The Beach Gallery is holding its inaugural exhibition 'Relationship – Recognition – Realisation' until 17 November. 

Created by local artist Mark Vellacott, The Beach is a new fine arts gallery and studio venue development in Teddington. The gallery is showing an evolving series of exhibitions with selected work from British and Ukrainian artists, with plans to run regular mixed shows of local artists, as well as nationally and internationally renowned solo artist shows.  

Its launch exhibition will feature beachscape inspired copper and brass sheet multi-media, oil and ceramic works of renowned artists Julie Oldfield, Tess Gartland-Jones, and Roz Fletcher. 

Vellacott said: "Tess' beautiful Turneresque seascapes are proving popular with visitors." 

Poster. (Photo: Supplied)

The works reflect each artist's individual 'relationship' with beach and seascapes, and their deep 'recognition' of changing weather and light conditions. 

Although the themes and composition of their work are common, the techniques and methods by which they are 'realised' are very different. 

Julie's inventive and distinctive work uses heating and the natural rusting, oxidation and corruption of copper and brass sheets as the foundation for her mixed media land and seascapes. 

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Julie adds pastels, spray paint and other media to build her paintings, often scraping away materials to expose the pure metal underneath. 

These combined textures and raw metal give a light that glistens from deep within the waters of her seascapes. 

Weather permitting, Julie will be giving an outdoor demonstration at the Private View of how her works are produced.  

Tess Gartland Jones- Sunset 2023. (Photo: Supplied)

Tess is an oil painter fascinated by the beauty of the natural world and how artists convey what they see and feel. 

Her love of being in nature and discovering new environments has evolved into a dual process of impressionistic work encapsulating a sense of place as she explores trails in different parts of the world. 

Her studio practice is built on the interplay of the impressionistic plein air process and how memory and intrinsic qualities of a subject are refined in a traditional, employing an oil painting technique that has a luminosity and subtly that has to be seen directly to be truly appreciated. 

Roz is an innovative ceramist and sculptor who's recent work has ventured into the intricate form, texturing and glazing of 'Bubble Sculptures' that evoke the boiling sea foams and seascape clouds. 

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Roz has recently commenced teaching pottery to all ages at The Beach Studio, and is taking bookings for individuals and small groups. 

Mark was born and educated locally, but spent his early years never far from the beach in North Devon, and latterly in Australia contributing to raising a family of five children. 

Mark is the fourth generation of Teddington based artists. Notably his mother was the renowned local artist Avril Vellacott, who's portrait sculpture of Sir Noel Coward is on display in Teddington Library also on Waldegrave Road. 

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The Beach Gallery at 197 Waldegrave Rd, Teddington TW11 8LX