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Tracey Benton felt sculptures are here!

Tracey Benton and her lovely felt sculptures are new to 45 Southside and already very popular.

Tracey spent many years studying and exploring ceramics, but the moment she started experimenting with wool, she was hooked. It’s a lovely natural material to work with and she is particularly drawn to its textural and sculptural qualities.

Tracey uses a process called needle felting (also known as dry felting) to create her birds and beasts. She uses a special needle with tiny notches that catches and binds the fibres together. Each piece is sculpted by hand and takes several hours to make. Details are added to the work using embroidery and beads. Her pieces are displayed on handmade ceramic bases ensuring each piece is truly unique.

Tracey draws her inspiration from the natural world around her: birds twittering at the bottom of the garden or a cheeky fox crossing her path when she is out walking the dog near her home in North Devon.

To see Tracey’s work in detail, please have a browse in our online shop

Kate Packer – Scarab Beetle

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Title: Scarab Beetle

Other framed wirework insects available

Artist: Kate Packer

Material: Coated metal wire, framed

Dimensions: W: 21 cm H: 16 cm D: 3.50 cm

£ 85 SOLD

Ref.: KP 21

More about Kate Packer

To view more work by Kate Packer, please click on the tag in the right column.

Tracey Benton – Moon Gazing Hare

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Title: Moon Gazing Hare

Other colours available

Artist: Tracey Benton

Material: Felted Wool, Beads

Dimensions: H: 16.50 cm D: 8.50 cm W: 4 cm

£ 80 each

Ref.: TB1

More about Tracey Benton

To view more work by Tracey Benton , please click on the tag in the right column.

What’s in store this month

It is wet and windy out there, but we are still very much open for business. Earlier in February, we spent 2 days renovating the gallery. All ready for half-term now. We have plenty of new work to exhibit and discover. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we also have a great selection of jewellery and handmade hearts. Heart cushions, and wire-work and ceramic hangings. Don’t forget to pick up a card, as well.

Beyond Valentine’s Day, we have currently our biggest ever display of Sculptures by Zoe Coles. Her hares, chickens, pigeons and foxes made out of papermache and coated with resin and metal are incredibly lifelike, energetic and wonderful.

New work keeps arriving every week now, so make sure you drop in, when you are in the area not to miss anything. For a small selection, please look at our online shop.

British Marine Life Greeting Cards by Debby Mason

DM 22 – Tiger Tail Seahorses

“My recent work concentrates on my love of the sea and the amazing life it contains. As a qualified diver, I feel privileged to be able to come face to face with the subjects that I draw. Etchings is the perfect medium for many underwater creatures with its fineness of line and the ability to lend itself to the meticulous detail that attracts me to them as subjects” [Debby Mason]

It is this fineness of detail in Debby’s high quality etchings, aqua-tints and mezzo-tints, which makes the range of British Marine Life greeting cards so unique and special. Each card image is taken from an original print by Debby Mason. The first range focuses on British Marine Life.

Dm 21 – Boar Fish

Debby has been a printmaker for 25 years, living on the Devon Coast near Plymouth. Inspired early in her life by Jacques Cousteau she learned to dive and has been active on a number of marine conservation programs since.

Any 10 cards chosen from either of our greeting card ranges are available for £23 including postage.

You can see all our cards here.

What’ in store in January

Happy New Year! We have had a busy start to 2014 and lots of new work for you on display. The days are getting marginally longer and we are looking forward to spring here in the gallery.

We will be closing for a day or two during the week in the beginning of February. The walls need a bit of a spring lift. If you are making a special trip, please ring ahead to check.

We have had some great new work by Jenny Beavan for the New Year. This series of wonderfully energetic ceramic wallpanels are made from china clay. They are inspired by water, particularly the Tides. Rather unusually for Jenny we also have a panel on a red glass background on display.

The newest artist to exhibit at 45 Southside is Emma West. Emma’s porcelain wall panels start as emboidery, which is impressed onto the clay and details are picked up with colouring and glazes.

We have had a number of Zoe Coles’ amazingly life-like and lively animal sculptures in the past. This little fox is fast making friends in the gallery. Zoe’s sculptures are modelled in papiermache and then coated with resin and metal to appear like copper, silver or iron.

Beverley Bailey has been busy embroidering books for us as well.

We could not bear to pack these lovely glass baubles by Emmy-Gai Palmer away after Christmas. We have a really cheerful selection of spring colours available. Hang them all year round in a window and watch the light change.

Corinna Butler has also some new glass work on display. Her work is mounted and framed. She draws her inspiration from her scuba-diving hobby and is displayed together with Richard Glass’ Splash sculptures.

For details on the artists, their work and to see a selection in more detail, please visit our online shop. You can also always send us an email or ring. The contact details can be found in the about us section.

Emma West – Two Birds

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Title: Two Birds

Artist: Emma West

Material: Porcelain, glaze, framed

Dimensions (framed): H: 20 cm W: 36 cm D: 2.50 cm

£ 125

Ref.: EW1

More about Emma West

To see more work by Emma West, please click on her tag in the right hand column.

Fabulous insects and jewellery by Kate Packer

We always love it, when Kate Packer delivers new wirework.

This time we have had a wide selection of Christmas Decorations, necklaces, bug, moth and even seahorse brooches in lots of colours as well as wonderful framed insects. Watch out for a selection of Kate Packer’s work in our online shop and see much more here at 45 Southside.