QUINTISENTIALLY BRITISH WORKS
One of Britain’s most beloved artists, Beryl Cook lived for most of her life in Plymouth on the South Coast. Together with her husband her ‘chief pleasure in life came in the evenings, when [they] would visit one or two of a number of small local pubs’. Her favourite was The Dolphin, and there she was fascinated by the colourful characters she saw, incorporating them into her paintings.
Oldham-born Helen Bradley began painting at the age of 65, to show her grandchildren what life was like at the turn of the century, and soon gained a strong international following for her charmingly quaint and naïve style. In Look, the Queen’s Coming! (illustrated p.1, est. £40,000- 60,000), she tells the story of when she ‘very nearly missed seeing our Dear Queen Alexandra driving along Regent Street with Princess Mary, the Duchess of York’ in 1909 as she was ‘so busy looking at a beautiful shop full of Rose Perfume’.

The sale also offers a wonderfully characterful work by Gary Bunt painted in the artist’s typically naïve style. In The Allotment, 2005 (est. £6,000 – 8,000) he describes the humorous scene, ‘Don’t Look Round, He’s At It Again, He’s Showing Off His Marrow, If Its Down On The G

Welsh artist Sir Kyffin Williams remains one of the most popular British landscape artists of the past century, spending decades capturing the Welsh landscape in all its glory.

POST-WAR ABSTRACTION
By the mid-1960s Patrick Heron was at the height of his career, internationally known as one of Britain’s most successful Post-War artists – his paintings instantly recognisable explosions of rich, vivid colour. Complex Cerulean in Dark Green Square: March – August 1977 (est. £50,000-70,000) comes from an exciting period that is defined by a confidence of form and striking presence that is apparent in this work. It was in this period that Heron developed the ‘wobbly hard-edge’ manner, which alluded to the hard-edged abstraction of the New York painters. The purity of colour, together with the scale of the work, results in a startling visual impact. The sale also offers exciting works by Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton, William Scott and Alan Davie, including Parrot Grip No.3 (illustrated right, est. £25,000 – 35,000). Mount Snowdon from Nantlle (est. £30,000-50,000) is a beautiful example of dramatic sights of Mount Snowden, painted in Kyffin’s instantly recognisable sweeping style

CERAMICS
Jon Ward, Brown and Blue vase, circa early-mid-1990s (est. £800-1,200) Jennifer Lee, Pale Slate Vessel, 1985 (est. £1,000-2,000) Jennifer Lee, Ochre, Amber and Umber Branded Bowl, 1992 (est. £800- 1,200) Responding to the insatiable demand in the market, the sale features an exciting selection of fresh-to-market works by some of the most important ceramicists working in Britain to date – including Jennifer Lee, Magdalene Odundo, Gabriel Koch and John Ward.

Kate Malone’s ‘Daisy’ Vase (est. £1,200-1,800) is a glossy explosion of unrestrained tutti-frutti colours. Malone was one of the judges on BBC 2’s The Great Pottery Throw Down last year, which continued to fuel the British fascination with sculptural and decorative ceramics

ST IVES SCHOOL
The coastal town of St Ives has been known as a haven for artists for many generations - playing a pivotal position within the history of 20th-century British art. It was to St Ives that Ben Nicholson and his wife Winifred Nicholson travelled to, stumbling across the cottage of the mariner Alfred Wallis, who was to have a profound impact over their artist development. Ben painted the rooftops from his house Trezion, situated at the top of a steep alley called Salubrious Place, whilst Winifred depicted fresh flowers artfully arranged in jugs and vases looking out onto the sea beyond. The sale offers exciting paintings by the couple, led by Ben Nicholson’s St Ives Rooftop – Vessels and Boats, circa 1951 (illustrated right, est. £50,000-70,000) and Winifred Nicholson’s Flowers, circa 1950 (illustrated above, est. £40,000-60,000).

DESIGN
A ‘Glacier’ Bench from the ‘Z-Scape’ Series designed in 2000 by the late visionary architect Zaha Hadid will be offered with an estimate of £7,000- 10,000. Dubbed ‘Queen of the Curve’, Hadid transformed the landscape of modern architecture, with highly expressive, sweeping forms. Her poetic and futuristic works cross the divides of art, architectural design and functionality.