Grey Court Charity Art Auction

13 October 2021Raising money for art, through art

Grey Court Education Fund

Charity Number 1141466

About us

The Grey Court Education Fund was set up to broaden enrichment opportunities, fund equipmentand facilities and help young people who may not otherwise afford to access educationalopportunities within Grey Court School and the wider area.

Proceeds from the charity art auction will help fund - among other things - technical sessions, lifedrawing opportunities and visiting artists workshops for the next generation of young artists.

Charity number 1141466Ham Street, Ham,Richmond upon Thames,TW10 7HN

Grey Court Charity Art Auction

Featured Lots

Featured lots - how to bid

All items pictured in the brochure are available at auction on 13th October 2021. Itemsare listed by their lot number. Works will be available to view from 6pm on the evening ofthe auction at Richmond Golf Club.

If you are unable to attend the auction and wish to bid for any of the featured works, pleasecomplete your details on the online form via this link. Grey Court Art Auction bidding form

You will need to specify:

• Full name, email address and phone number for contact on the evening plus method ofpayment

• A starting bid and a maximum bid for the item.

Bidding will be placed on your behalf by the auctioneer up to your stated maximum. You areable to bid for multiple items on the same form.

Under distance selling regulations, your submitted bid constitutes a commitment to purchasethe stated item for an amount up to that stated maximum. The sale price does not includecard processing fees.

Purchased items need to be collected within two working days unless otherwise agreed.Items have been described and pictured accurately to the best of our knowledge but we takeno responsibility for any inaccuracies that may arise.

Lot No. 1

DIANA ARMFIELD, RA

“Sheep grazing”, 132/150Original LithographDimensions: 55cm x 35cm, mounted

Diana Armfield trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Central School of Arts & Crafts.She began her career in textile and wallpaper design in partnership with Roy Passano andcontributed work to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Examples of their work remain in thepermanent collection at the V&A.

She switched to painting in 1965 and has had a prolific and successful career eversince. The author of at least five books on art, Armfield was elected Associate RoyalAcademician in 1989 before becoming a full Academician two years later.

Aged 101, Armfield is a Kew resident and still a passionate and active supporter of local arts.She spearheads Richmond Arts’ observational drawing competition each year and judges thewinning entry herself.

Guide Price: £180 - £220

Lot No. 2

JONATHAN BARKER

“Teddington Lock”Pencil on artist paperDimensions: 64 cm x 47 cm, mounted and framed

An internal architecture creative by day, Barker is a co-founder of the Teddington Sketch Club,run from the iconic Boathouse design studio.

His preferred material is charcoal but he is equally at home exploring other textures.

Barker won the 2019 Diana Armfield RA competition for drawing from Observation. He hasdonated his winning entry to the auction.

When not working or drawing, Barker is a volunteer lifeboat rescue team member with theTeddington RNLI.

Guide Price: £60 - £80

Lot No. 3 RUTH BLACKFORD

“Hopscotch” 1/20

Lot No. 4

“Pogo stick” 1/20

Lot No. 5

“Roller Skates” 1/20

All pieces are giclee print, limited edition,each mounted

Dimensions: 20cm x 20cm, mounted

Blackford originally trained in textiles beforegoing on to a further degree in illustration.

She initially worked in fashion as a print andembroidery designer, but has since workedacross a number of fields of illustrationincluding printmaking and textile art.

Blackford’s roots in textiles retain a stronginfluence over her work, particularly in theuse of pattern, fabric and colour. Much of herwork is commission-based.

An adult and further education teacher with26 years’ experience, Blackford also runsworkshops in machine embroidery,collograph printing, mono printing and linoprinting.

She has exhibited locally at the RoseTheatre, Orleans House Gallery, the TrumanBrewery, Kingston Artists Open studios,Richmond Riverside Gallery and theHorsham Arts Centre.

Guide price: £70 each

Lot No. 6

HARRY BLOOM

“First bus to St. Mark’s Square”Oil on boardDimensions: 46.5cm x 37cm, mounted

Harry Bloom had a long and successful career as a storyboard artist.

When retirement from his first career beckoned, Bloom began producing art at a moreleisurely pace, predominantly working in watercolour and oils.

A member of Teddington Artists, Kingston-based Bloom is an established marine,townscape and figurative artist, who never leaves home without his beloved paintbox.Bloom combines commission work with producing individual pieces and runningpainting and life drawing workshops.

Guide Price: £150 - £180

Lot No. 7

“Bitumen Converging”Limited edition printDimensions: 42cm x 42cm, mounted

Lot No. 8

“Sea Land” 1 /2Limited edition monoprintDimensions: 80cm x 58cmMounted and framed

STUART SIMLER

Stuart Simler is a Teddington-based artist whoworks in oils and other media, such as silversand, encaustic and graphite powder andimplements a strong use of drawing and markmaking elements within his imagery. Hisbreakthrough exhibition came at the start of themillennium when he headed up a major showof British artists in central Manhattan: NYAD2000. From here he was commissioned bypatrons based in Hampton Court for an 18month period, producing 15 original paintingsfor them. He continued to exhibit acrossEurope and often responded to unusual sitesand spaces reflecting underlying themes ofurbanism and duality. He now applies hiscreative experiences to consult on internationalprojects for the British Council and mostrecently co-founded Raw Ground Arts andDrawing Matters with his wife, designing andpresenting learning programmes that use art toidentify transferable business skills.

Guide Price: £180 - £220

MAGGIE MATTHEWS

Welsh-born artist, Matthews, studied fine art atNewport and Exeter before basing herself inCornwall in 1988.

Matthews takes inspiration from the naturalworld; from local flora and fauna to the qualityof light and the moods of the ocean. She hasexhibited widely, from Nantucket Island,Michigan and Alabama, to St Ives, Cardiff andLondon and her work is in the collections ofBBC Wales, Women of the World and theCardiff Bay Arts Trust, among others.

Guide Price: £150 - £180

Lot No. 9

“After Rembrandt”Oil on canvasDimensions: 30cm x 28cm

Lot No. 10

“Blue nude reclining”Acrylic, pastel original giclee printDimensions: 32.5cm x 26.5cm, framed

SIOBHAN LYNCH

A Grey Court alumnus, Siobhan is in her finalyear of a fine art degree at Kingston University.

Although she works across media, her work ispredominantly observational and figurative.Siobhan is at the start of her professionaljourney but watch out for local exhibitionsfeaturing this home grown talent.

Guide Price: £40

JANE HUDSPITH

An illustrator who specialises in visualstorytelling, Hudspith mixes multimedia withtraditional techniques to keep her work freshand alive. A founder of Arts Clubhouse,Hudspith also works with students andbusinesses to bring creativity to classroomsand boardrooms alike. Her work ranges fromfull scale internal and external murals to bookillustrations and advertising campaigns,including work for “Chicken Licken” in Africa,poster campaigns, and work exhibited at theV&A Museum.

Guide Price: £75 - £90

Lot No. 11

PEG MORRIS

“Ancient tree”, Richmond Park 2/15Original hand-printed on Somerset 250 gsm paperDimensions: 25cm x 25cm mounted

Morris is a painter and printmaker, based in South West London. Her work focuses onsignificant forms and patterns in natural and urban landscapes. A common thread linking muchof her art is decay.

Inspiration might come from a weather-beaten, decomposing tree stump, a track worn intothe landscape by generations of feet, the crumbling and erosion of landscapes or thepeeling paint or crumbling stonework of an old or neglected building.

She finds that the process of etching lends itself to representing these themes as theplate is itself eroded by the acid, scraped and polished, scratched and sometimes cutinto fragments.

Morris has recently begun to explore other printmaking methods including collagraphs andlithography. When she paints she often scrapes and sands back layers of paint to reveallayers beneath the surface.

Guide Price: £90 - £110

Lot No. 12

MAYTHEM RIDHA

“The sleeping potter” 8/25limited edition printDimensions: 36cm x 35cm, mounted

Born in Baghdad, Ridha has lived and travelled across the Middle East and North Africa andis now based in Richmond.

A photographer and filmmaker with over 20 years’ experience, his work has been selected formajor international film festivals and won many accolades, including the Gold Prize for “BestForeign Language Film” at the International Filmmaker festival and the Al Hambra award foraxcellence in the arts.

His photographic work has been published and exhibited in several one-man shows and jointexhibitions of award-winning projects such as “Al-Intithar”, “Interface: my camera in exile” andthe more recent, “Beyond moments: Morocco”. This was published into a limited editionphotobook with an accompanying touring exhibition and series of lectures and masterclasses.

Guide Price: £180 - £220

Lot No. 13

SIR QUENTIN BLAKE

“Untitled”, hand - drawn and signed especially for Grey Court Education FundInk on artist’s paper, Dimensions: 64cm x 52cm, mounted

An English cartoonist, illustrator and children’s writer, Sir Quentin has illustrated over 300books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. He hasalso illustrated works by Sylvia Plath, David Walliams, Joan Aiken and Dr Seuss, amongothers. Indeed, Blake illustrated the first Dr Seuss book that Seuss did not illustrate himself,“Great Day for Up!” (1974).

Blake is a member of the Chelsea Arts Club and patron of the Blake Society and DowningCollege’s arts and humanities society. He is also patron of “the Big Draw”, which aims to getpeople drawing throughout the UK. As patron of The Nightingale Project, a charity thatprovides art to hospitals, he has, since 2006, produced work for several hospitals and mentalhealth centres across London and Paris.

For his lasting contribution as a children’s illustrator he won the biennial, international HansChristian Andersen Award in 2002, the highest recognition available to creators of children’sbooks. From 1999 to 2001 he was the inaugural British Children’s Laureate. He is a patron ofthe Association of Illustrators.

Guide price: £800 - £1200

Lot No. 14

AXEL SCHEFFLER

“Janet and Bill”Original book illustration from“The Smeds and the Smoos”Coloured pencils, pen and ink on paperDimensions: 32cm x 31cm, mounted

Axel Scheffler is an award-winning, internationally-acclaimed illustrator of some iconic, well-lovedchildren’s books, famously collaborating with Julia Donaldson to bring characters, such as theGruffalo, to life.

Born in Hamburg, Scheffler came to the UK in 1982 to study visual communications. He began hiscareer as a freelancer in 1986 and has been in demand ever since.

Scheffler’s first collaboration with Julia Donaldson was “A Squash and a Squeeze”, in 1992. Sevenyears later, the Gruffalo was born and the book won the Smarties prize that same year. Donaldsonand Scheffler have collaborated on many books since, including “The Snail and the Whale” and,more recently, “The Ugly Five”.

“The Smeds and the Smoos”is their most recent title, first published in 2019.

Guide price: £400 - £450

Lot No. 15AXEL SCHEFFLER

Two signed, dated books:

“Kind” and “Zog and the flying doctors”

Guide price: £50

Lot No. 16

CHRISTIAN FURR

“The Thames from Richmond Hill - sunset - changing skies”Artist’s proof, inkjet on canvas, signed and framedDimensions 68cm x 36cm, mounted, framed and certified

Furr was just 28 when he was commissioned to paint an official portrait of the Queen andremains the youngest artist to have done so.

His work has hung in the Saatchi Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and The Vatican and is inthe private collections of, among others, Sir Peter Blake, Michael Caine, 45 Park Lane(Dorchester Collection) and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.

An active member of the Chelsea Arts Club and the London Sketch Club, Furr is predominantlyknown for his oil-based works but has worked across other media and in collaboration with otherartists, notably Chris Bracey, Damien Hirst and Eric Fischl.

Guide price: £300 - £500

Affordable Postcard Art - how to bid

Each piece is displayed anonymously and has an individual number with the “AP” suffix.The identity of the artist will only be revealed once sold.If you want to purchase a postcard, and wish to ensure that you have priority, please place abid for the appropriate item using the online form via this link:Grey Court Art Auction Affordable Postcard Art bidding form

You will need to specify:

• Full name, email address and phone number for contact on the evening plus method of payment

• A single amount for the lot(s) you are bidding for subject to a minimum price of £10.

• You are able to bid for multiple items on the same form.

Contributing artists include:Chris Lemon: Teddington-based figurative sculptor and artist whose most recent solo exhibitionwas at Landmark Arts Centre.

Lawrence Perry: Graduating in 2021 from the Slade School of Art, Perry’s work spanspainting, sculpture, music and videography.

Jane Hudspith: Arts Clubhouse founder and illustrator working on general illustrations, interiors andfigurative art

Janet Massey: Teddington-based artist who studied at Central St Martins, she works in oil andwatercolour

Felicity Swan: London based, New Zealand born and trained at Auckland university and Central StMartins.

Jane Faulkner: Richmond-based artist who produces both figurative and nature-based works inoil and watercolour.

Tracey Higgins: KAOS (Kingston Artists Open Studios) artist. Combines digital creations withphotographic elements, focusing on urban-scapes, still-life, flora and fauna.

Wendy Milloy: KAOS (Kingston Artists Open Studios) artist, using traditionalwatercolour, pen & wash

Matt Allchurch: Based at the Boathouse design studio and a member of the Teddington Sketch Club.

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