Art Auction
The Fisher Theatre is grateful to the artists who donated their work to this auction.
To The Arts Society Waveney Valley who have helped in bringing this exciting event to fruition and to
T W Gaze of Diss for being auctioneers on the day.
The artists are listed in alphabetical order.
Derek Baitey
Studied design at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in the 1970s before running his own design business for many years. “I like to emphasise an aspect of the landscape to better ‘feel’ it.” This applies to these two works where the mud and its patterns are the main feature.”
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| Lot 64 Point Blanc5 .......... NS Gouache 62x75cm | Lot 65 Mud Sky .......... £250 Gouache 45x75cm |
Jean Baitey
Studied Fine Art/Printmaking at West of England College in the early 1970s and taught at Sunderland and Colchester. Exhibiting widely, the focus of her observation-based drawings and prints. is very much on the texture, surfaces and atmosphere of the places she has visited.
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| Lot 42 Jardin Porta 1 .......... NS Unique silk screen print 50x39cm | Lot 43 Jardin Porta 2 .......... NS Unique silk screen print 50x39cm |
Barbara Bernard
‘I live in Ditchingham and work from a studio in my garden. I paint mostly in oils, mostly landscape or townscape. My style is unashamedly realistic but always, I hope, slightly unconventional. What interests me most is the fall of light and shadow.’
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| Lot 66 Winter Hedgerow Bedingham .......... NS Oil on canvas 42x52cm | Lot 67 Southwold Pier from Covehithe .......... NS Oil on canvas 42x66cm |
Richard Bond
Based in Norwich, he founded the Norwich Outdoor Painting Group in 2013. His work, ranging from rural landscape to urban themes, still-life to the human figure, has been widely shown, including the Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition and the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize exhibition.
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| Lot 35 Coastguard buildings at Sea Palling .......... NS Oil on board 33x43cm | Lot 36 Highwater Woodbridge .......... NS Watercolour 32x40cm |
Eileen Coxon
After studying painting at Norwich school of Art in the late 1980s, she has lived and work in the region for the last 30 years. Her hugely distinctive, semi-abstract style is beautifully suited to the huge, flattened perspectives of East Anglian landscape.
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| Lot 44 Hot August Eve ........... NS Oil on canvas 50x70cm |
Malcolm Cudmore
Malcolm Cudmore is Chair of the Harleston & Waveney Art Trail (HWAT). “I am an observational painter living and working from my studio in the Waveney Valley.”
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| Lot 68 Bluebells at Sisland Carr .......... £150 Oil on board 36x44cm | Lot 69 Southwold from Gun Hill .......... £170 Oil on board 45.5x51cm |
Louise Dougherty
Louise Dougherty studied at Winchester School of Art and taught art in the Midlands for 17 years before moving back to Norfolk. Using thread as a prominent part of her practice, her work explores the feminine experience of landscape. She was a finalist in the Women in Art prize 2024.
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| Lot 39 She felt a palpable Difference £280 Oil and thread on paper 43x30cm | Lot 38 Liminal £400 Oil on board 22x30cm |
Rosemary Elliott
Studied at the Royal Academy Schools in the 1960s. Her main subject matter is landscape, using a fragmented picture surface to capture the sense of light moving across it.
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| Lot 61 Fall II .......... NS Acrylic on canvas 100x80cm | Lot 62 Halo .......... NS Acrylic on board 55x65cm |
Noelle Francis
Trained at Royal Academy Schools in the early 1960s. Has lived and worked in Ditchingham since the 1970s. C0- founder of HWAT (Harleston and Waveney Art Trail) in 2006. Her paintings often reflect her wide-ranging travels to Australia and elsewhere.
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| Lot 31 Galahs .......... NS Oil on canvas 92x122cm | Lot 32 Anticipation .......... NS Oil on canvas 62x73cm |
Gloria French
A member of the Norfolk and Norwich Art Circle, Gloria has worked in East Anglia since the 1970s. She works as both a painter and sculptor, her principle subject matter being the seascapes of the Norfolk coastline.
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| Lot 5 The Lone Sailor .......... £380 Acrylic 56x84cm | Lot 6 Rough Seas .......... NS Acrylic on boarded canvas 41x41cm |
Betty Gainer
Trained at Chelsea school of Art in the 1930s, Betty Gainer was a prolific wildlife artist, working mostly in oils. Her work on silk was sold by Bond Street shops. She lived latterly in Bungay.
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| Lot 29 Cubs .......... £50 Oil 32x45cm |
Miranda Grayling-Nielsen
Miranda moved back to Suffolk in 2016 after 28 years living and working in Denmark. Her colourful and quirky mixed media work exudes a sense of fun and a love of colour has been widely exhibited.
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| Lot 40 Savanha (Giraffe) .......... £180 Mixed media 40x40cm | Lot 41 Pigs Can Fly (Flying Pig/Android Man) .......... £170 Mixed media 40x40cm |
Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling (b. 1945, Sudbury, UK) has been at the forefront of the British art scene for several decades. She studied in the 1960s at Benton End, Suffolk (the legendary art school run by Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett Haines), Ipswich School of Art, Camberwell School of Art, and the Slade. Over the last decade, she has staged major exhibitions at CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (2019), The British Museum, London (2016), The National Gallery, London (2014), and The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (2013). Hambling’s work is held in many public collections including in the UK Tate, British Museum, National Portrait Gallery and in the US the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Cormorant rising, 2020, oil on canvas is one of Hambling’s continuing series of Cormorant paintings and is donated by the Artist in memory of her sister, Ann Cunningham, who was a founder and much respected, member of The Arts Society Waveney Valley.
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| Lot 37 Cormorant rising, 2020 .......... £5500 Oil on canvas 30x25cm | |
Lily Sue Harman
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| Lot 60 Landscape .......... £70 Gouache 58x82.5cm | |
Will Harvey
Largely self-taught, Will Harvey’s favoured medium is ink and wash, his key subject matter landscapes, buildings and industrial scenes, often painted in front of the subject matter. He is co-founder of the East Anglian Plein Air Painters.
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| Lot 19 Ipswich Quayside .......... NS Ink and Watercolour 46x46cm | Lot 20 Oulton Broad Swing Bridge .......... £140 Ink and watercolour 31x40cm |
Andrew Haslen
Brought up in Coggeshall, Essex, Andrew Haslen has been painting and drawing wildlife since the 1960s. A member of the Society of Wild Life Artists since 1988, hares have come to play a key role in his work.
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| Lot 63 Hare in Moonlight .......... £220 Hand-painted lithograph 34x34cm | |
Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
Famous for his nonsense poetry and limericks, Lear was also a musician, painter and travel writer. He was well-known too as a prolific illustrator of birds and animals.
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| Lot 18 Crimson Winged Parakeet .......... £170 Framed vintage lithographic print with soft colour wash, signed by the inventor of lithography, Charles Hullmondel. 66x51cm | |
Gary Loader
I am a self-taught photographer of 20 years mainly in wildlife. I like to take a different, more creative, artistic view of my subjects.
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| Lot 48 Rising Tide .......... £150 Photograph 60x77cm | Lot 47 Preening .......... £130 Photograph 60x60cm |
David Macleod
David Macleod has practised photography all his life, his chief subject matter is architecture, buildings with interesting angles, curves and designs particularly attracting him.
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| Lot 16 Swan Hotel Brewood .......... NS Digitally manipulated night shot 48.5x38.5cm | Lot 17 De La Warr’s Stairs .......... NS Digitally manipulated shot 47.2x64.5cm |
Gilly Marklew
Based at Hempnall in South Norfolk, she has a particular passion for watercolours as well as painting and other media and loves to explore different light effects and the way it falls on objects.
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| Lot 14 The Letter .......... £200 Watercolour 61x47cm | Lot 15 Pub and Punt .......... £340 Watercolour 51x61cm |
Bridget Morley
Retired designer of illustrated books, Bridget Morley now paints mostly abstracts and portraits, in watercolour, acrylic and increasingly, oils, using glazing, drybrush and scumbling techniques.
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| Lot 45 Prussian Blue Meets Naples Yellow .......... £200 Oil 28x23cm | Lot 46 Twilight .......... NS Oil 20x20cm |
Lesley Munro
Lives and works in South Norfolk, becoming a professional painter in 2016. Work inspired by the East Anglian coastline and landscape and a passion for an understanding of the environment with its vast skies and wide landscapes.
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| Lot 13 Holkham Boardwalk .......... NS Acrylic 50x100cm | Lot 12 Holkham Pines Against a Blue Sky £600 Mixed media 62x53cm |
Gerry Nelson
Gerry Nelson has been painting and drawing most of his adult life, and since his retirement from teaching in 1993, he has been organising adult education classes for friends and admirers.
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| Lot 71 Waveney Valley Landscape .......... £600 Oil on board 50x122cm | Lot 70 Floral Study .......... NS Acrylic (with w/c background) 34x55cm |
Kay Ohsten
Born and brought up in Norfolk, Kay Ohsten was a graduate of Norwich School of Art where she later taught graphic design. A member of the prestigious Norwich 20 group, her work is incredibly versatile, ranging from watercolours of the regional landscape to abstract screenprints and flower pieces.
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| Lot 25 St Mary's Churchyard Bungay .......... NS Watercolour 45x52cm | Lot 26 Upper Olland Street Bungay .......... £220 Watercolour 45x52cm |
Claire Oxley
A Norwich-based artist who takes her inspiration from the East Anglian countryside. Distinctive in its colour, intensity and rhythmic mark-making, her paintings like to chart seasons, skies, seas, flowers and foliage.
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| Lot 58 Hunter's Moon .......... £110 Oil 18x18cm | Lot 59 Poppies and Campion .......... £170 Oil 18x18cm |
John Patchett
Lives and works in Beccles. Trained at Kingston and Brighton before settling in Australia for a period. Working mostly in pastel, he covers a wide range of regional land and cityscapes in East Anglia and France.
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| Lot 49 Back to the Farm Alpington .......... NS Pasel 63.5x75cm | Lot 50 Al Fresco, Market Row, Beccles .......... NS Pastel 58.5x69cm |
Bruce Pearson
Combining the roles of painter, printmaker and field naturalist, his work has been exhibited widely since the early 1970s in the UK and overseas and was President of the Society of Wildlife Artists.
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| Lot 30 The Otter .......... NS Watercolour 37x30cm | |
Andrew Pitt
Born and brought up in East Anglia , he has had over 15 solo exhibitions since 1980 of his paintings of the East Anglian landscape. He also teaches and demonstrates at Flatford Mill, Big Sky Art and Art in Aldeburgh.
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| Lot 22 Bungay .......... £190 Watercolour 50x70cm | |
James Power
James Power works in oils, watercolour and pastels with a passion for a wide range of subjects. He has exhibited in major London Galleries and throughout the UK. James tutors equestrian art at the Munnings Museum, Dedham through the summer months. He has a portrait in the Garrick Club.
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| Lot 1 View of the Waveney .......... £350 Oil 31x41cm | Lot 2 Woodland Cow Parsley .......... £200 Oil 46x36cm |
Laurie Rudling
Norwich-based since 2002 and a member of the Norwich 20 group, Rudling works principally as a landscape-based printmaker, but he also produces collagraphs on more abstract architectural and bird form themes.
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| Lot 11 Old Harbour Channel .......... £320 Etching 7/31 64x39cm | |
Peter Sewell
Peter Sewell is a self-taught artist, living and working in Bungay. Painting mostly in watercolour, his favoured subject matter is the local topographical scene – people and places.
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| Lot 27 Holy Trinity Church Bungay .......... NS Watercolour/Ink 25x30cm | Lot 56 St Mary's Church from the River Waveney £50 Watercolour/Ink 25x30cm | |
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| Lot 57 Priory Ruins .......... £110 Watercolour/Ink 25x30cm | Lot 28 The Butter Cross .......... £60 Watercolour/Ink 25x30cm |
Jo Shepherd
Jo Shepherd studied at Central St Martins School of Art in the 1990s. Jo moved from London 4 years ago and paints landscapes and seascapes inspired by the vast skies and incredible coastlines of Norfolk and Suffolk.
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| Lot 3 Eternal Tides .......... £580 Oil on board 54x80cm | Lot 4 Custard Sands and Violet Skies .......... £380 (Seascape, Wells-next-the-Sea) Oil on board 57x68cm |
Nicola Slattery
Based in Alburgh, she is an elected member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Her vivid narrative subjects have won her a wide following internationally. The technique of dry-point etching is a particular passion and one she has written about and taught.
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| Lot 9 Fox's Encore .......... £300 Limited Edition Dry Point Etching 2/6 56x55cm | Lot 10 Midsummer's Night .......... £300 Limited Edition Dry Point Etching 4/6 56x54cm |
Ivy Smith
Studied at Chelsea and Royal Academy Schools in the late 60s. She lives and works in Norwich and has been a visiting lecturer at the Royal Drawing School since 2001. Along with her paintings, often on a large scale, her woodcuts, linocuts and etchings reflect the main interest of this award-winning artist, the human figure at rest or in motion and still-life.
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| Lot 21 Horned Poppy at Snettisham .......... NS Framed 6-block linocut 67x85cm | Lot 51 Figs on a White Plate .......... £1100 Oil on board 34x40cm |
Penelope Wright
“My inspiration for painting is from my son, the artist Stuart Pearson Wright. Portraiture is my first love and my painting of Geoffrey Palmer is exhibited in the Garrick Club”.
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| Lot 23 Lunch .......... NS Oil on linen 46x60cm | Lot 24 Breakfast .......... NS Oil on linen 40x50cm |
Pat Theodorou
Works mostly plein air, her favourite locations being Italy, France, Greece and East Anglia, in particular its coastline and the wonderful architecture of Norwich, Works mostly in pastels, oils and a variety of print techniques. Shows Mall Galleries, RWA and Victoria art Gallery, Bath.
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| Lot 33 Place des Vosges .......... NS Oil on canvas 79x79cm | Lot 34 Across the Lagoon .......... £270 Pastel 38x48cm |
Martin Tosh
Norwich-based, Tosh’s beautifully crafted landscape, wildlife and animal photography has achieved widespread national attention in recent years.
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| Lot 7 Strumpshaw Fen .......... £30 Signed Photograph 42x60cm | |
Owen Waters (1916 - 2004)
Born, brought up and working in Acle all his life, Waters gifts as an amateur painter attracted the attention of such professional artists as Edward Seago and Sir Arnesby Brown RA and he later went ‘professional’ for the last 34 years of his life.
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| Lot 8 Yacht at Clippesby Mill .......... £150 Oil on board 32x40cm | |
Stuart Pearson Wright
Born in 1975, Stuart Pearson Wright drew with enthusiasm from an early age, before going to study at the Slade School of Art. While there he won a National Portrait Travel Award, using the money to drive round England, painting as he went. The resulting show won him critical comparisons with Blake, Spencer and Cecil Collins. In 2000 he won the BP Portrait Award and has since curated many shows of his and other artists’ work.
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| Lot 54 Ian Bostridge, 2019 .......... NS Oil on linen 60x40cm | Lot 55 Domestic Scene, 2001 .......... NS Etching on Paper 106x65cm |
Stephen Yorke
Trained from the age of 11 at the specialist Moseley School of Art in Birmingham, Yorke has worked across a wide variety of media and styles. He now lives and works in Bungay.
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| Lot 52 The Resting Angel .......... NS Limited edition print 74x85cm | Lot 53 Sermon on the Mount .......... NS Limited edition print 84x106cm |
