June - 2017

Round the Island Race this weekend

Sue Stitt captures the action in her retro style posters. Last year's limited edition posters showing the yachts off St. Catherine's were a sellout and this year she has two stunning new images depicting the competing yachts as they pass through Hurst Narrows, and again as they jockey for position passing No-mans-land Fort, off Ryde. Prices this year are: mounted A3 - £90, framed A3 - £145 mounted A2 - ££120 , framed A2 - £215 You can reserve your print by emailing us your c

Cloudscape, Yarmouth Harbour

Before the heatwave, there was a period of rapidly changing cool weather here in the South when great swathes of cumulus cloud built, cloud on cloud to fill the sky. This painting, now hanging in Yarmouth Gallery is one of a whole series of cloud paintings I have been working on. Here I am, hanging my 'Cloudscape, Yarmouth Harbour' at Yarmouth Gallery, one of the first of a series in which the clouds have become the main subject. It is an oil on stretched canvas.

Featured artist of the month

Birds eggs, pebbles, rocks and strata, distant horizons, rivulets across the sand all come to mind when looking at Sally Woodford's raku fired ceramic sculptures. Picking up one of her pebble forms is a sensual pleasure and it is hard to resist running a hand over the abstract, standing forms. Sally uses hand building methods and says of her work "this means each piece evolves slowly, enabling it to develop its own character, to become individual - each piece I make proves t