ARTISTS

PASCAL MAGIS

Pascal Magis was born the first April 1955 in Aurillac France, but spent his childhood in Meyrals, a village in Perigord Noir. He was educated at the College Saint Joseph in Sarlat. He left in 1971 to study at L’Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs of Limoges.

After five years of study he gained a solid foundation in art. His dislike for the conceptual painting of the time steered him towards designing and working with tapestry. He gained his diploma National des Beaux Arts in 1976. He returned to live in Meyrals and converted a barn into a studio and exhibition gallery.

He held an exhibition with other artists in the gallery every summer. This was warmly received by the press and the public. These exhibitions were always of the highest quality and made the name and the work of Pascal Magis well known throughout the art world.

In the early eighties, with his wife Liloup as model, he produced many of his celebrated works based on the nude female form. His use of colour became more subdued and tones more natural.

In 1980 a major exhibition in Paris took place under the title "Femmes". These seductive nudes led Donatella Micault, Art Critic of "La Presse Francais" to write: In spite of his youth, Magis shows a remarkable sense of monumentality and his perfectly constructed and well balanced compositions deserve the greatest interest".

In 1983 he was commissioned to create ten tapestries based on Michele Venture’s designs. Six of these works were exhibited in New York. About this time Pascal returned to painting. His work became increasingly abstract and his colours more intense and vibrant. What his last tapestries had revealed, his paintings confirmed: Pascal Magis did not belong to the family of figurative art and that from now on he would live by instinct, colour and free expression.

Over the last years, Pascal Magis has exhibited in France and many other countries. He still holds solo exhibitions in his Meyrals studio every summer.

Visit Pascal's site

HILARY DYMOND

GUIDO BARAGLI

Born in Palermo, Sicily in 1962, awarded a diploma at the Accademia di Belle Arti and now lives and works in Bologna, Italy.  Guido has exhibited widely in Sicily, Italy and South America.  We held his 1st major UK exhibition at our gallery in November 2006.

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NORA FERRUZZI

We are now very privileged to show the paintings of Roberto Ferruzzi's daughter Nora who, whilst with equal talent to her father, displays in her work a truly unique Venetian style. We held her first major UK exhibition at the gallery in 2003.

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REBECCA NEWNHAM

Rebecca Newnham is an artist who has made mirrored mosaic her trademark. Her unique light-reflecting two and three dimensional forms have resulted in commissions around the world, from the Sandy Lane Hotel, Barbados to the Gresham Palace Hotel, Budapest from cruise liners to private gardens.

Originally trained as a glass artist, but frustrated by the limited scale, Rebecca began to smash up glass to use as mosaic. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in the early nineties she immediately began making larger pieces using precious metals, such as gold and silver leaf gilded to glass and then hand cut to create her own mosaic.

The most adaptable of materials with numerous applications, mosaic adds colour, texture and light to any space from the formal to the avant-garde. The multifaceted surfaces of Rebecca’s work reflect and refract light to dazzling affect
 

DOMINIQUE DALL'AGNOL

Dominique Dall'Agnol  was born in the Savoie, France in 1931, of Italian parents. 

The family moved to Juan les Pins, Cote d'Azur, in 1945.  It was here that Dall'Agnol discovered his natural artistic ability, the wonderful light of the region inspired him to paint whenever possible.

In 1948 he developed his skills by studying at L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Nice, thereafter working for a time with his father in his other love, cinema.  During this period he painted many film posters to be shown with the film of the day at the isolated village picture houses of Provence, a la Cinema Paradiso.  He even appeared on film with the legendary actor/director Eric von Stroheim who was a patron of his film posters.  At this time he also met and worked with many great artists, including Nicholas de Stael, from whom he learnt a great deal.

In the 1960's Dall'Agnol took part in a major fine art competition in Deauville, Normandy was was awarded first prize for his work.  This prize and the positive comments surrounding it were the catalyst that made him commit himself entirely to painting.  He continued to work in the South of France, but also travelled to paint in his father's birthplace, Venice, where he was fascinated by the city, its colour and its light.  His paintings evolved and embodied the qualities of atmosphere, calm and a certain mystery that are still apparent today.  Dominique Dall'Agnol exhibits internationally, with his work in many private and corporate collections, however until now has not had a major UK exhibition.

 KEN ZIER 

Ken Zier was born in1968 in Denmark and is grandson of the noted marine artist Wolmer Zier(1910-90).  Ken followed the family links with the sea and art becoming a professional artist in 1995. His work shows a natural appreciation of the interplay between land, sea and light that offer his paintings a unique dimension. He exhibits both at home and internationally.  We will hold a major exhibition of Ken's work in May 2008.

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ELIZABETH LABALETTE

Elizabeth Labalette is a French artist living near Toulouse who specialises in large scale paintings of flowers. We held her first major UK exhibition at the gallery in March 2006 which was a great success. Click here to visit her website.

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STEVEN MARSHALL, Visual Artist

GLASSWORKS

The glassworks are an extension of Steven Marshall’s on-going Pedestriana series which focuses on people in spaces, individuals that form groups that form crowds that form societies. The artist’s refusal to depict their props and environment draws the viewer’s attention to their peopleness, to their body language and their attitudes. The space in these paintings is suggested only through the choreography of their subjects.

In the glassworks, the figures are rendered on multiple layers of glass which creates actual space between the figures. This can either exaggerate the illusionistic space in the picture, or in some cases, contradict it. The layered glass also creates a sense of movement and time. As the viewer moves in front of the picture, so the figures shift, from the recent past, through the present to immediate future. These pictures use moments as motifs.