| THE ART ROOM Topsham - contemporary art gallery in Devon | ||||
| Zoe Cameron
Zoe Cameron was born in Hayling Island in1959 and studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design. She moved to Cornwall in1987 and it was here that she was influenced by a tradition of painting that is integral to her work today. See more about Zoe here |
Evelyn Dewar
Evelyn Dewar is currently a Fine Art lecturer responsible for higher education provision within the faculty of Art and Design at Exeter College. She has had significant exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow.
See more about Evelyn here |
Christine Spencer Green
Christine Spencer Green was born in Vienna in 1956. She moved to the UK in 1981 and settled in Cornwall in 1992. Here she founded the Treruffe Art Studios in Redruth. Christine studied at Falmouth College of Art and has exhibited widely throughout Cornwall, York and Bristol. See more about Christine here |
Francis Hewlett
Francis’s work in the early sixties he describes as ‘Thick Pop’, a reaction against the Euston Road School. It was a time when objective drawing and painting was unfashionable and Francis explored other ways of expressing his ideas.
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Robert Jennison
In 1984 Robert gave up teaching to concentrate on his own work and has been exhibiting regularly since 1961 with solo shows in London, Milan, Belfast and Bristol. His work can be found in public and private collections in Europe, Canada and the USA. See more about Robert here |
| Rachel Hardy Moody
Rachel studied at Kent Institute of Art Canterbury under Peter Doig. She works in oil and gesso to produce complex and serene landscapes. See more about Rachel here |
Robert Organ
In 1978 Robert was ‘artist in residence’ at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter where he painted and gave lunch time lectures, they later purchased a ten-foot painting for their collection entitled ‘Natural History’.
See more about Robert here |
Nicholas Papatzaneteas
Nicholas was born in Athens and studied at the Royal College of Art London. His strong abstract paintings depict the coastline of Brittany and the South West of England. See more about Nicholas here |
Robin Rae
Rae has always been interested in the ordinary person, factory workers and bleak urban environments. His work is edgy, sometimes brooding but always poetic. He is a master of the atmospheric painting.
See more about Robin here |
Benedict Rubbra
The parents of Benedict Rubbra were both musicians and the family had strong connections with Italy. An aunt was a painter (with work in the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti in Florence), so Benedict “grew up” in England along with many visits to Italy. See more about Benedict here |