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JANUARY/FEBRUARY

23a Beresford Street • St Helier • JERSEY • JE2 4WN

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Gerald Palmer

Gerald Palmer Gerald Palmer, NDD, is a St. Helier born Jerseyman. He showed exceptional talent at school and later with the help of his Headmaster and Edmund Blampied, an established Jersey artist, he was able to secure a grant which enabled him to study at Portsmouth College of Art.

After gaining his National Diploma in Design in 1955 he began a career as an Editorial Art Assistant with the Hilton Press in Fleet Street, later going on to join a team illustrating books and magazines in England and Europe. Latterly Gerald has concentrated more on the fine art side producing work in oils, watercolours, pastel, pen and wash and various other media, and has executed many commissions including portraits, landscapes, seascapes and still life.

He regularly exhibits work at the guild of Aviation Artists and at the Pastel Society exhibitions in London. Gerald has also produced postage stamp designs for the Jersey Post Office. His work is very much in demand world-wide and is sold as far away as Japan and America. Gerald’s interests include designing and building various model aircraft, from skimmers to gliders, skin diving, sail boarding and sea fishing.

GERALD PALMER

Corbiere at Dusk pastel framed £295.00 Distant Corbiere pastel framed £295.00

Sunset over the Fields oil on canvas framed £395.00 The Cobbler oil on canvas framed £600.00

John Piper (1903-1992)

Famous for his views of ruined churches, stately homes and castles, John Piper is considered to be one of the most significant British artists of the 20th Century.

Born in Epsom in 1903, Piper's passion was to become an artist but was frustrated by his father's desire for him to join the family law firm. Following the death of his father in 1927, Piper enrolled in the Richmond School of Art and a year later the Royal College of Art, leaving without graduating in 1929.

In the early 1930s Piper exhibited with the London Group and became secretary of the Seven and Five Society which included Henry Moore, Ivon Hitchens, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. He also made a number of trips to Paris where he befriended Alexander Calder and visited the studios of Arp, Brancusi and Jean Hélion. Surrounded by these avant-garde artists, Piper's work of this period reflected the trend for abstraction but by the late 1930s he had returned to a more naturalistic style.

In 1937 Piper married the writer Myfanwy Evans who collaborated with him in some of his later stage work with Benjamin Britten. Collaborations were important to Piper and fuelled his artistic output. Piper worked on stage designs and costumes for theatre and ballet as well as the designs for seven operas by Benjamin Britten. A versatile artist, Piper also wrote articles on art and architecture and designed stained glass windows for a number of buildings including the new Coventry Cathedral.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Piper was commissioned by the 'war artists' scheme' to capture the effects of the war on the British landscape. The devastation of the Blitz was easily assimilated to Piper's personal interest in old ruined buildings. During these years he travelled the country, capturing the atmosphere of places. These scenes do not always directly relate to bomb-damage but reflect, in Piper's unique way, a sense of loss and nostalgia. In 1944 he was appointed Official War Artist. Piper died at home in Fawley Bottom in 1992.

Venetian Backdrop signed limited edition print unframed £1500.00

JOHN PIPER

Louise Ramsay BA Hons, Dip Con

Louise graduated from Oxford Brookes University (1989-1992) with a BA Hons in History of Art and Visual Studies and went on to pursue a career in easel painting conservation, training at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (1993-1996). Having worked alongside many accomplished conservators in public and private collections (London 1996-1999), Louise went on to establish her own small business (Cheshire, 2000-2008) conserving and restoring old master paintings.

In 2006 Louise started to re-kindle her love of painting and drawing and exhibited with a group of painters in her home county of Cheshire. In 2008 Louise moved to Jersey with her husband and children and has increasingly spent more and more time drawing and painting - interpreting the local landscape and seascapes in small studies and increasingly larger pictures. Louise works primarliy in acrylic paint, charcoal and ink.

LOUISE RAMSAY

Corbiere at Dusk acrylic on board framed £425.00 The Whitehouse acrylic on board framed £425.00

SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT

Russell Flint was often described as the doyen of English water-colour painting of his day. In his paintings he almost unfailingly achieved his end, which was to portray decorous Bohemian sensuality in his figures and an idealised wonderland in his landscapes.He was fortunate to receive critical acclaim and recognition during his lifetime. At the time of his election to the Royal Academy, watercolorists had seldom been eligible for admission to this select body. Flint, however, went from being a Member to a Trustee in 1943, and four years later he was knight-ed. Born in Edinburgh in 1880. At the age of 14, Russell Flint took up an apprenticeship with a firm of printers whilst attending evening art classes at the Royal Institute School of Art. In 1900 he came to London and became a medical illustrator. He then went on to become a staff artist for the Illustrated London News for four years. It was during this period that Flint attended evening art classes at Heatherley's Art School. A fellow student introduced him to Sybylle Sueter as a model, with whom Flint instantly fell in love and whom he married in 1905. The next two decades saw Flint turn from black and white illustration to colour and receive official recognition from the exhibiting societies. He went on to become an Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours and President of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours this position he held for 20 years. In all his 89 years, Flint's artistic career was only interrupted once, with the outbreak of the First World War, during which he became a captain in the Royal Air Force. Sir William Russell Flint died in December 1969.

SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT

Venetian Festival signed limited edition print framed £750.00

NICHOLAS ROMERIL

NICK ROMERIL (born 1967) is a professional  Jersey artist, married with two children. He studied Art at the Birmingham Polytechnic and the Camberwell College of Art and Design. Later at the London Institute he obtained an MA in printmaking and a BA (hons) in Fine Art Painting. He has received awards and scholarships for his work and has carried out many commissions for private and corporate clients. He exhibits regularly  in both Jersey and Great Britain and has sold his work to clients all over the world. 

NICHOLAS ROMERIL

Dune Cove oil on canvas 45cms x 52cms £1,500.00

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

April ~ Eric Lionel Walker

April ~ Easter Show ~ Gallery artists

May ~ Charlotte Cornish

July ~ Summer Show ~ Gallery artists

October ~ Exhibition to be finalised (watch this space)

November ~ Martin Bullivant

December ~ Christmas Exhibition ~ Gallery artists