FAY BALLARD
Born in 1957 and daughter of the late novelist, J G Ballard, Fay
studied art history at Sussex University and then worked at
the Royal Academy and Tate Gallery for fifteen years. In 2002
Fay completed a Diploma in Botanical Painting at Chelsea
Physic Garden, going on to an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint
Martin’s Art School. She was elected Associate Member Royal
Watercolour Society in 2007.
In 2008 Fay was one of the artists invited to paint the flora
of Highgrove for HRH The Prince of Wales, for the Highgrove
Florilegium to celebrate the garden at Highgrove. The Florilegium
exhibition, which debuted at the Garden Museum in
London, has travelled to the USA, Japan, China and the
Netherlands.
Influenced by painters of the Northern Renaissance, as well
as modern and contemporary masters, the works are about the
artist’s emotional response to nature. Fay says ‘I'm searching
for the beauty or the numinous in the every day and find it revealed
in the gnarled trunk of an oak tree, or the intricate pattern
of a cabbage leaf’.
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Please click on the image below to see examples of Fay's work.
RADICCHIO watercolour and pencil on paper, 41 x 42 cm
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Please click on the image below to see examples of John's work.
ARCHAIC FORM 1 Bath Stone 54 x 30 x 18 cm
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JOHN DE PAULEY
John was born in Epping in 1963 and attended the stonemasonry
course at Weymouth College. This lead to an extended
period at Cliveden Conservation, where he worked on some of
England's most important historic buildings for English Heritage
and the National Trust. But his partner, Julia, was a
student at Chelsea School of Art and her training and encouragement
apparently caused John to explore new ideas, moving
him from only working with function to the exploration of
pure form. While still executing pieces on commission, John is
now devoting much of his time to sculpture. These pieces contain
an elegance of proportion and shapes of great purity and
simplicity – making a strong and arresting statement in either
an interior space or a garden setting.
John, who now lives near Bridport, has had work included
in several important outdoor exhibitions including ‘In Praise
of Trees’ at Salisbury Cathedral, the Chelsea Physic Garden,
‘In Pieces’ in Myddleton Square, London and most recently at
‘Sculpture at Woburn’.
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