We have just uploaded 6 new pieces from Hemlata Pradhan, which featured in her exhibition at the British Museum’s Indian themed exhibitions last Summer. A couple of the new paintings are shown below. Visit her collection to view the new works as well as her other pieces and note that a few are available as either watercolours or as prints.

In other news, we were delighted to see that Hemlata’s work featured in the national press toward the end of last year, with Kate Weinberg of the Daily Telegraph contrasting her endeavours with the brush to the difficulties of growing orchids. Well done Hemlata!

If you are following The Land Gallery’s news page, or if you are visiting for the first time, please note that we have archived all the news from 2009. However, it is still available by clicking the ‘2009’ link at the bottom of the list of categories to the left of this page.

We would like to wish you all a happy new year for 2010. We hope our visitors continue to enjoy browsing through our unique collection of works and that our artists have a productive and successful 2010!

Also, thanks to all our customers this past year; we hope that your purchases will brighten your lives for the years to come.

Yours,

Andrew and Debbie

The past few months have been busy ones for Andrew and Debbie, curators of The Land Gallery. Andrew is a keen beekeeper and due to this passion, he has developed a motif to his work which centres on bees and other Hymenoptera.

Consequently, we have been working on a sister website to The Land Gallery which is dedicated to the subject of bees in art. The new site has been online for a few weeks already, but now that we have been able to add work from several leading artists, we are ready to announce it here at The Land Gallery. You will notice the Bees in Art logo on many of our pages, and this can be clicked to take you to the new site whenever you want (and the reverse is true for The Land Gallery when visiting Bees in Art).

So, if you would like to purchase some bee related art or read about and follow the activities of a beekeeper, please pop over to Bees in Art, the first online art gallery dedicated to the humble bee!

Currently working in his Scottish summer studio, David Koster has provided us with copies of two new woodcut prints: 'Cuckoo wrasse II' and 'Mackerel' with edition numbers 2 of 20 and 3 of 30 respectively. Please visit his collection to view them.

Debbie Grice was selected from among several hundred artists to exhibit at the Northern Print Biennale, a major international event. Debbie's mezzotint engravings are being displayed in Newcastle's Laing Art Gallery alongside prints by artists such as Jim Dine, Michael Craig-Martin, Louise Bourgeois and Richard Hamilton.

The limited edition mezzotints are now available to purchase from Debbie’s collection at the Land Gallery.

Andrew Tyzack has provided new artwork inspired by animals from his travels around the world. Included is his four colour lino cut of Painted Dogs seen whilst on a camping trip in Botswana's Chobe National Park. Andrew has donated copies of this work to Painted Dog Conservation and some were auctioned at an event held at the Natural History Museum, London, raising money to help conserve the African Hunting Dog. Please visit his collection to view this and his other new works.

Robert Gillmor has provided us with print no.’s 61 to 64 (inclusive) of his “Turnstones” lino cut which is now available to purchase and view in his collection.

We have received six new mixed media textiles from Nicola Henley with each representing a continuation of the theme of her work, the Ravens, Gulls and other bird life of coastal Ireland. Please visit her collection to view them.

We have added a new feature to the website which will make it easier for visitors to browse the artwork on display. In the navigation sidebar to the left of each page you will now find a new “Artwork” button:

Clicking this will lead you to an index of the different media exhibited at The Land Gallery:

Clicking any of the buttons for a medium will then show you thumbnails of all the pieces that we are exhibiting in that format, such as all the drawings on display. When viewing an index, simply click the thumbnail image of a piece to be taken to the corresponding artist’s collection.

The indexes can also be visited by using the navigation banner at the top of the page:

Click the image in the banner to visit the index for the named medium. Note that you can use the arrows that appear at either end (when you hover your mouse pointer over the banner) to scroll through the images in the banner:

We have a further 3 new pieces from Gary for sale so please visit his collection to view them.

As well as more stock of “Scene near Lewes”, we have also added several more photographs from Gary. Visit his collection to see all the newly added material of which a few examples are shown below:

A few minor web site alterations have been made, the most visible of which is the new icon at the top right corner of this block of news. If you have software or a browser that supports news feeds, please click this icon to add The Land Gallery’s news feed to your subscriptions.

In addition to this icon, we’ve also made a few improvements to our collection pages: clicking the thumbnail image for each piece will now show you the larger image and, when looking at that larger image, you will also find a “Contact us for more information” link to make it easier for you to ask us anything about the piece or the artist you are viewing at the time.

We have added several new pieces to Harriet’s collection of sculptures made from recycled-steel or found objects. Each piece can be commissioned by contacting us directly - note that due to the size and weight of each of Harriet’s works, a quote for postage and packing can only be provided once we receive a delivery address.

In 2005, The Land Gallery negotiated with the BBC to get David’s ‘Great Eagle Owl’ lithograph featured in their programme, “The Natural World: The Return of the Eagle Owl” (which can be viewed on Google video; the lithograph appears not long after the 4 minute mark). Therefore, we’re very pleased to receive another copy for sale, which can be viewed in his collection:

In addition, we now have another copy of David’s ‘Koi Carp’ etching for sale:

Robert Gillmor has provided us with print no.’s 37 to 40 (inclusive) of his “Blackbird and Rowan” lino cut which is available to view at the top of his collection.

Anna has sent us three more new pieces which are at the top of her collection. Each is an acrylic on paper.

To kick off the new year, Anna has forwarded us 4 new mixed media pieces ranging in price from £290 to £695. These appear at the top of her collection, so please visit her pages to view them. In addition, Anna has sent us more information about herself and her work so we would encourage you to visit her updated profile to find out more about the artist behind these excellent new pieces.

If you are following The Land Gallery’s news page or if you are just visiting for the first time, to keep the page loading in a reasonable time frame for those with less speedy web connections, please note that we have archived all the content from 2008. However, it is still available by clicking the ‘2008’ link at the bottom of the list of categories to the left of this page.

We’re a little late, but we would like to wish all our visitors, customers and artists a happy new year for 2009.

Since the redesign of the gallery’s website went live in September 2008, we have had a very successful few months. Given the economic situation at the moment, we would like to thank those customers who have purchased from The Land Gallery and we hope that the pieces they have bought brighten their lives for the foreseeable future.

Similarly, we hope our visitors continue to enjoy their browsing through our unique collection of works and that our artists have a productive and successful year!

More new work, this time from Esther Tyson. We have added 5 new paintings and 1 mixed media piece, so please visit Esther’s collection to see them.

We have added 4 new mono prints by Carry Akroyd to her collection. Each is a serigraph (made in small editions of less than 10 each), employing mono-printing techniques so none is identical.

Four new pastels from Dafila Scott have been added to her collection. Each is available framed or unframed - if you would like to purchase any of the pieces framed, please contact us first.

We’ve added ten new pieces from David Bennett, a mixture of paintings and drawings. Visit David’s collection to see the new work.

Three new pieces from Andrew Stock have been added to his collection. Two of the paintings continue his work in Pabbay in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, and the third is of a Ring-necked Parakeet in a back street in India:

Seven new pieces from Katrina Cook have been added to her collection. The works consist of one painting and six mixed media drawings.

Two new woodcuts from Bruce Pearson have been added to his collection. Each is from an edition of 24, though a limited number of both remain - 6 and 8 prints respectively, at time of writing - so act quickly!

We’ve added more pieces from Victoria Edwards, including mixed media pieces as well as new drawings of the fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Visit Victoria’s collection to view the new work.

Two sets of signed and numbered, limited edition prints from Alexis Rago have been added. Please visit his collection for more information.

The new book shop has been added to the site, so please click the Books button on the left to start browsing our selection. We currently have a number of titles in stock which are signed by the artists themselves, such as Nature Drawings and Land marks and sea wings by John Busby, In a new light by Bruce Pearson, and Haiga by Yukki Yaura.

Artist’s who have books in their collection gain a new button in their menu which lets you visit their selection of books at any time from their profile or collection pages:

On each book page is an animation showing a selection of the content from each book - either leave the animation to run itself or hover your mouse pointer over the edges of the pages and click to turn them at your own speed:

Happy browsing!

We’ve added two new lino cuts by Robert Gillmor. We have two copies of each print (from an edition of 55 for both). Visit Robert’s collection to view more details.

New pieces by Anna Kirk-Smith have been added and a selection is shown below. Visit Anna’s collection to see them all.

There are a number of changes to the site, the most significant of which is a move to using PayPal as the shopping basket provider. However if you would like to use alternative means of paying for any work, please feel free to contact us directly and we will be happy to discuss other forms of payment.

Another new feature is the navigation menu at the top of the page for each artist:

To use it, scroll to the icon representing your artist of choice and click the icon. Their collection will then open. The TLG logo icon will take you back to the artist selection page of the site:

At the top of each artist’s page, there is a row of icons. These represent the ‘Artist’s collection’ and the ‘Artist’s profile’. The currently selected icon is green and the other icon will be orange to indicate that it can be clicked to visit that page.

The collection page shows the work of each artist and enables you to add pieces to your shopping basket (and view your shopping basket). To add items to your shopping basket click the Add to Basket icon next to the piece:

To view your basket at any time, click the View basket icon:

The profile page provides a slideshow of the work of that artist, and provides a short perspective of the artist and/or their work.

Today, Andrew and Debbie are pleased to announce the launch of the new Land Gallery website. After several months of work, the new design is finally (almost) ready. With the exception of the bookstore*, which will be updated and completed over the course of the next few weeks, the site is ready to use.
We hope you enjoy the changes that have been made while renovating our gallery, but would value any feedback you can provide. Please use the contact form to let us know what you think.

Thank you and happy browsing,

Andrew and Debbie Tyzack

* We will be adding the bookstore soon. In the meantime, any books for purchase can be found in the artists’ collections.