Spring Gallery Exhibition

Explore our latest exhibition in the gallery this season, featuring work from...

Tracy Newman

Tracy has always been interested in wildlife. He comes from a farming family on the English/Welsh border near Monmouth and as a youngster was encouraged to draw and be inspired by wildlife and the nature around him. At five years old a family trip to the famous Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust nature reserve at Slimbridge started a real passion for wildlife and conservation.

He studied at Newport College of Art and then specialised in 2D design and visual communications in Cardiff. After graduating he worked in graphic design for a number of national and international companies based in London and the South East. He has also been closely involved with various wildlife travel companies in Spain working as a designer for the Andalusia Wildlife Guides, Worldwide Birding Tours and as a wildlife guide with Sierra-Trek and Iberian Lynxland.

Now in collaboration with Sculptor Oswaldo Mérchor, Tracy is working on a number of projects. Most of the work on display has been cast in Wales from Oswaldo’s moulds and hand finished by Tracy.

https://www.trace-wildlifeartist.com/

Oswaldo Mérchor

Oswaldo has lived on the Norfolk Coast for the past 45 years. Originally from Peru, he comes from a family with a long artistic tradition.

Oswaldo acquired his admiration for nature as a young boy. It was in Peru, with its wonderful and exotic varied wildlife that his lifelong passion for the natural world began.

Completely self-taught in technique and design his main sculptural subjects are birds. Many months of study and research go into each of his works, ensuring each sculpture is a skilfully crafted work of art which are cast in bronze and/or cold cast bronze resin.

Oswaldo says he is very fortunate destiny delivered him to Britain where a passion for wildlife is shared by so many people and, at the same time, considers himself very lucky to be able to create sculptures of the subjects he loves most.

He is a permanent exhibitor at the internationally renowned Bird Fair at Rutland and has also exhibited at the Society of Wildlife Artists Mall Galleries London, the Royal Show, the Royal Highland Show, Malcolm Innes Gallery Lon- don, Art in Action and the CLA Gamefair amongst others.

Owsaldo’s work is widely collected, two well known personalities who have purchased his work being HRH Sophie the Countess of Wessex and Bill Oddie.

Caroline Tatham

Caroline is passionate about observing nature to create fanciful, naïve, and imaginative landscapes and still life paintings. Her work is also used for illustration and has featured in Country Life magazine.

She studied at The Royal College of Art and has taught at a range of colleges and art schools, including Central Saint Martins School of Art in London.

Caroline is a qualified lecturer and has loved running the Cotswold Gardening School since 2010. She specialises in teaching creative design to a professional standard for those with no previous experience, helping them achieve results they never imagined possible.

https://www.carolinetathamart.co.uk

Alan Hackett

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