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Sarah Allbrook is a Cambridge based artist specialising in oils,
painting primarily ‘en plein air’. She paints local scenes in and
around Cambridge, from street scenes and city nocturnes,
to rural Hertfordshire landscapes, and the Norfolk and Suffolk
coast.

Her oil sketches are an immediate response to the landscape,
executed rapidly they are full of movement, colour and lively
brushstrokes. Sarah is inspired by the scene around her and
strives to capture and to put down in paint the essence of the
moment she is witnessing in a place, at different times of day
and through the changing seasons.
Sarah studied for a degree in Fine Art at Norwich University of
the Arts.

23. Afternoon Light, WWI Field Camp 22 x 18 OIL ON CANVAS £600.00 **SOLD

24. WWI Field Camp, Dedham 16 x 12 OIL ON CANVAS £450.00

25. Study – Plein Air Sketch 12 x 8 OIL £200.00

Richard is an artist based in Norwich, England, working mainly
in oils and watercolour. His artistic interests range from rural
landscape, architectural subjects and urban themes, to still
life and the human figure. Richard’s work has been shown
in numerous regional and national open competitions and
group shows, including the Singer & Friedlander/Sunday
Times Watercolour Competition, the Lynn Painter-Stainers
Prize Competition, and the Royal Watercolour Society Open
Competition. He won 1st prize at Paint-Out Norwich in 2015,
and 1st prize for watercolours in 2016. An article about
Richard’s working methods in watercolour appeared in
International Artist magazine, vol. 86.

18. Study 1 12 x 16 OIL ON CANVAS £600.00

19 Behind The Lines 14 x 10 WATERCOLOUR £500.00

20. Peace at War 1 30 x 24 OIL ON CANVAS £1,200.00

21. Peace at War 2 30 x 24 OIL ON CANVAS £1,200.00

22. Study 2 12 x 16 OIL ON CANVAS £600.00

Roger Dellar is a professional figurative artist who works in
oils, pastels, mixed media, acrylics, and water based media.
His interest in observing people in their environments has
influenced him to record and interpret them, capturing light
effects.

EXHIBITIONS
He regularly exhibits in galleries in the UK and has had several
one man exhibitions. Represented in USA by the Peninsula
Gallery, Lewes, Delaware.

PUBLICATIONS
Featured in WATERCOLOUR INNOVATIONS by Jackie Simmonds.
Contributor to the Artist Magazine, Artist and Illustrator
Magazine.

16. Stores Wagon 16 x 12 OIL ON CANVAS £900.00

17. The Encampment 20 x 20 OIL ON CANVAS £1,650.00

James was born 1946, and comes from a family with horses in
their blood since the turn of the century. He now lives in Debenham
Suffolk. James worked in the heart of the British Horse Racing
community in and around Newmarket. A Stud Groom for 27 years
with a major stud farm, one of his last feats was to foal and raise
the mighty, FRANKEL. Retired since 2011, today he gives his time
and knowledge to the industry and the charities he’s been involved
with.

An accomplished painter who loves working in oils, watercolours
and pastels, James has a passion for a wide range of subject
matters. He has been an active member of the executive of Society
of Equestrian Artists, which he was made up to full member
in 2001. He has exhibited in major galleries in London and the
UK and has paintings in Ireland, USA, Australia and Malaysia. He
was awarded Best Racing Picture, sponsored by Horse & Hound
magazine and has portraits hanging in the Garrick Club and
Rossdales Veternary Practise, Newmarket.

 

12. Returning from Hell 20” x 16” OIL ON CANVAS £750.00

13. Going to the front 20 x16 OIL ON CANVAS £750.00

14. Home Safe and Sound 14 x 10 OILS £500.00

15. Study – Home Safe & Sound 9 x 9 OILS £350.00

39 Study – Going to the front 9 x 9 OILS £350.00** SOLD

Malcolm, who was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, lives for his
painting and his animals, amongst which are Jacobs sheep,
geese, chickens, several horses, and three dogs. His travels
are reflected in his paintings and it is remarkable to see the
variance in light of the different countries showing through in
his pictures.

Malcolm has exhibited in many exhibitions in the UK and
been a guest exhibitor in France, Spain and America. He has
exhibited in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden and
Japan. His work has been reproduced in many prints and on
cards and two books.

6. Brew Time 24 x 18 OIL £895.00

7. Lunch Time 24 x 18 OIL £895.00

8. Waiting for the Reply 24 x 18 OIL £895.00

9. Study – Waiting for the Reply 12 x 10 OIL £375.00

10. Study – Brew Time 13.5 x 12 OIL £375.00

11. Study – Lunch time 13.5 x 12 OIL £375.00

In Art 2016 Society of Equestrian Artists (SEA) Annual Open
Exhibition. Jane enjoys the challenge of portraiture and painting figures
in the context of cityscapes however, painting horses in a
variety of situations such as racing, polo and eventing is
where her heart truly lies. She uses oils and sometimes
charcoal to explore her interest in light, form, space and
movement. Jane’s aim is to catch that elusive fleeting
moment which tells a story, without sentimentality.

 

3. Band of Brothers 30 x 26 OIL £1,250.00 **SOLD

4. The Long Wait 31 x 26 OIL £1,250.00 **SOLD

5. Study – Plein Air 18 x 14 OIL £350.00

Freddy is a professional artist working between London and
Hampshire. Having started painting from an early age, he has
developed his talent throughout his previous career with the
British Army. In 2014 he exhibited and sold all his sketches
from his operational tour in Afghanistan and has since never
looked back. He is also a prominent wildlife artist and has had
numerous exhibitions over the last year and was shortlisted
for the Wildlife Artist of the Year 2016.

In 2017 Freddy established residencies with the Household
Cavalry, Tattersalls Auctioneers and The Jockey Club to create
a body of work celebrating the horse.

 

1 Women at War 20 x16 OIL £2,500.00

2 Field Sketch 24 x 20 OILS £1,500 .00

HRH The Princess Royal visited the acclaimed
Behind the Lines: Alfred Munnings, War Artist, 1918 at the Munnings Art Museum on Monday 23 September 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

After touring the exhibition with Museum Director Jenny Hand – which included meeting renowned horse racing journalist, broadcaster and former jockey, Brough Scott, whose grandfather, Brigadier-General ‘Galloper’ Jack Seely enjoyed a decades-long friendship with Alfred Munnings that was forged on the Western Front, and whose portrait is in the exhibition – she explored the rest of the Museum, including the artist’s studio, and signed the Visitors Book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During her visit HRH The Princess Royal met exhibition curators Brenda Parrish and Charles Proudfoot, along with Trustees of the Museum, and three of the seventy-five volunteer room stewards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HRH The Princess Royal was accompanied by Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Essex, Jennifer Tolhurst and met a number of notable Essex guests during her visit. These included the High Sheriff of Essex, Dr James Bettley, Harwich and North Essex MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, Essex Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington, Essex County Council Chairman Cllr John Jowers and the Mayor of Colchester Cllr Nicholas Cope.

Museum Director Jenny Hand said “We felt extremely privileged to have the princess royal visit today. It affirms the museum’s rising profile as a significant centre for the appreciation of the work of Sir Alfred Munnings.”

10th July 2019

Under a marbled blue and grey sky, with horses at ease in the fields of Castle House, an attentive audience of eighty listened keenly to racing commentator Brough Scott tell the story of his grandfather Jack Seely and his horse Warrior; and of the artist who immortalised them both in 1918: Alfred Munnings.

The talk reminded us of the reach, and the breadth and the depth of Munnings’ life; of his work and of his connections. It suggested the fascinations we have not only with the artist himself but also with his family, his circle of friends and associates and the broader social forces pushing and pulling away in the background across a life that spanned eighty years. It also made us aware of the fact that the First World War is a conflict that is beginning to slip just around the corner of memory as the generations roll by.

Certainly, bringing the lens of another visiting speaker to Castle House has vividly contributed yet another dimension to our appreciation and examination of Munnings’ life but also to our understandings of the times in which he lived. The past is always echoing in the present. “Munnings has been full of myths and otherwise” observed Brough Scott early in his captivating talk and in this description he made the connection to Munnings’ longstanding and valued friendship with Jack Seely.

In the painting Major General The Right Honourable J. E. B. Seely (currently on display here at Castle House in our exhibition Behind The Lines) Munnings evoked the strength and endurance of the relationship between Seely and Warrior. Indeed, Brough took us quite movingly right through Warrior’s life, placing it in the context of the painting and in the story that continued far beyond it.

Brough deftly wove together humour, anecdote, family history, wider social history and an affecting sense of resonance. In sketching out something of Seely’s character, Brough noted that Seely was perhaps fearless rather than brave. Indeed, this distinction became acute when Brough noted that the portrait was undertaken just a mile from the front line in January 1918. For all of the steadfastness evoked by the image that Munnings painted, Brough also drew our attention to a sense of melancholy in both Warrior and Seely who had endured together almost four years of fighting.

A little later in the evening, as Brough took in the Behind the Lines exhibition,
he noted that the painting Horses of the 36^th Company was suffused with that same melancholy feeling. He also made a keen connection between the rawness of Munnings’ pre-war paintings of gypsies in East Anglia and the rawness inherent in his paintings of men and horses at war.

For all of the specifics of time and place that Brough vividly conjured, perhaps the most powerful aspect of the talk, the part that resonated most, was that it told a story about the mutual sensitivity between humans and horses and how this in turn manifests itself in a powerful sense of devotion. Seely recognised this powerful connection and Munnings did, too. It doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to suggest that this devotional spirit towards the horse is what emanates from so many of Munnings’ paintings.

Towards the end of the event one of the longstanding stewards at Castle House shared a memory that had been prompted by the talk. A lifelong local resident, he recalled his father’s memory of how farmers at Ardleigh railway station had cried as they watched their farm horses loaded onto the trains to be taken far from home to the battlefields of France. “They were saying goodbye to their friends, weren’t they?” the steward asserted.