The Old School Gallery

15/10/2026

Gift shop update

We are having a reprint of the cunning folk prints we did last year just in time for Halloween - reinterpreted original woodcuts held in public domain libraries and museums.
Woodcuts were the visual language of early modern England. This revolution in publishing coincided the European witch craze a moral panic and collective psychosis that spread through Europe and Scandinavia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Also

Are you sick of tracking events on different WhatsApp groups? do you need to remember a manicure appointment? 💅🏿
Ditch the phone. You need a big wall planner.

The brilliant Dan at Penfold Press has collaborated on this gorgeous 2027 planner with Angela Harding Angela’s theme focuses on the natural world. Drawing directly from the birds and beasts that inspire her daily practice, each month features an original linocut creature matched to the season.

All available in the shop.

14/10/2026

We are packing up this beautiful print by Moira Frith to send out this morning, the gallery is starting to fill with lots of new work for Autumn.🍂

We’ve had a collection of new original coastal bird paintings by Janine Burrows.
A selection of new gift in the shop including autumn knitwear by Anna-Lisa Smith a top up of prints in the browsers from Andy Lovell Printmaker and Angie Lewin

It’s the last week to see Lela Harrris’ incredible exhibition of Folio drawings of the books of James Baldwin in the main gallery room.

All work available online with delivery.

Come for a coffee and a walk on the beach. Open until 4pm.

08/10/2026

Lela Harris Exhibition Open today until 4pm.

06/10/2026

We’ve had some great photos of the moon from guests staying at the huts this last week. This one was from the front porch of the beach hut.

We’ve had a cancellation for this weekend for St Bede (dog-friendly) and St Oswald huts, which are right next to each other. The weather looks good, so if you fancy some autumn sun, walking the Northumberland coast, visiting the gallery, spending evenings at the village pubs, and gathering round the campfire—this might be just what you need.
Booking link in bio

03/10/2026

Local sculptor Jonathan Price (from nearby Callaly) is building up a sculpture garden in the gallery school yard.
We love these bold Corten and stainless steel abstract forms, durable pieces that are designed to evolve with the elements, developing a rich, textured patina over time.
The collection is available to view and purchase directly from the gallery. Jonathan also provides a full delivery and installation service.
Lela Harris exhibition continues in the main gallery room. Coffee, cake and beach. Open every day until 4pm.

03/10/2026

29/09/2026

What makes Lela’s work so compelling is that these characters don’t exist visually, she has taken the people from Baldwin’s books and brought them to life, building their features directly from the writer’s cues, characteristics, and motivations.
For a self-taught artist to take on a project for The Folio Society doing Baldwin’s writing full justice while pulling it all off in charcoal—is a daunting task. It is an incredible undertaking, and she has absolutely excelled at it. Illustration like this just blows me away. Giving expression to things that are unseen and deeply felt.


Exhibition open today until 4pm

27/09/2026

Lela Harris Exhibition open today until 4pm.

23/09/2026

Fonny’s Studio
In the room, there was a wooden stool and a couple of hassocks and a large wooden table and a small one. On the small table, there were a couple of empty b**r cans and on the large table, tools. The room smelled of wood and there was raw wood all over the room. In the far corner, there was a mattress on the floor, covered with a Mexican shawl. There were Fonny’s pencil sketches pinned on the wall, and a photograph of Frank.

We love this beautiful artist studio piece by Lela Harris one of her illustrations from James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk.

‘Fonny’s Studio’
Charcoal on Paper
Framed
Approx 42cm x 30cm
£1450

‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ by James Baldwin
Illustrated by Lela Harris
Published by The Folio Society

Available to purchase through Own Art monthly interest free.

Lela Harris | The Folio Drawings Exhibition open today until 4pm.

21/09/2026

‘Crumbs’ by Louise Lockhart is our last exhibition of the year opening on the 23rd October.
After her wonderful show at YSP during the summer we are bringing lots of joy and colour on the run up to Christmas with Louise’s wonderful work. Based in her studio on a farm in rural Wales, Lockhart primarily creates collage and print-based works using cut paper shapes to form richly coloured, folk-inspired imagery - an avid collector and documenter of the disappearing handmade gems that can still be found if you look hard enough, Lockhart draws inspiration from printed fruit tissue, sign writing and the everyday things that shape our visual culture.

An excellent illustrator under Louise Lockhart
Clients include: Chronicle Books, Ladybird Books, Bloomsbury, Anthropologie, Design For Today, Flow Magazine, Quarto Books, Heal’s, M&S, Mini Boden, Hallmark, Blue Q, Nosy Crow Books

Lela Harris | The Folio Drawings Exhibition continues today in the main gallery until 4pm