Cayden's Autumn Ball

This is an orginal painting donated by Gary Walton from Worcestershire, Gary is a full time artist who's work is published by Demonfort Fine Art the UK's leading international art publisher!

Reserve price of £250

This is an original painting donated by Rob Hain. The painting is named Henry VIII and is painted on canvas ready to hang.

Rob Hain lives in the Scottish Borders and his work is published by Edinburgh Arts, you can view his website at www.robhain.com

Reserve price of £100

Signed original by Olivia Pilling named Spring Branch Canal, Skipton.

Olivia is a northen based contemporary artist. Her website is www.oliviapilling.co.uk

Reserve price of £200

Original painting by Andrea Farmer named Aurora 40cm x 40cm.

Andrea Farmer is a contemporary artist from Essex. Her website is www.andreafarmer.co.uk

No reserve

This is an original painting of Dunwich by Suffolk artist Roger Hardy.

After qualifying with a BA(Hons) degree at Kingston Upon Thames, Roger worked in London for 10 years. Throughout this time, painting was always the most creatively important element in his life. Painting has always been a great passion and preoccupation, starting from a very early age.

In 2000 Roger and his wife moved to Suffolk so he could paint full time.

You can view his website at www.rogerhardy.co.uk

Reserve price of £250

An original painting by Nick Derry of a grey heron, and it's painted in watercolour and gouache with pencil crayon. It was sketched one spring morning along the river Doubs in France.

Nick's work has already met with success, from illustrations for several local bird reports, and a design for his secondary school's Christmas card, to having several examples of his work exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London as part of Birdwatch Magazine's Artist of the Year Award, in which he was awarded Young Artist of the Year and Overall Winner in 1999. He has also produced a Christmas card for the Welsh Kite Trust and a mural of local birds at Borth Youth Hostel.

This year Nick had work selected for the Wildlife Artists Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries and was awarded the St.Cuthbert's Mill Award for the best work on watercolour paper.

Nick's website can be viewed at www.nickderry.co.uk

Reserve price of £200

Original painting by Victoria Stewart

Since turning professional eight years ago, Victoria has exhibited her floral and abstract paintings across the globe, displaying her work in both galleries and private collections, the most recent including John Lewis in London, The Midtown Artery in South Carolina, Mondo Arte in Dubai, Scotland Art in Edinburgh, Lane Side Gallery in N. Ireland and Art Couture in Dubai.

Victoria has also exhibited her collections at many national and international trade shows, including Index in Dubai, The Spring Fair in Birmingham and Art Expo in New York.

Victoria takes her inspiration for her flower collections from the world's landscapes and their ever-changing colours and shapes. Incorporating the vibrant and textured features into the paintings through the use of thick brushes, pallet knives and acrylics.

You can view her website www.victoriastewart.com

Reserve price of £150

This is an original acrylic box canvas painting The Brown Birches by Shropshire artist Dianne Jennings.

You can view her website at www.paintingmyway.co.uk

Reserve price of £50

Original painting by Ipswich artist Darren Hearne named Textured Water Memory in Qulounda the painting is on the large side a massive 6ft x 4ft.

Darren Hearne graduated from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design in 2000 and already has work in several private and public collections. His paintings are based on childhood memories and experiences, especially of landscapes, and he uses a wide variety of materials including oil paint, varnish, glass, sand, shellac and spectre gel.

For Darren, erasing a mark is just as important as making one, and he sees the process as recreating, revisiting and reappraising his childhood. This process means he tends to work on pieces over several weeks or even months. This new collection shows a development in Darren’s work to a slightly looser composition, with a more transparent texture revealing a broader colour palette.

Reserve price of £200

Original painting by Angela Smyth named The Tradition.

The painting is based on the story below:

There is a place near to where I live. It's quite a poor place and the people who live there are very close knit, if not just a little lawless. There is a tree in the middle of the village where, when the inhabitants have grown out of their shoes, they hang them from the tree so that other people in the village can help themselves if they can't afford new shoes. Now, this has been going on for years and years and needless to say, when you visit, the tree is completely weighed down with pairs of shoes, just waiting for someone to take them. I loved this idea, but I decided to put wishes and love letters on my tree - but the feel of it is the same. Lots of people taking care of each other.

I’ve been painting seriously for just three years now. It all started when I supplied a local cafe with some paintings, after the owner had spotted one of them at a local printers. She took 10 off me, and sold them within a week! And so it went on & grew from there really, to this point now where I have paintings in galleries around the UK, a nice amount of exhibitions under my belt, a world wide publishing deal and collectors around the world!. I sometimes get emails from people who would love to paint for a living, and my advice to them is to keep going - because you never know what opportunities are around the corner.

With the help of my husband, Chris (who works in design & marketing) I self publish my own very-limited edition prints, we do our own marketing and work extremely closely with some amazing galleries & people. Most of all I’m astounded by the people who buy & collect my pictures. Whenever i meet them, they are all, without exception, lovely. I have had a love of art ever since I was a little child when my late father, Patrick, would sit with me in the Irish Club in Halifax teaching me to draw shire horses. It stuck with me from there, and while I was growing I was never without a pen & paper.

It was only when I had my son Alistair, that I decided to give painting a ‘proper’ go. While Ali was sleeping, I would do the odd painting or drawing, and I found that I still really loved doing it.

I now have my own studio, 15 minutes walk from home and above my favourite cafe. I always start the day with a latte downstairs & wander up and get stuck in straight away.

I count myself very lucky to be one of the few people who’s job is their passion. I never take it for granted! I am supported tremendously by the galleries I work closely with. My drawings and paintings have appeared in commercial work such as CD covers, magazines, brochures and marketing campaigns.

I live in West Yorkshire in a little village overlooking fields with maniac cows (they’ve appeared in a few paintings too)!

I exhibit 2 or three times a year and do a few of the Art fairs as well. I am kept constantly busy & there is always a waiting list for new pictures, even though I paint as fast as I can (latte breaks allowing)!

You can view Angela's website at www.angelasmyth.co.uk

Reserve price of £200

Original painting Watercolour on paper by artist Jo Lewis named Priory Bay.

Jo Lewis is a painter who lives and works in London. The work comes from my love of being
in the landscape. I work outside and in the moving waters of rivers and the sea. The water flows over the paper as I paint, and the stones are collected from the waters’ edge.

You can view Jo's website at www.jolewisart.co.uk

Reserve price of £100

An original framed oil painting named Suitors by Artist David Scholfield.

David Schofield was born in1972, Wrexham, North Wales. He graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Illustration and Printmaking. Since 1997 after a period of lecturing and working as a freelance illustrator, David has been extensively exhibiting as a fine artist. He is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy and has been honored by various awards from the Royal Glasgow Institute.

His most recent being 2007 The City of Glasgow Award, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. 2005 The David Cargill Award, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. 2003 The James Torrance Memorial Award, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

He exhibits in prestigious galleries throughout the UK and his work is held in private collections in UK,USA and France.

David's website is www.david-schofield.com

Reserve price of £250

Original painting by artist Mary Nugent called Birches & Bluebells.

Mary is a self taught New Zealand artist living in London and working extensively throughout the UK. Much of my work has been in the brewery industry painting chalkboards, murals, hand painted signwriting and other art works including a series of themed cartoons for a gourmet pub.

Since 2000 I have been experimenting with my own art work, preferring oils, acrylic and ink, working on stretched canvas, paper and occasionally board. I have exhibited in local exhibitions and my works now hang in homes in New Zealand, Australia, Europe, United States and the UK.

You can view Mary's website at www.marynugent.co.uk

A pair of original oil paintings by artist Kate Gritton untitled 2007.

These paintings have a sense of organic matter passing through and forming part of an endless space, of which we know only a small part. Flesh and blood is fragile, temporal; but the universal space is contiually renewed and recreated that passes though, and retains their auras and echoes.

Kate Gritton was born in London, England where she graduated from Sir John Cass School of Art, specializing in painting and printmaking. After several years exhibiting in London, she moved to Northwest France in 2001 where she continues her creative career.
Many of her paintings relate to journeys... to the rugged coasts of Ireland, the hills of Umbria or the inner journeys we make to places and times beyond recall. Strongly influenced by painters such as Turner and O'Donaghue, she follows in the great tradition of landscape painters, always searching for the space beyond reality.

Her work seeks out the hidden undertow of landscape. Beneath the surface of the natural elements lie traces of a past presence, echoes of another experience. Always driven by a sense of place, her paintings record a personal response to locations and events that become both timeless and universal.

You can view Kate's website at www.kategritton.co.uk

An original acrylic painting on a box canvas named Tomorrow Never Dies by artist Wendy Puerto.

Wendy's sunset paintings are very collectable and you can view her website at www.wendy-puerto.co.uk

Reserve price of £50

An original painting named 'Simon Says' by artist Joe Hendry, I am sure the subject needs no introduction.

Influenced by the "Faces Of Disco" act on Britain's Got Talent, could this possibly be Simon Cowell posing nude?

Scottish artist, Joe Hendry began his professional life as an interior designer, having studied design in Glasgow for four years in the late eighties. Following a successful career in corporate interiors, Joe decided to concentrate on what he really loved and began painting full time in January 2005.

The graphic element of Joe's design background shows through in much of his work. Since 2005 there have been many successes. Joe's work was picked up early by a New York gallery curator and a buyer for Warner Brothers Studios in addition to being featured in the fifth anniversary Blondie Review. 2005 also saw a contract being signed with Chaucer Press and in July of 2005, Joes piece To Kiss Marilyn not only appeared in the homage to Marilyn Monroe by Roger Taylor entitled Marilyn In Art, but was chosen to promote the book on its release. In August 2007, three Joe Hendry original paintings appeared in Mem Mehmets book Diana In Art which has been released internationally. Mem Mehmet also compiled the well received Madonna In Art. At its release, Joe was not painting but Mem has since purchased an original Madonna piece for his own private collection.

2008 saw Joe Hendry winning a place in the annual Lauderdale House art exhibition in addition to a second solo exhhibition at Park Gallery in Glasgow and being involved in The Contemporary Scottish Art Sale at McTears Auctioneers. Working in two different styles, in addition to selling worldwide on www.joehendry.com, Joe has taken part in various exhibitions in the UK and beyond over the past four years.

Due to the unique nature of the painting it will be auctioned off on Ebay which will also start on Friday 25th September