Anne Barrell English, b. 1964
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Golden Sail and Mackerel – Jug, 2025
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Island Harbour – Square Platter, 2025
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Lifeboat at Light - Small Square Plate, 2025
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Sea Houses and Cloud – Pedestal Dish, 2025
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Working Harbour - Octagonal Platter, 2025
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Working the Seas - Postcard Plate, 2025
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Big Fish – jug, 2024
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House on the Hill – jug, 2024
"I’m inspired by British maritime history and 20th-century art, and the paintings of Alfred Wallis are a big influence."
There is a definite Alfred Wallis feel to the sgraffito pieces created by Anne Barrell featuring merchant ships, sailing boats, fishing trawlers and all things to do with the sea and coast. Rum cups, pedestal bowls, paltters, and jugs have hand-painted boats and ships traversing stormy seas or sheltering in tree-lined harbours. As each piece is hand-made and painted, they all have their own unique character.
The ceramics are made from red earthenware clay thrown on the potter's wheel, and hand built from slabs, and then painted with a layer of white liquid clay known as slip. Images are scratched through the white layer revealing the red clay beneath.
Anne attended art classes in New York and then returned to Britain to do a degree at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Anne then had a studio at Cockpit Arts in Holborn, London before moving to Eastbourne in 2004. She has exhibited at various shows in London and around England and work has been commissioned to sell at The Jerwood Gallery; Emma Mason British Prints; Towner and Dulwich Picture Gallery. She is a Member of The Sussex Guild.
Press features include, amongst others:
The Guardian Weekend
Vogue
Coast
Elle Decoration
Living
Anne Barrell lives in East Sussex where she works from her studio. Her work is being shown in St Ives, and in Cornwall for the first time.
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WINTER SHOWCASE
Anne Barrell, Clare Conrad, Sasha Wardell, and Ian Harrold 14 Dec 2024 - 28 Feb 2025Read more -
SHOWCASE | NEW WORKS BY IAN HARROLD AND ANNE BARRELL
12 - 27 Nov 2024Read more -
COLLECT | MODERN ART
9 Sep - 4 Nov 2023Gallery exhibition of Modern St Ives and British art for sale, featuring art – paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures – by leading 20th Century artists, including: Wilhelmina BARNS-GRAHAM, Peter BLAKE, Sandra BLOW, Patrick CAULFIELD, Lynn CHADWICK, Maurice COCKRILL, Terry FROST, Barbara HEPWORTH, Patrick HERON, David HOCKNEY, Bryan INGHAM, Albert IRVIN, Margaret LOVELL, Henry MOORE, Ben NICHOLSON, Victor PASMORE, Bryan PEARCE, Tommy ROWE, William SCOTT, Joe TILSON.Read more -
SUMMER SHOW: EDIT 2 | JOANNE LAST, ANNE BARRELL, CRAIG UNDERHILL & TREVOR PRICE
5 Aug - 7 Oct 2023New collections of Cornwall coastal-inspired abstract paintings by Joane Last feature alongside the Cornish coastal- and still life-themed original prints and paintings by the multi award-winning St Ives-based artist, Trevor...Read more -
CHRISTMAS SHOW online
22 Dec 2022 - 7 Jan 2023If summertime in St Ives now seems a distant memory – with the recent cold snap – you can now enjoy reliving those happy memories of summer by the sea...Read more -
SAFE HARBOUR: SUMMER COLLECTION: 1
2 Jul - 24 Sep 2022Welcome to the first of a two-phase uplifting and enervating curated Summer show featuring fresh, new artworks by eight leading award-winning contemporary artists. Celebrating the joys and beauty of summertime...Read more -
SEA STORIES
Mixed exhibition of contemporary paintings, prints, and ceramics 1 May - 26 Jun 2021Porthminster Gallery’s new exhibition Sea Stories opened with a burst of Spring optimism on 1st May.Read more
Featuring uplifting contemporary paintings, prints and ceramics by seven gallery artists, and one invited guest artist, in a celebration of the seaside and rocky coast for which St Ives and West Cornwall is famous
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