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Winter by Richard Jackson and Sally Fawkes (see image on home page) is a single cast of grey/blue and clear glass, standing 1.8 m tall x 90 cms and weighing 200 kgs.  It is the final one of four sculptures created for a private garden to mark the four seasons.  Autumn by Charlotte Mayer FRBS, a large unique bronze sculpture, was also commissioned through The Garden Gallery.  Jackson and Fawkes took their inspiration from the surrounding countryside and the history of cultivation, referencing ancient tools.  The grey/blue colour was developed to suggest winter skies, the contours of the land and icy waters.  The whole piece is highly polished drawing the surrounding landscape into the body of the glass.  Layers of engraving and carving complete this evocative sculpture.  Winter is a remarkable achievement and demonstrates the seamless fusion of these two artists working in collaboration.

Rachel Bebb at The Garden Gallery is curatorial consultant to a programme of exhibitions at Sarum College, an ecumenical study and research centre in Salisbury's Cathedral Close.  The Art of Healing will be opened at Sarum College on Friday 27 January by Richard Cork whose book, The Healing Presence of Art: A History of Western Art in Hospitals, will be published by Yale in 2012.  Artists exhibiting from The Garden Gallery are Sally Fawkes and Richard Jackson, Elizabeth Herkstroter, Charlotte Mayer FRBS (images below), Tracey Sheppard FGE and Will Spankie, together with Ruth Oaks, Keith Rand ARBS and Ryan Tabor.  The exhibition will include a display of paintings by clients of Freedom from Torture (formerly the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture).  www.freedomfromtorture.org.  See also www.sarum.ac.uk.  Scroll down to read about the previous exhibition The Word, and to see images.

  Flight by Charlotte Mayer FRBS (bronze, photo: Steve Russell)

Release by Charlotte Mayer FRBS (bronze, photo: Steve Russell)

The Figure in the Landscape : Rachel Bebb at The Garden Gallery was Guest Curator at an exhibition in Winchester which closed on 8 January.  The Figure in the Landscape brought together a group of sculptors and ceramic artists for whom the landscape and the organic forms it supports are a powerful influence on their work.  Joining Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore were Adam Buick, Chris Drury, Lotte Glob, Tim Harrisson ARBS, Charlotte Mayer FRBS, Rebecca Newnham ARBS, Peter Randall-Page FRBS, Keith Rand ARBS, Roger Stephens, Rachel Schwalm and Emily Young FRBS.   Contact The Garden Gallery for further information about the exhibits, or if you would like a copy of the catalogue. 

Some images from The Figure in the Landscape -

Parting Company II by Peter Randall-Page FRBS (golden limestone, 84 x 90 x 74 / 84 x 114 x 84 cms)

Entomology II by Peter Randall-Page FRBS (ceramic, 200 x 135 cms)

Shore by Roger Stephens (Carrara marble, charred limewood, Portland Roach base, 122 x 35 x 22 cms)

                                                                  Earth Fire by Charlotte Mayer FRBS (bronze, 1/7, 30 x 40 x 40 cms, photo: Steve Russell)

Books of the Land - Solidified Thoughts by Lotte Glob (ceramic, 40 x 42 cms)

  Figure 8 by Rebecca Newnham ARBS (glass mosaic, ht. 180 cms, photo: David Bird)

 

The Word - A   Reflection on the King James Bible, marked the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible and several of the gallery's regular artists made works of art to mark the cultural importance of the KJV and its contribution to society through Christianity.  The exhibitors were Peter Eugene Ball (Messenger : photo on left by Ash Mills) , Frederic Chevarin ARBS, (image below), Zoe Cull and Alex Evans (image below), Henry Gray, Elizabeth Herkstroter (image below), Giles Macdonald (image below), Suzanne Redstone ARBS (image below), Tracey Sheppard FGE (image below), Roger Stephens (images below), as well as Tim Chadsey, Christopher Elsey, Robyn Golden-Hann, Mary Noble, and Jemimah Patterson.  See www.sarum.ac.uk for further information. 

      Images from The Word exhibition at Sarum College : -

                                                                            Nunc Dimittis by Roger Stephens (alabaster, ht. 40 cms)

     Liquid Lightcatcher by Suzanne Redstone ARBS (stainless steel)

         

               Nativity by Frederic Chevarin ARBS (Spanish alabaster, Lotus onyx base, ht. 44 cms)

      The Light by Giles Macdonald (stainless steel, oak, John 1 : 5, ht. 2m, photo: Ash Mills www.ashmills.com)

"And the evening and the morning were the first day" by Tracey Sheppard FGE (Genesis 1 : 5, Kosta Boda glass signed by maker, drill engraved, ht. 20 x w 30 x d 19 cms, photo: Ash Mills www.ashmills.com)

Contemplation Piece by Zoe Cull and Alex Evans (Portland stone, photo: Ash Mills www.ashmills.com)

THE THORNFLOWER, Charlotte Mayer's bronze sculpture which grew out of her reflections on her grandmother's death in Treblinka and "man's inhumanity to man" at other times, spent three months in Southwark Cathedral on the south bank of the River Thames in London this summer.  The Thornflower previously resided in Salisbury Cathedral for almost a year, where Charlotte spoke to adults and young people about the inspiration which led to its creation and its relevance today; many visitors to the cathedral were moved by it and its message.  The first cast of the sculpture was shown at The Garden Gallery in 2006 and Charlotte's wish that it should find a home in an interfaith, peace and reconciliation context was realised when a generous donor enabled it to be placed in St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, Bishopsgate, in the City of London.   For more information about The Thornflower see Charlotte Mayer's page under 'Artists', or ask The Garden Gallery for a pamphlet.   Please contact The Garden Gallery if you are interested in buying a sculpture by Charlotte Mayer - for more examples of her work click on 'Galleries' in the main menu, then 'Abstract Sculpture in Bronze' and 'Abstract Sculpture in Steel'.

    

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Elizabeth Herkstroter has installed Silent Echo, a sculpture in Carrara marble commissioned through The Garden Gallery, in a private garden, .       

 

         

Lotte Glob : The Gallery has several new ceramic pieces by Lotte Glob.  Lotte had a very successful exhibition at The Garden Gallery in 2002.  The exhibition was opened by Clare Foster, editor of Gardens Illustrated at the time, and coincided with the publication of an article in the magazine about Lotte by Rachel Bebb.

Tracey Sheppard's stunning sequence of engraved glass panels, The River of Life, has now been installed at Jack's Place, the new development at Naomi House, the children's hospice near Winchester.  The project began with the production of a book of black and white photographs taken at The Garden Gallery by John Garfield.  All proceeds from sales, and subsequent donations, were used to start a fund for the panels.  Some forty artists are represented in the book which raises awareness of how successfully art can harmonise with gardens, each helping to enhance the other.  If you would like to buy a copy of the book (now £5 + £5 p & p) please contact The Garden Gallery.  

Zoe Cull and Alex Evans have almost completed a public art project at Poole Crematorium, creating sculptural seating, inscribed paving and a water sculpture.  See www.leisureprojects.net/crematorium.htm.

Ben Barrell created a sculpture for the Cancer Research UK show garden designed by Robert Myers at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2010.  Ben designed Pebble Seats for Cancer Research UK's 2009 show garden, also available at The Garden Gallery (click on Galleries/Furniture in the main menu).  Ben has also made a sculpture to celebrate the completion of Shanghai's fourth largest skyscraper.  The sculpture, delivered by boat last summer, is six metres tall.

Peter Newsome ARBS has been elected to membership of the Royal Society of British Artists.  Recent commissions for Peter include five low relief glass panels for Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship.

A cast glass sculpture by Sally Fawkes and Richard Jackson, Sublime Transmission, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum for its contemporary glass collection, with the support of Dan Klein Associates.  Richard Jackson won a commission through Museumaker to create a large sculpture for the entrance courtyard of the award-winning museum, The Lightbox, in Woking.  Exchanging Luminance combines glass, stainless steel and LED lighting and will light up the garden in the evenings and on winter afternoons.