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The Artist Gardener
Fletcher Prentice and Dawn Stacey, 9 July - 6 August 2022

The Artist Gardener: Fletcher Prentice and Dawn Stacey

Past exhibition
  • Press release
  • Works
  • Exhibition catalogue
  • Michèle Oberdieck
  • Press Release Text

    Following the success of the exhibition 'The Painted Garden', we're returning to the garden as creative, expressive space, exploring the enduring influence of horticulture and gardening on visual art. Fletcher Prentice will present a new collection of paintings, celebrating the vibrancy and energy of a summer garden, along with richly painted and beautifully observed flower still-life. Dawn Stacey's intricate, yet delicate works explore the natural rhythms and patterns that are woven through nature. In her recent work, she has explored the pleasing geometry of a garden; she paints pathways contrasted with frothing petals and leaves.

    'Visual art and horticulture are two disciplines that share a long association.  Claude Monet was perhaps most famously influenced by his garden at Giverny,' says Sarah Wiseman, gallery director. 'With later twentieth century examples of gardening artists including Derek Jarman and Barbara Hepworth, gardening lends itself naturally to painting as a visual stimulus, but there are wider, more deeply felt implications to consider.  Gardening is cyclical; in a garden we witness new growth, but also its decline and decay as the seasons change.'

    'We are tuned in more than ever with our outdoor environments, and there is a renewed interest in nature and the outdoors, especially with more people now working from home. Gardens in their many forms - be it a public park or a back patio - have become essential places of refuge.'    

     

    Playing with composition, colour and texture, gardeners are often likened to artists and indeed many artists, writers and poets are famously keen gardeners and naturalists. Claude Monet, Vita Sackville-West, Emily Dickinson and many others all took inspiration and comfort from observing and growing their gardens and a continuous cyclical process.

    Exquisite new blown glass vessels by Michèle Oberdieck will be exhibited alongside Fletcher Prentice and Dawn Stacey's paintings in The Artist Gardener. Softly round shapes are inspired by natural forms and processes. 

     

     

  • Works
    • Fletcher Prentice oil painting on canvas of 12 pink, yellow & orange Tulips in rows of 3 & columns of 4 against a white background.
      Fletcher Prentice, Counting Tulips, 2022 Sold
    • Fletcher Prentice oil painting of a riot of blue delphiniums in shades of blue against a pale blue background, bees buzzing above.
      Fletcher Prentice, Early Summer Delphiniums, 2022
    • Flowers in blue and pale pink with pale green foliage painted against a rich, dark background in the style of Dutch Golden Age painting.
      Fletcher Prentice, Delphiniums and Scabious, 2021
    • Fletcher Prentice study of flowers in shades of pink in the foreground painted against a pale blue background.
      Fletcher Prentice, Garden Hollyhocks, 2021
    • Abundant green plant foliage and red flowers painted against a pale blue sky, a meadow glimpsed in the distance.
      Fletcher Prentice, Heleniums and Songbirds, 2021
    • Fletcher Prentice oil painting of tangled foliage of flowers in white and pale green leave against a deep dark background in the style of the Dutch Golden Age painting.
      Fletcher Prentice, Lilies with Artichoke Leaves, 2022 Sold
    • A branch with white blossom with a variety of birds perching on it, depicted against a rich, dark background.
      Fletcher Prentice, Night Blossom, 2021
    • Tulips in shades of pink and red painted against a dark background, the light catching on the petals in the centre of the painting.
      Fletcher Prentice, Parrot Tulips, 2021
    • Fletcher Prentice study of flowers in pink and mauve painted in a fluid style against a pale blue background.
      Fletcher Prentice, Summer Hollyhocks, 2022
    • Tangled white flowers and pale green foliage with birds perched among it, painted against a silvery white background.
      Fletcher Prentice, Sweet Rocket Flowers, 2021
    • Fletcher Prentice oil painting on canvas of a peachy pink Tulip against a rich, burgundy black background.
      Fletcher Prentice, Tulip Study, 2021 Sold
    • Flowers in vibrant shades of orange and red painted against a pale blue background by Fletcher Prentice.
      Fletcher Prentice, Wallflower Border , 2021
    • Dawn Stacey garden landscape in green with pink blossom on trees, a garden path in the middle. and tulips and fritillaries in purple and pink in the foreground.
      Dawn Stacey, A Shared Pathway Reserved
    • Dawn Stacey meadow landscape in orange, pink and red with large flowers on either side of a footpath, a mother and child walking away from the viewer.
      Dawn Stacey, Beneath Our Footsteps
    • Dawn Stacey landscape in sage green and brown with layered colour and imagery of plants, birds, insect and small human figures.
      Dawn Stacey, Early Morning Sounds of our Footsteps, 2021
    • Dawn Stacey garden landscape with trees in blossom, a dark forest beyond and two small figures in the foreground walking away from the viewer.
      Dawn Stacey, Journey of the Fox Sold
    • Dawn Stacey landscape of an allotment in greens and browns, with ducks and a rabbit in the foreground a line of trees in the distance.
      Dawn Stacey, Light of the Morning Sun
    • Dawn Stacey garden landscape in shades of pink and purple. a tiny female figure standing under a blossoming tree to the left.
      Dawn Stacey, Looking Under the Cherry Tree Reserved
    • Dawn Stacey garden landscape in jade green contrasted with pink blossom and a dark sky above, ducks in the foreground.
      Dawn Stacey, Memories Like These Sold
    • Dawn Stacey weave of flowers in orange, pink and mauve against a deep blue background by Dawn Stacey.
      Dawn Stacey, Night Dream
    • Dawn Stacey garden landscape in pale green with trees in pink blossom, a female figure in the middle.
      Dawn Stacey, Sharing a Moment Reserved
    • Dawn Stacey garden landscape with early summer flowers in the foreground, trees with pink blossom in the centre right with two figures in the middle.
      Dawn Stacey, We Walked Together Sold
    • Dawn Stacey view of a buddleia and white flowers with birds and butterflies against a turquoise background, swans seen partly obscured by foliage.
      Dawn Stacey, Whispering Nature
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  • Exhibition catalogue

    The Artist Gardener
  • Michèle Oberdieck New Blown Glass
    • Michele Oberdieck Two small round glass vessels in milky white and mossy brown.
      Michèle Oberdieck, Anemone Pair
    • Michele Oberdieck Two round glass vessels, one in blue with an opaque milky blue area towards the base, the other in the same style in pink.
      Michèle Oberdieck, Blue Mauve and Heather
    • Michele Oberdieck small round glass vessel in colours of orange and olive green.
      Michèle Oberdieck, Gold Pod
    • Michele Oberdieck round glass vessel in transparent pink and pale green.
      Michèle Oberdieck, Heather and Pistachio
    • Michele Oberdieck glass vessel in an irregular vase shape in transparent colours of blue and apricot.
      Michèle Oberdieck, Jade Distraction Bowl, engraved
    • Michele Oberdieck Two glass vessels in irregular vase shapes in transparent colour of yellow and blue with an opaque yellow at the base.
      Michèle Oberdieck, Sennelier Viridian and Ochre Vessel
    • Michele Oberdieck glass vessel in transparent turquoise in a an irregular vase shape.
      Michèle Oberdieck, Turquoise Seas II
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