Artist, President of the Royal Watercolour Society and member of the New English Art Club, Charles Williams will be giving a talk about his work at Doone Valley Gallery on Saturday 12th August from 4pm. All are welcome to attend.
Doone Valley Gallery, Lorna Doone Farm, Malmsmead, North Devon, EX35 6HA
Tim Williams Fine Art has moved location to the historic grade II listed Lorna Doone Farm in the beautiful Doone Valley, just a short drive from Lynton & Lynmouth.
The address of our new location is:
Doone Valley Gallery, Lorna Doone Farm, Malmsmead, North Devon, Ex35 6NU
Tim recently made the front page of the Antiques Trade Gazette and headlines across South America after a painting he identified as by Juan Manuel Blanes (1830-1901) sold for a record £1.15 million (£1.488 including buyer’s premium) at Toovey’s auctioneers in West Sussex. The painting depicting a Gaucho on Horseback in a Uruguayan prarie became the 4th most expensive painting to be auctioned outside of London, an auction record for the artist, and a house record for Toovey’s.
Tim recently made the news after rediscovering a lost portrait by leading 18th century portraitist George Romney (1734-1802).
An article on the artist and potter Waistel Cooper features in this month’s Homes & Interiors Scotland magazine. They reached out to Tim for comment.
Tim has recently written an article for or the Summer 2021 edition of Exmoor Magazine on the important modernist painter and potter Waistel Cooper.
View our available selection of Waistel Cooper ceramics here
The demand for modernist studio potter Waistel Cooper’s work has seen prices dramatically increase in auctions and galleries over the past few years. The Antiques Trade Gazette recently ran an article about this and reached out to Tim for comment.
“Joy to the World..Good tidings we bring..!”
An award winning photographic portrait of the artist Grayson Perry is showing at a little gallery in a village tucked into the cliffs of North Devon.
The 1.2 meter light box portrait called BIRTH by Richard Ansett is illuminating Tim Willams Fine Art in Lynton with a “heavenly glow” that spills out onto the street and “can be seen for miles”. The gallery ironically is in the shadow of St Mary’s church which has the Star of Bethlehem atop the tower to guide the way.
“Not unlike the original stable in Bethlehem, the gallery is hosting a miraculous event.” says Richard Ansett
The portrait, that won first prize in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards, depicts Perry as his feminine persona holding a new born baby in the centuries old motif of mother and child. This one-off light box produced for the sensational exhibition at the Fitzrovia Chapel London and Somerset House has recently returned from a global tour with the World Photography Organisation.
Ansett says “This is an inclusive nativity to remind everyone that we are all worthy of the miracle of the Christmas message. There IS room at the Inn for everyone.”
Tim Williams of Tim Williams Fine Art says “Richard’s exhibition is a major coup for Lynton & Lynmouth. Our twin villages and the wider Exmoor area has a rich artistic history, from Turner, Shelley, Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth in the early 19th century, the pre-raphaelites that visited and worked here in the mid-late 19th century and a phenomenal group of avant-garde modern artists in the early to mid-20th century. By exhibiting his work in our village Richard – one of the leading photographers working in the world today – is continuing this legacy. Both Richard and I share a dream of re-establishing Lynton & Lynmouth as a leading cultural centre in the South West.”
Local resident Bev Walden says “Absolutely fabulous! Richard’s photograph is stunning, and at night a curious pink light emanates from the gallery. After two lockdowns that have interrupted our tourist season, people are struggling both economically and mentally, this is just the sort of thing Lynton & Lynmouth needed. Something that cheers us up and attracts visitors!”
NOTES TO THE EDITOR:
A selection of the hi res images for publication can be downloaded here: WeTransfer https://we.tl/t-7gxjWALdOL
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Tim Williams Fine Art
is also offering an exclusive limited edition print
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TIM WILLIAMS FINE ART
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Tim Williams Fine Art are excited to announce their first print release with photographer Richard Ansett.
The prints will be available to purchase via www.timwilliamsfineart.com or email tim@timwilliamsfineart.com for any enquiries.
Grayson Perry: Big American Road Trip #1 and Grayson Perry: Big American Road Trip #2 are an edition of 8 prints. Printed on archival pigment print, Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper 285gsm, measuring 100 x 77.4cm, with accompanying certificate of authenticity, embossed and editioned by the artist.
The prints are photographic portriats of the celebrated British artist Grayson Perry as his female alter-ego Claire. The two photographs were created for the Channel 4 documentary series Grayson Perry’s Big American Road Trip which premieres on the 23rd September at 10pm. The series will see Grayson Perry travel across the United States of America on his custom Harley-Davidson motorcycle, in an attempt to explore the meaning of the American Dream today.
Richard Ansett (born 20 February 1966) is an award winning photographer known for his provocative and thought-provoking images. Richard has a long established collaborative working relationship with the artist Grayson Perry, he has worked with Perry ever year since 2013 developing photographic strategies to promote Perry’s documentaries of contemporary British life. This relationship yielded the exhibition ‘Birth’ at London’s Fitzrovia Chapel in 2019, and more recently has resulted in these stunning promotional images for the forthcoming Channel 4 documentary Grayson Perry’s Big American Road Trip. The three-part series will be broadcast on Channel 4 on the 23rd September at 10pm. Alongside the documentary ‘Grayson Perry: The MOST Specialest Relationship’ – an exhibition inspired by Grayson’s travels across the USA is being held at the Victoria Miro Gallery.
Richard Ansett’s achievements in the world of photography are considerable. His works can be found in prestigious permanent collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London, the National Library and Archives Canada, Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Smithsonian Institution. He has won countless photography awards including 1st Prize at the Sony World Photography Awards 2019, People’s Choice Award, Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2018/19, 1st Prize Moscow International Foto Awards 2014, Overall Winner Art Laguna Prize ’13, 1st Prize Grand Prix de la Decouverte ’13, Gold Award – Prix de la Photographie ‘11.
For further reading, Richard’s interviews with the National Portrait Gallery and the Guardian newspaper provide a good insight into his methods, approaches and creative process.
We’ve been busy painting, sanding, building walls and will be hanging the first picture in our new Lynton Gallery imminently. We are opening on the 1st August with a Waistel Cooper studio pottery exhibition, running alongside our collection of paintings, prints and fine furniture.
Lynton is one half of the picturesque villages of Lynton & Lynmouth on the North Devon Coast, within the Exmoor National Park – an area noted for its outstanding beauty. Although not renowned for as a major centre of British art, Lynton & Lynmouth has an artistic heritage to rival the more well known coastal towns of Staithes, Newlyn and St. Ives. The natural beauty of the landscape has attracted artists to the area since the 18th century, including J.M.W. Turner, Samuel Palmer, Thomas Rowlandson, Albert Goodwin, Conrad Martens, Frederick John Widgery, Francis Nicholson, Sir Alfred Munnings, Harry Phelan Gibb, Ethelbert White, Ford Maddox Brown, John Anthony Park, Ann Le Bas, Waistel Cooper, Fred Hall and Damien Hirst. Our new Lynton gallery aims to explore that rich artistic heritage through exhibitions and publications.
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