jerram Gallery, Half Moon Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3LN. 01935 815261 www. jerramgallery.com.

New and Recent work from DVA Salon Collective The Malthouse Gallery, The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis, DT7 3PU. 01297 444042. Open Daily 11am to 4pm http://www. townmill.org.uk/visitors-information/#howtofindus. For details of Private Viewing please email dva.salon.info@gmail.com

Until 13 November

Henrietta Young Repetitive Landscapes Alexander Massouras, The Invisible Land, Open Thursday - Friday, 10am - 3pm, or by appointment. Kelly Ross Fine Art, The Art Stable, Child Okeford, Blandford, Dorset DT11 8HB.

13 - 28 November

Language of Colour: Patrick Jones and Nigel Moores open daily 10:30-4:30 The title for this exhibition by respected abstract painter Patrick Jones and Nigel Moores is very apt. It reflects both sides of the coin: ‘Colour’, which gives pleasure on the one hand, and ‘Language’ which refers to using abstraction as a reference point. Patrick will be in the gallery talking about abstraction, on 20th Nov. Sou’-Sou’-West Arts Gallery, Symondsbury

Until 14 November

Gaia: recent collages and sculpture. Marzia Colonna MRBS. Sladers Yard, West Bay Road, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL. 01308 459511. gallery@sladersyard.co.uk.

16 November – 24 December

Present Makers 2021 Showcasing creative innovation across craft and design. The exhibited work in a range of materials includes: glass, wood, paper, textiles, prints, ceramics and jewellery. All work is for sale. Open Thursday – Saturday, 10-5. Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LX, 01404 45006 www. thelmahulbert.com

17 - 23 November

Creative South West Exhibition: ‘Staying home: Taking

Flight’ The ‘Staying Home:Taking Flight’ Exhibition reflects individual textile artists’ responses to lockdown and our subsequent release. 10am-4.30pm daily Kennaway House, Coburg Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8NG. Carolyn Ballard, creativesouthwesttextiles@gmail.com.

20 November - 9 January

Philip Sutton Colours through Life. Sladers Yard, West Bay Road, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL. 01308 459511. gallery@sladersyard.co.uk.

Until 21 November

Breathe by Michelle Sank will be shown in Gallery 20 at RAMM alongside RAMM’s Covid-19 commission Biophilia: The Exeter Florilegium by Exeter artist Amy Shelton. Sank’s photographic series documents the first Covid-19 lockdown in the Wonford area of Exeter taken on her daily walks, and Shelton’s commission, The Exeter Florilegium (2021), includes a herbarium of pressed plant and wildflower specimens compiled on her daily lockdown walks around Exeter in spring and summer 2020. The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) https://www. rammuseum.org.uk

November

GALLERIES

Until 5 December

Where the Mist Rises Abstract paintings by Annie Ward Based on Lyme Bay Artist Annie Ward’s research into satellite photographs and historic maps of the Dorset coastline, these abstract works explore the changeable spaces where the land meets the sea. Rotunda Gallery, Lyme Regis Museum, Bridge Street, Lyme Regis DT7 3QA, open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm and 10am-4pm on Sundays, www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Until 12 December

Kate Wyatt one of the UK’s foremost wildlife artists returns to Dorset with a new exhibition of paintings at Gallery On The Square, Dorchester. The gallery is open every day from 9.30 to 5pm and from 10am to 4pm on Sundays. Gallery On The Square is at Queen Mother Square, Poundbury, Dorchester DT2 9XE.

Until 31 December

Together Again Gallery and guest artists at Tincleton Gallery, The Old School House, Tincleton DT2 8QR Tel. 01305 848909 www.tincletongallery.com.

Until 3 January 2022

Eduardo Chillida was one of the foremost Spanish sculptors of the twentieth century. Also Thomas J Price ‘Thoughts Useen’ Price’s multidisciplinary practice confronts preconceived public attitudes towards representation and identity. His inaugural exhibition with Hauser & Wirth presents two decades of conceptual enquiry spanning film, early sculpture, and the artist’s largest figurative bronze to date. Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Durslade Farm, Dropping Lane, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0NL.

Until 16 January 2022

Dame Elisabeth Frink RA (1930 – 1993) Man is an

Animal the most extensive collection of large-scale sculptures by Dame Elisabeth Frink to be shown in this country since the artist’s death in April 1993. Messums Wiltshire. Place Farm, Court St, Tisbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW. E: info@messumswiltshire.com T: 01747 445042.Square, Dorchester. The gallery is open every day from 9.30 to 5pm and from 10am to 4pm on Sundays. Gallery On The Square is at Queen Mother Square, Poundbury, Dorchester DT2 9XE.

GALLERIES IN DECEMBER

Live or Online send your November gallery details to info@marshwoodvale.com by November 17th .

A LIVELY EYE AND AN OPEN MIND

Popular Bridport based artist Phillip Sutton RA is to feature in a major exhibition including new work at Sladers Yard in West Bay

At the age of 93, Philip Sutton RA still paints and draws every day as he has throughout his life. His work has always been full of colour, painted with a kind of abandon that is truly dazzling. As The Times critic John Russell Taylor wrote, ‘All you need to understand and appreciate Philip Sutton is a lively eye and open mind. You do not have to make your way painfully towards him: his art will welcome you with open arms.’

Born in Poole on 20th October 1928, the youngest of four boys, Philip Sutton left school at 14 and worked for three years in a drawing office, waiting for the lunch break so that he could borrow a drawing board and draw. After national service in the RAF, during the Berlin airlift, a grant allowed him to study at the Slade from 1948 - 53. His contemporaries included Craigie Aitchison, Euan Uglow and Michael Andrews. Philip Sutton admired their work but was quite unlike any of them. He found his own style, struck by the mixture of playfulness and seriousness he found in a book about Henri Matisse, an artist largely ignored at the time.

His tutor, William Coldstream, recognised him as ‘a gifted, intuitive painter’ and introduced him to the dealers Roland, Browse and Delbanco who sold his first painting to Peter Pears and Benjamin Britain. They continued to exhibit his work in Cork Street for the next twenty-eight years after his first show in 1956. That same year he was invited to become a member of the London Group. At the Slade he met Heather Cooke. They were married in June 1953 and departed immediately to travel and live in Europe for over a year after he graduated funded by three scholarships including the Prix de Rome.

Back in London, he took a part-time job teaching etching and lithography at the Slade and in 1958 they were able to buy a small house in Battersea where they had their fourth child, Rebekah. Sutton painted nudes almost continuously in this period with pale colours and delicate lines. They had many visitors.

Pop Art and the American Expressionists caused turmoil in the art world in 1963 and Philip and Heather Sutton and the four young children headed out of London, to Australia and a year in Fiji, funded by the sales of his paintings. While he was away he became established as one of the British painters who epitomised the exuberant sixties.

He returned with a full exhibition of tropical paintings and a film Heather had made about him. Heather took an anthropology degree at London University.

In 1976 Hugh Casson invited Sutton to become an RA and his reputation began to move beyond the art market.

In 1988 Sutton gave up teaching at the Slade and later they moved to Manorbier in Wales where they lived until 2014, when they moved to Bridport. Heather very sadly died in 2017. Her funeral was held at Sladers Yard during Philip Sutton's second exhibition here. This is his third major solo show at Sladers Yard. Philip still paints every day expressing his appreciation of the world around him.

A major selling exhibition including new work and posters designed by Philip Sutton RA will run from Saturday 20 November 2021 - 9 January 2022. There will be an Evening with Philip Sutton on Friday 10 December at 6.30pm Details and tickets from Sladers Yard. Tel. 01308 459511.

Images above: The Clown from Manorbier 108 x 108cm and Miss Dazzling 105 x 100.5cm Below: Philip Sutton RA painting at Manorbier