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Zoe Cameron


Still Life Summer £1200

Zoe Cameron was born in Hayling Island in1959 and studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design. She moved to Cornwall in1987 and it was here that she was influenced by a tradition of painting that is integral to her work today.

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Evelyn Dewar

Evelyn Dewar is currently a Fine Art lecturer responsible for higher education provision within the faculty of Art and Design at Exeter College. She has had significant exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow.


Arboretum £1200

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Clifford Fishwick


Man, Sheep and Gate £650

Cliff was born in Lancashire in 1923. He studied at Liverpool School of Art between 1940 and 1947 with a four year break for war services with the Royal Navy.

In 1947 Cliff was appointed Painting Master at Exeter School of Art and in 1957 had his first solo exhibition in London.

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Michael Garton

When Michael Garton became Cliff Fishwick’s student in 1955, the Art College occupied a small part of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.

By the time Cliff, then the College’s Principal, appointed Mike as a lecturer, Cliff had started the process of change which would result in the College expanding to become a major cultural force in the city and the South West.


Dartmoor near Poundsgate £695

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Christine Spencer Green


Lone Gull 2008 £420

Christine Spencer Green was born in Vienna in 1956. She moved to the UK in 1981 and settled in Cornwall in 1992. Here she founded the Treruffe Art Studios in Redruth. Christine studied at Falmouth College of Art and has exhibited widely throughout Cornwall, York and Bristol.

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Francis Hewlett

Francis’s work in the early sixties he describes as ‘Thick Pop’, a reaction against the Euston Road School. It was a time when objective drawing and painting was unfashionable and Francis explored other ways of expressing his ideas.


Cows at Flushing £5,850

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Robert Jennison


Hedge In Spring £950

In 1984 Robert gave up teaching to concentrate on his own work and has been exhibiting regularly since 1961 with solo shows in London, Milan, Belfast and Bristol. His work can be found in public and private collections in Europe, Canada and the USA.

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Rachel Hardy Moody


Inmoor 3

Rachel studied at Kent Institute of Art Canterbury under Peter Doig. She works in oil and gesso to produce complex and serene landscapes.

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Robert Organ

In 1978 Robert was ‘artist in residence’ at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter where he painted and gave lunch time lectures, they later purchased a ten-foot painting for their collection entitled ‘Natural History’.


The Dansant I

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Nicholas Papatzaneteas


Coast

Nicholas was born in Athens and studied at the Royal College of Art London. His strong abstract paintings depict the coastline of Brittany and the South West of England.

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Robin Rae

Rae has always been interested in the ordinary person, factory workers and bleak urban environments. His work is edgy, sometimes brooding but always poetic. He is a master of the atmospheric painting.


Portland Lighthouse Entrance

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Benedict Rubbra


Annunciation

The parents of Benedict Rubbra were both musicians and the family had strong connections with Italy. An aunt was a painter (with work in the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti in Florence), so Benedict “grew up” in England along with many visits to Italy.

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