Artists and Exhibition videos...
Posted on Friday 11th April 2008
See the launch of Fabulous Folkestone! by AffordART ..... here
See HG Wells' The Sea Lady... a Tissue of Moonshine ..... here
See Elena Priestley, Portrait Artist sketching "Moda" John ..... here
See Ed & Margaret Burke's exclusive Folkestone Glass ..... here
See Mark Sutherland ..... here
See Afro Celotto creating his Glass.....here
See Tracey-Anne Pryke video.... here
See Vic Bamforth video ..... here
See The Old High Street (just before Christmas 2007)..... here
AffordART... Fabulous Folkestone! 27th & 28th March at The Grand
Posted on Tuesday 23rd February 2010
The Neville Pundole Gallery in association with Eisen Fine Arts (France)
www.AffordART.co.uk
A selling exhibition of affordable, original paintings from artists around the world but focussing on local artists celebrating fabulous Folkestone!
The Grand The Leas Folkestone CT20 2XL
27th & 28th March
Siddy Langley... 21st & 22nd November
Posted on Friday 13th November 2009
Siddy Langley... will demonstrating her lamp-working skills making Glass Jewellery. She will have a vast range of her superb Art Glass suitable for Christmas gifts. Spend your Christmas voucher. Wine will be served. Saturday& Sunday 21st & 22nd November 11.00 to 4.00
Folkestone Book Festival 2009
Posted on Friday 13th November 2009
A selling exhibition of work by Artists created in response to the books of Herbert George Wells 5th – 15th November Prior to moving to Folkestone I ran a successful gallery in Canterbury. During those 10 years I curated a number of major exhibitions that were popular with the public while also gaining favourable press reviews. Two memorable exhibitions were based on books with connections to Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer and Christopher Marlowe. In support of the Folkestone book Festival 2009, with these successes in mind I've chosen an author who lived and worked in Folkestone. Works inspired not only by his most famous books “The War of the Worlds” and The Time Machine” but also “The Sea Lady... a Tissue of Moonshine” which he wrote while living here. Pottery, Glass and Paintings... Each exhibitor has responded in their own unique way to this book by this - our once local - literary giant.The Sea Lady... a Tissue of Moonshine
Posted on Friday 28th August 2009
Exhibition open Saturday 5th to Saturday 26th September
A selling exhibition of work by eight Artists created in response to the book The Sea Lady... A Tissue of Moonshine by HG Wells.
Prior to moving to Folkestone I ran a successful gallery in Canterbury. During those 10 years I curated a number of major exhibitions that were popular with the public while also gaining favourable press reviews. Two memorable exhibitions were based on books with connections to Canterbury: Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus”In support of the HG Wells Festival, with these successes in mind I've chosen a book, set and written in Folkestone, around which to base this latest exhibition. HG Wells wrote “The Sea Lady... a Tissue of Moonshine” while living here and his narrative sets its action in such familiar places as the beach, town centre, the Metropole and Folkestone’s famous grassy promenade - the Leas. Written in 1902, when Folkestone was considered to be the most elegant seaside destination in Britain, Wells has mermaid choosing to visit!In Pottery, Glass, Bronze and Paintings... Each exhibitor has responded in their own unique way to this book by this - our once local - literary giant.(10% of the price of each item sold will be donated to support the HG Wells Festival)
Summer Scents
Posted on Thursday 16th July 2009
The Neville Pundole Gallery Summer Exhibition
“Summer Scents” Saturday 25th July to Monday 31st August
A selling exhibition of Scent Bottles and Flasks from eight celebrated British Glass Artists selected from the best around the country...... Roger Tye, Sunderland * David Wallace and Andrew Sanders, North Yorkshire * Allister Malcolm, West Midlands * Will Shakspeare, Somerset * Siddy Langley, Devon * Ed Burke, Cheshire * Martin Evans, Isle of Wight
Elena Priestley ..... Portraits
Posted on Wednesday 3rd June 2009
20th June to 5th July
Elena will be at the gallery during her exhibition from 11am to 4pm (closed Mondays
View a number of her completed works; watch her draw and paint, sit for her for few minutes, see your likeness tranferred to paper ... for you to keep!
Elena’s work shows a competent maturity of styles, technique and composition linked with a youthful and vivacious though sensitive portrayal of her subjects. She can use her brush to create delicate and subtle or bright and strident studies of the people around their character and spirit. A lasting legacy of a family member, your baby, children, your darling cat or dog, your lover ..... Elena can deliver!
Annie Soudain ... “Birds - Flowers - Fruit ”
Posted on Tuesday 21st April 2009
An exhibition of Paintings, Linoprints and Heritage Toys 2nd to 31st May
Meet Annie on Friday 1st May 6.00-8.00
Born near Dover in Kent she studied for four years at the then Canterbury College of Art. Taught art in Brighton, left to have three children and lived for several years on boats in England and France before settling by the sea in Sussex.
Following an exhibition at Folkestone's Metropole Arts Centre, Annie was one of several artists from the South-East selected to contribute work for the cabins of a refurbished Saga cruise ship, the Saga Rose. She was also commissioned to paint three large panels for a bar area, and later, when the ship underwent further refurbishment, three even larger panels were commissioned and installed, depicting 'Birds, Flowers, and Fruit of the World'.
Commissioned to decorate a life-size fibreglass cow for CowParade London 2002. ‘Dawn Cowrus’ (Annie covered the cow with birds) stood in the grounds of the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood throughout the summer and autumn of that year. It was voted ‘CowParade Champion’ in a Farmer's Weekly poll and was later auctioned at the Royal Smithfield Show to raise money for charity.
Annie Soudain enjoys painting in watercolour, gouache, and silk dyes (wax-resist); also printmaking — mostly linocuts, using various techniques. Fabric collage is another favourite medium.
Siddy Langley ... "from Glass Lens to Glass Art”
Posted on Thursday 26th March 2009
A selling exhibition of new work by the renowned glass artist, Siddy Langley.
28th March to 19th April
Siddy has been a keen photographer since 1970, and in the studio, will often be making glass pieces with a curling photograph on the glassblowers chair beside her.The advent of digital photography has made this practice all the more accessible, and these days a piece of glass is frequently being formed within minutes of a photo being taken.In this exhibition Siddy will, for the first time, be revealing the inspiration behind so many of her pieces - the photos from which she has worked.Siddy regards these initial photos as her primary “sketches” for the work and will then work through the idea with a series of glass pieces until she is happy that she has interpreted the concept to her satisfaction. All the works will be available for sale.The exhibition will especially include a range of new designs not previously seen in a variety of vases, bowls, flasks, scent bottles and her ever popular pebbleweights.Stan Rosenthal - A 60 Year Celebration of Art -1st to 22nd March
Posted on Saturday 28th February 2009
Meet Stan at the Gallery on Sunday 1st March from Noon to 4.00
the exhibition continues until 22nd March
Because of his informality and friendliness, it is easy to forget that Stan Rosenthal has long been an artist with an international reputation. At the age of nine while staying at Battle near Hastings, as an evacuee, he was given his first drawing lesson and decided he wanted to be an artist. During his time as a student, he had contact with two artists who were to become his heroes, Graham Sutherland and John Piper. Their printmaker was Stanley Jones of the Curwen Studio, and the young Rosenthal was not to know that many years later he would be collaborating with this same world-famous stone and plate lithographer. Stan Rosenthal produced his first stone lithograph over 50 years ago. He initially became known as a painter and as prices for his paintings increased, fewer people could afford them. He turned to printmaking because prints can be more affordable and he likes the idea of his images being in many homes.
The exhibition includes Stan's original works and affordable handmade prints.
HOME and GARDEN ..... Art Glass by ROGER TYE
Posted on Saturday 10th January 2009
HOME and GARDEN ..... an exhibition of Glass by ROGER TYE
31st January to 21st February 2009
Roger will be in the Gallery to meet you on Saturday 31st
Roger’s career working in glass spans more than 30 years. He has been chief glassmaker for two of the UK’s premier studios, has been a visiting lecturer in glass and has run his own studio for 16 years.
‘My inspiration is drawn from observations in time, of place, the elements and moments of clarity and purity inspired by Zen Haiku poetry. I am still as passionate about glass as I was the first time I gathered glass from the furnace and I still get excited about the exploration of form, the manipulation of light and playing with colour.’
In 2003, Roger was commissioned by Saga to create a retirement gift for it’s retiring Chairman, Roger de Haan. A large handmade plate containing silver leaf was engraved with a detailed image of the cruise liner ‘Saga Rose’.
Now, Roger concentrates his time on individual, limited run and sculptural work for exhibition and commission.
This exhibition will show Roger’s organic ‘Garden’ pieces as well as his latest contemporary work.
