Simon Dolby – THE DOLBY GALLERY

Posted on October 17, 2019October 17, 2019 by Simon Dolby

THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE GUILD OF DESIGNER CRAFTSMEN

T H E N O R T H A M P T O N S H I R E G U I L D O F

D E S I G N E R C R A F T S M E N

2 6 O C T O B E R – 2 4 N O V E M B E R

Posted on October 15, 2019December 4, 2020 by Simon Dolby

Peter Newcombe Exhibition of Oils

Peter Newcombe

2-22 November 2019

Peter Newcombe (1943- ) was born in Blisworth, Northamptonshire. He studied illustration and etching at Northampton School of Art, where he won a travelling scholarship. His work first came to public attention in 1968 with a set of twelve large drawings illustrating ‘The Shepherds Calendar’ by John Clare, which were featured on BBC television. In 1970 he was awarded a major art grant from the Elizabeth T. Greenshield Foundation in Canada. At this time he began exhibiting widely in London including at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour.

In 1979 he designed a set of flower stamps for the Post Office.
The subject matter of Peter Newcombe’s paintings is gathered almost entirely from the area of Northamptonshire in which he lives. His paintings are intense studies of landscape and flora in all seasons, and he has a particular interest in old buildings and wild flowers.

Posted on November 6, 2018November 6, 2018 by Simon Dolby

SUMMER SHOW 2018

SUMMER SHOW 2018

11 JUNE – 31 AUGUST

Posted on June 20, 2017June 7, 2018 by Simon Dolby

JON PAINE

‘I am a professional Chartered Engineer, but have always had a passion for working with wood. I was introduced to woodturning in the mid 1990s by my father who was recovering from illness and had decided to try his hand at the craft as a form of therapy. Through the early, somewhat experimental, days helping my father I realised that woodturning offered a unique way to express myself outside of the relatively straight lines generally associated with conventional cabinetwork. I regularly enter pieces into the national woodturning shows and have been commended on my work with some pieces winning prizes.’

Posted on January 5, 2017June 20, 2017 by Simon Dolby

MAGGIE SMITH

MAGGIE SMITH

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‘Inspiration for my work comes from the natural world and the materials around me. Observing both, for as long as I remember, inspired hours of creative mind games and excitement in me. Many of my works start from a found object which I build a form around, often using materials from the same location. This element of chance forces me to explore the possibilities of these, often unconventional, materials. My abilities to make use of such materials rooted in the discipline of traditional basketry technique.

My recent work has focused on willow, deconstructing and experimenting allowing me, over time, to develop a more intimate knowledge of it. This knowledge then helps me to reconstruct using the various craft and basketry skills available to me.’

Posted on January 5, 2017June 20, 2017 by Simon Dolby

CRISPIN HEESOM

CRISPIN HEESOM

‘After graduating from the Byam Shaw school of art in London in 1973 I did a series of different jobs but always kept painting. I lived in an Acme house in Hackney. I have been a full time artist since 1992 and have shown in London, Cambridge and Viersen in Germany.

The work consists mainly of oil paintings and drawings and etchings. My main source of inspiration until recently has been landscape, but now I am working on a series inspired by figures in motion.

In my work I want to maintain an abstract independence between form and content. My aim being to work on the borderline between abstraction and figuration rather than copying nature.’

Posted on March 29, 2017November 6, 2018 by Simon Dolby

WINTER SHOW 2017

WINTER SHOW

1 december – 31 january 2018

Posted on January 2, 2017October 24, 2017 by Simon Dolby

GERI WADDINGTON

GERI WADDINGTON

Friday 1 September – Saturday 14 October

Private View Friday 1 September 7-9pm

Geri Waddington trained in painting at the Slade School of Fine Art. She started engraving in 1995, and was elected a member of the Society of Wood Engravers in 2001, and its Chairman in 2014. She has exhibited regularly with the Society of Wood Engravers, the National Print Exhibition (later named ‘Originals’), (prizewinner 1999 and 2005), The International Miniature Print Exhibition, and at the Royal Academy and numerous independent galleries. She makes and sells independent prints and also illustrates hand-made private press books, where her engravings are printed directly from the wood, and has work in collections in the UK and abroad.

Wood engraving is one the simplest and yet most intense forms of printmaking; an image is produced by engraving into the polished endgrain surface of a block of wood (traditionally boxwood), with a variety of tools, which can produce a wide vocabulary of marks. The block is then inked with a roller and printed onto paper, where the cut marks appear as white.

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Posted on January 5, 2017June 20, 2017 by Simon Dolby

GERI WADDINGTON

GERI WADDINGTON

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Posted on March 3, 2017November 6, 2018 by Simon Dolby

SUMMER MIXED SHOW 2017

SUMMER MIXED SHOW

August 4 – 26

paintings of local scenes | original prints | ceramics | textiles woodwork

fused glass | jewellery | handmade aprons | artists cards

edward douglas | carol parfitt | john parfitt | jenny dunbar | margaret gardiner

Posted on January 3, 2017August 3, 2017 by Simon Dolby

ROBERT HUNTER

ROBERT HUNTER

Friday 30 June – Saturday 29 July

Private view Friday 30 June 7-9pm

We are excited to welcome Robert Hunter to The Dolby Gallery for his inaugural exhibition. Robert will be showing a selection of local town and landscapes of Northamptonshire and beyond in pastels, graphite and paint as well as powerful figurative pieces with determined brushstrokes and a powerful sense of light. The exhibition will reflect a journey from earlier works through to contemporary, representing Robert’s diverse skill as an artist.

Coventry Street 30cm x 30cm, oil on canvas

Piccadilly oil sketch x 27cm x 27cm, oil on sealed card

Evening, Piccadilly 30cm x 30cm, pastel on paper

Head Picadilly 10cm x 10cm, oil on sealed card

Head Regent Street 27cm x 27cm oil on sealed card

Barnwell Riverbank 42cm x 60cm, oil on sealed card

Lilford Bridge oil study ii 27cm x 27cm oil on sealed card

Oundle Marina 60cm x 60cm, watercolour on paper

Burghley Bridge conte on paper 50 x 70 cm

Lilford Bridge conte & charcoal on paper 50 x 70 cm

Easton-on-the-Hill pastel on paper 53 x 67cm

Towards Stamford School pastel on paper 54 x 78cm

Posted on May 2, 2017June 30, 2017 by Simon Dolby

PRINTS AND ORIGINALS

PRINTS AND ORIGINALS

Friday 5 May – Saturday 24 June

Come and browse a diverse selection of prints and originals by Simon, Gillian and Polly Dolby. Unframed works in the browser by Carry Akroyd, Geri Waddington and Mikki Longley. We will also be showing our regular collection of ceramics, jewellery and artists cards.

To browse all the prints we have available, click here.

Posted on January 5, 2017June 7, 2017 by Simon Dolby

MODERN MASTERS – Original Exhibition Posters

MODERN MASTERS – ORIGINAL EXHIBITION POSTERS

Friday 31 March – Saturday 29 April

Private View Friday 31 March 6-9pm

Come and browse a selection of rare and enigmatic original exhibition posters from some of the most famous exhibitions of the 21st Century. Highly collectable and beautifully designed expect to see Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Chagall, Leger, Dali, Dufy among many other modern masters!

(works are no longer available at The Dolby Gallery,

visit goldmarkart.com to purchase)

Henri Matisse, Galerie Berggruen

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Henri Matisse, 50 Ans de “Collages”

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Raoul Dufy, Atelier Mourlot

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Pablo Picasso, Les Lithographies de l’Atelier Mourlot

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Pablo Picasso, Exposition de la Paix

In plate

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Marc Chagall, Art Club Frederic Gollong

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Alexander Calder, Calder at Pace/Columbus

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Alexander Calder, L’Atelier Mourlot

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Antoni Clavé, Clave – Ecole Paris 1956 , Galerie Charpentier

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Pablo Picasso, Congrès Mondial des Partisans de la Paix

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Salvador Dali, Culan-Cher

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Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Bibliotheque Nationale

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Raoul Dufy, Untitled

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Jean Cocteau, Hommage à Jean Cocteau

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Marc Chagall, Hommage a Louis Aragon

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Pablo Picasso, Hommage a René Char

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Bernard Buffet, Hommage Fernand Mourlot (Vase of Anenomies)

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Joan Miró, Joan Miró – Graphics

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Joan Miró, L’Atelier Mourlot , Seibu Department Stores

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Marc Chagall, Le Ciel Bleu-Galerie Maeght

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Bernard Buffet, Le Pain et Le Vin

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Fernand Léger, Le Travail

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Henri Matisse, Grand Palais – Nu Bleu XI

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Henri Matisse, Travail et Joie

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Joan Miró, Miró at Pace/Columbus 1979

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Joan Miró, Atelier Mourlot

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Fernand Léger, Musée Cantini 1966

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Fernand Léger, Musée de Lyon

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Pablo Picasso, Musée Réattu – Arles

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Jean Cocteau, Poésie Graphique – I

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Jean Cocteau, Poésie Graphique – II

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Joan Miró, Salon de Mai

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Henri Matisse, The Sculpture of Matisse

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Marc Chagall, The Vision

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Marc Chagall, Les Peintres Témoins de Leur Temps

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Fernand Léger, Hommage a Fernand Léger

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Bernard Buffet, Vézelay – Affiche D’Exposition

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Pablo Picasso, Picasso 45 Linoléums Gravés, Bacchanal with Black Bull

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Fernand Léger, Dessins et Gouaches

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Robert Indiana, The Santa Fe Opera

Signed

Posted on January 6, 2017March 29, 2017 by Simon Dolby

CARRY AKROYD

CARRY AKROYD

Friday 3 – Saturday 25 March

Private View Friday 3 March 7-9pm

“I have always been interested in field patterns, and how geology dictates the agriculture of a district. A lot of my work is based on walking, or even driving, through the landscape, trying to understand it, rather than from a static viewpoint. I draw outside, but then work in the studio, where my dominating interest is in form and colour.

A parallel, but linked, seam of work loses the representational landscape elements to give way to untidy patchworks of colour. I play for hours with each of these, sometimes over years, until satisfied by a balanced composition.

At the same time as following my own inclinations, I have accidentally become an illustrator. Time spent drawing outside led to noticing birds and their habitats, till they became an important ingredient in my work. Due to this, I was commissioned to illustrate the book of the Radio4 series ‘Tweet of the Day’, then to do a regular illustration for the ‘Bird of the Month ‘column in The Oldie magazine. I am also jacket illustrator for the two series: ‘British Wildlife Collection ‘ and ‘Encounters in the Wild‘.

The span of work between illustrating to order and the unlimited playing with colour suits my restless nature, as does working in a variety of media. When one vein becomes exhausted, another is ready and waiting.

C A Luddington 2017

Lane Through Green Fields
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Walton Hill SOLD
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Park
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Woodland
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Deer in the Park
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Kintra
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Hillside Badgers SOLD
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White Tree SOLD
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Blue Tree
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Green Square

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Orange Line SOLD

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Summer Fields SOLD
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Autumn Fox SOLD

Posted on January 5, 2017June 20, 2017 by Simon Dolby

EDWARD DOUGLAS

Edward is a local designer/maker working from his busy workshop in the heart of Oundle’s market place. He designs and makes a range of bespoke furniture including cabinetry, kitchens, garden gates and doors. He has a clean, stripped back aesthetic and enjoys using sustainably sourced, beautiful timber allowing teh materials to take centre stage.

See more of his work here: edwarddouglas.co.uk

Posted on January 18, 2017June 20, 2017 by Simon Dolby

GORDON MONK

GORDON MONK

‘Green wood is much easier to work than seasoned wood, especially when working with hard woods. Chair components are traditionally made from green wood, the components are dried before the chair is assembled.’

The Dolby Gallery have always loved Gordon’s chairs and have sold many over the years. Their natural, flowing forms and comfort make them very popular. They create a wonderful, wholesome presence in a room. Pop in to see which designs we have in stock or to commission a piece.

Posted on January 5, 2017June 20, 2017 by Simon Dolby

JOHN PARFITT

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“Vibrant colour and dramatic yet sensuous line capture joyfully expressive moments of solitary acrobatics, of tender coupling, of Zen-like dance and dynamic interaction”.

John Parfitt lives in East Northamptonshire, He is a painter and printmaker, trained in fine art/paintmaking at Gwent College of art and education at London University. He has combined a career in teaching alongside developing his artwork.

Posted on January 5, 2016June 20, 2017 by Simon Dolby

JEWELLERY

JEWELLERY

We have a gorgeous permanent collection of jewellery at The Dolby Gallery exhibited alongside our exhibition programme.

Pop in to see new work by the following…

Helen West | Ruth Lyne | Carol Clift | Jane Barker | Valentina Brunn

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Posted on January 7, 2017March 3, 2017 by Simon Dolby

CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS

Friday 3 – Saturday 25 February 2017

Private View Friday 3 February 6-9pm

We look forward to welcoming back a knock out selection of local and regional ceramicists for our Contemporary Ceramics exhibition at The Dolby Gallery. Expect a diverse and interesting curation of domestic, functional and abstract works in clay and porcelain from ceramicists across East Anglia. Makers include:

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JOHN MASTERTON

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FRANK LOGAN

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MARGARET GARDINER

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ANJA PENGER-ONYETT

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HARVEY BRADLEY

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PAM SCHOMBERG

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JENNY DUNBAR

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PETER DEANS

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SUSAN CUPITT

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HELEN HUMPHREYS

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PETER WARREN

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Posted on January 4, 2017June 23, 2018 by Simon Dolby

SIMON DOLBY TRAVEL NOTES

SIMON DOLBY TRAVEL NOTES

Saturday 28 October – Saturday 25 November

Simon has been working on some beautiful, atmospheric new oil paintings quite different in style to his watercolour work. Dramatic land and sea scapes from his travels across Great Britain and France capture the ever changing light and colour of the seasons. They will be exhibited alongside a collection of much loved local scenes of Northamptonshire.