A NEW exhibition of miniature paintings opens at the Mayflower Galleries on Saturday bringing together the combined talents of four members of the Royal Miniature Society ? John Beach, Gillie Hoyte Byrom, Robert Hughes and Rosalind Pierson.
Rosalind is Tavistock?s internationally acclaimed miniature watercolourist and winner of silver and gold medals at the Parish Salon.
John Beach?s paintings in watercolour and gouache vary in subject matter and include small animals, landscapes and scenes of Dartmoor.
Gillie Hoyte Byrom began enamelling in 1977 and has gone on to win the top award in the enamel painting category of the Goldsmiths? Craft Council competition for the past 10 yesars. Althought her work is not for sale, visitors will have the opportunity to see examples of this important form of miniature painting.
Wiltshire-based Robert Hughes is inspired by the surrounding countruyside. He works mostly in oils with a palette based on eight earth colours.
Each of the artists has an individual style and ability to produce in a few square inches an image containing the fine workmanship and richest detail one might only think possible to achieve in larger formats.
The exhibition is at the Mayflower Galleries, West Street, Tavistock, from Saturday to November 29 from 9.30am-5pm except Sunday.