Restless Earth ate Sladers Yard

IT would be hard to imagine two artists whose work is more different than landscape painter Anthony Garratt and wood engraver Howard Phipps, but their very different styles – Garratt’s massive colour-saturated canvases and Phipps’ intricately detailed tiny prints – are oddly complementary.

Both are artists at the top of their game – and they are currently sharing wall space in the exhibition Restless Earth, named after one of Antony Garratt’s paintings, at West Bay’s contemporary gallery, Sladers Yard, until 9th March.

Anthony Garratt is an experimental painter of landscape and sea. His paintings of Dartmoor and the Devon coast show his love of running and tidal water within the landscape. Since he and his young family moved to Dartmoor, Anthony’s engagement with this wild landscape and its long history speaks in dynamic paintings.

On Saturday 1st March, Anthony is giving a free talk at 11am, describing his experimental painting practice and public art projects. He will also show Melt, a short film about floating three massive glacier paintings on Devon waterways.

The exhibition also features work by the Dorset environmental landscape artist Frances Hatch, ceramicist Adela Powell, and resident furniture designer-maker Petter Southall.

Pictured: Peat, oil on canvas by Anthony Garratt; the artist with one of his floating glacier paintings; Win Green, limited edition original wood engraving by Howard Phipps.