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Kate Giles solo show - Flux closed 24 December  2021     
Flux is a solo show of vital new work from Norfolk based artist Kate Giles following the passage of the seasons over the last year; a searching and vigorous response to the restless light and weathering over field angles, tree, orchard and hedgerow, alert to the legacy of Constable, Crome and Ruisdael.

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Blasted (The Divide , Itteringham, Bure Valley)/ Oil on board / 49 x 64cm/ £1,750 SOLD
"Kate Giles is a British painter who works in the landscapes of Suffolk and Norfolk, places once depicted by John Crome and the Norwich School, and most famously by John Constable …….. In her work fields heave and pulse with the energies of growth; skies churn with fast-moving cloud, rendered in hatched strokes that have their own flickering energy, which is both the energy of the wind and that of the artist’s own, fast-moving hand; trees explode into thin air, each one a maelstrom formed from marks suggesting the activities of some crazed calligrapher, as if to suggest the rising of the sap and, at the same time, the tumbled dissolution of autumn. Flux is everywhere in these pictures, which evoke a world in constant and perpetual motion. The stillest things in them are telegraph poles, which are themselves (after all) reminders of another kind of motion: the movements of human communication, humming across the wires of the world ".
Andrew Graham- Dixon, Art Historian, Author, Broadcaster and Lecturer  - on the exhibition  October 2021 ​
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Kate on location near West Acre Priory, Valley of the Nar, Norfolk
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In the Valley of the Nar. West Acre Priory. Thinking of Ruisdael's "View of Haarlem"/ Oil on Linen /153 x 153cm/£10,000
Hard copy catalogue available from the Gallery or by contacting us [email protected]
Online catalogue below:
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Ivy Post. Emerging Daffodils II (February) 2021 /Oil on board/ 24 x 27cm / £1,400 SOLD
"This new body of work arises from a long double fascination: firstly with landscape, most recently the river valleys of the Bure and Nar in Norfolk, close to the artist’s home; secondly with the medium of paint and the distinct delights of the slip of oil and the resulting mysteries of image making. Each informs the other, in a relationship between concentrated observation and accumulated experience – the skill of looking, the skill of drawing, the confident manipulation of pigment applied by brush. The resulting works are fiercely beautiful, radiating pleasure or even adoration, the intense engagement Giles has with both her place and her craft".
Amanda Geitner, Director East Anglia Art Fund, October 2021
Please contact us with enquires ​[email protected] . Reservations from Tuesday 2 November. 
​Susie 07836 325497
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Nar Valley. Toad Crossing /Oil on board/ 16 x 20cm/ £975 SOLD


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