Tregoning gallery: 2007

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

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

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’.

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.

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