8th - 22nd June 2024
Ann Armitage | Teresa Lawton | Marissa Weatherhead
Ann Armitage | Teresa Lawton | Marissa Weatherhead
8th – 22nd June 2024
OPENING DRINKS | Saturday 8th June | 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
Born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire 1959, Ann studied painting at Canterbury College of Art and Design graduating in 1987 with a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art. The following three years she rented a studio in Faversham where she continued to practice.
After a three month trip around Spain, Ann based herself in London, working part time as a gardener to support her painting and extensive travels to Nepal and India. During this time her work was accepted on several occasions into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Discerning Eye Exhibition, the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of British Artists at the Mall Galleries, London. In 1998 she settled in London, rented a studio in Parade Mews, Tulse Hill, exhibiting her work with various galleries around the country and had a Solo Show in Bergen, Norway at Gallery Urd.
In 2006 Ann relocated to West Penwith in Cornwall. She was invited by selector Fred Cuming RA to exhibit six paintings in the 2008 Discerning Eye Exhibition and won the Regional Prize for the West Country, the same year a painting was accepted into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 2009 her work was selected for the Royal West of England Academy Exhibition and was included in a guided commentary about the exhibition.
Ann ArmitageWorking predominantly in oil on linen or board, Ann’s paintings are inspired by the colours and forms found in the Cornish landscape and the objects in her home and studio. Her love of William Scott has long been a strong influence on her work. Ann’s paintings have been exhibited at The Royal Academy Summer Shows and The Discerning Eye Exhibitions on several occasions.
Ann Armitage Still Life with Eggs oil on linen · 39 x 39 in.
Teresa Lawton lives and works from her studio between Dorchester & Weymouth. Born in Poole, Dorset she studied at Bournemouth college of Art and went on to receive a B.A.(Hons) Degree in Fine Art from Winchester in 1994. Teresa then lectured part time at The Arts Institute, Bournemouth University from 1998 to 2004.
In 1994 after graduating she took a studio in the historic village of Corfe Castle. In this idyllic setting by the side of the old railway station she set about establishing herself as a painter. Until recently she lived in a cottage in a remote area near Studland at the edge of Poole Harbour. Purbeck was very much her home for ten years before re locating to Weymouth. The Dorset coast is an important influence on her paintings.
Teresa states: “Beyond all the technical skills of constructing a painting which is about knowing your craft, there lies a magic which is unexplainable. Those are the things that can’t be taught they are about being able to totally immerse yourself in your own world and imagination which is instinctive”.
Teresa has been successfully exhibiting for over 20 years. She has exhibited at The Royal Academy Summer Shows and at the New York & Singapore Art Fairs. In 1997 her coastal paintings were selected by HRH the Prince of Wales for the Discerning Eye Exhibition in London. Her paintings are in private collections from Beijing to New York.
Teresa Lawton The Rise · oil on canvas · 42 x 30 in.
Teresa Lawton
The Causeway oil on canvas
9 x 12 in.
Marissa Weatherhead is primarily a painter of still life, however, she is also a landscape painter. Born in 1962, Marissa studied mainly at the Royal College of Art and at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design where she obtained a first class degree in Fine Art.
Marissa’s landscape work is more figurative and fluid than the structured approach in her still life work. She says of her still life work, ‘These paintings use familiar objects to investigate space, colour, form and composition. They do not deal with direct observational representation; instead they use and concentrate on what we know about an object through knowledge and visual understanding. This approach enables me to play on visuals by flattening or fragmenting the images or simplifying them at will, pulling and pushing space and form. A simple line or a block of colour depict an image. This evolution of the painting is evident in the build up of paint and use of mark making. By continually pushing the painting around it forms layers and textures until finally it reaches its conclusion’.
Marissa’s still life paintings owe something to the Cubist paintings of Braque and Picasso (whose work she admires greatly), but her greatest inspiration comes from the more arabesque influence of Matisse.
Marissa has exhibited widely both in Ireland and England, as well as in Europe. She was awarded the Boise Travel Scholarship, John Minton Award in 1988 and her work is in the Arthur Anderson collection.
Marissa Weatherhead
Life Forms
Ann Armitage
Still Life in Primaries
oil on linen · 6 x 6 in.
Ann Armitage
Still
oil on linen · 24 x 28 in.
Teresa Lawton
The Batteries
oil on canvas · 12 x 14 in.
Teresa Lawton
The Old Slipway
oil on canvas · 12 x 14 in.
Marissa Weatherhead
The Race
acrylic on canvas
20 x 24 in.
Marissa Weatherhead
The View Outside
acrylic on canvas · 40 x 40 in.
High Street | Stockbridge | Hampshire | SO20 6HE 01264 810364 | enquiries@wykehamgallery.co.uk www.wykehamgallery.co.uk