A New LightExhibition continues until 4 October 2014

Catharine DavisonBridget Moore RBA

Jemimah PattersonDavid Ralph SimpsonRichard SouthallNick Tidnam RBA

Jane Wheeler

3 - 4 Bartlett Street Bath BA1 2QZ

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www.davidsimoncontemporary.comgallery@davidsimoncontemporary.com01225 460189

A New LightExhibition continues until 4 October

For the inaugural exhibition at David Simon Contemporary, work by five painters, Catharine Davison, Bridget Moore, Jemimah Patterson, David Ralph Simpson and David Taylor are featured alongside ceramics by Jane Wheeler and bronze sculpture by Richard Southall. This exhibition shows a strong body of semi-figurative work, introducing the latest addition to Bath’s vibrant gallery scene.

Prices from £150 - £6,000

Catharine Davison

Winner of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2014, Catharine Davison’s painting is an ongoing documentation of the places she visits. Drawing or painting directly from observation underpins her work.

The City at Duskoil on panel40 x 45cm£850

City Dog Walkersoil on panel40 x 45cm£750

The Hermitageoil on panel40 x 45cm£750

Summer in the Cityoil on panel40 x 45cm£1,500

Bridget Moore RBA

Elected a member of The Royal Society of British Artists in 1989 and a member of The New English Art Club in 2005 she has exhibited continually since leaving art school. Her work has been seen in mixed and solo shows in many London galleries and across the UK including Royal Academy Summer Shows and also in the USA. Amongst some of the prizes awarded her she was a runner up in the Lynn Painter-Stainers prize for 2006.

Bridget’s work often touches on childhood memories from Whitstable (where her family still live), trying to evoke and recapture the atmosphere and qualities of experiences distilled over the years. Other themes such as decayed opulence, the rich colours and lights of theatres, circuses and fairgrounds also hold a particular fascination for her. Her ability to capture such rich scenes led the then Spectator critic Giles Auty to describe one of her works in the Royal Academy Summer Show of 1992 as a “small, intense treasure”.

Woman Putting on a Black Stockingoil on paper72 x 72cm£1,750

Washing the Dogoil on paper22 x 25cm£850

Pam at Innesfreeoil on paper28 x 28cm£850

Changing Roomoil on paper27 x 32cm£850

Ta-Dahoil on paper20 x 22cm£800

Jemimah Patterson

Born in Reading in 1978, Jemimah Patterson completed her foundation at Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design in London between 1997 and 1998. She continued on to complete her BA (Hons) at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2001.

Jemimah’s work is heavily influenced by the fact that she is one of a conjoined set of identical twins. This twinning creates resonant psychological dimensions that are reflected in her compositions, for instance paired or mirrored motifs recur throughout her work, often creating surrogate double portraits. Her magnetic attraction to doubled imagery emerges in her manipulation of shadows and mirrors in her latest body of work.

Training & Awards1998 – 2001 University of Oxford, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art 2:1 BA (Hons) Fine Art MA Oxon2000 Bendum Prize in support of new work2000 SEH travel bursary to continue research in New York1997 – 1998 Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London Diploma in Foundation Studies

CollectionsHer Royal Highness Sheikha Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi The Dorchester Hotel, LondonNumerous private collections in the USA, UK and UAE

Ajaroil on mirror inside vintage games compendium20.5 x 55 x 12cm£4,400

Journey’s Restoil on glass on double painted vintage stretcher39 x 31cm£2,950

Pauseoil on glass on vintage stretcher46 x 36 cm£3,500

The Calling Boxoil on glass, mirror, electrics in-side a Victorian cabinet32 x 28 x 20cm£5,000

David Ralph Simpson

Born 1963 in Plymouth, David Ralph Simpson studied Fine Art at Newcastle University in 1985.

His paintings were featured in David Simon Contemporary’s opening exhibition in August 2014. David Ralph Simpson has held regular solo exhibitions in London and galleries across England since 1987. His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

David Ralph Simpson has undertaken commissioned projects for Land Securities, London 2005, Glyndebourne Opera 2004, Glyndebourne Opera 2000, Exeter City Council 1995, Television South West 1989 and the Royal School for the Deaf, Exeter 1988. Prizes include Bridport Open Prize 1994, Laing Competition 1994 & ’90 and Brewhouse Open 1986. His work can be found in private collections throughout Europe and the United States of America.

Beside Hartlandoil on canvas76 x 91cm£4,200

The Risingoil on board18 x 23cm£795

Ships That Pass in the Dayoil on board18 x 18cm£795

Adriftoil on canvas92 x 102cm£5,900

Pétanque. The Importance of Small Distances IIIoil on board18 x 18cm£795

Pétanque. The Importance of Small Distances IVoil on board18 x 18cm£795

Returningsoil on board64 x 85cm£4,200

Richard Southall

Richard Southall’s contemporary work, diverse in style and subject matter, is based on a deep understanding of form. “I feel that the socio-political issues that my early work represents, expresses things in a way that non-figurative styles fail to achieve.”

His sculpture was securely grounded in figurative art during his formative years at art school, studying under Stuart Osbourne RA. Osbourne had close associations with Sir Jacob Epstein whilst a student at the Royal College of Art. This tuition emphasised the study of form to portray and express meaning. Osbourne was often heard to say, “I don’t want any artists on my course” suggesting study first, creativity later. Consequently Richard’s work stands outside the modern trend.

Leopardcold-cast bronze71x29x15cm£1,750

Torsocold-cast bronze38x22x18cm£1,050

David Taylor

Born in Lancashire David Taylor began his career as an architect. After having extensively travelled the world, he returned to London to concentrate on his passion of landscape painting and becoming a contemporary artist.

Now painting full time, Taylor uses his visual memory as his main point of reference. His style often described as ‘Turneresque’ are paintings based on simply, land sea and sky, in his eyes the essence of landscape painting. The forces of nature just waiting to be immortalised on canvas.

Using oil as his choice of medium, he manipulates the paint with palette knife and brushes to build depth and atmosphere into his work, that reflect the dramatic weather conditions he enjoys painting.

His work described by many has having a spiritual quality that leaves the viewer to establish an horizon and to engage in the semi abstract forms that fuse together making the landscape come to life.

His paintings hang in private collections in Europe, The Middle East, Asia and the USA.

Breaking Light on Barren Landoil on canvas100 x 100cm£2,500

Blaze of Lightoil on canvas45.5 x 45.5cm£750

Rosada Skyoil on canvas40.5 x 40.5cm£750

Sky and Swelloil on canvas45.5 x 55.5cm£850

Nick Tidnam RBA

Born in Leicestershire and brought up in London, Nick Tidnam studied at Camberwell School of Art in the sixties under tutors including Christopher Chamberlain, Dick Lee and Michael Rothenstein. In 2001 Tidnam was elected a member of The Royal Society of British Artists. In 2003 he contributed to the publication ‘Learn to paint and draw’ and ‘Oils and Acrylics’ by Cassell Publications in 2004. His works are in public and private collections in the UK and private collections in the USA, Australia, Germany, Greece, India, and France.

Winter Riveroil on paper18 x 28cm£675

Spice Marketoil on paper19 x 28cm£675

Night Fieldsoil on paper19 x 28cm£395

Flaxoil on paper19 x 28cm£395

Jane Wheeler

Jane Wheeler was born and raised in Norfolk and stucied ceramics at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. She returned to ceramics in 2003.

For Jane, the vessel is a space-containing hollow form that offers the richest language for working in clay. Its conceptual simplicity allows readings which allude to our most distant cultural pasts, and to the state of being human. Its limitations are those for which the potter’s tools and equipment are designed; it is a familiar scenario within which to work. Thus, it becomes necessary for Jane Wheeler to make working and the work uncomfortable in some way, to push the boundaries in order to attempt discovery of new or hidden qualities of this profoundly significant, yet ordinary object.

Jane’s vessels are made of stoneware clay bodies with added coarse grog, sand, quartz and feldspar granules. reduction fired to 1260-1300 º C with gas. Layers of oxide, slip, and chun glaze producing the textured surface which both reflects and absorbs light and refracts it where the chun gathers into thick runs full of miniscule bubbles.

Tall Frozen Snow Flagonceramic51 x 22cm£820

Spring Rain Bottle ceramic30 x 23cm£420

Spring Rain Bottle with Clematis Stemsceramic48 x 21cm£850

Spring Rain Bottle ceramic26 x 19cm£360

Large Black Ice Flagonceramic53 x 38cm£1,250

Spring Rain Bottle, Oak Stem & Acornsceramic16 x 12cm£160

Spring Rain Oak Leaf Bottleceramic20 x 16cm£190

David Simon Contemporary opened its gallery in Bath in August 2014. David has been dealing in contemporary fine art for over fourteen years, managing galleries in London, Bristol and Bath and has represented artists at art fairs across Europe and the USA.

Article, an artisan homewares shop, is in the adjoingin building, selling hand-poured candles, fresh and dried British flowers, hand-printed textiles and functional ceramics.

3 Bartlett Street Bath BA1 2QZ 01225 460189

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