During August and September, John Martin Gallery are showing a group exhibition of paintings by John Caple, Bella Easton, Andrew Gadd, Andrew Gifford, Neale Howells, David Martin, Barry McGlashan, Alberto Morrocco, Leon Morrocco, Makiko Nakamura and Fred Yates. There are also two large sculptures by Deborah Bell and Olivia Musgrave on display.

Discoveries in the words of a song or poem, in her widespread travels and in her personal experiences, South African artist Deborah Bell shares in her work her own intimate awareness of spirituality and the sacred. Since leaving art school in Johannesburg during the early 1980s, Bell has built up an international reputation through solo exhibitions, group shows and collaborative projects. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Smithsonian Museum and National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C and the Hara Museum, Tokyo.

Andrew Gadd’s talent encompass the straightforward still life and portrait but range more happily towards the allegorical. He frequently embarks upon large and complex figure paintings, sometimes interiors, others set in a landscape, of exalted scale and ambition. Gadd studied at Chelsea School of Art and Falmouth School of Art before receiving the Gold Medal for Painting at the Royal Academy Schools in 1993. His work is in private collections across the world including Switzerland and United States.

London based artist Bella Easton is a painter and etcher whose work investigates the architectural spaces that exist close to her. She distills these personal places by fragmenting them into tiny sections and then reconstructs them using a system of geometry and layering. Her work isolates or abandons reality and the relationship between what may have once seemed ordinary and every day is given a sense of importance and permanence. Easton studied at Winchester School of Art then Royal Academy Schools. She graduated from the City and Guilds of London Art School as a Print Fellow and her work has featured in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition from 1998 until 2013.

“My practice has a strong drawn element mixing automatic drawing, Chinese landscape aesthetics and layers of industrial varnish. Over the last two years I have devoted my practice to the description of an imaginary ancient culture called 'The Meiklians', who built the stone circles around my home in Aberdeenshire. Through drawing, painting and writing I describe this fictional territory of mind, calling the collective body of work 'The Meiklian Project'.” - Kyle Noble

Noble studied at Dundee University then Edinburgh Collage of Art where he obtained a MFA Master of Fine Art. After many solo exhibitions in Edinburgh and Aberdeenshire, Kyle is exhibited here for the first time in London.

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