Nicky Stockley- Gallery Owner
Originally from the seaside town of Swanage, Nicky is a painter who also designs fabric and handmakes textile creations. After completing her masters in illustration back in 2017 Nicky pursued showcasing her work in local galleries and exhibitions and has been a resident artist in Purbeck New wave gallery since it's opening in 2018.
Wildlife and the natural world inspires Nicky's work, her stylised paintings uses patterns found in the natural world to create her large and vibrant gouache pieces. As well as founding Fossil Blue gallery you can still find Nicky's work in Purbeck New Wave gallery, Swanage as well as her personal website.
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Gina Marshall
Gina is an artist from Weymouth but now lives in Swanage. In 2013 she began drawing and painting, making great progress over a period of 6 months of 1:1 tuition. During the 1:1 tuition she dabbled with ink, and loving the vivid colours, used it on watercolour paper both painting and drawing with ink on this surface.
She has taken inspiration from wood cuts, doodle art and pointillism but also uses a great deal of imagination. She is inspired by the Dorset coastline and deconstructs the elements to build them back up again into defined, strongly delineated areas filled with repetitive motifs.
She also uses humour in her pictures through the choice of motifs and simplification of their form.
Most of my life I have been fortunate enough to have lived in Dorset where I discovered that the Isle of Purbeck is an inspiration of natural and man-made wonders. I hope my work conveys something of the magic of this unique county. The colours of the seasons are important to me as well as the movement of the sky and sea along the Dorset coastline. I try to communicate the changes in mood, using the freedom and translucency of watercolour overlaid with pen and ink detail.
Rebecca Drury
Rebecca Drury is a Dorset-based printmaker. Her colourful linoprints are inspired by Dorset’s wildlife, coast and countryside, and occasionally also by her children and work in biodiversity conservation. Her limited edition linocuts are meticulously carved and printed by hand in Rebecca's home studio using traditional block printing techniques. Some are monochrome prints using one block, while others are produced by applying several layers of colour using multiple blocks or a reduction printing approach.
Sarah Kelly
I am a painter who expresses the feeling of big skies, wide open spaces and the
effects of light on water. Being outside is important to me and it is where I find
most of my inspiration whether sailing, kayaking or cycling. Often a fleeting
moment can be so exciting and the joy I feel at witnessing it is a powerful
motivator to paint.
My preferred medium is oils as they suit my way of working. I use the indirect
method as this helps me to achieve depth especially when suggesting water. I like
to develop a piece of work through the build up of layers, and I particularly like to
use the transparent and opaque qualities of different paints. The drying time
needed using this method allow me time to reflect of the progress of the piece. I
know when it is resolved when I feel I can walk into the scene.
I grew up in Eastbourne, then lived in London for a while designing custom-made
built in furniture before moving to Dorset with my husband. For 14 years I worked
as a Creative Artist in a day hospice in Poole teaching various art techniques to
the patients; a job that I really valued. Concentrating on my own artwork has
allowed me to develop ideas and had led to some interesting and varied
commissions too.
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Christine Wilmshurst
Dorset artist Chris Wilmshurst has built a reputation as a popular painter of scenes from around her local town of Wimborne, as well as further afield. It is easy to tell where she gets her inspiration from when you see her vibrant and unusual landscapes and townscapes, but she also loves painting flowers and gardens, still-life, people and animals. She creates work in a wide variety of media and styles and is always keen to experiment with new ideas.
Chris studied art at Leeds University and went on to teach in Sussex before moving to Dorset. Her paintings have been bought by people from around the world. She exhibits in venues around Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire, and is a regular participant in Dorset Art Weeks.
Eleanor Spalding
Eleanor was born and raised between London and Dorset. After graduating in Fashion Design from Edinburgh College of Art she began a career within the Costume department for Film and TV.
She has recently returned to Swanage and inspired by the local landscape, draws in oil bar pastels ‘en plein air’ enjoying the energetic, immediate and visceral quality it brings to her work. Her drawings evoke the atmosphere of the Dorset landscape through expressive mark making and the use of rich, natural colours. She often explores the use of white space, allowing the landscape to appear like an explosion out of the frame.
Her artwork invites the viewer to use their imagination and personal emotional response to interpret their vision of the contemporary landscapes.
Kasia Zagloba
Kasia have been working in architecture for many years but since moving to Dorset she reignited her artistic passions. She uses soft pastels as her favourite medium and the local landscapes as inspiration. Many of her pieces are directly influenced by the walks she takes.
Nancy Jones
I studied for a graphic design degree in Leeds, specialising in illustration. This gave me the chance to develop my appreciation for detail in art and experiment with artistic styles and techniques, culminating in finding my love for watercolour painting. I have been painting with watercolour and gouache ever since, now drawing on the beautiful landscapes and inspiring nature around me. 
Elaine Bell
I have always been drawn to the constant presence of the sky. Light and shadow, clouds, patterns, shapes and moods. A huge ever-changing canvas and a reminder of our small but incredibly unique presence in the universe. I try to capture these moments which can so easily go unnoticed in our busy days.
Painting on smooth panels, using acrylic and oils encourages the paint to flow freely and results in a finish which would not be possible with traditional toothed canvas. I often start from a pent-up and on-edge feeling of just needing to get something out, favouring a blue sky for its joyful connotations, occasionally selecting a complementary or contrasting colour that feels right at the time. Within a few strokes I can visualise the shapes which may lay a few stages on working up in layers to the final image.
JESSAMY KIELY
Having grown up on Exmoor, where I first started creating art, and lived all over the world, I now live in the beautiful county of Dorset UK, and work in my little garden studio. I love to spend time in salty sea air on the coast, or in lush green woodland, walking my dog, Squid.
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While I love to experiment, the constant thread is that all my work is inspired by nature and the oceans, and done in some way using ink. Since being given a dip pen and a pot of India ink I fell in love with the medium and have since explored intricate line illustrations, wild ink and water galaxies and ethereal monochrome sea creatures.
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JESSAMY HAWKE
Jessamy is UK-based illustrator and landscape artist, working in watercolour and gouache. She is interested in connecting drawing with poetry and
literature, as well as using illustration to document her experience of a landscape.
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Her paintings express a sense of place through line, texture, and colour, drawing on the British countryside. From patterns of fields, trees, and hedgerows, to the unique rock formations along the coast and in the mountains. She hopes to engage the viewer with the landscape as she experiences it, basing much of her work on drawing and painting on location.
I am a young local artist from Swanage and have been exhibiting my art work around Swanage since the age of 8 years old. Currently I am showing my work in the Purbeck New Wave Gallery, Seasons Green, Gallery On The Square, Blue Lias Gallery and Fossil Blue Gallery whilst taking part in exhibitions such as Purbeck Art week.
