Blue Pool — Andrea Kelland
Mixed media
20 × 25 cm Framed

Andrea Kelland is a longstanding West Wales artist and member of the Royal Watercolour Society of Wales, particularly known for paintings exploring water, coast and the meeting of sea and land. Her Arts Council-supported exhibition The Power of Water and Swell of the Wave toured to MOMA Wales, Taliesin Swansea and Oriel Q, which has also presented a major retrospective spanning sixty years of her work.

In Blue Pool, layered blue washes and sharply preserved passages of light transform moving water and rock into an image poised between landscape and abstraction.

From the private collection of a longstanding supporter of Oriel Q Gallery.

Oil on canvas
20x24’

Watercolour

Abstract Brown and Blue — Philippa Sibert
Mixed media, 30 × 33 cm


Philippa Sibert is a West Wales painter and printmaker whose mixed-media work explores her relationship with the natural world. Working through layered colour, texture and mark-making, her compositions often occupy the territory between landscape and abstraction.

In Abstract Brown and Blue, muted blue-grey passages are interrupted by earthy reds and darker gestural marks, suggesting landscape without describing it literally.

From the private collection of a longstanding supporter of Oriel Q Gallery.

Mixed Media
60cm x 40cm
Julie Rising is a West Wales mixed-media artist and 2024 graduate in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking from Carmarthen School of Art. Her intuitive, predominantly abstract practice draws on memory, place and lived experience, combining painting with collage, print, textiles and experimental mark-making. Her work has been exhibited across West Wales and Cardiff, and she held her first solo exhibition, Springboard, in Cardigan in 2025.

acrylic: 51×40cm

oil on canvas, 40×51cm
Lawrence Mathias is a Pembrokeshire-born artist who returned to West Wales after some 35 years in London. His wide-ranging practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, film, performance, music and poetry. He has exhibited throughout the UK and in Europe, both independently and with groups including ArtCan, and has undertaken numerous community and public-art projects. In 2023 his solo exhibition An Overarching Impulse was presented at Fitzrovia Gallery, London. Lawrence is currently Gallery Manager at Oriel Q.

oil on wood panel 40x30

watercolour: 55.5×47.5 (frame slightly marked)

Acrylic: 81.5×31.5cm

Acrylic
100 x 60 cm

oil

Acrylic, reserve price£320: 61×61cm

Watercolour
63 × 38 cm framed ( slight damage to frame )

An accomplished panoramic watercolour in which Millard reduces the landscape to washes, stains and a handful of precisely judged marks. Areas of almost untouched paper become water and sky, while distant birds and loosely painted vegetation create a remarkable sense of space and atmosphere.

Katie Millard is a British watercolourist whose work is particularly associated with the landscape and coast of East Anglia. Her direct approach to watercolour — working without preliminary pencil drawing and allowing the medium its characteristic spontaneity — gives her landscapes their distinctive balance between observation and abstraction.

From a private collection.

Condition: small area of damage/loss to the left side of the frame; the artwork itself appears unaffected.

Pen and wash
25x25cm

A4 from the shed project
ee John Phillips is a Pembrokeshire-based artist, illustrator and obsessive draughtsman. The Shed Project began from his late grandfather Handel Jones's tool shed. His grandmother Myrtle had preserved the shed after Handel died in 1994, almost as a mausoleum. Phillips decided to make an illustrated inventory of every object in it.

And “every object” really does mean every object. His rules include drawing every item that can physically be picked up, drawing all the contents of opened packets, leaving sealed packets unopened, and—crucially—drawing every example when there are multiples. He estimates the shed contains more than 100,000 objects and has so far drawn roughly 9,000.

That transforms what might initially look like attractive illustrations of tools into something much more interesting: drawing as archive, memory, family history and archaeology of working-class material culture.

His grandfather was a coal miner and engineer, and Phillips has described the 9 × 9 ft shed as embodying his post-industrial South Wales mining heritage and the post-war ethos of “make do and mend.”

Coloured pencil
42 x 32cm framed
Raphaelle Fieldhouse is a Welsh multidisciplinary artist with an international reputation in body painting and theatrical and media make-up. A twice World Bodypainting Champion, she has worked across television, performance and live body art as well as drawing and mixed-media practice. Her work combines exceptional observational drawing with an interest in the body as both subject and artistic surface. She is currently artist-in-residence at Rhosygilwen in West Wales.

Medium acrylic and gouache on carved mahogany.
Size 130 mm wide x 500mm long
Hilary Bryanston (b.1951) is a Welsh-based painter and sculptor working across painting, carved wood and stone, ceramics and assemblage. Trained at Newport College of Art, she has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Chapter Arts Centre, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Neath Museum & Art Gallery and the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham. Her highly individual work draws on landscape, mythology, symbolism and an imagined inner world, often combining painting with carving and incised marks. Bryanston has a longstanding association with Oriel Q, which has previously presented a dedicated exhibition of her work.

Mixed media
34 x 28 cms
An expressive study of the Pembrokeshire coast at Angle, combining loose washes, drawing and richly worked areas of colour. Clarke reduces rock, vegetation and sea almost to abstraction while retaining a strong sense of the particular landscape.

acrylic reserve £280: 41×51cm

Mixed Media
90cmx60cm
Julie Rising is a West Wales mixed-media artist and 2024 graduate in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking from Carmarthen School of Art. Her intuitive, predominantly abstract practice draws on memory, place and lived experience, combining painting with collage, print, textiles and experimental mark-making. Her work has been exhibited across West Wales and Cardiff, and she held her first solo exhibition, Springboard, in Cardigan in 2025.

Irony — Geoff Yeomans (1934–2021)
Unique etching
38 × 25.5 cm


Geoff Yeomans, affectionately known as “Geoff the Rust”, was a painter, printmaker, photographer and influential art teacher who made his home in West Wales. A prolific exhibitor and member of the Royal Cambrian Academy, his work frequently explored weathered, eroded and corroded surfaces, particularly those associated with ships, rocks and the coast.

Irony is a unique etching whose richly worked blue-green and ochre surface has the appearance of something simultaneously printed, painted and weathered by time.

Yeomans had a longstanding connection with Narberth and undertook an artist residency at Queen's Hall in 1996.

From the private collection of a longstanding supporter of Oriel Q Gallery.

Mixed Media Relief
38cm x 31cm
Julie Rising is a West Wales mixed-media artist and 2024 graduate in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking from Carmarthen School of Art. Her intuitive, predominantly abstract practice draws on memory, place and lived experience, combining painting with collage, print, textiles and experimental mark-making. Her work has been exhibited across West Wales and Cardiff, and she held her first solo exhibition, Springboard, in Cardigan in 2025.

Oil on Canvas
28 x 36 inches
Peter Rossiter (b. 1950)

Peter Rossiter is a Pembrokeshire painter, sculptor and curator whose work ranges from recognisable Welsh landscape to increasingly abstract explorations of colour and form. Born in Cambridge, he studied at York University and the Courtauld Institute before moving to Wales in 1990. His grandfather, the German-born British painter Martin Bloch (1883–1954), remains an important influence.

Rossiter's work is held in private collections in Britain and internationally and is currently represented commercially at considerably higher prices. These three works have been entered by the artist at special starting prices for Oriel Q's fundraising auction.

Mixed Media
12x22cm
in a white frame
with double mount

Oil on canvas
25 by 30 ins.
Peter Rossiter (b. 1950)

Peter Rossiter is a Pembrokeshire painter, sculptor and curator whose work ranges from recognisable Welsh landscape to increasingly abstract explorations of colour and form. Born in Cambridge, he studied at York University and the Courtauld Institute before moving to Wales in 1990. His grandfather, the German-born British painter Martin Bloch (1883–1954), remains an important influence.

Rossiter's work is held in private collections in Britain and internationally and is currently represented commercially at considerably higher prices. These three works have been entered by the artist at special starting prices for Oriel Q's fundraising auction.

Mixed media
46 × 46 cm framed

Diana Heeks is a West Wales artist whose work moves between landscape and abstraction, drawing upon nature, literature, materials and the art and design of eastern cultures. Trained at Birmingham College of Art, she has exhibited at the National Eisteddfod and MOMA Wales and was winner of the 1997 Aspects of Wales prize.

Indian Garden combines layered paper, colour, texture and repeated abstract forms in a carefully constructed composition reflecting Heeks's longstanding interest in eastern visual culture.

From a private collection. Originally purchased through an earlier Oriel Q fundraising auction and now returning to the gallery.

mixed media: : 94.5×74cm

Acrylic on canvas
8 by 8 ins.

Pam Rossiter

Pembrokeshire artist Pam Rossiter has worked across art and craft for many years. Her recent abstract paintings explore colour, composition, texture and the physical process of making, allowing each work to develop through experimentation and discovery. In 2024 she exhibited alongside her husband, painter Peter Rossiter, at the Seagull Gallery in Cardigan.

This small acrylic is one of three works submitted by the artist in support of Oriel Q Gallery's fundraising auction.

Martin White — Girl
Mixed media, 30 × 42 cm

There is something particularly tender about this figure. Arms folded, head turned away, she seems caught in thought rather than consciously posing. White’s restless line describes her only partially, allowing the unfinished and uncertain to become part of the image.
Martin White — Tenby

Martin White has a long connection with Oriel Q Gallery. He exhibited with and helped at the gallery during its years at the Queen’s Hall in Narberth, before Oriel Q moved to its present home while retaining its name and identity.

Painter, illustrator and teacher of life drawing, White has worked across drawing, print and mixed media. These three donated works therefore have a particular resonance in this fundraising auction: Martin White’s work is, in a sense, returning to Oriel Q.

The two figure studies reveal his fascination with the observed human body—not the grand theatrical pose, but the fleeting gesture, the turned head, the moment between poses. His broken, searching line allows the figures to hover somewhere between observation and memory.

Bowl, Stones, Tomato shows another White altogether: playful, graphic and wonderfully odd. The blazing tomato sits amongst quieter stone-like forms, transforming an ordinary still life into something unexpectedly monumental.

Three works from an artist who forms part of Oriel Q’s own history.

— Hildegard Wildebeast

Acrylic, : 70×60cm

Mixed media
23 x 23cm

MIXED MEDIA
55 CM W X 64 CM H
A richly layered abstract in which brilliant yellow, red and green emerge through passages of deep blue and black. Gestural painting and drawn marks create a sense of movement around a mysterious central form — somewhere between landscape, shelter and imagined space.

Rosemary Graham is a Pembrokeshire-based mixed-media artist, writer and poet. Her highly intuitive paintings explore colour, texture, rhythm and the emotional energy of the natural world. Working through layers of colour, mark-making, scratching and drawing, she allows paintings to evolve through the process of making rather than from a predetermined image. Graham has exhibited widely throughout Wales and England and has a longstanding association with Oriel Q Gallery.

Acrylic
50x20

Mixed media
52 x 72cm framed
Raphaelle Fieldhouse is a Welsh multidisciplinary artist with an international reputation in body painting and theatrical and media make-up. A twice World Bodypainting Champion, she has worked across television, performance and live body art as well as drawing and mixed-media practice. Her work combines exceptional observational drawing with an interest in the body as both subject and artistic surface. She is currently artist-in-residence at Rhosygilwen in West Wales.

Mixed Media, Oak, watercolour, ink and gouache 54x44cm


Hildegard Wildebeast on Jacob Buckland

Three Landscapes, Three Ways of Looking

Jacob Buckland seems less interested in describing landscape than in discovering how much of it can be suggested before description becomes unnecessary.

The three works in the Oriel Q auction demonstrate this beautifully.

In Woodland, the forest rises from a wonderfully uncertain ground of washed colour. Trees are sometimes trunks, sometimes scratches, sometimes little more than nervous vertical marks. Buckland allows ink, paint and line to overlap without insisting that they agree with one another. It has the feeling of walking into woodland and gradually becoming aware of its complexity — the eye constantly choosing what to notice.

Trees is quieter and perhaps more lyrical. A great pale trunk bends through the composition, beautifully drawn but never imprisoned by drawing. Around it are fragments: twigs, washes, tiny botanical observations and sudden incidents of colour. There is an especially delicious patch of yellow near the foot of the tree — precisely the sort of apparently minor event upon which an entire painting can depend.

And then comes River Wye.

Here Buckland compresses the landscape almost to abstraction. The delicacy of the woodland drawings gives way to weight: deep plum, black, blue and flashes of white, ochre and burning red. Yet the same intelligence is present. It is still landscape assembled from remembered sensations rather than obediently copied appearances.

What connects all three is Buckland's understanding that landscape is not a fixed view waiting politely to be painted. It is an accumulation of looking.

A branch noticed.
A colour remembered.
A line followed.
Something glimpsed and then lost.

These are generous works because they leave something unfinished — not on the paper, but in the looking. Buckland gives us enough to enter the landscape, and then rather wisely leaves us to find our own way through it.

Three very different works by Jacob Buckland, offered in the Oriel Q Gallery fundraising auction.

— Hildegard Wildebeast

Acrylic, 59 ×75cm

Oil on card

Acrylic, 40x30cm

03-08-13, mixed media, : 21.5×30

Mixed media: 75x 31.5cm

Oil on canvas
28x22 inches

Oil on canvas, 61x51cms

Acrylic

Framed digital print

Mixed media
33x28 cms
An expressive study of the Pembrokeshire coast at Angle, combining loose washes, drawing and richly worked areas of colour. Clarke reduces rock, vegetation and sea almost to abstraction while retaining a strong sense of the particular landscape.

Oil on canvas
18 by 24 ins

Peter Rossiter (b. 1950)
Peter Rossiter is a Pembrokeshire painter, sculptor and curator whose work ranges from recognisable Welsh landscape to increasingly abstract explorations of colour and form. Born in Cambridge, he studied at York University and the Courtauld Institute before moving to Wales in 1990. His grandfather, the German-born British painter Martin Bloch (1883–1954), remains an important influence.

Rossiter's work is held in private collections in Britain and internationally and is currently represented commercially at considerably higher prices. These three works have been entered by the artist at special starting prices for Oriel Q's fundraising auction.

Limited edition digital print. Bodypaint & pencil on skin
78 x 58cm
Raphaelle Fieldhouse is a Welsh multidisciplinary artist with an international reputation in body painting and theatrical and media make-up. A twice World Bodypainting Champion, she has worked across television, performance and live body art as well as drawing and mixed-media practice. Her work combines exceptional observational drawing with an interest in the body as both subject and artistic surface. She is currently artist-in-residence at Rhosygilwen in West Wales.

Mixed Media
Acrylic, slate, aged metal keys.
60x60cm in a black wooded frame

Acrylic

88x54

Acrylic on canvas
8 by 8 ins
Pam Rossiter

Pembrokeshire artist Pam Rossiter has worked across art and craft for many years. Her recent abstract paintings explore colour, composition, texture and the physical process of making, allowing each work to develop through experimentation and discovery. In 2024 she exhibited alongside her husband, painter Peter Rossiter, at the Seagull Gallery in Cardigan.

This small acrylic is one of three works submitted by the artist in support of Oriel Q Gallery's fundraising auction.

Acrylic on canvas
8 by 8 ins

Pam Rossiter

Pembrokeshire artist Pam Rossiter has worked across art and craft for many years. Her recent abstract paintings explore colour, composition, texture and the physical process of making, allowing each work to develop through experimentation and discovery. In 2024 she exhibited alongside her husband, painter Peter Rossiter, at the Seagull Gallery in Cardigan.

This small acrylic is one of three works submitted by the artist in support of Oriel Q Gallery's fundraising auction.

acrylic: 40×30

Martin White — Figure with a Towel
Mixed media, 30 × 21.5 cm

A wonderfully economical figure study. White allows scratches, broken lines and stains to do as much work as conventional drawing. The towel is almost incidental; what remains is the fleeting movement of a body observed rather than arranged.

Martin White — Tenby

Martin White has a long connection with Oriel Q Gallery. He exhibited with and helped at the gallery during its years at the Queen’s Hall in Narberth, before Oriel Q moved to its present home while retaining its name and identity.

Painter, illustrator and teacher of life drawing, White has worked across drawing, print and mixed media. These three donated works therefore have a particular resonance in this fundraising auction: Martin White’s work is, in a sense, returning to Oriel Q.

The two figure studies reveal his fascination with the observed human body—not the grand theatrical pose, but the fleeting gesture, the turned head, the moment between poses. His broken, searching line allows the figures to hover somewhere between observation and memory.

Bowl, Stones, Tomato shows another White altogether: playful, graphic and wonderfully odd. The blazing tomato sits amongst quieter stone-like forms, transforming an ordinary still life into something unexpectedly monumental.

Three works from an artist who forms part of Oriel Q’s own history.

— Hildegard Wildebeast

Mixed media
23 x 23cm

Watercolour

Mixed Media
42x 32cm(unframed)


Hildegard Wildebeast on Jacob Buckland

Three Landscapes, Three Ways of Looking

Jacob Buckland seems less interested in describing landscape than in discovering how much of it can be suggested before description becomes unnecessary.

The three works in the Oriel Q auction demonstrate this beautifully.

In Woodland, the forest rises from a wonderfully uncertain ground of washed colour. Trees are sometimes trunks, sometimes scratches, sometimes little more than nervous vertical marks. Buckland allows ink, paint and line to overlap without insisting that they agree with one another. It has the feeling of walking into woodland and gradually becoming aware of its complexity — the eye constantly choosing what to notice.

Trees is quieter and perhaps more lyrical. A great pale trunk bends through the composition, beautifully drawn but never imprisoned by drawing. Around it are fragments: twigs, washes, tiny botanical observations and sudden incidents of colour. There is an especially delicious patch of yellow near the foot of the tree — precisely the sort of apparently minor event upon which an entire painting can depend.

And then comes River Wye.

Here Buckland compresses the landscape almost to abstraction. The delicacy of the woodland drawings gives way to weight: deep plum, black, blue and flashes of white, ochre and burning red. Yet the same intelligence is present. It is still landscape assembled from remembered sensations rather than obediently copied appearances.

What connects all three is Buckland's understanding that landscape is not a fixed view waiting politely to be painted. It is an accumulation of looking.

A branch noticed.
A colour remembered.
A line followed.
Something glimpsed and then lost.

These are generous works because they leave something unfinished — not on the paper, but in the looking. Buckland gives us enough to enter the landscape, and then rather wisely leaves us to find our own way through it.

Three very different works by Jacob Buckland, offered in the Oriel Q Gallery fundraising auction.

— Hildegard Wildebeast

Buzzard — Eric Windale
Cast sculpture, 30 cm high.
A strongly modelled study of a buzzard, with particular attention to the hooked beak, plumage and powerful stance.

acrylic: 40×30

Acrylics
70 x 50cm approx

Haverfordwest River View — Liz Tobin
Oil on canvas, 50 × 60 cm

West Wales artist Liz Tobin lived in Spain for some twenty years before returning to Wales. Her paintings combine an enthusiasm for vibrant colour with subjects drawn from the towns, coast and countryside of Pembrokeshire. Working in oil, acrylic, watercolour and digital media, she moves between observation and abstraction.

Haverfordwest and its river have been recurring subjects in Tobin's work. Here the familiar townscape is transformed through vigorous impasto, simplified architecture and intense passages of blue, giving the river and sky an almost physical presence.

MIXED MEDIA
63 cms W X 35cms H
A vibrant, rhythmic abstraction built around recurring circular forms — a motif associated in Graham's work with wholeness and the cycles of nature. Sweeping crimson forms, brilliant yellows and repeated circles give the painting an exuberant sense of movement.

Rosemary Graham is a Pembrokeshire-based mixed-media artist, writer and poet. Her highly intuitive paintings explore colour, texture, rhythm and the emotional energy of the natural world. Working through layers of colour, mark-making, scratching and drawing, she allows paintings to evolve through the process of making rather than from a predetermined image. Graham has exhibited widely throughout Wales and England and has a longstanding association with Oriel Q Gallery.

Watercolour

Mixed Media
54x45cm

Hildegard Wildebeast on Jacob Buckland

Three Landscapes, Three Ways of Looking

Jacob Buckland seems less interested in describing landscape than in discovering how much of it can be suggested before description becomes unnecessary.

The three works in the Oriel Q auction demonstrate this beautifully.

In Woodland, the forest rises from a wonderfully uncertain ground of washed colour. Trees are sometimes trunks, sometimes scratches, sometimes little more than nervous vertical marks. Buckland allows ink, paint and line to overlap without insisting that they agree with one another. It has the feeling of walking into woodland and gradually becoming aware of its complexity — the eye constantly choosing what to notice.

Trees is quieter and perhaps more lyrical. A great pale trunk bends through the composition, beautifully drawn but never imprisoned by drawing. Around it are fragments: twigs, washes, tiny botanical observations and sudden incidents of colour. There is an especially delicious patch of yellow near the foot of the tree — precisely the sort of apparently minor event upon which an entire painting can depend.

And then comes River Wye.

Here Buckland compresses the landscape almost to abstraction. The delicacy of the woodland drawings gives way to weight: deep plum, black, blue and flashes of white, ochre and burning red. Yet the same intelligence is present. It is still landscape assembled from remembered sensations rather than obediently copied appearances.

What connects all three is Buckland's understanding that landscape is not a fixed view waiting politely to be painted. It is an accumulation of looking.

A branch noticed.
A colour remembered.
A line followed.
Something glimpsed and then lost.

These are generous works because they leave something unfinished — not on the paper, but in the looking. Buckland gives us enough to enter the landscape, and then rather wisely leaves us to find our own way through it.

Three very different works by Jacob Buckland, offered in the Oriel Q Gallery fundraising auction.

— Hildegard Wildebeast

Acrylic
82x67

oil on board

90cm x50, acrylic

Egg tempera and gessoed wood with painted frame.
Size. 240.5 mm wide x 350 mm long

Hilary Bryanston (b.1951) is a Welsh-based painter and sculptor working across painting, carved wood and stone, ceramics and assemblage. Trained at Newport College of Art, she has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Chapter Arts Centre, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Neath Museum & Art Gallery and the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham. Her highly individual work draws on landscape, mythology, symbolism and an imagined inner world, often combining painting with carving and incised marks. Bryanston has a longstanding association with Oriel Q, which has previously presented a dedicated exhibition of her work.

The Shed Project — Plumbing Fittings,
A4
ee John Phillips is a Pembrokeshire-based artist, illustrator and obsessive draughtsman. The Shed Project began from his late grandfather Handel Jones's tool shed. His grandmother Myrtle had preserved the shed after Handel died in 1994, almost as a mausoleum. Phillips decided to make an illustrated inventory of every object in it.

And “every object” really does mean every object. His rules include drawing every item that can physically be picked up, drawing all the contents of opened packets, leaving sealed packets unopened, and—crucially—drawing every example when there are multiples. He estimates the shed contains more than 100,000 objects and has so far drawn roughly 9,000.

That transforms what might initially look like attractive illustrations of tools into something much more interesting: drawing as archive, memory, family history and archaeology of working-class material culture.

His grandfather was a coal miner and engineer, and Phillips has described the 9 × 9 ft shed as embodying his post-industrial South Wales mining heritage and the post-war ethos of “make do and mend.”

acrylic on canvas.
100x100 cm
Dorothy Morris

Ferryside-based artist Dorothy Morris holds a BA (Hons) in Fashion and Textiles and an MA in Fine Art and has exhibited extensively throughout Wales and beyond. Her exhibitions have included the Glynn Vivian, St David's Hall, the National Waterfront Museum, Carmarthenshire Museum and Tenby Museum. She was selected for Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2018 and received an Excellence in Art award from Carmarthenshire Cultural Services in 2022.

Living beside the Towy estuary, water, changing light and the landscape around Ferryside have provided enduring subjects for her work.

Dorothy is also a member of the Oriel Q committee and has submitted these paintings in support of the gallery's fundraising auction.

Acrylic,
61×46cm

Peter Bodenham — Ceramic Vessel
Ceramic, 23 × 22 × 13 cm

Peter Bodenham is a West Wales potter and visual artist based near Cardigan, where he runs St Dogmaels Pottery. Trained at Camberwell School of Art and Cardiff Metropolitan University, he won the Gold Medal for Craft and Design at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2011. His ceramics draw upon the coastline, geology and found materials of West Wales, exploring the territory between functional pottery and sculptural form.

From a private collection.

Razorbill — Eric Windale
Cast sculpture, 27 cm high, on triangular wooden base, approximately 22 × 22 × 22 cm.
A boldly simplified study of a razorbill, its smooth, rounded form contrasting with the exaggerated beak and feet.

Martin White — Bowl, Stones, Tomato
Monoprint / mixed media, 30 × 21 cm
Martin White — Tenby

Martin White has a long connection with Oriel Q Gallery. He exhibited with and helped at the gallery during its years at the Queen’s Hall in Narberth, before Oriel Q moved to its present home while retaining its name and identity.

Painter, illustrator and teacher of life drawing, White has worked across drawing, print and mixed media. These three works therefore have a particular resonance in this fundraising auction: Martin White’s work is, in a sense, returning to Oriel Q.

The two figure studies reveal his fascination with the observed human body—not the grand theatrical pose, but the fleeting gesture, the turned head, the moment between poses. His broken, searching line allows the figures to hover somewhere between observation and memory.

Bowl, Stones, Tomato shows another White altogether: playful, graphic and wonderfully odd. The blazing tomato sits amongst quieter stone-like forms, transforming an ordinary still life into something unexpectedly monumental.
The exuberant one. A brilliant tomato asserts itself among a bowlful of muted, stone-like forms. Colour, texture and heavy black line turn a modest still life into something unexpectedly monumental—a kitchen-table subject behaving rather grandly.

acrylic, 53×39:
Lawrence Mathias is a Pembrokeshire-born artist who returned to West Wales after some 35 years in London. His wide-ranging practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, film, performance, music and poetry. He has exhibited throughout the UK and in Europe, both independently and with groups including ArtCan, and has undertaken numerous community and public-art projects. In 2023 his solo exhibition An Overarching Impulse was presented at Fitzrovia Gallery, London. Lawrence is currently Gallery Manager at Oriel Q.

Hooks & Clips and The Shed Project
A4
ee John Phillips is a Pembrokeshire-based artist, illustrator and obsessive draughtsman. The Shed Project began from his late grandfather Handel Jones's tool shed. His grandmother Myrtle had preserved the shed after Handel died in 1994, almost as a mausoleum. Phillips decided to make an illustrated inventory of every object in it.

And “every object” really does mean every object. His rules include drawing every item that can physically be picked up, drawing all the contents of opened packets, leaving sealed packets unopened, and—crucially—drawing every example when there are multiples. He estimates the shed contains more than 100,000 objects and has so far drawn roughly 9,000.

That transforms what might initially look like attractive illustrations of tools into something much more interesting: drawing as archive, memory, family history and archaeology of working-class material culture.

His grandfather was a coal miner and engineer, and Phillips has described the 9 × 9 ft shed as embodying his post-industrial South Wales mining heritage and the post-war ethos of “make do and mend.”

Peter Bodenham — Ceramic Bowl, 10 × 30 × 18 cm
Peter Bodenham is a West Wales potter and visual artist based near Cardigan, where he runs St Dogmaels Pottery. Trained at Camberwell School of Art and Cardiff Metropolitan University, he won the Gold Medal for Craft and Design at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2011. His ceramics draw upon the coastline, geology and found materials of West Wales, exploring the territory between functional pottery and sculptural form.

From a private collection.

Acrylic with Enamel on Carved Mahogany.
90mm wide x 500mm long.

Hilary Bryanston (b.1951) is a Welsh-based painter and sculptor working across painting, carved wood and stone, ceramics and assemblage. Trained at Newport College of Art, she has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Chapter Arts Centre, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Neath Museum & Art Gallery and the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham. Her highly individual work draws on landscape, mythology, symbolism and an imagined inner world, often combining painting with carving and incised marks. Bryanston has a longstanding association with Oriel Q, which has previously presented a dedicated exhibition of her work.

acrylic on canvas.
100x100 cm

Dorothy Morris

Ferryside-based artist Dorothy Morris holds a BA (Hons) in Fashion and Textiles and an MA in Fine Art and has exhibited extensively throughout Wales and beyond. Her exhibitions have included the Glynn Vivian, St David's Hall, the National Waterfront Museum, Carmarthenshire Museum and Tenby Museum. She was selected for Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2018 and received an Excellence in Art award from Carmarthenshire Cultural Services in 2022.

Living beside the Towy estuary, water, changing light and the landscape around Ferryside have provided enduring subjects for her work.

Dorothy is also a member of the Oriel Q committee and has submitted these paintings in support of the gallery's fundraising auction.