Our simple aim is to share our life-long love of contemporary art with you. We hope that The Marle Gallery will become your favourite place to enjoy exciting and challenging art in all its forms. Art that brings something new and unique to the southwest. Art we love ourselves and can honestly promote to you. 
 

Exhibitions at The Marle Gallery 

We hold six exhibitions throughout the year of varied and challenging work from new and existing gallery artists. To keep informed follow the link to join our mailing list. 

Our next exhibition is  the 74th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers, showcasing over 60 British artists, 8 May to 18 June with the private view on 5 May 3pm to 7pm. Please come along to the private view and enjoy a drink with us.

                             

  

 

Olympic Shadows - Anne Desmet, Wood Engraving

 Venus & Adonis - Jane Lydbury, Wood Engraving

May at The Marle Gallery 

A fabulous selection of 130 Engravings from many prestigious artists are exhibited this month in the 74th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers.  This is the only chance to see this important selection of work in the South West.

Other work on display  for May includes Collagraphs from Vicky Oldfield, new stoneware sculpture from Christine von Alten,  stoneware from Mandy Parslow, new oil paintings from Tony Beaver, paintings from Martin grover, sculpture from Dido Crosby and Ian Middleton,   and "picture bowls"  from potter Nick Hillyard.

Mandy Parslows stoneware is salt fired in her own wood fuelled kiln which she built in Ireland. This technique produces an amazing colour palette in her pieces. She reflects the agricultural landscape with a sense of movement in her stoneware.

Tony Beaver believes oil paintings should bestow grandeur and meaning to the subject. He has lit  the human connection in his new match stick oil paintings. He is master at turning an everyday object into a characterful and meaningful being. Also showing his still lifes of pots from the British Museum.

 
Museum Study 2 - Tony Beaver, oil on canvas Match on Black - Tony Beaver, oil on canvas
Three Matches on Orange - Tony Beaver, oil on canvas Nest of Bowls - Mandy Parslow, stoneware Elliptical Vessel -  Mandy Parslow, stoneware    
Well known Devon potter Nick Hillyard trained under Patty Elwood, a pupil of Bernard Leach. For the last 2 years Nick has been engrossed in the making of a series of picture bowls, crafting painstakingly detailed scenes from his days living in London, onto the concave surface of the bowl. The result is a charming, unique and highly crafted ceramic 
Ariel Landscape - Nick Hillyard, ceramic
 
Other artists on show: Simon Brett, Dido Crosby, Anthony Dyson RE, Martin Grover, Irene McCann, Nick Hillyard, Bronwen Coe
The Marle Gallery.   Victoria Place, Axminster, Devon EX13 5NQ.    t 01297 639970   e art@themarlegallery.co.uk    Proprietor Nick Broomfield.