Gallery hours Tues - Fri 11- 5 pm, Sat & Sun 12 - 5 pm

Sarah Stone painted over a thousand watercolours of birds, mammals, fishes and insects including many specimens brought back from Captain Cook’s three round-the-world voyages. The two attractive birds in this exhibition resemble works by Stone found in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London.

Among the Maritime works in our exhibition are Frederick Garling's depiction of the Schooner Eclipse, which was involved in the Maori Wars; a lovely portrait of The Blue Jacket  in 1869 by a crew member; a drawing of the Oberon, an Irish sloop...

100 framed works priced under $2,000

This exhibition opens on Thursday 3rd December from 5.30pm

Until 23rd December 2020

"... At the end of the Soviet system the professional artists were given ownership of their apartments, and those with studios got them as well, and although they no longer had the State support, they retained the studio contents ...however, their work was completely out of fashion. The lifeline was interest from abroad.  The studios were full of preparatory sketches. These immediate impressions of life by these highly trained artists were a revelation. They were certainly the basis of the interest I have maintained over the last twenty eight years of buying them."  extract from "Art in Russia",   John Barkes, London

Continuing our theme of the Small Wall, here is a collection of pictures by our contemporary artists.  Included are new works by Jan Senbergs, Glenda Fell Jones, Kevin Foley and Peter Brown and some we found hidden away by Peter Trusler, Nick Botting, Lucy Boyd and Mary Hammond. Also some favourites by Jeff Ferris, Celia Perceval, Barry Dickins, Don Heron and John Gollings.