2020 Exhibition: ‘All the Fading Landscape’
2020 marks the tercentenary of the birth of Gilbert White, author of ‘The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne’. As well as his close observations of local wildlife, Gilbert monitored the weather, commenting on the haze from a volcano that erupted in Iceland, for example.
With the planet in climate crisis, and wildlife in freefall, it is timely to remember Gilbert White and his love of and respect for the natural world. 'All the Fading Landscape' is postponed. Depending on the Covid 19 situation over the next few months, the exhibition may open in September or October. Information will be posted on the website.
In the meantime, this ‘gallery’ is gradually being uploaded with images and details of sculpture, ceramics, lettering and original prints by regular and new artists, some of whom are creating work specially for 'All the Fading Landscape', in acknowledgement of Gilbert White and his legacy. There is so much we can all do to reduce our carbon footprint and save our flora and fauna for future generations. I hope some of the pieces in 'All the Fading Landscape' will inspire us all to greater endeavour.
This page is being updated regularly so please check back. Contact the gallery for further information.
Prices do not include delivery/installation.
Harry Brockway - "I shot the albatross" from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (framed in oak, one of a set of 10, 43h x 32w cms, £230, unframed £150. One of a set of ten wood engravings commissioned by The Folio Society).
Harry Brockway - "Water, water, everywhere" from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (framed in oak, one of a set of 10, 43h x 32w cms, £230, unframed £150. One of a set of ten wood engravings commissioned by The Folio Society).
Harry Brockway - Joseph of Arimathea (Portland stone, 92 x 30 x 20 cms, £4,440)
Sioban Coppinger FRSS - Maquette (work in progress) for bronze approx. 80h x 100w x 50d cms. Inspired by Gilbert White of Selborne, Sioban is creating a bronze of a plough horse ‘fading’ into birds following the plough. Here are “echoes of the old way of farming which fortified such diversity of flora and fauna, now disappearing”.
Danny Clahane - Swallow Tondo (slate, Portland stone base, 55 cms, £1,195. Gilbert White wrote, "The hirundines are a most inoffensive, harmless, entertaining, social, and useful tribe of birds: they touch no fruit in our gardens; delight, all except one species, in attaching themselves to our houses; amuse us with their migrations, songs, and marvellous agility; and clear our outlets from the annoyance of gnats and other troublesome insects.")
Danny Clahane - Whorl (Kirkstone green slate, marble base, 52h x 45w cms, £1,195)
Will Spankie - oak bench (45 x 120 x 38 cms, "To yonder bench leaf-shelter'd let us stray", from 'A Naturalist's Summer Evening Walk' by Gilbert White of Selborne, £670)
Roger Stephens - The Bond Cannot be Broken (black Portoro marble, Purbeck Grub stone base, 36 x 36 x 10 cms, £1,500)
Roger Stephens MRSS - Surtr (granite, aluminium plinth, 72 x 30 x 27 cms, £2,820. 'Surtr' is the name of the Fire Giant in Norse Mythology. In 1783 Gilbert White recorded the Laki Haze, noting the effect of the dust cloud from the Laki volcanic eruptions in Iceland. £2,820)
Sadie Brockbank MRSS - Copse (bronze, unique, 26 x 22 x 22 cms, £1,850. Sadie has responded to the theme of the exhibition by exploring "the connectedness of beings".)
Tracey Sheppard FGE - 'In the Invisible Places' (two-tone Studio Glass bowl, 10h x 33w x 26.5d cms, inscription from 'Ideogram for Green' by Alice Oswald, "In the invisible places Where the first leaves start Green breathes growth", £1,850)
Tracey Sheppard FGE - Watching Narrowly (glass lens, sandblast and drill engraved, 21.5 cms diameter, ht. 68 cms, steel frame handmade by Alex Brinkworth. Inspired by Gilbert White's own scientific method of "watching narrowly", over days, weeks, months, even years. £1,555)
Jackie Perkins - 'Into the Forest I Go' (recycled plum slate, sustainably-sourced Scottish oak, palladium, gold leaf, enamel paint, 59 x 21 cms, £1,375)
Robyn Golden-Hann - Slate Tablet (22 cms sq., £180); inscription from Genesis 1:9, King James Version, which Gilbert White would have known as vicar of Selborne. As Gilbert was a great letter-writer Robyn has carved the slate in her own handwriting.
Lisi Ashbridge - Bird Bath (York stone, 49 x 5 cms, shortened inscription by Gilbert White, "Sipping the Surface over Pools and Streams", referencing Gilbert's beloved swallows. Shelly Portland stone base, not shown, 43 x 23 x 23 cms, £1,350)
Lisi Ashbridge - The Rainbow Appears With A Smile And A Tear (slate, 8.5 x 1.2 x 2 cms, £1,250)
Jude Tucker - Dovetail (Caen stone, Hornton stone base, 34 x 39 x 8 cms, £3,200)
Jude Tucker - Oceanic Vessel (Marnhull limestone, 9 x 29 x 34 cms, £1,980)
Jude Tucker - Feronia (Caen stone, Blue Hornton stone base, 24 x 27 x 12 cms, £5,000)
Jude Tucker - Ephydra (32 x 47 x 8 cms, Ancaster Weatherbed stone, Blue Hornton stone base, £3,800)
Will Spankie - Flower Form (Kilkenny limestone, 64 x 28 x 24 cm, oak plinth ht. 75 cms, £1,400, including plinth)
Albert Montserrat - Golden Bowl (oil spot glazed porcelain, 50 x 24 cms, £850)
Albert Montserrat - Vessel Blue (ceramic, oil spot glazed porcelain, 42.5h x 35w cms, £950)
Helen Sinclair MRSS - The Journey (maquette for larger bronze, cast from reclaimed wood, edition of 7, 131 x 117 x 38 cms, £12,950; the figures are making their shared journey around the 'circle of life')
Peter Randall-Page - Lolui Rocks VI (linocut, 20 x 23 cms before framing,inspired by Peter's participation in an arts project on the island of Lolui, Lake Victoria, Uganda)
Annet Stirling - The Trees (laser-cut plywood wall hanging, 38.5 x 25 x 2 cms, £135)
Peter Furlonger - Tree of Life (screenprint roundel, 55 cms sq. unframed, "All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green" by Goethe from 'Faust', £270)
Peter Furlonger - The Cherry Trees (painted gouache, 40 x 73 cms, unframed, poem by Edward Thomas, £300)
Peter Furlonger - (calligraphic watercolour, framed, 47 x 36 cms, text from 'Inversnaid' by Gerard Manley Hopkins, "What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet". £370)
Peter Furlonger - Glass Bowl (‘To see a world in a grain of sand’ from ‘Auguries of Innocence’ by William Blake, 25 cms diameter, £645)
Jo Sweeting - Hybernaculum Head (3/40, 68 x 60.5 cms framed in black oak, inspired by Gilbert White; framed £500 / unframed £350)
Antonia Salmon - Tide that Moves the Moon (smoke-fired ceramic, ht. 21 cms, inspired by 'I am the Song' by Charles Causley, £580)
Sasha Constable - Cerne Giant (linocut, edition of 30, 50 x 35 cms, unmounted, £210)
Carolyn Genders - Mellow Yellow II (ceramic, 20h x 38w x 28d cms, £1,400)
Carolyn Genders - Spring Delight (ceramic, 33 x 42 x 24 cms, £2,800)
Carolyn Genders - Autumnal Glow II (ceramic, 23 x 31 x 26 cms, £1,400)
Carolyn Genders - Tribute to Hitchens (ceramic, 59 x 25 x 21 cms, £3,000)
Diana Roles - Still Life I (ceramic, 45h x 48w cms, £860) and Two's Company II (ceramic, 45h x 26w / 30h x 26w cms diameter, £905)
Patricia Volk RWA, FRSS - Rattle (ceramic, mounted on granite, not shown, 93h x 36w x 36d cms, £2,750)
Lucy Lutyens - Birdsong (bronze, edition of 12, 74 x 15 x 15 cms, £4,500, 1m tall plinth available for about £500)
Jilly Sutton MRSS - Midsummer Night's Dream (bronze with polished top, slate base, edition of 9, 39 x 50 x 36 cms, £5,000, photo Kim Sayer)
Journeys (bronze, edition of 24, 42h x 17w x 14d cms, £2,600. Large version, edition of 8, 150 x 85 x 71cms, plus 1.1m ht. bronze plinth, £23,265. Photo: SWN Photography)
Nadine Collinson - Natural Connection (bronze, edition of 24, 41 x 18 x 12 cms, £2,760. Large version, edition of 8, 150 x 85 x 71 cms, plus 1.1m ht. bronze plinth, £19,000. Photo: SWN Photography)
Nadine Collinson - Resonance II (edition of 8, 100 x 45 x 30 cms, plus 1.1m ht. bronze plinth, £15,890)
Gloriosa Double Yellow (handblown glass, stainless steel, 56h x 55w x 55d cms, £3,000)
Rebecca Newnham FRSS - Rise (glass mosaic, ht. 3.5m, rotates in the wind; the Rise series "illustrate waves of energy that invisibly connect the earth to the universe", £22,800)
Charlie Macpherson - Fibonacci (ii) hand blown glass, ruby and gold leaf, 28 x 5 cms, tall base available for outdoors, £4,800
Charlie Macpherson - Fibonacci (iii) (hand blown glass, ruby, gold leaf, 24 x 5 cms, tall base available for outdoors, £4,800)
Charlie Macpherson - Fibonacci (iv) (hand blown glass, ruby, gold leaf, 25 x 5 cms, tall base available for outdoors, £4,800)
Sally Fawkes MRSS & Richard Jackson MRSS - Silent Exchange (glass, stainless steel, 25 x 14 x 10 cms, £15,480)
Sally Fawkes MRSS - Passage II, III & IV (glass cubes, engraved and painted, 6 cms sq., £395 each)
Sally Fawkes MRSS - Direction II (glass pyramid, engraved and painted, 8 x 8 x 8 cms, others available, £345)
Sally Fawkes MRSS - Midpoint Diffusion VI (glass, engraved and painted, 20.5h x 12.0w x 7d cms, £2,700)
Sally Fawkes MRSS - Midpoint Diffusion VIII (glass, engraved and painted, 20.5h x 12.0w x 7d cms, £2,700)
Jason Mulligan MRSS - Pink Tooth and Claw (Portuguese marble, 45 x 32 x 20 cms, £2,960)
Jason Mulligan MRSS - Farooq (Spanish alabaster, 27 x 18 x 9 cms, £670)
Will Spankie - Endless (Cornish granite, 85 x 20 x 18 cms + 1m tall oak plinth, £1,850)
Steve Atkinson - Perspective (Portland stone, Indian black serpentine soapstone, 175 x 22 x 7.5 cms, £5,950)
Eric Marland - Still (reclaimed slate, 12 x 8.5 x 4 cms, £1,185)
Eric Marland - Now You See Me (slate, 157.5 x 10.5 x 4 cms, £1,335)
Sally Fawkes MRSS - Midpoint Composition V (acrylics on paper, framed size 41.7 x 53.8 cms. £635. Sally made a number of 2D works on a sailing trip to northern waters. She was an active crew member and used the trip for research for future glass sculptures.)
Sally Fawkes MRSS - Midpoint Composition VI (acrylic on board, framed size 34 x 25.3 cms, £685. Sally made a number of 2D works on a sailing trip to northern waters. She was an active crew member and used the trip for research for future glass sculptures. )
Sally Fawkes VII - Midpoint Composition VII (acrylic on board, framed size 34 x 25.3 cms, £685. Sally made a number of 2D works on a sailing trip to northern waters. She was an active crew member and used the trip for research for future glass sculptures. )
Alex Relph - Arbour Bench (galvanised steel, iroko, glass, 201 x 124 x 50 cms, £1,480)
Alex Relph - Bench (blue painted galvanised steel, iroko, 85 x 145 x 39 cms, £1,185)
Alex Relph - Bench (galvanised steel, 90 x 155 x 46 cms, £1,040)