Impressions on Paper
3 - 27 February
 

Hugh Buchanan; Lydia Corbett; Steven Hubbard; Andrew Lansley; Mary Jane-Jones; Bridget Moore RBA, NEAC; Neil Murison RWA; Peter Randall-Page; Caroline Waterlow and ceramics by Keith Varney.

Andrew Lansley, winner of Bath Society of Artists’ ‘David Simon Contemporary Award’, works in egg tempera and watercolour. His focus is on landscape, marine and architectural subjects. Andrew is a member of the Bath Society of Artists. He won the 2016 Royal Watercolour Society Exhibitions Award and has exhibited at the Royal Academy, RWA and numerous shows at the Mall Galleries, including RI, RSMA, NEAC, RBA, Sunday Times Watercolour and Lynn Painter Stainers Prize.

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Walter Lindner
Art collector Simon Hearnden unearthed the delightful, highly accomplished monotypes of the enigmatic Berlin artist Walter Lindner (1936-2007), whilst visiting his rental apartment there in 2006. He later sold his Oxfordshire home to purchase the majority of the artist’s paintings from his studio and his gallery dealer in Germany.

Lindner was a true master of his oeuvre, creating wonderfully composed and graphic artworks. During four fruitful decades Lindner perfected his technique, hand-pressing monotype prints onto parchment from glass plates he painted with oils; the basis for his unique, hand-finished, original works. Approved one-off prints were then embellished, often elaborately, sometimes adding gold leaf. Lindner’s techniques attracted attention in the region and he was considered an outstanding talent, by both his Berlin university tutors and fellow artists. Lindner exhibited annually at the Frankfurt Art Fair for 40 years – longer than any other artist. Exhibitions of his work in the Berlin area were also successful in the 70s and 80s, but Lindner was a gentle man and a reluctant publicist.

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Lydia Corbett, born in Paris, 1934 was famously introduced to Pablo Picasso in the 1950s. Lydia became the subject of large and important body of his work, including more than sixty paintings, drawings and sculptures. Corbett has been painting full-time over the past forty years and will have her second solo exhibition at David Simon Contemporary in 2018. A new hardback biography about this artist written by Isabel Coulton and published in 2016 is available from the gallery.

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Peter Randall-Page RA studied sculpture at Bath Academy of Art from 1973-1977 and has gained an international reputation through his sculpture, drawings and prints. He has undertaken numerous large-scale commissions and exhibited widely. His work is held in public and private collections throughout the world including Japan, South Korea, Australia, USA, Turkey, Eire, Germany and the Netherlands. His public sculptures can be found in many locations throughout the UK and his work is in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum amongst others. His practice has always been informed and inspired by the study natural phenomena and its subjective impact on our emotions.

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Neil Murison RWA studied at the West of England College of Art. He taught at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital and the Blue Coat School in Bristol and then became a lecturer at the West of England College of Art, retiring in 1987. He has been a full Member of the Royal West of England Academy of Art since 1979 and was Director of The New Gallery at The Academy from 2003-09. He was made an Honorary Member in 2000.

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Bridget Moore, RBA, NEAC, born in Whistable, Kent, 1960, studied art at Medway College of Design, Epsom School of Art & Design, then the Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 1984 when she was awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award. Bridget's work often touches on childhood memories from Whitstable, evoking 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 Spectator critic Giles Auty to describe one of her works in the Royal Academy Summer Show of 1992 as a "small, intense treasure". 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, 2006.

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Caroline Waterlow, winner of Bath Society of Artists’ ‘David Simon Contemporary Award’ 2016, trained in art at the British School, Florence, Sir John Cass School, London and Canterbury College of Art. She went on to teach at the Royal West of England Acedemy. Caroline has held regular exhibitions in Bath and Oxford.

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Mary Jane Jones, is fascinated by domestic interiors and is showing a series of recent etchings. Born in 1976, Mary studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and History of Art at University of St Andrews. Mary has exhibited her work across the United Kingdom including in London with the New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists, Society of Women Artists and The Discerning Eye Exhibition.

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Hugh Buchanan studied at Edinburgh College of Art and has been commissioned to paint interiors by the Prince of Wales at Balmoral and Highgrove; The House of Commons and the National Trust. His paintings are also in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Edinburgh City Art Centre, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Aberdeen, the Bank of Scotland, Flemings Bank, Deutsche Bank, the National Trust for Scotland and the English National Trust. In 2002 he was commissioned by the House of Lords to paint the lying in state of the Queen Mother at the Palace of Westminster. In 2005 his paintings featured in Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, at the Palace of Holyrood House, Edinburgh and Queen's Gallery, London.

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More works by each of these artists will be added in due course

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