Tregoning gallery

2009-01-22T15:47:00.016Z

SHOW ON NOW

at Tregoning Gallery

Maggie Cullen
Derbyshire based sculptor

Human Condition

30th January until 20th February 2009

Maggie Cullen’s amazing figurative work is a personal exploration of the human condition, the transparency of our lives as she reads it through her own experiences. These fragile figures are suspended at eye level for the viewer to gaze upon. They are often recognizable as characters or can be androgynous in nature.
Maggie Cullen Royal College of Art, MA 1975.

2008-11-14T13:36:00.005Z

Iain Andrews

Solo Show Starts Sat 15th Nov

De Profundis

Forest Bruised

Gloradin

Jacob's Ladde

Nilleshna

Radharc

The Conquering Giordano

The Death of St Paul

The Death of Titian

The Hunting of Titian

Tupleo

2008-10-17T12:27:00.019Z

kristan baggaley
beautiful land
18th oct-1st nov

winter higgar tor

clearing storm towards whitby

late summer carl wark
towards eyam moor
towards kinder scout
storm towards whitby
evening.filey brigg towards whitby
passing rain towards whitby
deep shadow stanage edge
autumn stanage edge

2008-08-06T11:57:00.024Z

A collection of new work from California, France and the UK.

Bodega Head, California 110x110cm oil on canvas 2008

Bodega Head, California #2 110x110cm oil on canvas 2008

Estuary Mouth Borth 40x40cm

En Olivier SW France Watercolour on paper 25x25cm 2008

Acacia Seed Pods SW France Watercolour on paper 25x25cm 2008

Cut Fields en France Watercolour on paper 20x20cm 2008

Hazy Cloud, France Watercolour on paper 18x18cm 2008

Splash of Cloud, France Mixed media on gesso panel 18x18cm 2008

Strong Winds 17x30cm Watercolour and Mixed media on Gesso Panel

The Ocean Doesn't Care About You 91x138cm Oil on gesso panel 2008

Bodega Bay CA #2 30x30cm 2008

California Pacific 25x25cm 2008

Los Angeles Times 30x30cm 2008

Palm Trees, Woodland Hills LA 30x30cm 2008

Tomales Point from Dillon Beach CA 25x25cm 2008

Oh, To Be Cold and Lonely 100x160cm (diptych) oil on canvas 2008

Dew Pond, 102x102cm oil on canvas 2008

Waves on Dillon Beach CA 30x30cm 2008

Big Sur, California #1 120x140cm Oil

2008-06-18T16:20:00.009Z

sue graham
time and tide
21st june-4th july 2008

Sue Graham’s paintings, especially her delicate colour choices capture the somewhat mystical quality of the North Norfolk coast. Her works are quintessentially English.
Vast expanse of sand, tidal mudflats, salt marshes, sea lavender, wet sand and the dunes. These are the ingredients that combine to form a romantic, yet accurate, diary of her en Plien Air excursions.
Sue Graham is a winner of the Tregoning Award at Derby Museum & Art Gallery Open Exhibition, and the Ellis Prize at the LSA Annual Exhibition 2005 she is currently artist of the year for Leicestershire.
This terrific show contains 15 paintings, all oil on paper and canvas including Old Hunstanton and the Holkham area.
Not to be missed

sandlings feeding

watching the waves

evening stroll

stiffkey salt marsh

time for me

august norfolk light

2008-05-08T15:27:00.004Z

heather duncan
16th-30th may 2008

"In my work I am constantly shifting between what is outer and what is inner.
I use the outer world as a means of giving form to and celebrating what goes on within, which at first I may not fully understand myself.
The landscape or experience evolves upon the canvas. Often a battle, and always with tension, the painting is created...and only when completed do I begin to understand from where it has come".

Tin mine

Stones

Stones II

Presence

Parting

Leaving

Island IV

Island III

Island II

Island I

Homeland

Homage

Enclosure II

Enclosure I

Changing Horizons

American Journey

2008-04-12T11:09:00.026Z

chris skripek
painting derby
urban heart

Mayor Pauline Latham and Artist Chris Skripek

Renovation Irongate SOLD

Council House and River Garden SOLD

College Place

St Mary's Gate SOLD

Cathedral Quarter SOLD

Arthur Street

Wardwick SOLD

Sadlergate SOLD

New Apartments and The Old Silk Mill SOLD

Joseph Wright Memorial SOLD

Re-developing Derby
from Full Street

Market Place

Chester Green SOLD

Sleet Storm on Moor SOLD

2008-03-21T13:34:00.023Z

Celebrating Andrew Macara
One of Derbyshire's most outstanding painters!
21st March - 4th April 2008

Sparrow Pitt Farm 40x36"(SOLD)

Reflections Sidmouth 40x36"

Porth Beach Newquay 14x12"

Hotel Delos Mykonos 16x14"

Skiers at Courcheval (SOLD) 14x12"

Mundy Paddling Pool 24x20"(SOLD)

Old Doorway Pushcar Rajasthan India 16x14"

Brackley Gate Little Eaton 18x14"

Volleyball Corsica (SOLD) 20x10"

Sailing School Lefkas 14x12"(SOLD)

Reflection (NFS) RA Submission 60x30"

Playing in the Hay Rajasthan 16x14"

The Cafe Mykonos 30x25"

Girl on a Wall Santorini 18x14"

Farmyard Kerala India 20x16"

Shaded Garden Lefkas 36x32"

Winter in Buxton 14x12"(SOLD)

Jumping off the Pier (SOLD) 14x12"

Blue Flag Soulac France 14x12"

Sheep Brailsford Derbyshire 14x12"

2007-12-08T14:21:00.011Z

some of the artist currently on show
over this winter

lewis noble

heather duncan

kristan baggerley

nick headerley

mark preston

colin halliday

rex preston

matt clarke

louise plant

2007-11-07T14:58:00.000Z

Rex Preston
Winter Exhibition

'An obsessive observation of nature brings moody landscapes, vibrant colours, striking flora and wonderful texture straight into our living rooms.'

9th-24th November

Spring Reflections, Grasmere

Sunlight Through the Trees

Beeley Moor

Spring in Chee Dale

Woodland Stream

Changing Light, Beeley Moor

Bluebells & Gorse

Shades of Violet

River Wye, Monsal Dale

2007-10-04T11:44:00.001Z

From an article by Ashley Franklin, Derbyshire Life.
Night Theme, Derby Cathedral shows the building as if a beacon, while his various impressionistic depictions of the market place show the Guildhall to be positively iconic. Winter Afternoon from Darley Park has archival resonance as it captures a moment in time: the Westfield site beginning to impose itself on the city skyline; and while a painting like Evening Skyline and Into Derbyshire could be anywhere, it’s still pleasing to know that it’s our city, especially as Nick has invested this twilight scene with a dramatic Turneresque flourish of big skies and bold colour brushstrokes.

Matt Edwards, Collections Access Assistant at Derby Museum & Art Gallery who has closely followed Nick’s career since his Derby City Open success and helped inspire Nick by showing him works from the Goodey Collection, notably Ernest Townsend’s Derby Fish Market by Night, 1922 and W. E. Mosley’s Friar Gate, 1924, direct influences on the aforementioned Night Theme, Derby and Early Morning, Friargate respectively. Both the Townsend and Mosley will be displayed at the Museum to coincide with the Tregoning Gallery exhibition.
‘Nick’s Derby paintings are beautifully emotive and capture quiet, atmospheric moments in the city’, declares Matt. Matt dearly hopes Derby Museum will acquire some of Nick’s paintings – ‘they will certainly have historical appeal for future generations’, believes Matt. Nick reveals that Nottingham City Museum recently bought one of his pictures. ‘They’ve hung it next to a Lowry’, he coos. ‘If Derby Museum put one of my pictures next to a Townsend, I’d feel so proud’.

2007-09-06T11:19:00.001Z

Marvellous new paintings by

Mark Preston

A Year - En Plein Air

Show opens 21st September until 6th October

Although most of my work during the last ten years has been painted on location, this has been the first exhibition for which I have painted “en plein air” consistently during each month of the year. This can involve working in some difficult conditions; being frozen, buffeted by strong winds, soaked by rain or sea spray, or baked by hot sun, but the emotions I feel at the time can go directly into the work.

Autumn Hawthorn

Stormy Sea, Priests Cove

Foxgloves, Ashleyhay

Daffodils and Damson Blossom, Ashleyhay

January Snow, Stanage Edge

There’s a certain magic and feeling In the landscape which can only be captured by working directly from nature, allowing time to observe and absorb the subtle changes of colour, light and atmosphere.

2007-08-01T11:29:00.000Z

Sue Vesely

CUBE
Chapel Street Derby
Tregoning Gallery collaborating with Derby Dance Centre
until 14th September

"My work is about the body being seen as an expression of the mind.
I use the figure from every angle, to me the surface of the body is an expressive landscape.
The pose the figure takes is a mechanical structure, which is a three dimensional description of the emotional life within the mind of that figure. The limitations of the body are a common language. We all know how it feels to be in the pose when we see splayed fingers or an arched back.
We are connected below the surface by a common language that is wordless.
Our minds also work with colour and imagery.
To use this connection, I show the figure in a narrative situation and the composition is often constructed to give the viewer a role to play in the picture”

Works in Private Collections: Australia, France, Norway, Switzerland & USA

2007-06-01T11:28:00.000Z

inSitu

like the first day of spring 30x30cm £850

slate beach II 24x24cm £700

morning 19th april 30x30cm £850

summerhead 100x100cm £3000

autumn 20x40cm £850

low tide 20x40cm £850

first good spring afternoon 30x30cm £850

fresh as a daisy 30x30cm £850

a slate beach in wales 120x120cm £4000

crows in the distance 30x30cm £850

afternoon 17th april 20x20cm £575

determining distance 100x100 £3000

raining sky 30x30cm £850

spring haziness 30x30cm £850

suddenly, shadow 16x16cm £475

slate beach 46x46cm £1200

3pm spring day 21x34cm £775

west 21x34cm £775

cliff edge 120x120cm £4000

south east 30x30cm £850

liquid sky 21x40cm £850

shock to the system 16x16cm £475

slate beach I 15x25cm £560

2007-04-19T13:06:00.001Z

The Nature of Nature

Show Now On

The Private View was on Fri 27th April 6-8pm
and a great time was had by all. Well done Collin, a brilliant success!
own art interest free credit is available on all artworks in the gallery

Stanage Edge 2 (late snow 07) 40” x 40” oil on canvas £2500

Dovedale (spring 06) 36x36 oil on canvas £1800

Millale1 30"x30"oil on canvas £795

Two Rivers in sepia tones ( six canvases )32x 48 oil on canvas £2500

River Derwent (Autumn 06) Dyptich 40 x 56 oil on canvas £2,950

Dovedale Darkness 30"x30" £1500

Two Rivers ( 9 canvases) 48” x 48” oil on canvas £3,500

This is just a small example of Collin Halliday's work
The exhibition has over 40 paintings for sale.

Dovedale Winter 34"x36" oil on canvas £1700

Mildale 1 30"x30" oil on canvas £795

Dovedale Study 2 35"|x35" oil on canvas £995

Derwint 26"x26" oil on canvas £795

2007-02-28T17:24:00.000Z

'Scratching the Surface'

by Matt Clark

'Cube'

Derby Dance, Chapel Street, Derby

Show Starts 1st March

Matt & Stephen Munn Director Déda

2006-12-09T14:25:00.000Z

Jon Braley

Horizon Myth

Solo Show

Contact the gallery for your invitation to the private view on Thursday 18th January 6-8pm

University of Derby - 1999 BA (HONS)
Winchester 2000 – 1999 Masters Degree in European Fine Art

Jon Braley’s principal project is to capture the raw experience of nature in paint. Although based on landscape painting, his works are not literal but are concerned with capturing sensations and emotions such as awe, majesty and rapture through bold and brilliant colour, combined with an organic use of texture within the painted surface. They hide more than they reveal, within varying levels of varnish. Once finished, his works act as a type of window onto the wilderness.

2006-10-07T11:49:00.000Z

Derby’s changing fast and so is Tregoning Gallery.
Four new display rooms on the first floor confirm the success of the Gallery as the Midlands Premier Contemporary Art Sales Venue.

So on NOVEMBER 10th, to celebrate our expansion we feature an exhibition of new paintings by Graham McKean whose work conveys emotion through intense colour, remarkable composition and distinctive characters. As we watch Derby emerge from a large market town to a bustling ‘live and work’ City It feels appropriate to show an artist whose paintings of ‘City Life’ have become the toast of London.

Graham McKean’s work has been described by the art critic W. Gordon Smith as a cross between the painters John Byrne and Stanley Spencer, with an interesting 'bite'. His paintings now hang in numerous private and public collections including Standard Life, RICS (Edinburgh) and William Grant and Sons Ltd. (also a label for Glenfiddich Malt Whisky) The media have followed him very closely and he received national attention upon appointment as official artist for Scottish Opera in 2002. This included a commission for 5 large oil paintings depicting all aspects of theatre and opera for the Theatre Royal Glasgow.

Graham McKean began his working life in Glasgow’s Govan Shipyards, but in 1979 embarked on a more creative career in graphics. It wasn’t until 1996 after several jobs as a graphic artist; he made the decision to commit himself entirely to painting. Since then his work has gone from strength to strength and his paintings are now collected worldwide. His brilliant use of humour and sentiment
persuade us that each individual painting is part of a bigger picture - the picture of life.

“I always try to produce paintings that uplift, inspire and give me hope for the future. I have explored a number of themes but I would describe my recent work as a ‘celebration of life and living’. As I draw from my own experiences there are autobiographical elements, but my intention is that the characters appear as ‘every man’ and ‘every woman’. I like a painting to have a story behind it and use humour and sentiment wherever I can, as it is important for me to express emotion in all my work. If I can convey a feeling of optimism to the viewer then I will be very pleased.”