Kettle On Exhibition April 21-29th 2023

Kettle On: An exhibition of art, architecture, furniture, fixtures and fittings in a tribute to Kettle's Yard.

Please join us for a new exhibition in Bath from 21st-29th April.

This show is a collaborative effort with our friends at Berdoulat and is hosted in their shop at

8 Margaret's Buildings, Bath, BA1 2LP.

Evening viewing - 21st April 6-9pm.

Drinks and nibbles provided.

The exhibition features paintings and sculptures from modern British and contemporary artists set in a Kettle's Yard inspired interior. Artworks are available to purchase from the exhibition from such artists as Henry Moore, John Nash, Katherine Church, Keith Vaughan, Eric Ravilious and Julian Trevelyan. The show will be hosted on the private side of the mezzanine at Berdoulat and looks into the kitchen - hence the title: Kettle On.

Opening times:

21-29th April 2023

Friday 21st April - 10am- 9pm - Evening viewing starts at 6pm.

Saturday 22nd April - 10 am–6 pm

Sunday 23rd April - Closed

Monday 24th April - Closed

Tuesday 25th - 10 am–5:30 pm

Wednesday 26th - 10 am–5:30 pm

Thursday 27th - 10 am–5:30 pm

Friday 28th - 10 am–6 pm

Saturday 29th - 10 am–6 pm

January 2023 - Two Major Fairs!

Keith Vaughan - Off Duty, Eden Camp

Julian Bailey - A World of My Own

The art season begins again and in earnest for us here at Thomas Spencer Fine Art. We are doing two fairs back to back! The London Art Fair (18-22 January) followed by The Decorative Fair (24-29th January). We will be bringing a host of recently aquired Modern and Contmeporary works to both.

For anything else please contact us. We are now based in Bath, Somerset and available for viewings by appointment.

01225 590 858

info@thomasspencerfineart.co.uk

Details and complimentary tickets are on the Exhibitions tab

September Update - Move to Bath!

We are looking forward to the next few months here at Thomas Spencer Fine Art. Over the summer we have relocated to an office right in the centre of Bath. We are now open for appointments.

If there is anything you would like to see from the Instagram or website please let usknow and we can have it available for you when you visit.

We have an eclectic selection of works on show in the office at the moment. Any work from the website or Instagram can be brought up from our art store and displayed for you. At least a days notice is neccessary however.

Browsing is welcome but appointments must be booked in advance.

To book an appointment any day of the week between 9am-7pm please DM or email info@thomasspencerfineart.co.uk

We are right in the centre of Bath by Pulteney Bridge - full details and directions can be given when the appointments are made. We look forward to seeing you! Some of our dedicated returning customers are already booked in.

In October we return to the fair circuit with the Decorative Fair - ticket details will be available soon to our mailing list.

June Update

Oliver giving a talk on John Nash at the Decorative Fair

Our stand at Petworth Park

It has been an incredibly busy 6 months here at Thomas Spencer Fine Art. Our turnover this year has been equivalent to all our previous years in business combined - and that is just in 6 months! We have so far done at least a fair a month this year and have seen strong business at all of them. Thank you to everyone who has come along.

Looking ahead - we have uploaded a lot of new stock to the website. This is spread between the ‘Recent Aquisitions’ page and the webshop (for items £500 and under). There is more to come however - with our busiest six months of selling also comes our busiest six months of stock aquisiton so keep an eye out on the website.

We have a few more fairs this year. Just around the corner is Olympia (23-26th June). Olympia is a great fair and we have a lot of exciting stock to show you. Tickets are available here. If you are on our postal mailing list you should recieve a copy to the private preview in the post. If you would like to sign up please do so here.

Later on in July we will be showing at the LAPADA pavilion at the Game Fair in Warwickshire. A new one for us. Tickets are available via email.

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Three fairs down...many more to go!

We have started the year with an incredibly busy and successful quarter. The year kicked off in January with the Decorative Fair in Battersea. This was our first time downstairs at this event and it went very well. It was a pleasure to meet old and new clients. We had a strong Modern British showing and sold works by John Nash, Mary Fedden, Julian Trevelyan and more.

The next fairs were the Connect Art Fair and the Bath Decorative Fair back to back at the end of March/beginning of April. Both of these shows also went very well - hopefully this streak will continue. Please see the photos of our stands to the side.

Looking ahead we have a run of three fairs one after another in April and May. The London Art Fair in April and then The Decorative Fair followed by the Petworth Park Fair in May. Tickets to all these fairs can be found in the exhibitions tab.

January News

Raoul Dufy - Village Provencal

We are starting the year with a fair few exciting events. First I must announce that the London Art Fair has been rescheduled. The fair was initially supposed to take place from 19th-24th of January but in light of present circumstances will now take place from 20-24th of April. As the fair is an international event it was felt by organisers and galleries alike that it would be best to move the fair to a time when more of the international crowd could attend. We are still waiting to see what is happening with tickets so please hold tight. Those who have recieved VIP tickets - the card will still be valid for the next iteration.

Looking ahead to later in the month we are excited to be returning to The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park from 25th-30th of January. We have a much larger stand in the main arena this time and will be bringing entirely new stock. To book tickets please click here.When the fair was last on dealers were given no complimentary tickets but this time we have a few that we can give out. Please email me with your name if you would like to attend. This is on a first come first served basis.

Lots of new stock is now on the website and can be seen under the new aquisitions tab here and there is lots more to be put up in the coming week. In February we will be sending out physical catalogues as part of the Armchair Art Fair so I would encourage all who haven't yet to send in your postal address if you would like a complimentary copy of the catalogue.

TSFA is now a member of LAPADA and we are looking forward to working with LAPADA at upcoming fairs and events. Keep an eye on the ‘Exhibitions’ tab for new events being announced soon.

We have a new featured work - Raoul Dufy’s Village Provencal. You can read the full featured work analysis here.

Back from Olympia and Bath. Looking ahead to December and January.

Olympia

Bath

The dust has just settled after our last art fair of the year. Winter Olympia was a fantastic event and we were glad to welcome old clients and new onto the stand. Thank you to all those who came along and made it such a successful fair.

The week prior we participated in the Bath decorative fair. Footfall was low but sales were strong - showing those who came were determined to buy!

Looking ahead we have a solo show by Mark Burrell planned in December at Vivense London in Borough high street. Details available via the exhibitions tab.

Looking even further into the future we have two events for late January - The Battersea Decorative Fair and The London Art Fair. Tickets available via the mailing list.

Battersea Decorative Fair, Bath Decorative Fair and Olympia

We are back from a very successful fair at the Batterse Decorative Fair 2021. Thank you to all clients, new and old, who came by the booth. We look forward to returning to the show in the near future.

Looking ahead:

We have the Bath Decorative fair 21-24th October. Tickets available here

Shortly after we will be at the Winter Olympia Art and Antiques show. Tickets available via mailing list/email - here

Moving on to December we have a solo show for Mark Burrell planned. More details will be released soon.

Petworth Park Post-Fair Report

The Petworth Park Antiques and Fine Art Fair was back for its eighth edition, set amidst the Capability Brown landscaped parkland of Petworth House in West Sussex. The enthusiasm for in-person fairs was strong after months in lockdown; despite the social distancing rules, the fair was thriving with several hundred people queuing in the pouring rain on the first day, eager to view the 60 exhibiting stands. Thomas Spencer Fine Art exhibited for the second time and experienced one of the most successful fairs we’ve ever participated in! Pent up demand resulted in us selling out of almost two stand’s worth of stock, across a wide scope of styles, price points and by a diverse range of artists, from Stanley William Hayter to Mary Fedden.

The appetite for established 20th Century figurative artists remained strong, with successful sales for some well-known names, such as this delicate and subtle Woodland Study by John Nash. Interest in works by Mary Fedden was as strong as ever: a favourite Fedden work at TSFA, this intriguing modernist Windowsill Still Life drawing was one such work which found a buyer over the weekend. This lively and uplifting oil of Summer Flowers in a Staffordshire Jug by the lesser known but highly underrated Kitty Church also proved popular and found itself a new home.

Conversely, works by some of our emerging contemporary artists also attracted plenty of attention. Mark Burrell’s playful and captivating mixed media works provoked a great deal of discourse from visitors to the stand, with his harmonious work Sorrento Daydream selling well. Abstract works by Paul Anderson Morrow also caught interest, following on from his exhibition Letters From a Strange Year in April, in collaboration with fellow TSFA artist Sarah Needham. Morrow’s work Lots Road sold; a layered, textural work which combines deep blue pigments with more muted tones to form this absorbing work.

It was a pleasure to be back at an in-person fair and see some familiar faces, as well as meet many new clients. It’s a promising sign that all areas of the market are so healthy after lockdown, from early 20th Century to modern-day contemporary works.

We are constantly updating the website with new artworks, so if you have any enquiries please do get in touch and we will be happy to arrange a viewing. Our next in-person fair will be at Bath Decorative Art and Antiques fair in October: please join our mailing list to receive tickets.

By Flavia Deakin

June Update

Paul Anderson Morrow - Amalfi

Lots on in June! The upcoming Petworth Park Art and Antiques fair is on from the 18-20th of June and we are looking forward to seeing our customers again in person!

Tickets to Petworth available here.

We have also been featured in the latest issue of Vogue magazine as part of Vogue’s gallery section. The artwork featured is Amalfi by Paul Anderson Morrow

We are also pleased to welcome our first contemporary sculptor to Thomas Spencer Fine Art - Kirsten Møller Nielsen. Kirsten’s works are beautiful fragile and intricate structures which explore ideas of negative space, robustness and fragility. Really beautiful stuff.

Kirsten Møller Nielsen - Orange Beak

John Nash New Collection Preview and Essay

May Update

Marzia Colonna - The Bullfight

Sarah Needham - Legacy of the London Potters.

With the Covid restrictions being lifted we are busier than ever! A lot of new stock coming in and a lot of sales being made. We are still working through the waiting list of viewings that accrued during the lockdown. If you think you might have been forgotten please email us again here.

We are pleased to welcome Sarah Needham to our roster of contemporary artists. Sarah is an abstract artist whose work explores pigments and how their use is tied to human history. See some of Sarah’s work here.

On the horizon is our first physical fair of 2021 - Petworth Park. We have some absolutely fantastic stock for this fair and it is not one to be missed! Complimentary tickets are available here.

Mary Fedden - Tropical Fruit (available soon!)

March Update

Naomi Munuo - Seated Nude

Eric Ravilious - Letter Makers

There is light on the horizon! As the coronavirus restrictions are relaxed it looks as though we will be able to attend several shows later on this year. Dates are to be confirmed. For updates please join the mailing list via the join tab above.

We have added Naomi Munuo to our roster of contemporary artists. Her work ‘Seated Nude’ can be seen to the left. For more of Naomi’s work please see here.

In further contemporary news Mark Burrell was featured in this month’s Apero magazine - see the spread on Mark below and his works can be seen here.

We have made a lot of 20th century acquisitions in the past month and the majority of these works are currently in the process of being cleaned,. conserved and framed. In early April there will be a lot of new 20th century stock. We will have works by John Nash, Ivon Hitchens, Eric Ravilious, Eric Gill (signed works), Valerie Thornton, Cecil King and many more works for sale!

Any questions or for a preview of any of the artworks by the artists above please contact us.

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February Update

Patrick Church - Untitled Figure

Bo Hilton - Sennen in the Morning

Teresa Lawton - Low Tide

With lockdown continuing we are still adding to our waiting list for viewings for larger works.

Works up to a medium size (such as the three to the left) can be professionally wrapped and courriered within the UK free of charge.

February has seen a good increase in sales after the Christmas lull. Works are also available on our 2covet dealer page available here.

To be the first to hear about new works and collections that sometimes are snapped up before they reach the internet please join our minimally invasive email list here.

Our Instagram page has fun and bright pictures to liven up your day as well as some exclusive deals occasionally. We can be found at @thomasspencerfineart

Any questions please feel free to contact us if you are interested in buying or selling any artworks.

January News

Due to Coronavirus restrictions we have currently paused our home viewings however we have a waiting list for viewings once restrictions are lifted. To see any of the works on the website at your home with absolutely no pressure to buy please email info@thomasspencerfineart.co.uk and we can add you to the waiting list.

In other news we are looking ahead to the future and are tentatively booking shows for the summer and beyond! Fingers crossed.

The work to the side is by Jess Power - a selection of her works can be seen here - and more of her works will be added to the website very soon.

Jess has made a fantastic and mesmerising film about her practice which can be viewed here.

Jess is one of my personal favourite artists that we stock and her work is incredibly interesting and deep.

December News

Eric Gill - King Solomon and The Wife of Bath £1250

Willibrord Haas - Blaue Hand £495

This December we have added a lot of new works for sale in the webshop and in the main part of the website.

The webshop will remain for works that are smaller and more affordable with most works being £500 and under.

We have this fantastic signed work by Eric Gill available for sale - King Solomon and the Wife of Bath from the borders of the Canterbury tales.

Many more signed Eric Gill prints will be added in the coming month and a large selection of unsigned works are currently available on the webshop.

Moving to the opposite end of the spectrum we have added a number of prints by German artist Willibrord Haas to the webshop. There will be more added every week.

To receive the full list of upcoming works before they are posted to the main site please sign up for our mailing list here.

November was a very busy month for our contemporary artists with many good sales. Paul Anderson Morrow continues to be a favourite with our clients. His work Firle is avaialble on the webshop with many other also available on the main part of the site.

Contact us for more info

Paul Anderson Morrow - Firle £475

October Update

The Patrick Church collection at Saatchi

TSFA was proud to exhibit the work of Patrick Church at the Saatchi Gallery this October as part of the 2020 STARTnet Art Fair.

The fair ran very smoothly and social distancing was enforced and abided by. Thank you to all those who came out and made purchases!

Due to Coronavirus this is the last planned fair TSFA will be exhibiting at this year but we might do a pop up before Christmas somewhere in London.

To hear more about future plans please join the mailing list here.

We are pleased to welcome Warren Reilly to our growing list of contemporary artists with a selection of his mono-prints.

Warren’s work blends post modernism, pop art and humour together with images from art history to create a unique style. You can see his work here and in the webshop.

Maurice De La Hunk by Warren Reilly

TSFA at the STARTnet Art Fair 2020

From 19-25th TSFA will be exhibiting at the 2020 STARTnet fair showing the work of Patrick Church. The fair is held at the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London.

For more details on the fair please see: https://startnet.com/

START Art Fair TSFA presents Patrick Church

Solo exhibition

The Saatchi Gallery, London

Wednesday 21st October: VVIP Private View

Thursday 22nd October: Press & VIP Preview

Friday 23rd October: 11am-6pm

Saturday 24th October: 11am-6pm

Sunday 25th October: 11am-5pm

Contact us for complimentary tickets.

Back from Petworth Park Art and Antiques Fair

Thanks to all clients new and old who helped make this years Petworth Park fair such a success.

The event was very busy and safe and everyone was in good spirits!

We look forward to returning to the next iteration.

August Update

New Stock

The Petworth Park Antiques and Fine Art Fair 2020

A lot of new developments this month and a lot of new stock being added to the website almost daily.

Thomas Spencer Fine Art would like to welcome Bill Greenhalgh. Bill is a fantastic contemporary artist specialising in large scale works of art that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture. His work can be viewed here. We are very excited to work with Bill and he will feature in our contemporary roster going forwards.

A few highlights of new stock:

Ben Reader - Self Portrait as Pan.

Stanley William Hayter - Convex Mirror

Christos Caras - Mythological Designs

Bill Greenhlagh - Black Fearon

Patrick Procktor - Kabuki

All available for sale. We offer free home viewings for any work on the website with no pressure to buy.

We are also pleased to announce that TSFA will be exhibiting at the upcoming Petworth Park Antiques and Fine Art Fair 2020 running from 11-13 September at Petworth House in West Sussex. For further details please see here.