I am delighted to be exhibiting again at the Summer Art & Antiques Fair at Olympia, London.  

This year the fair runs 23-27 June with a special private preview on Wednesday 22 June, 3pm-8pm.  The general ticket is available to down load on this page, otherwise please contact me for one of my limited number of preview invitations.

Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia - Summer 2022

Petworth Park 2022

This exhibition is part of Cotswolds Curated, a week of exhibitions selling Fine Art And Antiques in the Cotswolds by member of the Cotswold Art and Antiques Dealers' Association. Other participants in the week include Architectural Heritage and David Pickup at Taddington; Haynes Fine Art and Trinity House at Broadway; Christopher Clarke at Stow on the Wold; Witney Antiques and W R Harvey at Witney; and Legge Capets in Oxford. A wonderful excuse to visit the Cotswolds.

A Cotswold Group

London's Independent Art Fair.
Please contact me for further information and complimentary tickets.

Connect Art Fair

A joint exhibition in conjunction with Harry Moore-Gwyn British Art.

To includes works by Rex Vicat Cole, Henry Charles Brewer, William Osborn, Theodore Roussel, Algernon Talmage and many more.

The exhibition runs 14 November to 6 December 2019, Monday to Friday, 11-6 (special weekend viewing, 16-17 November, 11-5)

London Old and New - Through the eyes of the 19th & 20th Century Artist

I will be exhibiting a picture of Birmingham interest and pictures for Christmas. See my catalogue section for further details. Please contact me for further information and complimentary tickets.

Art & Antiques for Everyone

The Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, London.

(Private preview Wednesday 22 June, 3pm - 8pm)

Please contact me for complimentary tickets.

New Stock will be added to this Online Exhibition until the opening of the Fair.

Summer Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, 2022

An online exhibition of twentieth century landscape and figurative watercolours and drawings by Austin Taylor. 

Viewing is by appointment in London or Oxfordshire.

The majority of these works are unframed but presented in conservation mounts. 

The prices are inclusive of UK postage/delivery. 

Please contact me for overseas shipping quotes.

Austin Taylor was born in Bolton, Lancashire. The family emigrated to Winnipeg in Canada in 1912, and in 1917 his father, who had joined the Canadian Army, was killed in France. At the age of fourteen Austin was obliged to leave school and work to support his family. During this time he took evening classes at the Winnipeg School of Art where he was taught by “Group of Seven” artist Lemoine Fitzgerald. He was able to use his drawing skills working as an illustrator for Bridgens, the outfitters, making drawings for their mail-order catalogues. In 1943 he was called up but never served outside Canada. Following the war he studied in the USA, joining the Art Students’ League in New York. He emigrated to England in 1948 and set himself up as an artist. He married Winifred, who supported him on her teacher’s salary and also posed as his model in the evenings. He exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, Redfern Gallery and St George’s Gallery. In 1980 he entered for the Greater London Council’s Spirit of London art competition, winning second prize for a painting of the London Underground. The following year he entered the competition again and won first prize. A posthumous retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London. Works by him are in the collections of the Canadian War Museum, London Transport Museum and Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow.

Austin Taylor - Works on Paper

Once again I am delighted to be exhibiting at the Petworth Park Antiques and Fine Art Fair at:

The Marquee, Petworth Park, Petworth, West Sussex GU28 0QY.

The following is a selection of some of the pictures I will be showing on my stand.

Petworth Park Fair, 2022

, the Cotswold Art and Antiques Dealers' Association's series of exhibitions across the region, I am delighted to be showing a group of works with a Cotswold theme. These artists are united by their roots as either tutors or students at the Birmingham School of Art and are members of the informal collective known as the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen. At that time the school was heavily influenced by the work of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Most of the artists in this exhibition were also leading members of the early 20th Century revival in painting in tempera. Charles March Gere, his half sister Margaret Gere, Arthur Gaskin, Henry Payne and Bernard Sleigh all settled in the Cotswolds and are closely associated with the region's late 19th and early 20th Century Arts and Crafts Movement.

The exhibition can be viewed online and during the public exhibition in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 2-10 April.

This online exhibition accompanies a gallery exhibition at:

14 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TA

I'm delighted to be participating in The Armchair Art Fair, Winter 2022.

Pictures can be viewed by appointment in London or Oxfordshire. All prices are inclusive of UK postage/delivery. Please contact me for overseas shipping quotes.

Armchair Art Fair 2022

My Christmas online exhibition for 2021 offers a group of small pictures that will fit perfectly beneath the Christmas Tree.

All prices are inclusive of UK postage. Please contact me for overseas shipping quotes.

Small Pictures For Christmas

This year the Cotswold Art & Antique Dealers' Association Fair will be held at:

Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park
Compton Verney
Warwickshire CV35 9HZ

The following is an online exhibition of the pictures I will have on my stand.

Please contact me for further details and complimentary tickets to the fair.

Compton Verney Fair 2021

An online only exhibition of paintings and drawings from a private UK collection. All can be viewed by appointment in London or Oxfordshire.

A Private Collection

I am delighted to be exhibiting on the LAPADA stand at the Game Fair, 23-25 July at:
Ragley Hall
Alcester
Nr Stratford upon Avon
Warwickshire B49 5NJ

Please contact me for further information.

The Game Fair

An exhibition of 20th Century Stage and Costume Designs and theatrically inspired paintings, drawings and watercolours to be held at:

14 Market Place
Woodstock
Oxfordshire OX20 1TA

Hours
Mon 12 July 10am-5pm
Tues 13 July 10am-5pm
Wed 14 July 10am-8pm (Woodstock Art and Antiques Late Evening event)
Thurs 15 July 10am-5pm
Fri 16 July 10am-5pm
Sat 17 July 10am-5pm
Sun 18 July 10am-4pm

I am thrilled to be holding this, my first pop-up exhibition, at 14 The Market Place in the delightful and historic town of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. It is timed to coincide with the Cecil Beaton and the Theatre exhibition taking place at nearby Blenheim Palace and the Woodstock Arts Late event on the evening of Wednesday 14 July.

A Sense Of Theatre

Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair
Petworth, West Sussex GU28 0QY

Friday 11.00-18.00
Saturday 10.30-18.00
Sunday 10.30-17.00

Please contact me for further information and free entry to the fair.

Below is a selection of pictures I will be showing on my stand.

Petworth Park Fair, 2021

I'm delighted to be joining my group of fellow dealers in the 2nd Armchair Art Fair.

The following are my entries in the catalogue.

Please contact me if you would like to see a virtual copy of the full catalogue.

The Armchair Art Fair 2021

An online exhibition of paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints with a mystical theme. Some illustrate biblical subjects, myths and legends whilst others are purely from the imagination of the artists.

Viewing the pictures may be possible by appointment in London or Oxfordshire, although I recognise that this will not possible or practical for many. If you are unable to view please contact me if you would like more details or further photographs. If you decide to buy without viewing and for any reason do not like the picture once you receive it, I will be happy to take returns within 14 days of the purchase. Once the picture has safely returned to me I will make a full refund of the cost of the picture, although the return shipping/postage will be at the purchaser's expense.

The prices are inclusive of UK shipping and postage. Please contact me for quotes for overseas shipping.

Other Worlds

An online exhibition of original drawings by Eileen Soper (1905-1990). All come from a private UK collection. Soper was one of Britain's best loved twentieth century children's book and wildlife illustrators and this group of pencil sketches are of the British native animals she studied in her own garden. All but three are unframed but presented in conservation mounts. UK postage is included in the price.

Eileen Alice Soper was born in Enfield, Middlesex in 1905. In 1908 the family moved to Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside and she was the live in that same house of the rest of her life. She attended Hitchen Girls School and was artistically trained by her father, the noted illustrator and etcher, George Soper. The house, which she later named “Wildings” was built by her father, and Eileen and her older sister Eva, also an artist, inherited the house after his death in 1942 and turned the extensive garden into a sanctuary for the wildlife she studied and adored. The two sisters continued to live in the house until their deaths in 1990.

Eileen showed early promise as an artist as at the age of only 15 two of her etchings were shown in the Royal Academy in London, after which she showed three prints at an exhibition organised by the International Society of Printmakers in California. She continued to produce around 180 etching mostly of children at play into the early 1930s. Queen Mary bought two of her etching and her work was extremely popular and exhibited in the UK and USA.

She is probably best known for her work as an illustrator. Perhaps her most famous illustrations were her collaboration with Enid Blyton for whom she was to illustrate 35 books, most notably for all the Famous Five books. She illustrated and wrote her own books, her first Happy Rabbit was accepted by Macmillan in 1945 and was followed by many more including a book of poetry and from the 1950s she also wrote and illustrated many wildlife books including: Wild Encounters (1957) and No Badgers in My Wood (with Phil Drabble, 1979). Duff Hart-Davis wrote The Secret Garden of Eileen Soper in 1991.