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  • Christmas Exhibition

    Christmas is on it’s way once again and our exhibition is on Sat 21st November. between 5:30 and 9pm Print out the invitation and bring it with you for a chance to…

  • Making A Clean Breast Of It

    I don’t know about you but I can get more bored, more quickly in a ‘stately home’ than almost anywhere else on earth – rows of marble busts of the nameless and…

  • Colin Kellam

    Indian Runner Duck 29″ High We have some superb sculptural and table pieces in the gallery at the moment from the renowned Devon ceramicist Colin Kellam. After studying sculpture and ceramics at Loughborough…

  • David Stead at the Alice Hawthorn

    David is holding an exhibition of new original work and limited edition canvas prints at The Alice Hawthorn Inn in Nun Monkton Nr York from Thurs 30th July to Sun 2nd August.…

  • Autumn Creeps In To The Summer Wood

    Oil on 12oz cotton duck canvas 5′ x 5′   I’m working on this study of the woods near Sleningford at the moment. It is quite a big piece at five feet…

  • London

    I was in London this week to deliver an oil painting to some lovely customers. The Thames changed colour from minute to minute but I liked its brown hues the best. I…

  • Ripon Canal

      David Stead has been working on a series of pictures in mixed media on handmade paper. this new work is of Ripon canal. The Ripon Canal was built by the canal…

  • Sea Life

    David has been working at the coast recently and this is reflected in many of the new works appearing on the site at the moment:  

  • Back to Northumberland

    David is heading back to Northumberland tomorrow to re-engage with what he describes as a ‘Beautiful, comfortable/alien landscape, I find myself working in a place where there are no divisions between Earth,…

  • Northumberland

          Couple of days in the wonderful Northumberland – this from today near Craster:

  • Colin Kellam

    We’ve just been to Devon to see Colin Kellam to make a new ceramic order.

  • My latest piece for Caught By The River

      The river Ure snakes through a 350ft gorge cloaked with Oak, beech, sycamore and ash; a dramatic and beautiful foreground to a view that stretches across the vale of York to…