News @ 500 feet

Answer - when it’s a blog. How hilarious! We have had quite a few subscribers for our newsletter and we have been asked to start tweeting too. Therefore, to keep the work load down a bit, we’re gonna combine the blog and newsletter - the blog will now contain more detail about what’s new in the gallery and the newsletter will simply be an emailed copy of the blog. If you wish to subscribe to the blog using RSS, you’ll find the link at the bottom of the blog (and you get to that by clicking on the tab at the top of the website!)

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Robert Hill

We have a new artist in the gallery - actually been around for a few months now and proving to be a very popular. ROBERT HILL is an abstract landscape artist based in Ilfracombe. Rob is a very creative person - check out his page on the website and you’ll find a short video about his life and work. His paintings look a bit like this:

‘The Sea’ by Robert Hill - SOLD.

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Emma Haines

Emma is a young artist from Combe Martin in Devon who has just finished her degree in illustration at Plymouth Uni and is currently biting her nails whilst awaiting results. Her speciality is painting animals - mainly dogs, birds and horses; using inks, gouache and other media. As a young artist her style is constantly evolving and improving and her work is very popular indeed. We have just had some prints made of Emma’s work, all are A4ish in size, are a limited edition of 50 and cost £25 mounted.

  From top left, ‘Greyhound’, ,Scruff’ and ‘Betty’.

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Brian Andrew

Lynton potter Brian Andrew can often be seen being taken for a walk by his dogs around the town’s streets. The dogs were getting a bit miffed that their master seemed interested in creating sculptures of pretty much every creature around other than them so Brian has now moved to put that right and produced three fantastic dog sculptures. Brian - we lift our legs in salute of your genius!!

Whippet lurcher, Exmoor lurcher and Bedlington terrier, all priced £175 (Exmoor unavailable for the moment)

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Russ Mills AKA Byroglyphics

Russ is a very well respected and collected urban artist who just happens to be based in a cottage in the countryside! Russ’s modus operandi is to have a couple of shows a year showing original work (normally one is at London’s up and coming ‘Signal Gallery’) and to release a few batches of prints during the year which are low cost and get snapped up before you even know they’re on sale.

Russ’s work, in addition to being a lovely thing to hang on your wall, is also something that is appreciating in value. If you have a quick trawl of the internet you’ll see his prints selling for anything from £240 (unionart.co.uk) to around the £100 mark (ebay). Most of these prints cost between £25 and £50 on release.

Russ has very kindly given us access to his private store of artist’s proofs and we are offering all these prints at the extremely reasonable price of £65 (which includes mounting, if required). Some of these proofs were never actually released as official editions and could prove desirable in the future. 

‘Campaign Monitor’ by Russ Mills - £65.

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Jane Winton

Finally, we have some new work by Cornwall-based artist Jane Winton in this month - one medium painting and two small works. Please see website for details.

‘Walking the rabbit’ by Jane Winton, £365.