Annabel Fairfax | David Howell | Bruce Yardley
Annabel Fairfax | David Howell | Bruce Yardley
21st October – 4th November 2023
OPENING DRINKS | Saturday 21st October | 12 – 2pm
Monday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm
All work can be viewed on our website under Exhibitions/Forthcoming. All work is for sale immediately.
High Street | Stockbridge | Hampshire | SO20 6HE 01264 810364
enquiries@wykehamgallery.co.uk
www.wykehamgallery.co.uk
Annabel Fairfax grew up in Suffolk and has painted all her life. She worked in the design studio at Colefax and Fowler and then studied photography with Jorge Lewinski before attending the Heatherley School of Fine Art. Currently, she continues her studies with Robin Child.
Annabel was elected a member of the Society of Women Artists in 2011. She was also featured in the September 2012 edition of Homes and Gardens magazine and her work is held in private collections both in the United Kingdom and much further afield.
Annabel has had solo exhibitions at ING and Ebury Galleries. She exhibits annually in group shows, which have included the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy and the Society of Women Artists.
Annabel Fairfax Cockerel · watercolour · 28 x 30 in.oil on canvas
· 31 x 31 in.
Born in 1939 and working from his studio in North Yorkshire, David has been a regular exhibitor with the Wykeham Gallery for many years. His paintings are primarily of landscape and marine subjects, but he is also well known for his equestrian racing pictures. He works in watercolour, oils and pastels.
David has exhibited widely in galleries nationally and internationally with both one-man and mixed shows, including at the Royal West of England Academy, the Royal College of Art, the RI and the Royal Society of Marine Artists and his work hangs in corporate and private collections worldwide.
David’s approach to painting is very much concerned with capturing atmosphere and a sense of time and place, with an emphasis on producing good paintings rather than topographical accuracy. He works outside as much as possible and travels extensively. He is equally likely to be seen standing with a sketchbook on the North York Moors, as to be found sitting by a canal in Venice or dragging an easel through the Arabian Desert.
David is a past President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and has been a member of the Society of Equestrian Artists. His book ‘Painting with Watercolour’ joined the previously released ‘Painting with Oils’ both have been published by Crowood Press and are best sellers for both students, aspiring painters and enthusiasts. David also writes articles for magazines, appears on APV Film’s DVD ‘Just Watercolour’ and is a popular tutor on a limited number of painting courses both in this country and in Europe.
David Howell Badluachrach, Little Loch Broom · oil on canvas · 8 x 10 in. David Howell Down in the Souq · oil on canvas · 10 x 8 in.
Bruce Yardley, born 1962, has been a full-time professional painter for twenty five years, with over forty one-man shows to his name, mainly at UK galleries, but also at galleries in the US, Canada and New Zealand. He is the son of the well-known watercolourist John Yardley, who was a popular exhibitor here at Wykeham Gallery in the 1980s and 1990s, though in contrast to his father, Bruce paints exclusively in oil.
Bruce’s work is firmly within the English tradition of tonally sensitive Impressionism. His principal concern, like that of the original French Impressionists, is with light, and over the years he has evolved an expressive and painterly style to capture the wonderfully varied effects of light in all its forms, a style that avoids the deadening hand of descriptive detail. The influence of Monet, Sickert and Whistler is readily apparent, and Bruce discusses these men and other inspirations in his recently published book, Painting like the Impressionists.
Bruce’s subject matter covers a broad theatre: cityscapes of Europe and New York in sunshine and rain, interiors and still life. Unsurprisingly for a disciple of Monet, Sickert and Whistler, Bruce has a special fondness for Venice, where the ‘envelope of light’ (the phrase is Monet’s) is so distinctive.
Bruce Yardley Roses, Lilies and Mantel Clock · oil on canvas · 20 x 16 in. Bruce Yardley Salisbury Cathedral from Harnham Meadow · oil on board · 12 x 16 in.
Annabel Fairfax
Mixed Tulips · watercolour · 33 x 47 in.
David Howell
Udaipur, by the Lake · oil on canvas · 12 x 16 in.
David Howell
Snow at Stearsby · watercolour · 10 x 14 in.
Bruce Yardley
Caffe Quadri, Piazza San Marco, Venice oil on canvas · 24 x 20 in.
Bruce Yardley
Radcliffe Camera from St. Mary’s, Oxford oil on canvas · 16 x 12 in.
