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May 15 2021

the horatio’s garden summer art auction

Vanessa Jackson, 'Limelight'

Scarlett Bowman, 'Blush'

Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 'Boundaries'

Robert Woolner, 'Blue Touch'

Maggi Hambling, 'Moon and Sea'

Boo Mallinson, 'Spring Landscape'

£100 will fund Two Months' Worth of Art

Rory Carnegie, 'Whisper'

Ian MacGillivray, 'Two Young Stags'

Nic Fiddian-Green, 'New Horse at Water'

Fred Clark, 'Warthog'

Laura Pentreath, 'Pair of Flamingos'

Sally Oyler, 'Emperor Preening Chick'

Ben Barrell, 'Dancer'

Susannah Fiennes, Commissioned Drawing (London)

Rob and Nick Carter, '36 Flowers from the Dutch Golden Age'

Clare Arbuthnott, 'Chrysanthemum Still Life'

Venetia Syms, 'Lilies, Chrysanthemums and Tuberoses'

Karen Camkin, 'Summer of 2020'

Jane Hayes Greenwood, 'One o'clock gun'

Kate Malone, 'A Baby Blackberry Pot'

Emma McClure, 'March Flowers'

Carrie Lees, 'A Snowdrop Cyanotype Print'

£100 will fund Two Months' Worth of Art

John Illsley, 'Still Life with 2 Oranges'

Matthew Burt, 'Key Cabinet'

Matthew Burt, 'Tray'

Hitomi Hosono, 'A Kaze and Hawthorn Bowl'

David Worthington, 'Push'

Will Spankie, 'Compass Birdbath'

Julian Wild, 'Stripping the Willow'

£500 will fund a Sculpture Exhibition in one Horatio's Garden

Keith Jansz, 'The Blue and White Vase'

Will Topley, 'Day 9 Geranium'

Nell Nicholas, 'Greenhouse'

Gina Soden, 'Plague'

Antonia Fraser, 'Summer's Day'

Dawn Beckles, 'What Are'

Claudia Legge, 'Empty Pool'

£200 will fund an Afternoon Session of Live Music in one Horatio's Garden

Rebecca Newnham, 'Vermeer 19 Oudolf'

Rebecca Newnham, 'Vermeer 18 Oudolf'

Rebecca Newnham, 'Vermeer 20 Oudolf'

Aubrey Higgin, 'Orange Blossom'

Emma Haggas, 'Chrissie's Flowers'

£100 will fund Two Months' Worth of Art

Nick Phillips, 'Wylye Valley Summer', 'Valley View' & 'Towards Grovely'

Melita Denaro, 'Up the hill, behind my home house, I felt both sorrow and inspiration.'

Lucy Kent, 'Big Clouds and Wind'

David Walsh, 'Bluebell Wood'

Rupert Muldoon, 'Painshill Park - Autumn'

Nicky Brown, 'The Pond, Late Summer, 2020'

William Wilkins, 'Autumn Sunlight' (oil on canvas)

Lady Ann Fraser, 'Autumn Leaves'

£600 will fund Six Artist in Residence Afternoons

Tim Burton, 'Edward Scissorhands'

Tim Burton, 'The Art of Tim Burton' (signed) & Original Print (signed)

Nina Mae Fowler, 'Love IV'

Phoebe Dickinson, 'Top Hat and Velvet Gloves 1,2 and 3'

Sarah Maple, 'Female Cutouts No.4'

£100 will fund Two Months' Worth of Art

Liorah Tchiprout, 'Princess in a pink room'

Patrick Morales-Lee, 'Tesselation'

Christabel Blackburn, 'Then and Now'

Sean Henry, 'Man on a Stool'

Mary Cox, 'Piggyback'

£100 will fund Two Months' Worth of Art

Tom Hammick, 'Night is a Starry Dome', 'Island in the Moon', 'Dusky Island'

Tom Hammick, 'Káta’s Kiss'

Julie Verhoeven, 'Wishing Well'

Miranda Creswell, 'Swimming Through'

Susannah Fiennes, One Term of Life Drawing Classes (London)

Barry Flanagan, 'For Constable, 1976'

Tessa Whitley, 'Meadowhead Farm, January'

Alastair Faulkner, 'South Queensferry High St'

Alex Lowery, 'Portland 123'

Kate Philp, 'Distant Showers, Bundle Bay'

Brenda Martin, 'Lockdown Beach Walk'

Madeleine Braithwaite-Exley, 'Soft Light, Scottish West Coast'

£300 will fund Creative Writing Workshops for Six Weeks in one Horatio's Garden

Please click on the large image of each of the artworks in the gallery above for more information regarding each piece

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Please click here to visit The Saleroom website, where you will be able to place your bids from Saturday 15th May – Sunday 30th May

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Please click here to view all the lots on the Woolley & Wallis website

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Over 60 of the UK’s leading artists, including Maggi Hambling, Sarah Maple, Tim Burton, Rob and Nick Carter, Keith Jansz, Sean Henry, Vanessa Jackson and William Wilkins are supporting the very first Horatio’s Garden Summer Art Auction!

In collaboration with fine art auctioneers, Woolley & Wallis, we’re curating a select, timed, online art auction which will run from 9am on Saturday 15th May until 4pm on Sunday 30th May.

All bids will be taken online once the auction opens on The Saleroom website. If you are the successful bidder, you will then be able to contact the artist or one of their representatives to arrange delivery of your chosen artwork.

If you would like more information about any of the artwork available prior to the auction opening, please contact Annabel Ward by emailing annabel@horatiosgarden.org.uk or calling 07810 753112.

The auction will feature new and recent works, including paintings, sculpture, ceramics and photography, ranging in price from £300 – £30,000. Alongside the eminent individuals mentioned above, a host of the UK’s most exciting emerging artists have also contributed works, including Christabel Blackburn, Patrick Morales-Lee, Dawn Beckles and Hitomi Hosono.

Many of the artists are generously donating the full price of their works to the charity, whilst others are kindly giving 50% or more of the sale price. Woolley & Wallis are generously sponsoring the event, so all proceeds will go directly to the charity.

As such, with your support, the auction promises to help to ensure the future of our stunning sanctuaries across the country and will enable us to continue improving the lives of everyone affected by spinal injury.

Vanessa Jackson RA

‘Limelight’

31 x 25cm // unframed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £600 – £1,000

Vanessa Jackson, on first reading, appears to take the most formal approach to painting, but her use of geometry and its three dimensional function deny the supposed flatness of modernist space. Jackson’s work explores the contradiction of a fully realised space at once pertaining to logic and completeness and uncertainty and unease. The ornamental and optical play of colour acts to both confirm and confuse our sense of perception, constantly shifting between concrete presence and the ambiguity of space beyond our grasp. Jackson destabilises the very ‘ground’ we most desire, a sense of security and belonging.

Scarlett Bowman

‘Blush’

26 x 1.5cm // unframed

Composite, recycled leather and canvas

Estimate: £1,000 – £1,500

Scarlett Bowman (b.1985, Windsor, UK) completed a BA in Classics at Newcastle University before undertaking an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Scarlett is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist, who uses the process of collage and assemblage as a metaphor for recording information. Highly tactile, her work is formed by the basic attributes of collage; juxtaposing various parts to make a whole, putting one thing together with another thing.

Through a playful engagement of material exploration, her process is a mix of intuition and deliberate placement. Fragmented shapes loosely resembling everyday ephemera are removed from their original context and re-assembled to create entirely new narratives, enabling multiple references to be weaved into a single narrative.

Inspired by movements such as Arte Povera and Outsider Art, Scarlett takes an archeological approach to make work. Selected found materials are chosen both for their formal value (shape, colour, texture) and their autobiographical value (history, use value). From these various sculptural fragments, visual signs of contemporary life are juxtaposed against more abstract forms. This ‘Fragment’ series give way to Scarlett’s paintings, as large swathes of treated recycled canvas, are sewn together into 2-dimensional ‘Patchwork Paintings’.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE; Generation Y, Platform Foundation; A Room of One’s Own, The Koppel Project Central; Paper Cuts, Saatchi Gallery; The Lotus Eaters, Aindrea Contemporary; Love In A Cold Climate, The Dot Project; Stuff, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes, London; BFAMI 70th Gala, Christies, London; Polymer, Fold gallery, London; Sunny Side Up! Rook and Raven, London; Dysfunctional Alterations, Balzer Projects, Switzerland.

RESIDENCIES; Villa Lena Foundation, Italy (June 2017)

COLLECTIONS; Soho House Group (New York, London, Mumbai)

Sarah Armstrong-Jones

‘Boundaries’ (2019)

25.5 x 20cm // unframed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £500 – £700

“Art is such an important creative focus in Horatio’s Gardens for patients with spinal injuries. I am delighted to support the charity to raise vital funds for people facing life changing injuries.” – Sarah Armstrong-Jones

Born in London in 1964, Sarah Armstrong-Jones was educated at Camberwell School of Art (where she did a foundation), and at the Royal Academy Schools. She won the Winsor & Newton Prize in 1988, and the Creswick Landscape Prize in 1990. Armstrong-Jones has had regular solo exhibitions at the Redfern Gallery since 1995, and her work has been selected on many occasions for open exhibitions, including the Discerning Eye, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, as well as the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Most recently, the Redfern staged a solo show of new paintings and watercolours, over three-quarters of which were sold. Taking inspiration from the landscape around her, the artist is particularly interested in textures – of the Sussex chalk; rock faces of Dunnet Head; and the granite and peat of Caithness – as well as capturing the atmosphere – of rain, mist or sunlight. In the catalogue foreword, William Feaver wrote how “places and things are absorbed into brimming compositions … realised with such imaginative precision”.

Robert Woolner

‘Blue Touch’

96 x 72.5cm // mounted under glass, framed

Painting in mixed media

Estimate: £750 – £850

Robert Woolner was born in Jamaica in 1946. He trained at Camberwell School of Art where his tutors included Euan Uglow, Frank Auerbach and Robert Medley. Drawing was at the centre of his practice. I the 1960sWoolner was influenced by the impact and scale of American Abstract Expressionism. During his career his work has moved from figuration towards abstraction. Robert was Director of Art at Canford School from 1986 to 1990 and moved to Vanners Studio in North Dorset in 1989. The studio provided an exhibition space for his own and his students’ work. He ran courses in painting and mixed Media until 2006. Since 1991 he has had at least one solo show a year in Dorset, London and Paris and was a regular gallery artist with the Alpha House Gallery. Woolner’s work has featured in Reinventing the Landscape (Canterton Books), Wessex Artists (Evolver Pubs) and a monograph produced by Fishbar Publications (Works 2000 to 2016). He has received awards from the Dept of Environment and Black Swan Arts.

Maggi Hambling

‘Moon and Sea’

26.7 x 31.8cm // framed

Oil on board

Estimate: £3,000 – £5,000

Maggi Hambling is a British painter and sculptor. She is best known for her expressive portraits and sublime depictions of landscapes and seascapes. Working in the tradition of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, Hambling’s close-up paintings of waves also call to mind the suspended, detailed prints of Hokusai Katsushika. Aside from painting, the artist has made a number of public sculptures, including a tribute to Oscar Wilde in the center of London, and Scallop on Aldeburgh beach. Born on October 23,1945 in Sudbury, United Kingdom, she studied at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing under Cedric Lockwood Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines before attending the Slade School of Art. In 1980,Hambling became the first Artist in Residence at the National Gallery in London, and soon after created a series of portraits of the comedian Max Wall. The artist’s works are in the collections of the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Tate Gallery in London, and the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, among others. Hambling lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

Boo Mallinson

‘Spring Landscape’

43.5 x 43.5cm and 5.5cm deep // framed

Charcoal, ink and acrylic on canvas

Estimate: £500 – £700

Boo’s paintings act as a visual diary and a way of recording her everyday walks and journeys through the landscape. When walking we absorb the sights, sounds and smells and they come together to form a very strong memory of place. Our minds can drift and wander yet we are very much in the present. Memories of a repeated walk along a known pathway, the distant horizon, the dramatic changes of colour and light from one moment to the next, day to day, season to season, these immersive encounters with the natural world form the starting point of Boo’s paintings. Some paintings remain very close to their origins, hinting at a place visited or remembered. These paintings are often smaller and more gestural, translating an idea quickly and embracing chance and accident. Other paintings evolve slowly and are reworked, building up the surface organically and allowing Boo to translate ambiguous images into new compositions. They are still about a visual encounter with the landscape yet there is a process of simplification, allowing her to explore colour and abstraction and to move intuitively between the real and the imaginary. This ambiguity allows the viewer the freedom to put their own interpretation in to the paintings and be reminded of their own experiences of being within the landscape. Boo is represented by Highgate Contemporary Art in London and The Limetree Gallery in Bristol.

£100 will fund Two Months’ Worth of Art

Estimate: £100 – £150

£100 will fund two months’ worth of art equipment for Horatio’s Garden at Glasgow hospital.

We provide good quality art materials to empower patients to achieve their best results. Art sessions contribute positively to rehabilitation by improving patients’ balance, posture and concentration, as well as maximising fine motor skills.

Rory Carnegie

‘Whisper’

75 x 91cm // framed

Archival Print // Edition of 15

Estimate: £1,800 – £2,200

Photographic awards include D and AD, 2 AOP Golds and the Sony World Photographic. I have taught photographic theory to undergraduates and Fellows on the Chevening Research Fellowships at Oxford University and run a 5-year writing and photographic programme with young asylum seekers through Asylum Welcome.

In 2017/2018 I devised and created the National Crime Agency’s campaign to highlight the issue of Modern Slavery. This resulted in a touring exhibition that ended at Westminster Abbey and an online exhibit that had over 9 million engagements. In 2018/2019 I collaborated with a people who have experienced homelessness to recreate a series of British iconic images.

Ian MacGillivray

‘Two Young Stags’

38.1 x 48.2cm // framed

Oil on linen

Estimate: £1,800 – £2,000

A Cheshire based artist specialising in oil paintings of landscapes and animals.

Nic Fiddian-Green

‘New Horse at Water’ (2014)

18 x 16cm

Bronze on English Oak base

Estimate: £5,000 – £8,000

“I’m trying to get beyond the rim, I’m trying to get to the edge of form and line – to the mystery of it all.” – Nic Fiddian-Green

Nic Fiddian-Green, born in Hampshire in 1963, is best known as an equestrian sculptor, primarily working in bronze and beaten lead.

Nic has been fascinated by the horse’s head since his student days, when studying sculpture at the Chelsea College of Art he saw the 5th century Horse of Selene, part of the Parthenon at The British Museum and this sparked his lifelong obsession.

He has work in many important private and corporate collections and has exhibited in major galleries in Paris, Perugia in Italy, PAD in New York, Sydney and Hong Kong, as well as at most important Art Fairs such as Tefaf Maastricht, Dubai and Masterpiece London.

The spirit and power of the horse has been his obsession for 30 years and this passion makes his work take on a spiritual quality. He is an artist of our time yet his work embodies the classical Greek principles of beauty, serenity and harmony, but with a raw, natural power and strength, as if symbolic of the earth it came from. Casting Bronze, patination and the alchemy of metals have been a fascination for Nic since his student days.

Fred Clark

‘Warthog’

68 x 50cm // unframed

Framing available

Oil on board

Estimate: £3,000 – £4,000

Fred Clark b.1989, is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Stroud. He is currently working on a series of virtual reality three dimensional drawings, to be cast in bronze.

This work was made in response to a residency on a game reserve in Kenya. It’s all about the compact energy, the movement and, to a large extent, the humour to be found in warthogs.

Laura Pentreath

‘Pair of Flamingos’

26.5 x 23 x 6.5cm

Bronze

Limited edition No.1 of 25

Estimate: £1,500 – £2,o00

Laura Pentreath is a figurative sculptor specialising in wild and domestic animals cast in bronze or bronze resin. Sculpted from live models whenever possible, her pieces vividly capture the animal’s form, movement and spirit. With over fifteen years experience, her sculptures have been exhibited in various galleries and exhibitions across the United Kingdom. Born and brought up on an East Anglian farm surrounded by wildlife, Laura Pentreath now lives and works in rural West Dorset with her husband, four children and numerous animals great and small.

Sally Oyler

‘Emperor Preening Chick’

44 x 55.5cm // framed

Watercolour

Estimate: £800 – £1,000

Sally Oyler travels widely, drawing inspiration from a variety of subjects and encounters, with amazing wildlife being the closest to her heart. One of her most inspiring journeys took her to see the Emperor penguins at their rookery on Snow Hill Island on the Antarctic peninsula. The Emperors, and especially their young chicks, were as inquisitive of her as she was of them. Sally’s style of painting has been influenced by her training in graphics and textile design. Her striking, sometimes quirky perception of wildlife results in her captivating images, which often have a surprising twist. Sally has had 17 very successful solo exhibitions in Edinburgh, London and Florence and her work is in corporate and private collections in Italy, the USA, Germany, Sweden and Denmark, as well as the UK.

Ben Barrell

‘Dancer’ (2006)

45 x 32 x 15cm

Bronze resin on stainless steel base // No. 5 of edition of 9

Estimate: £1,600 – £2,000

“Dancer was a piece I originally made to be scaled up to 3.2 meters tall for a public art commission celebrating the work done by the community Havant Art Centre in Havant. I completed a set of works for their courtyard including Dancer at 3.2 meters tall.” – Ben Barrell

Ben’s joyous sculptural forms and shapes flow out of his approach to life and the things he sees and experiences around him. He has experienced first-hand the drama of the Atlantic Ocean and the waves that crash against the beach, the experience of sailing on it and surfing through it, the joy of encountering the species that call it home.

Susannah Fiennes

Commissioned Drawing – Three Hour Portrait Sitting (London)

Charcoal or Pencil

Redeemable within the year

Estimate: £1,500 – £2,000

Susannah Fiennes is a figurative painter who divides her time between doing portrait commissions, teaching a private life drawing class in Notting Hill and lecturing on looking at paintings from an artist’s point of view.

Born in Oxford, she now lives and works at home near Abergavenny, South Wales.

She has travelled extensively, and for five years lived and painted in New York City.

Susannah has exhibited her work regularly in both group and solo exhibitions. Her paintings can be seen in the collections of the national portrait gallery, the House of Commons, Barings Bank and HRH the Prince of Wales.

Rob & Nick Carter

’36 Flowers from the Dutch Golden Age’

49 x 102cm // mounted

Supergloss print, diasec face

Edition 48 of 95

Estimate: £750 – £800

Rob and Nick Carter are a husband and wife artistic duo who have been collaborating for over 20 years. The Carter’s work is centered on the boundaries between the analogue and the digital and has taken many mediums including camera-less photography, painting, installation, neon, sculpture and time-based media. Their acclaimed Transforming series has been 10 years in the making and creates a unique intersection between the art of the past and cutting edge computer generated imagery. Their work is housed in the collections of the Frick, Pittsburgh; Mauritshuis, The Hague; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; David Roberts Foundation, London; Städel Museum, Frankfurt; and the Fondation Custodia, Paris, as well as being the first living artists to show a work at the Frick Museum, New York. Collectors include Sir Elton John, Jude Law, and Sir Peter Blake.

Clare Arbuthnott

‘Chrysanthemum Still Life’

74 x 56.5cm // framed

Mixed media, gouache and acrylic ink

Estimate: £600 – £850

Clare Arbuthnott is a Scottish painter who exhibits throughout the UK and whose work is collected internationally. She was brought up in the countryside but Edinburgh is now where she calls home. Her work whether landscape or floral still life is filled with rich colour and lively brushstrokes. Both subjects are approached with vigor and joyful enthusiasm. Clare is delighted to be taking part in the Art Auction to raise awareness and funds for Horatio’s Garden.

Venetia Syms

‘Lilies, Chrysanthemums and Tuberoses’

100 x 100cm // framed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £1,800 – £2,200

Venetia graduated from the Hatherley’s School of Fine Art with a diploma in Portraiture in 2014. Prior to this she studied traditional skills for a year at Charles Cecil Studios in Florence and subsequently attended the University College Falmouth where she studied drawing. Her paintings have been shown at a number of exhibitions in the UK, Holland and Zimbabwe since graduating and she appeared as a contestant on the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the year 2015 program. Painting landscapes in Zimbabwe involved holding a solo show in Harare, which featured her ‘Balancing Rock’ series in 2016. Venetia won the Bath and West Art Scholarship for which she exhibited her work on the Brecon Beacons in 2017/2018.Venetia had her own gallery space at Affordable art Fair Amsterdam 2019. Venetia currently paints both in London and Dorset, her current floral painting will be exhibited at RHS Chelsea flower show in May 2021.

Karen Camkin

‘Summer of 2020’

100 x 100cm // framed

Oil on gessoed board // No. 3

Estimate: £3,000 – £4,000

My paintings are built up with many layers that are scratched in to, wiped out and painted and draw into over and over again. They are intended to be intimate and studied portraits that are more about discovery than literal, and that attempt to capture and express what is moving and powerful about nature.

Jane Hayes Greenwood

‘One o’clock gun’

45 x 55cm // unframed

Oil on linen

Estimate: £2,000 – £2,500

Jane Hayes Greenwood currently lives and works in London. She received an MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2015. Her work emerges from a painting practice, spanning works on linen, CGI animation, sculpture and installation. Her recent paintings from ‘The Witch’s Garden’ series feature dreamlike plants. The plants act as possible ingredients for potions or spells and explore the ways we attempt to treat and control our bodies and minds. The works consider desire and magical thinking, referencing herbal fertility guides and ancient spell books. Recent solo shows include ‘The Witch’s Garden’ at GiG, Munich, Germany (2019) and ‘Lead Me Not Into Temptation’ at Block 336, London, UK (2017). Hayes Greenwood’s work has featured in numerous group exhibitions internationally and was published in the Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting,2018 alongside artists such as Lubaina Himid, Rose Wylie and Peter Doig. She is the co-founder and Director of Block 336, a project space, studio provider and UK arts charity based in South London, and teaches part-time on the BA Fine Art course at City & Guilds of London Art School.

Kate Malone

‘A Baby Blackberry Pot’

H.10cm, Dia.11 cm

Crystalline-glazed stoneware

(Image courtesy of Adrian Sassoon, London)

Estimate: £3,500 – £4,000

Kate Malone has studios in London and France and has become one of Britain’s most well-known and generous of ceramic artists since graduating from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1986. Her work is often inspired by exotic travels, the growth patterns and ripeness of nature. Using strong colours and sumptuous crystalline glazes, her work communicates a ‘feelgood factor’ through optimistic cladding of her forms with abundant sculptural details. Her work appeals to collectors of all ages with widely ranging personal interests and is represented in major public collections.

Emma McClure

‘March Flowers’

48 x 48cm // framed

Oil on linen

Estimate: £300 – £500

Emma McClure was born in London in 1962 and spent her childhood in Oxfordshire and Cornwall. After completing a foundation course at Falmouth School of Art, she did a BA Hons in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art followed by an MA in Painting at Chelsea School of Art. Since leaving art school she has been a practising artist working mainly as a painter and has exhibited regularly. Over the last 25 years, she has had several solo exhibitions with Cadogan Contemporary in London and more recently with Cornwall Contemporary in Penzance. She lives and works in Cornwall.

Carrie Lees

‘A Snowdrop Cyanotype Print’

63.5 x 48.2cm // framed

Giclee print

Estimate: £250 – £350

Carrie Lees trained as a fine art photographer at St Martins and the Black and White School of Photography with Natasha Bult where she immersed herself in traditional printing techniques, producing exhibition quality work. Her landscape and travel work have featured in many group exhibitions, such as the Thackeray Gallery, and in various Condé Nast publications. Carrie subsequently worked as a successful portrait photographer for many years. She developed techniques that focused on the manipulation of natural light to create timeless images and printed using museum quality papers. More recently she has experimented with using these skills and the same traditional methods to create similar “portraits” of plants. She is drawn to the beauty and fragility of the botanical world and aims to produce simple but structural images to portray the living essence of the plants themselves. This can be seen both in her latest photographs and cyanotype prints.

£100 will fund Two Months’ Worth of Art

Estimate: £100 – £150

£100 will fund two months’ worth of art equipment for Horatio’s Garden at Stanmore hospital.

John Illsley

‘Still Life with 2 Oranges’

60 x 60cm // framed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £3000 – £5000

Since Dire Straits stopped working together in 1993 John has pursued his other passion of painting. What followed were 6 solo exhibitions in London, and solo exhibitions in New York, Sydney, Dublin and France, over the last 25 years.

“I know from personal experience about the trauma and life changing effect that spinal injuries can cause when 15 years ago the son of one of my oldest friends was left paralysed from the neck down after a bicycle accident. Horatio’s Gardens enable patients with spinal injuries to get out in the open air in a beautiful environment either alone or with their friends and families which must be both uplifting and transformative. I am very happy to be able to help in some way with a painting for the upcoming Art auction.”

“Painting is a kind of dance between reality and unreality, figuration and abstraction, where all this ambiguity leads us I have no idea only that it challenges painters to produce something that not only means something to himself but hopefully to someone else.” – John Illsley.

Matthew Burt

‘Key Cabinet’

77 x 15.5 x 9cm

Oak with stainless steel hooks

Estimate: £450 – £600

Matthew Burt has, for forty years, designed and created interior and exterior furniture for private homes, public spaces and major museums & galleries including the Ashmolean and Courtauld Gallery. From his south Wiltshire studio and workshop Matthew, along with his teamof makers and apprentices, has developed a national reputation for originality of design and quality of craftsmanship. Matthew Burt is holder of seven Bespoke Guild Marks awarded by The Furniture Makers’ Company and in 2016 won the prestigious Claxton-Stephens Prize for Excellence. Matthew has received The Best Use of British Timber award from Woodland Heritage. Recent notable projects include the altar for St Thomas’s, Salisbury.

Matthew Burt

‘Tray’

54.5 x 33 x 7.5cm

Sweet chestnut with ash handles (pegs supplied for wall hanging, if desired)

Estimate: £260 – £300

Hitomi Hosono

‘A Kaze and Hawthorn Bowl’

H. 13cm Dia. 15cm

Moulded, carved and hand-built porcelain with an interior of dancing sprigs

(Image courtesy of Adrian Sassoon, London)

Estimate: £3,500 – £4,000

I receive inspiration from greenery in East London. Often when rambling with my friend, I discover interesting plants; touching them to feel the texture and to examine the structure. First, I design a leaf or flower sprigs by studying organic botanical forms. I analyse the plant forms by looking, touching and drawing. I examine how the veins of a leaf branch and how its edges are shaped. After the completion of original sprig models and the plaster moulds, I press-mould hundreds of leaf sprigs in porcelain and carefully and patiently carve the finer details. I then apply the porcelain leaves in layers onto a form thrown on a potter’s wheel. I apply the leaves so densely that the underlying shape is entirely hidden, like the multitude of green leaves, which obscure the branches of a tree. It is my intention to transfer the leaf’s beauty and detail into my ceramic work, using it as my own language to weave new stories for objects.

David Worthington

‘Push’

40cm diameter, 30kg base, 40mm thick

Marble

Estimate: £5,000 – £7,000

While a teenager David Worthington became interested in sculpture. He graduated from Oxford University in 1984 with a degree in Philosophy and Theology. He had two solo shows at the prestigious London Gallery Alexander Reid and Lefevre and was the invited sculptor in 2001 at the world-renowned Glyndebourne Festival Opera. In 2001 he completed an MA in Visual Culture at Middlesex University. The Crane Kalman Gallery took his work to Miami Basel in 2002.In 2003 he performed with the Guillermo Gomez Pena Group at the Tate Modern as part of the Live Performance Festival.in 2007 he finished an MA in Computer Arts at the University of West London He was shortlisted for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize in 2009.In 2010 he installed a large public sculpture in Great Queen St Covent Garden for Henderson Global Investors. He sat on the Council of The Royal British Society of Sculptors, was elected a Fellow by his peers, in 2009, and Vice President in 2010.In 2012 he is curated an exhibition of 24 artists at the Chelsea Physic Garden in association with John Martin and the Eden Project. In 2015 he had a solo exhibition at the William Bennington Gallery. He has taken part in group shows at Colyer Bristow Gallery, Blueprint Fine Art, Sculpture at Fulmer with Brooke Bennington Gallery and Moreton Walled Garden , Dorset. In 2019 he installed a large public sculpture at Dunvegan Castle Isle of Skye.

He is currently exhibiting at Messums Wiltshire Tisbury. In 2021 he will be unveiling a large public sculpture in Woking. He has carried out public commissions in the UK, America and Japan. His work is in the museum the Creative Cities Collection Beijing China.

Will Spankie

‘Compass Birdbath’

400 x 400 x 150mm // oak block 300 x 300 x 300mm

Purbeck Stone

Estimate: £600 – £1,000

I undertake public and private commissions for sculpture, garden ornament and lettering; I also carve house signs, commemorative plaque sand memorials. I see myself in the tradition of artist makers, carving original pieces either to commission or for exhibition. The ideas behind my sculptural work are often influenced by organic forms, material and the environment. I am interested in the geometric structures, patterns, symmetry and proportion found both in nature and the unfolding of numbers in space. Other pieces have an historical element to them, either on a personal level or as part of the commissioning process with the client. I work predominantly in stone and wood because they are durable, lovely to carve and have their own innate beauty. I also teach stone carving and letter cutting courses on a private basis, in schools, prisons and through local adult education colleges. I am a Friend of the Edward Johnston Foundation and a member of the Landscape and Art Network. I exhibit my work regularly at the Garden Gallery, near Stockbridge in Hampshire and the Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Petworth, West Sussex.

Julian Wild

‘Stripping the Willow’

250 x 60 x 60cm
Weight: 200kg

Lacquered and painted bronze

Estimate: £30,000 – £40,000

Julian Wild makes sculpture. In his recent work: hard-edged, ordered forms are disrupted by organic elements that are awkward in form and sensuous in surface. In other sculptures rigid, minimal forms are corrupted through the imposition of a gesture. Wild’s sculptures are crafted from materials such as bronze and stainless steel, and combine assemblage, metal casting and fabrication. He often uses colour as an agent to identify form in space. The colours that he uses references the painted sculptures of modernists such as Judd and Caro, Wild’s works often split the colour open to reveal the sculpture’s metallic interior or vice versa. Wild’s structures reference architecture, engineering and the body. He creates sculptures that often appear to defy gravity and sense by cantilevering or stacking impossibly. He has held solo exhibitions at Burghley House Incomplete Systems (2011), Bishops Square Spitalfields To Market, to Market (2012) and Maddox Arts Fear of Geometry (2012), Leighton House Museum Wrestling Pythons (2013) & Modern Art Oxford (2013),William Benington Gallery The Island (2014), Canary Wharf Stripping the Willow (2015), William Benington Gallery Make Shift (2017) and The Said Business School Janus (2019) He has exhibited in group exhibitions at Sculpture in the City 2014, Sculpture at Fulmer, Grizedale Arts, The House of St. Barnabus, Fold Gallery, The Saatchi Gallery, Beyond Limits with Sothebys at Chatsworth House and the Irish Museum of Modern Art amongst others. He has been commissioned to make public artworks for: Modern Forms, The University of Oxford, Fidelity Investments, Millfield School, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Crest Nicholson, Jerwood Sculpture Park, Schroders, Wyeth Europa, Radley College, Sculpture in the Parklands in Ireland, The Burghley House Preservation Trust and Canary Wharf Group.

£500 will fund a Sculpture Exhibition in one Horatio’s Garden

Estimate: £500 – £600

Sculpture exhibitions in the five gardens add an extra dimension of interest to the spaces. They are a talking point and give patients the opportunity to explore a potentially new interest.

Keith Jansz

‘The Blue and White Vase’

60.1 x 67.3cm // framed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £150 – £250

“The last year has made society acutely aware of the value of such simple pleasures as fresh air and nature. In the past, long term residents of spinal units have been denied this enjoyment and diversion. I clearly remember my first experience of being rolled out into the sunshine, to hear the birds singing and to smell flowers–after months of confinement on the ward it was transformative. But that was before Horatio’s Garden took such experiences to another level. Providing privacy and distraction from the overwhelming reality of the ‘new normal’ following a spinal injury, the gardens are lifesaving. Following my spinal injury, I learnt to paint by holding a brush in my mouth. The beauty of nature is a constant inspiration for my work. I’m delighted to be supporting Horatio’s Garden by donating this oil painting of sunflowers and delphiniums in my own garden in Oxfordshire to the Summer Art Auction.” – Keith Jansz 2021

Will Topley

‘Day 9 Geranium’

36.5 x 30.5cm // framed

Oil on linen board

Estimate: £600 – £800

Born in Hong Kong in 1959, Will Topley is a Wiltshire based Artist. He paints interiors, landscapes and portraits which he shows regularly and has had many commissions worldwide. He trained at the Slade and has taught painting and drawing for over 20 years, in schools, art schools and privately. He has been teaching at the Royal Drawing School for over 10 years.

Nell Nicholas

‘Greenhouse’

100 x 150cm // unframed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £1,000 – £1,500

Nell Nicholas is a painter and furniture designer. She is from Salisbury, and currently lives and works in East London. Nell works with galleries and collectors around the world. Her solo exhibition, “Treasure” is currently on show at Monti8 Gallery in Italy. In early 2021, Nell opened her shop and studio off Brick Lane in Shoreditch. This painting was made during the first Covid-19 lockdown and was inspired by Nell’s residency at Horatio’s Garden Salisbury.

Gina Soden

‘Plague’

94 x 94cm // framed and mounted

325gsm Hahnemuhle Baryta print

Estimate: £1,700 – £2,000

At the heart of Gina Soden’s photography is a preoccupation with abandoned structures and locations. Based in London, she travels widely to undisclosed sites throughout Europe and explores the boundaries of beauty, decay, nostalgia and neglect. The genesis of each piece is often the unique architectural character of each location, heightened by their painfully slow transformation after years of abandonment.

Antonia Fraser

‘Summer’s Day’

152.4 x 121.9cm // painted wooden frame with silver slip

Oil on board

Estimate: £10,000 – £12,000

“This painting is a celebration of beauty of both in the home and of nature. A breeze is coming through the window and beyond are fields and a horse grazing in it; further still lies the sea, stretching to the horizon. Inside a book has been put to one side showing the occupant has left the room; perhaps to make a drink in the kitchen or to step outside.”

Antonia Fraser’s work is as a Colourist in the Scottish tradition with the added use of free expressive brushwork to augment the effect of colour. Recurring themes are still life and figurative paintings, landscapes and seascapes. Antonia studied Art at Greenwich Adult Education College and has painted mainly in Scotland and London, whilst also travelling widely. In the late 1990’s she painted in Morocco, which experience heightened her use of colour and strengthened her awareness of pattern. Over the ensuing years she also painted in South Africa and Asia, both further developing her interest in form and bright, bold, brilliant colours. She held her first, very successful solo exhibition in London in 1998 and has been exhibiting her paintings ever since. She also has had regular commissions for other paintings influenced by ongoing travels in France, Italy and Asia. She now lives and paints in Cornwall.

Dawn Beckles

‘What Are’

38 x 48cm // framed

Acrylic, collage and mother of pearl on plywood

Estimate: £600 – £800

“‘I’ve waited as you watch from a distance but I promised to live for them to see that our cries did not fall on deaf ears.’ The works I’ve created over the past 6-7 months discuss the effects of “the bystander effect”. The premise is that individuals are less likely tooter help to a victim when they are other people present.”

Dawn Beckles is a Barbados-born artist based in London. Working with a range of materials, including acrylics, oils, pastels, charcoal and graphite, she produces impressionist still lifes and abstracts. We love Dawn’s bold colour contrasts and the way she incorporates pattern into her pieces.
The artist studied Design at London Metropolitan University. Dawn has since exhibited her work at Wimbledon Art Studios, where she works. She has been shortlisted for the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition as well as the Society of Women Artists Summer Exhibition.

Claudia Legge

‘Empty Pool’

80 x 60cm // framed

Archival pigment print on German Etching paper, photography

Estimate: £750 – £850

Claudia Legge is a photographer and director and underwater specialists based in London. She works and exhibits worldwide and is a qualified commercial diver. Her work has been in numerous group exhibitions including the Royal Photographic Society International photography Exhibition (2017). Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery (2018), the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy (2019), the VIA Arts Prize at the Brazilian Embassy (2019) and The Underwater Photographer Of The Year (2021).

‘Surrealist, magical and transcendentally beautiful, her work is fast becoming highly collectable.’ The Gentleman’s Journal

‘The underwater realm she creates here is an erotically charged phantasmagoria of movement, shade, light, darkness and shadow.’ The London Magazine

‘Total triumph… skill of the highest order.’ It’s Nice That

‘A young photographer taking the world by storm; one snap at a time’. MTV

“Claudia’s work never fails to amaze” i-D Magazine

£200 will fund an Afternoon Session of Live Music in one Horatio’s Garden

Estimate: £200 – £250

Live performances by musicians are very popular in the five Horatio’s Gardens. They offer entertainment and distraction to improve patients’ physical, social and psychological wellbeing.

Rebecca Newnham

‘Vermeer 19 Oudolf’

920 x 920 x 90mm // framed

Glass, timber

(Image courtesy of David Bird)

Estimate: £2,500 – £3,000

Rebecca Newnham is a sculptor and designer concerned with dynamic movement and light. Each work playfully integrates science, art, and engineering, and they can be static or kinetic: some float or suspend or rotate. Free standing works interpret scientific ideas such as fluid dynamics, waves of energy and sound. Wall panels are inspired by an experience of place, the painted facets merge with ambient reflection blending the image with the present. Newnham’s sculptures often have a glass skin. Light reflecting from this faceted glass surface changes as the viewer moves through the space adding to the impact of the work. Glass is painted with enamels, fired then cut, polished, and applied to wrap seamlessly around the form. Newnham has works in private and museum collections; she alternates working on her own narrative pieces with site specific commissions.

Rebecca Newnham

‘Vermeer 18 Oudolf’

920 x 560 x 90mm // framed

Glass, timber

(Image courtesy of David Bird)

Estimate: £2,000 – £2,500

Rebecca Newnham

‘Vermeer 20 Oudolf’

660 x 510 x 90mm // framed

Glass, timber

(Image courtesy of David Bird)

Estimate: £1,200 – £1,500

Aubrey Higgin

‘Orange Blossom’

153 x 120cm // unframed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £4,500 – £5,000

Aubrey Higgin is a British artist whose paintings capture movement and energy using vivid colours to portray positivity and vitality. His paintings have been exhibited in places such as The Dorchester Hotel, 45 Park Lane, London, and sold all over the World, in places such as Geneva, Santa Monica, Gothenburg, Dubai and Rome. He has recently had work collected by a Californian Billionaire who works in the film Industry. Aubrey was born in Cheshire, UK in 1993. He developed a keen interest in the arts at a very young age from painting with his Grandmother, who inspired his love of art. He was subsequently awarded an Art Scholarship. He is a graduate of the BA Art programme at Reading University.

Emma Haggas

‘Chrissie’s Flowers’

54 x 48.5cm // framed

Oil on board

Estimate: £800 – £1,000

During the last few years I have really started to enjoy ‘paint’, the experience of colours, making a harmonised palette and learning how to place them in a free and exciting way. Studying artists such as Ivon Hitchens, Cezanne and Keith Vaughan has helped this. Rather than painting the landscape as it is, using the paint is a way of expressing a personal response to it. My oil-based paintings are inspired by the beautiful surroundings of my Wiltshire home and the stunning seascapes of the North Cornish coast. I also paint vibrant still life and flowers. I am currently showing regularly in around the country.

£100 will fund Two Months’ Worth of Art

Estimate: £100 – £150

£100 will fund two months’ worth of art equipment for Horatio’s Garden at Stoke Mandeville hospital.

Nick Phillips

‘Wylye Valley Summer’, ‘Valley View’ & ‘Towards Grovely’

30 x 40cm respectively // mounted

Acrylic on paper

Estimate: £300 – £500

While working in London, I attended evening life drawing classes at Heatherley’s Art School in Chelsea London, and then gained a place on the foundation course at Chelsea College of Art in 1993. I returned to work at Auction Houses as an Art Handler/Technician for 14 years, continuing to draw and paint when possible, and showed work in staff art exhibitions, I completed a short course in Intaglio print making at Central St Martins College London. In 2007 I left work to pursue my painting and put on a show of work in London in 2008.In this year I showed work at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, and in galleries in London and the South East, and the Affordable Art Fair Battersea. I moved to the Isle of Wight and showed work in galleries on the Island. I moved to Salisbury in 2010 and worked in a local Auction House while continuing to paint, from 2011 I rented a studio in Wilton, and attended Life Drawing sessions, I have shown in the Young Gallery Salisbury, and am a member of the supporters committee. In 2018 I made 100 paintings in two months, and designed and built the website at www.onehundredworks.com. I am mainly, though not exclusively interested in landscape. My process involves observed drawings made in situ, which are then developed in the studio. The information in the drawings is all that I use, there is no photography involved in the process, by this method I have to develop instincts for composition, and to grasp the essential elements of the view. Over the years I have taught myself to paint with a limited palette which is unique to my work, through this method I can express notions of the history, and enigmatic character of landscape and engage in meditations about the human place in it.

Melita Denaro

‘Up the hill, behind my home house, I felt both sorrow and inspiration.’

27 x 29cm // unframed

Oil on board

Estimate: £5,000 – £7,000

For the last 25 years Melita Denaro has made a monthly pilgrimage from her Hackney studio to the Isle of Doagh, a peninsula of Inishowen in Co. Donegal. It is here that Melita spends her days painting the wild landscape that surrounds her, weathering whatever conditions the Atlantic Ocean chooses to throw at her. Immersed in the landscape of Inishowen and its wild, changeable weather, Denaro’s paintings do not simply record a moment, of time but have become a trigger for other memories of a childhood growing up on the Isle of Doagh, Those memories make their way into the titles of each painting: the islanders, their conversations, stories and occupations have become an inseparable part of Denaro’s work.

Denaro was trained at Central School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. She has shown regularly with the John Martin Gallery since 2002.

Lucy Kent

‘Big Clouds and Wind’

40 x 45cm // framed

Oil on wood panel

Estimate: £650 – £750

‘This is the view from my doorstep which I painted en plein air. Due to the restrictions and the inability to travel, it has been a scene that I have painted a lot over the last year. I soon realised that I had all the inspiration I needed right in front of me. The huge skies, the changing weather, the time of day, the light; shifting my viewpoint from one direction to another, my inspiration has been endless. Slowing life down made me truly see the changing seasons, nature at work and feeling grateful for what we have. I use a mixture of brush and palette knife to paint, building layers and vibrancy, resulting in energetic, tactile paintings.” – Lucy Kent, 2021

Lucy is a British artist, living and working in Wiltshire, UK. Lucy works in oil, both en plein air and in the studio, making larger works from her studies. Her paintings capture a fleeting moment and the ever-changing effects of colours and light in nature. Working from life is an immersive experience, the paint is applied thickly with a brush and palette knife, working quickly and energetically to record the scene in front of her. Her works are loose and expressive impressions of her subject, picking out details such as a moon or a twinkling light on the horizon which entices the viewer further, drawing them into the painting and holding their attention. Having exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Society of Oil Painters, Lucy’s ‘miniseries’ painted on her doorstep during lockdown last year were an unprecedented success and sold before the paint was dry!

David Walsh

‘Bluebell Wood’

44 x 54cm // framed

Oil on linen canvas

Estimate: £500 – £800

David Walsh works en plein air, and travels in England , France and Italy to find places that move him to paint. He trained in Rome in the mid eighties and has exhibited widely in this country and Italy. He has a deep love of countryside and this comes through in his paintings. His full library of work is available at http://www.david-walsh.net/ and with the sale of every piece via his website, David will also be generously donating 10% of his profits to Horatio’s Garden.

Rupert Muldoon BLSA

‘Painshill Park – Autumn’

100 x 100cm // unframed

Egg Tempera and oil on Gesso Panel

Estimate: £5,500 – £6,000

Rupert studied at the the Bartlett School of Architecture, but spent most of his time at the Slade School of Fine Art. He specialised in the methods and materials of artists, developing his own unique method of painting in the almost forgotten medium of egg tempera. Rupert went on to complete his MA in Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich. Today Rupert runs his own landscape design practice and paints towards an annual solo exhibition. Landscape is at the core of all his work. Rupert has been hailed as a contemporary painter to watch.

Nicky Brown

‘The Pond, Late Summer, 2020’

81 x 69cm // framed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £1,500 – £2,000

Nicky Brown’s work examines the close relationship between man and the landscape in which he lives and works and the transformational effects of the seasons with their associated rural activities on both the form of the landscape and the quality of the light surrounding it. Throughout her career this relationship has connected all her work, from homeless figures gathered around a brazier in New York, figures in landscapes burning fields of stubble or moorland, or working the fields in Rajastaan, to her present body of work: The Glory of the Landscape, a study of East Anglian landscapes through the seasons.

Working mainly in charcoal and oil, Nicky studied at Central School of Art and the Royal Academy and has had several successful one man and group shows both in NY and the UK. She is also kept busy with a number of private commissions and was a prize winner in the Singer Friedlander/Sunday Times water colour competition in 1991. She is married, with five grown up children and lives in Essex.

William Wilkins

‘Autumn Sunlight’

25 x 35cm // framed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £2,000 – £2,500

After completing his formal training William Wilkins taught and painted for seven years before making a radical change of direction in the late 60’s. At this point he abandoned the abstract work on which he had been engaged and embarked on a rigorous regime of drawing, figure, still life and landscape, which lasted for five years. All the work done at this period used an exclusively cross-hatch technique. He started painting again in 1974, developing a pointillist technique that is not dependent on Post-Impressionist colour theories, and concentrating entirely on work of a personal scale. Early work tends to be concerned with tone and colour and frequently employs many layers of paint. Subsequently his work has developed much more interest in luminosity and opacity and there is seldom more than one layer of paint on the canvas. No preliminary drawing is done on the canvas and there is no under painting. Paintings have taken anything up to thirteen years to complete, depending on the light, seasons and interruptions. All are worked on from the subject, in the correct light and, in the case of landscapes, at the same season and the same time of day. William Wilkins lives and works in Wales, but for the past thirty years he has also worked in Venice where, apart from the intrinsic appeal, the challenge of working between the Scylla (the great models of Turner and Monet) and Charybdis (the millions of banal representations) has been stimulating. His other interests include most forms of contemporary art together with architecture and landscape, both contemporary and historic.

Lady Ann Fraser

‘Autumn Leaves’

60.1 x 73.6cm // handmade gilded frame

Watercolour

Estimate: £500 – £800

Not having had the opportunity to study art as a youngster I went to Edinburgh College of Art in the1980’s as a mature student for four years to study Drawing and Painting. Having completed the course where you were not encouraged to choose botanical subjects, I went to do a general course in watercolour painting at the Royal Edinburgh Botanical Garden with John Mooney and Paul Nesbit.

I had my first solo Exhibition in London in 1991 at The Malcolm Innes Gallery. Since then I have exhibited widely in Scotland and London. My work features in ‘Contemporarty Botanical Art’ by Shirley Sherwood and is represented in many private collections. In May 2019 I had my third solo Exhibition at The Rountree Tryon Gallery in Petworth and St. James’s, London. I have been awarded a Silver, a Silver Gilt and a Gold Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society.

£600 will fund Six Artist in Residence Afternoons

Estimate: £600 – £700

Artists in residence work in the beautiful, natural surroundings of our five gardens, encouraging patients to paint, draw, photograph, sculpt, collage and craft. The sessions are absorbing, taking the focus away from the pain and medical worries that can dominate patients’ thoughts.

Tim Burton

‘Edward Scissorhands’

Unframed

Ink and watercolour on paper

Estimate: £400 – £600

Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics.

Burton’s films include Vincent (1982), Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), The Nightmare Before Christmas (as creator and producer) (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Sweeney Todd (2007); writing and Web projects include The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories (1997) and Stainboy (2000).

Tim Burton

‘The Art of Tim Burton’ (signed) & Original Print (signed)

Book: 28 x 30.5cm

Print: 33.1 x 35.6 // framed // ink and watercolour on paper

Estimate: £300 – £500

Nina Mae Fowler

‘Love IV’

700 x 1000mm // unframed

Graphite and oil pastel on paper

Estimate: £3,200 – £3,500

Nina Mae Fowler (b.1981) graduated in Fine Art Sculpture from Brighton University in 2003. Fowler has been shortlisted for numerous prizes and awards, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2015 & 2010), The Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary Award (2016), Aesthetica Art Prize (2014), Drawing Now Award (2014), Young Masters Prize (2012) and the BP Portrait Award (2008). Her works have been exhibited within the context of cultural institutions and museums including; Kunstsaele Berlin, Germany (Drawing WOW, 2020) and Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Germany (Starke Frauen, 2013). Fowler has exhibited in galleries internationally, which includes frequent solo and group exhibitions in London (Cob Gallery, Lazarides), Paris (Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Galerie Dukan), Hamburg, Berlin (artnow Gallery), Leipzig and Hong Kong (Contemporary by Angela Li). Her works are held in notable private and public collections including; The National Portrait Gallery (UK), Balliol, Magdalen and New Colleges Oxford (UK), ColecciónAl Limite (Chile), Imago Mundi, Luciano Bennetton Collection (Treviso, Italy) and the ‘ Try-me’ Collection, (Virginia, USA). In 2018, film director David Lynch’s establishment Silencio in Paris held a retrospective of Fowler’s work. In 2019,Fowler featured on BBC Radio 4 with Oscar winning British film director Nick Park. Further publications include Measuring Elvis (Cob Gallery, 2015) and Ruined Finery (Cob Gallery, 2020).

Phoebe Dickinson

‘Top Hat and Velvet Gloves 1, 2 and 3‘

38 x 20.5cm each // unframed

Trio of etchings

(Artist Image: Credit Harry Cory-Wright)

Estimate: £300 – £500

Phoebe takes commissions in all mediums seen on the website. Her studio in London always has a selection of work which can be viewed by private appointment. She also has a studio in Gloucestershire.

Phoebe has held four successful solo shows, which she curated personally. In 2013 she was selected to appear on the Sky Arts programme ‘Portrait artist of the year’ produced in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery. She has exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition three times; in 2015 showing her portrait of Carson from Downton Abbey which is part of an exciting series of painting commissions documenting the making of the iconic ITV series.

Phoebe’s portrait for the Cholmonderley children at Houghton Hall was chosen for the BP Portrait Award 2018 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. In 2019 she won the Burke’s Peerage Foundation Award for classical inspired portraiture at the Royal society or Portraiture painters exhibition and was highly commended for the De Lazlo Award.

She continues to exhibit regularly at renowned galleries in London and beyond and is due to have a solo show in New York this Autumn.

Sarah Maple

‘Female Cutouts No.4’

50 x 56cm // framed

Photo collage

Estimate: £1,000 – £1,500

Sarah Maple is known for her bold, witty, and occasionally controversial practice. She works in a wide variety of media (including painting, photography, sculpture, collage, and video) that challenge notions of identity, religion, feminism, violence, freedom of expression and the status quo. Much of Sarah’s inspiration originates from her mixed religious and cultural upbringing in the 1980’s in Britain and she often employs self-portraiture, alongside her guerrilla-style performances, as a vehicle for her narrative. Her recent practice has focused on the disturbing parallels between the political climate in the US and the UK looking at themes of fear, division, toxic masculinity, and xenophobia. Sarah often references the work of other artists in her own, especially the YBA sharp humour and satirical eye.

Sarah Maple (b. 1985) graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Kingston University, London, in 2007. Recent solo exhibitions were held at: The Untitled Space, New York(2019); New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2017); Cob Gallery, London (2015). She has been awarded the New Sensation Art Prize in 2007 and was recently commissioned new work by The Baltic, Imago Mundi and Sky Arts.

£100 will fund Two Months’ Worth of Art

Estimate: £100 – £150

£100 will fund two months’ worth of art equipment for Horatio’s Garden at Oswestry hospital.

Liorah Tchiprout

‘Princess in a pink room’

21 x 29.5cm // framed

Oil on board

Estimate: £350 – £450

Liorah Tchiprout studied Fine Art Printmaking at University of Brighton, graduating 2016, with a semester spent at Bezalel School of Art and Design, Jerusalem. In 2020 she graduated with an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art, London. Group shows include Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, ING Discerning Eye, All Mouth Gallery and We Returned, curated by Nicole Zisman. She has previously been commissioned to make a work for Art on a Postcard, and shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize. In 2020 she was awarded the Print Futures Award, and the John Purcell Paper Award. Her work is held in collections including Soho House, and private collections internationally.

Patrick Morales-Lee

‘Tesselation’

50 x 50cm // framed

Pencil, acrylic paint and charcoal powder on paper

Estimate: £600 – £800

Patrick Morales-Lee was taught by the painter John Virtue and graduated alongside friend and peer Antony Micallef. During the last few years, he has appeared on Sky Portrait Artist of the Year, exhibited in a number of shows, selling work to a handful of well know collectors and exhibited alongside artists such as Antony Gormley, Antony Lister, Stanley Donwood, Vhils, Pure Evil and FAILE. He also recently just won the 2021 Galerie Heimat & NG Art Creative Residency Art Prize, judged by Laura Gascoigne and Kate Bryan. The work deals with the idea of identity and belonging. Fostered at the age of three, Patrick was constantly and acutely aware of his surroundings and the need to fit in growing up. Looking back, he recognises those feelings as universal and the work looks to explore the ‘human condition’, specifically what makes people do what they do to have a sense of belonging – from the everyday to the extreme.

Christabel Blackburn

‘Then and Now’

30 x 40cm // unframed

Framing available

Oil on panel

Estimate: £750 – £850

Christabel Blackburn is an artist who studies and specialises in the human form. After finishing her degree in Classics at Newcastle University she learnt portraiture in Italy. Embracing this traditional foundation in drawing and sculpting techniques, she completed a further two years at the London Atelier of Representational Art.

Influenced by Edward Hopper’s realism, photography by Philip-Lorca diCorcia as well David Hockney’s architectural traits, Christabel’s work has evolved dramatically over the last ten years. Her strong sense of observation has enabled her to refine her technique, paring down detail yet still capturing the very essence of people in their environments and the symbiosis between the two.

Be it a lone figure in a gallery or a child in an urban park, the stillness she portrays in her everyday scenes draws the viewer in and like photography, holds you in that moment in time. The intimacy she creates pulls you closer, giving you a greater sense of the people in the picture, their thoughts and their feelings.

The simplicity of her work often conveys the loneliness and anonymity felt in a crowded city as well as challenging the impact of mental health caused by this digital age. Christabel’s scenes transcend the everyday; they are stories about society and how we live our lives.

Christabel won Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2020.

Sean Henry

‘Thinking Man’ (Man on a Stool)

42 x 12 x 21cm

Bronze, oil paint

Edition of 9

Estimate: £3,000 – £4,000

The bronze sculpture was made in 2010, and is one of an edition of 9, each hand painted and so slightly different.

“Untitled (Man on a stool)” is one of a series of figures that I have made in recent years based on the same anonymous man. The stool is similar to one that use in my studio, but the man is imagined, his position ambiguous. He could be at a decisive moment, lost in thought or just taking a breath–ultimately the resonance of the work resides in the mind of the viewer.”

British sculptor Sean Henry depicts anonymous figures in drawings, painted clay and bronze, often portrayed in thoughtful and contemplative poses. Changes of scale disrupt our comprehension of the figures-proportions are never quite life like, rather enlarged or reduced, creating a physical and psychological contrast in relation to the viewer. Henry’s large-scale sculptures can be seen outside in public spaces, squares, coastlines and moorland. Recent installations include Seated Figure, originally situated in the North York Moors National Park and now on view at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. In Woking, Surrey-Henry’s place of birth-a series of figures are located throughout the town centre, and at the train station and central shopping mall. A further four sculptures are due to be added in 2021/2022, completing the town’s permanent collection. Henry graduated in ceramics from Bristol Polytechnic in 1987 and had his first exhibition in London in1988 at the Anatol Orient Gallery. He was the first sculptor to win the Villiers David Prize in 1998 and has had more than 30 solo shows during his career. His work is regularly exhibited by galleries in London, New York, Stockholm, Bad Homburg, Mykonos and Brussels, and his sculptures can be found in public collections in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Germany, USA and elsewhere. Henry is married with 3 children and lives and works near Winchester, Hampshire, England.

Mary Cox

‘Piggyback’

83.8 x 30.5cm

Bronze resin

Estimate: £1,900 – £2,100

Mary Cox studied at Chelsea Art School under Willi Soukop, Bernard Meadows and Elizabeth Frink. Since leaving art school she has lived and worked in Sussex, where she has been commissioned to create works for churches and hospitals. Her work is characterised by its liveliness and sensitivity. Her sculptures of children, many based on her own family, are full of life and careful observation. Her sculptured portraits in bronze include Malcolm Muggeridge and eminent members of the legal profession, but she specialises in children’s portraits. She also sculpts small Limited Edition bronzes of mythological and religious subjects. Mary Cox has created many life size sculptures for gardens. Her life size figures can be cast in bronze or bronze resin, and are a lovely focus in a garden. She also undertakes commissions.

£100 will fund Two Months’ Worth of Art

Estimate: £100 – £150

£100 will fund two months’ worth of art equipment for Horatio’s Garden at Oswestry hospital.

Tom Hammick

‘Night is a Starry Dome’, ‘Island in the Moon’, ‘Dusky Island’

54 x 44cm, 44 x 54cm, 44 x 54cm respectively // unframed

Trio of etchings

Estimate: £1,000 – £1,500

Tom Hammick was born in 1963. He studied Art History at The University of Manchester and later Fine Art Painting at Camberwell College of Art and NSCAD, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada. He has an MA in Printmaking, also from Camberwell, and taught Fine Art Painting and Printmaking for many years until recently at The University of Brighton. Tom is a father to three more or less grown up children and divides his time between a painting studio in East Sussex on the sea and a purpose designed print studio in South East London on the Thames. His work, held in many public and private collections, revolves around love and loss and explores what it is like to be human and is informed by a passion for poetry and music, film, wonderment for the environment and the deepest concerns around climate change. He is a season ticket holder at The Emirates Stadium and is hoping that Mikel Arteta will restore Arsenal to their former glory. Patience is required but seeing a young squad play fast paced attacking football is thrilling.

Tom Hammick

‘Káta’s Kiss’

102 x 76cm // unframed

Reduction woodcut

Estimate: £1,000 – £1,500

Julie Verhoeven

‘Wishing Well’

29.7 x 42cm // unframed

Ink and pen on paper

(Artist portrait image courtesy of Annie Collinge)

Estimate: £850 – £1,000

Julie Verhoeven is an artist who works with fashion. Her eclectic output is extensive across both art and design, and most recently is best expressed and encompassed, through the medium of moving image. Her formal training was in fashion design and she is primarily known for her work as a fashion illustrator in the noughties. She has exhibited internationally and collaborated with numerous brands including, Marc Jacobs, Chloe, Versace, Louis Vuitton, and M.A.C amongst others. Alongside Julie’s activity in the art world she teaches fashion on the MA at Central Saint Martins, London.

Miranda Creswell

‘Swimming Through’

56 x 76cm // framed

Watercolour and gouache on paper

Estimate: £800 – £1,200

Miranda Creswell studied at Camberwell School of Art in the 1980s and has since then held many solo and group exhibitions in the UK and abroad, for instance the Menier Gallery, London), Modern Art Oxford, Ely Cathedral; in Leiden, Holland (as part of a 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth) and in the British Art Exhibition in Perm, Russia.

She has held an art residency at the Nuffield Orthopedic Centre, Harris Manchester College and at the CentQuatre Art Centre, in 19eme in Paris, France for a year with the group exhibition: Materialite de L’invisible

She was the project artist for EnglaID for five years until 2016, a major research project on the English landscape, University of Oxford, Archaeology Department.

She has been artist in resident for Horatio’s Garden Salisbury in 2014 to 2018 engaging patients and staff and the archaeology department of University of Oxford, with ideas of landscape with a project called Looking Out 2019 at Horatio’s Garden in Glasgow.

She has in the last two years made a series of short films with drawings on women scientists, in collaboration with Professor Ashleigh Griffin from the Zoology Department, University of Oxford, funded by L’Oréal.

As a result of the film series, the Physics Department at the University of Cambridge have commissioned six short films on Women Physicists looking at Physicists of all ages, as role models, in the UK.

Miranda Creswell has recently been made Artist in Resident for the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, she is currently working for a public project with archaeologists, on the history of rivers, called The Ripple Effect, made possible by University of Oxford Public Engagement with research grant, Horatio’s Garden, Salisbury was the first site to feature this work in March 2021.

Susannah Fiennes

One Term of Life Drawing Classes

(St. Peter’s Hall, Notting Hill, London, W11)

Estimate: £350 – £450

Born in Oxford, she now lives and works at home near Abergavenny, South Wales.

She has travelled extensively, and for five years lived and painted in New York City.

Barry Flanagan

‘For Constable’, 1976

28 x 38cm // unframed

Etching

Estimate: £500 – £800

Barry Flanagan (1941–2009) was one of Britain’s pre-eminent sculptors. Flanagan graduated from St Martin’s School of Art where he had already established his reputation as a leading figure of the avant-garde, as a writer of concrete poetry and a ’pataphysician, espousing Alfred Jarry’s ‘science of imaginary solutions’. He soon received international critical acclaim for his intuitive and inventive approach to materials, which aligned him with new art practices and the emergent art movements of Arte Povera, Land Art and Process Art. From 1972, reassessing the function of public sculpture, Flanagan began to explore more traditional materials and methods, working with stone and bronze. Flanagan is best known for his dynamic, often monumental, bronze hares, which spring into life and were first exhibited in the early eighties.

Flanagan described himself as an itinerant, European sculptor, holding British and Irish citizenship and living between London, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Ibiza and New York. He represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1982 and was awarded an OBE and elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1991.

Tessa Whitley

‘Meadowhead Farm, January’

93 x 93cm // a tray frame in pale grey (white limed wooden tray frame)

Oil on board

Estimate: £900 – £1,100

My landscape painting is inspired by a love of colour and an interest in the dialogue between spatial depth and the interplay of shapes and marks across the picture surface. I love the tapestry of forms and textures within the landscape, both natural and man-made and particularly enjoy the blanket effect of snow to flatten and simplify form. I make on-the-spot pastel and pencil sketches and then develop them in my Edinburgh studio. I studied at Edinburgh Art College and Leith School of Art and have exhibited in galleries in Edinburgh and Perthshire.

Alastair Faulkner

‘South Queensferry High St‘

40.6 x 30.5cm // unframed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £500 – £800

Alastair Faulkner is a Dundee-based artist and trauma and orthopaedic surgeon. He graduated with a degree in Medicine from The University of Edinburgh in 2012 and is a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Scottish Society of Artists.

As a largely self-taught artist, his last art qualification was a GCSE in Art and Design at secondary school obtained in 2004. In September 2018 he attended a portrait and figurative painting course at the prestigious Florence Academy of Art in Italy.

He has featured on a number of print and online news media including the Stories section of the V&A Dundee website in the article “Making V&A Dundee: An artist’s museum”. His portrait “Trauma” was published in the book “Portraits for NHS Heroes” and was featured on BBC News, the Guardian, The Sunday Post and ITV.

He enjoys capturing scenes around Scotland, particularly at the extremes of the day and at night. Additionally he is a keen portrait painter and has undertaken a number of commissions to clients within the UK and abroad including Dubai, Hong Kong, and the USA.

Alex Lowery

‘Portland 123’

36 x 82cm // unframed

Oil on canvas

Estimate: £1,800 – £2,200

Born 1957 in London, Alex Lowery studied at Bath Academy, Sir John Cass School of Art and the Central School of Art in London. He has painted and shown regularly in Dorset and London since 1994. He exhibited for many years with Art First in London and has shown at the Estorick Collection and at Browse and Darby. His work is in many distinguished private collections as well as the Dorset County Hospital Art Collection, Great Ormond Street Hospital, St George’s Hospital Tooting and the Fidelity International Art Collection. He lives in Charmouth with the artist Vanessa Gardiner.

Kate Philp

‘Distant Showers, Bundle Bay’

47 x 47cm // framed

Acrylic on canvas

Estimate: £500 – £700

Kate Philp was born in Kenya and brought up in Scotland. She now lives in North Northumberland where the expanses of white sandy beaches and dramatic cliffs and headlands provide endless inspiration for her painting. She started out as a biologist and garden designer but painting soon became her passion and for many years has enjoyed a successful career as a published artist supplying galleries throughout the UK. She is still painting in moderation and now sells mainly privately from her home.

Brenda Martin

‘Lockdown Beach Walk’

60 x 50cm // unframed

Oil on board

Estimate: £500 – £800

After graduating from The Royal College of Art in London, Brenda worked as a designer in the fashion industry for Monsoon in India and Studio West in San Francisco, before returning to the UK to work as a BBC costume designer. During this time she specialised in period dramas and comedy sketch shows including ‘Alas Smith and Jones’, ‘Scotch and Wry’ and ‘Naked Video’, whilst also illustrating articles for the women’s page of The Herald. She has been a visiting lecturer and examiner at Edinburgh College of Art and has run sketch book and fashion-based workshops at Leith School of Art. Now based in Edinburgh, much of her current work is painted on location at her home in the Highlands and on the beautiful beaches of Northumberland. She has recently been commissioned to do personalised life drawings of clients.

Madeleine Braithwaite-Exley

‘Soft Light, Scottish West Coast’

43.2 x 53.4cm // framed

Oil on canvas board

Estimate: £700 – £1,000

Madeleine was born and brought up in Scotland. A keen artist from an early age, she is self taught, working in oils and acrylics, she favours still life and landscapes. Spending family holidays on the white sandy beaches of the Scottish West Coast or fishing the highland rivers, she has long memories of the strong colours on the mountains, in the seas and of dramatic skies. She gets her inspiration from the shores of the Hebrides, through the winding highland Glens and the rich farmland of Perthshire, where she now lives. Her work will usually have an abundance of colour, a variety of moody skies or a scattering of lobster & lemons! As the seasons change so do the inspiring opportunities.

£300 will fund Creative Writing Workshops for Six Weeks in one Horatio’s Garden

Estimate: £300 – £400

£300 will fund Creative Writing workshops for six weeks in one garden. 

Creative writing workshops offer a relaxed environment to encourage natural, free flowing conversation in each of our five gardens.