Half Moon Printmakers at the Rectory Gallery

Half Moon Printmakers are five professional printmakers who have worked together for many years in one studio, now located in West Dulwich. They show regularly as a group as well as individually.

GAIL BRODHOLT Painter and Linocut printmaker
Gail is well known for her vibrant, strong  and colourful prints of transport images, evoking the grandeur and elegance of our metropolitan stations.

Gail Brodholt

KAREN KEOGH Painter and printmaker

Using traditional three plate etching techniques, Karen explores landscape and cityscape, exaggerating their natural patterns and rhythms with her personal interpretation of colour.

Karen Keogh

LOUISE DAVIES Painter and printmaker

Using collograph and etching plates in her work, Louise evokes landscape through the use of fluid line and intense colour.

Louise Davies

SONIA ROLLO, Printmaker
Sonia's well-known exquisite prints of hares and other animals stem from a childhood fascination with wildlife and a training as a biologist, before becoming an artist.

Sonia Rollo

SUSIE PERRING Printmaker
Reflecting her graphic design background, Susie draws strong, vibrant images, producing highly personal aquatints with intense colour and movement – natural images that stir the imagination.

Susie Perring

Lucy Willis: prints and paintings from the last 25 years

20th March - 10th May 2013

FIRST THURSDAY OPENINGS 4TH APRIL & 2ND MAY 1-9PM
PLEASE NOTE GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY AT ALL OTHER TIMES
This exhibition shows a selection of Lucy Willis’ work spanning the last 25 years of her career. Willis’ paintings and prints demonstrate her passion for travel, and the vast array of countries she has visited to gather her imagery are shown here. Locations featured include Malta, Greece, Sicily, and Venice.


Lucy Willis,Chinese China,
 watercolour, 26 x 27cm
£495 SOLD

 Further a-field locations featured include Syria, Yemen, China, India, Senegal, Morocco and Zanzibar. Willis explores the places she visits and captures evocative elements of them; from quiet moments in the backstreets of a city, to big sweeping views across a skyline. She relishes depicting intricate details of the architecture, and moments from the everyday lives of the people living within it.



Lucy Willis, Stone Steps,
watercolour,49 x 33cm
£850 SOLD

  In all Willis’ watercolours, the defining element is her sensitivity to these details and her masterly use of light.

Lucy Willis trained at the Ruskin School of Art. She has tutored many painting groups in various countries across the world and written two books on the subject of watercolour painting. Exhibitions include many solo exhibitions and group exhibitions all across the UK.

She won the BP Portrait Award for portraits of Shepton Mallet Prison inmates, following her artist residency there. She was elected a member of the Royal West of England Academy in 1993.

Menagerie at the Rectory

http://www.curwengallery.co.uk/gallery/rectory/visit.htm
 Menagerie at the Rectory opened last night at The Rectory Gallery.It was a lovely private view with many familiar faces turning out for a warm welcome on a cold evening. Curwen artists, including Alison Neville, Susie Perring and Pierre Julien,were all visiting our spitalfields space for the first time ever. Alison Neville, in particular seemed quite taken by the space, proposing a very interesting idea for a show on the spot, something to watch out for!

Mark Hearld, Curwen Menagerie,
lithograph (ed.75), 85 x 113cm, £410 framed

As with many of our shows at the Rectory, the space itself lends a lot of the character of each exhibition. This was the first time we have included sculpture in a show at the Rectory and after much shuffling and rejigging we found places for everything.Recieving a lot of attention were Pierre Julien's now famous newspaper animals Endangered Species arranged painstakingly in the elegant bay window.Looking regal on the other side of this space was Ed Murray's Lurcher, a classical bronze portrait of the most majestic of dogs. Another sculpture, Robin Spalding's Crocodile looked very distinguished, clothed in gold leaf and luxuriating on the marble mantelpiece. 

Pierre Julien Endangered Species': Lion rolled newspaper, 15-25cm £450 

 Susie Perrings's fabulous Silver looked very at home against the Georgian panelling, reassuring as the next show at the Rectory Gallery will be hers.In recent months we had a sudden rush of interest in Susie's work, with a pieces in the Christmas show selling shortly after the opening.Although chiefly on a reconaissance mission, in planning for her show, Susie and husband Ian found time to have a drink with us and observe the irreplacable Archie (The Rectory gallery dog) attacking a ghost (possibly).

Susie Perring, Silver, aquatint, ed.175,81 x 75, £300 fr.

Thanks to all who attended the show, we had a lovely evening and hope you will all join us again in Spitalfields very soon.If you missed the opening of Menagerie don't forget that we will be having a second private view this Sunday afternoon (22nd Jan, 2-4pm) and then further first Thursday openings on 2nd Feb(1-9pm) and 1st March (1-9pm).

Robin Spalding, Crocodile, plaster, gold leaf and pigment, £450

David Rhys Jones Private Views

Our new show of David Rhys Jones opened last Wednesday night to a packed gallery.One of the busiest Rectory private views in recent times.David did really well, selling 35 of his rather special photographic ceramic works.This show examines the architectural legacy of Nicholas Hawksmoor, looking at the six London churches he designed.Each of the six churches is represented by a grouping of photographs taken in and around the builidings.
We have another opening this Sunday at the Rectory Gallery from 2-4pm and the show runs until 13th October.

Northern Graduates at Rectory Gallery

Our Northern Graduates show at the Rectory Gallery is now open.There is a wide variety of contemporary painting, printmaking and sculpture on show from a selection of the most interesting artists from the northern universities.

Click on the link below to see all the images of the show:

http://www.curwengallery.co.uk/gallery/rectory/northerngrads11/title.htm

DAVID HASTE BEGINS

 

 

FIRST THURSDAY 03 FEB

FIRST THURSDAY OPEN DAY

1-9PM THURSDAY 3^RD FEBRUARY

Come and see our current exhibition ‘Four’.
With work by: Adam Bridgland, Sarah Bridgland, Erica Donovan & Edd Pearman.