Zimmer Stewart Autumn Mixed Exhibition
This Autumn, at the Tarrant Gallery, we are pleased to present a group of artists and makers from October to December.
It will be an ever varied and changing exhibition, as things sell we will replace them on the wall. So, if you return a week or two later the exhibition may look quite different!
The mix of work on show incudes paintings, prints, monotypes, ceramics and sculpture.
See the nine artist/makers listed below, click on each to see an example of their work with a short biography.
Ghaz Ahmad - Functional Ceramics
Ghaz Ahmad is a Malaysian/Thai ceramicist based in London.
Contemporary, fun and stylish pieces are Ghaz’s trademark, many influenced by the natural world, particularly from his Asian background. He creates mainly one-off pieces or limited themed collections. Each piece is either thrown on the wheel or hand-built (or sometimes a combination of the two).
As well as the traditional glazing and firing techniques used in his functional pieces, Ghaz works regularly in Raku, an exciting Japanese firing process known for its unpredictable outcomes and vivid colours, to produce more ornamental work.
Christopher Baker - Landscape Monotypes
Christopher Baker is predominantly a landscape painter who relishes braving the elements, confronting nature at its most extreme. A trip to Antarctica, resulted in a highly acclaimed series of paintings exhibited in Petworth House and the Royal Academy in 2006.
He works in oils, watercolours and his own unique mono print technique. His solid grounding in the classical rules of painting and his understanding of compositional rules and colour harmony, give him the freedom to extend his works well beyond the realm of traditional landscape. He has absorbed the planes and patterns of the landscape often using the device of strong diagonals to lead our eye into the distance until the land merges with the distant horizon.
Matt Bodimeade - Semi-abstract Landscape Paintings
Matt Bodimeade’s new oil paintings on canvas are completed in his studio from drawings, and pastel drawings created on site in an area of the South Downs which he knows well. The area around South Stoke and Offham was his playground as a child and first work place as a farm hand in his teens.
He draws inspiration from the American Abstract Expressionist, Richard Diebenkorn.
In most of Matt Bodimeade's works there’s central motif: a wall, a track, a river or a railway - evidence of man's work on the land. It is no coincidence that this division to slice the landscape apart; the fields and woods suggest work, movement and energy, shaped like plough blades, discs, or saw teeth on either side of the central divide.
Tom Farthing - Figurative Paintings
Tom Farthing is inspired by artists such as Alex Katz, and re-imagines figurative painting in a contemporary context.
Farthing's subjects are concerned with memory and presenting familiar scenes that we can all relate to, evoking a specific and personal response from the viewer based on their own experience.
He has exhibited in Los Angeles, Berlin and London, most recently in September 2026 at John Martin Gallery in their Unbound landscape exhibition.
Tom Farthing says "My work is engaged with painting the past at the same time as imagining a way forward for painting amongst the fast paced digital image saturated contemporary world".
His current Bathers series of paintings bring to mind experiences we can all relate to.
Tom Hammick - woodcut and monoprint
Tom Hammick is an award winning painter and printmaker.
As Julian Bell wrote in Wall Window World, his book on Tom Hammick: "The world is always more than you can see"
This is an apt description of Tom Hammick’s paintings and prints, they are bold and joyful but at the same time they look at subjects which could be seen as tender or anxious.
Like many painter/printmakers the two mediums feed off each other as subjects painted, subsequently become prints, and vice versa. The prints are mostly woodcuts and etchings often in 'edition variable'.
Tom Hammick likes to challenge himself and take risks. Similarly with etchings and dry points, Tom adds other techniques, such as chin colle, aquatint, roulette, etc In this way he can achieve variable edition where each print in the edition is different from the others, in some cases very different. It is no surprise that Tom Hammick has won many awards for his original printmaking, including the V&A Prize at the International print biennale, in 2016.Tom has been artist in residence at both the ENO and Glyndebourne, for whom he created a series of woodcuts for each of their operas in their 75th anniversary year in 2009.
Another area of interest for Tom is the environment and the fragile world around us, as in his Geocentric series of dry points and later Tangled Bank where he invites us to look closely at the hedgerows – teeming with life in its own eco system.
Tom Hammick describes his work as a metaphor to explore an imaginary and mythological dreamscape.
Deborah Harwood - Decorative Ceramics
Deborah Harwood is a porcelain ceramicist working on the wheel. Her artistic practice is deeply rooted in the serene landscapes of the South Downs National Park, nestled on the edge of the Goodwood estate. This tranquil environment profoundly influences her work, inspiring a sense of elegance and calm that she strives to capture in each piece.
She says "I focus on creating forms that embody simplicity and grace, emphasising the beauty of clean lines and smooth surfaces. I use minimal colour, using the Neriage technique and this allows the colour to create its own landscape and movement. Guided by the ancient techniques of porcelain craftsmanship I endeavour to reflect both the timeless elegance and the modern aesthetic.
Through my pieces, I aim to evoke a meditative experience, encouraging a moment of pause and reflection in the bustle of life. I believe that the objects we surround ourselves with can influence our emotional landscape, and I aspire for my work to serve as a gentle reminder of tranquility and harmony."
Giles Penny - Sculptor, Painter, Printmaker
Giles Penny produces work in multiple mediums: sculpture, printmaking and painting.
His focus of expression is the human form, which acts as a vehicle to explore the interaction between physical and abstract worlds and often portrays an innocent humorous quality.
Working in the different mediums in parallel helps Giles Penny to develop ideas and how they can be presented. Often he just starts with a piece of paper and scissors!
One of his early works is “Flat Man” showing a simple, minimalist ‘bust’ of a figure.
This composition has been represented in large and small scale bronzes, prints and paintings. This figure allowed Giles Penny to develop his own vernacular based on simple, expressive forms which would reappear in many forms over the next decades, each time unique, telling its own story.
Deborah Richards - Semi-abstract Monotypes
Deborah Richards has had a distinguished career as a successful artist and designer but is now especially known for her distinctive semi-abstract monotypes.
Drawn to the drama of changing light she explores the creative space between abstraction and representation particularly downland valleys, rivers, estuaries and inland waters. She is exhibited extensively and the winner of many awards including the IOW Open, Strides Open and the Sussex Open at Pallant House.
Deborah Richards makes drawings, paintings and monoprints by combining texture, colour, composition, shape and line. Her current key media is the monoprint, developed from sketches made from life using pastel for colour, graphite and conte for line. Her work requires resolve, energy and stamina to rise early in the dark, setting up outside, waiting for the dawn to develop and then drawing until too tired to continue.
Phil Tyler - Figurative Painter
Phil Tyler is a practising artist who is interested in the relationship between the materiality of painting as a cypher for grief, loss and the notion of the sublime. His practice involves painting, drawing, printmaking photography, collage, digital image and writing.
He has exhibited in the ING Discerning Eye, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The Lynn Painter-Stainers prize, The Garrick Milne Prize, The Royal Over seas league, East, The National Open and the Whitworth young contemporaries competitions.
His work is in both public and private collections in this country as well as in America, Australia, Finland, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong Sweden and the USA, including Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough Museum, Prizeman Seabrook Collection, University of Essex: Modern and Contemporary British Art Collection.
His first book "Drawing and Painting the Nude" was published in 2015 and his second, "Drawing and Painting the Landscape" in 2017.
In 2026 Phil Tyler will publish his third book upon Portrait Painting.
Contact us or click on the images above to see more work by each artist/maker.
Also if you would like to view work shown on this website in our Editions Shop, let us know and we will bring it/them to the gallery.
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