Rowles Gallery

23/04/2026

Hello from Kentucky 🇺🇸

We are exhibiting with and

Booth 68

The sun is shining and it’s going to be a very exciting few days ahead ☀️

31/03/2026

Our latest newsletter is out now 📰

Featuring:

Marcel Dyf | Terres Rouges Valée du Rhône

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08/03/2026

International Women’s Day 🩷

One of my favourite artists, Helen Layfield Bradley.

This painting is called “One Afternoon a Girl Called Alice…” and is for sale with us, from a private collection.

Helen did not begin to paint seriously until she was in her sixties when she met fellow painter L. S. Lowry who encouraged her in the creation of a narrative style based on her own childhood memories. From 1965 she became as popular in the United States as in the United Kingdom.

Many of her paintings feature a character called “Miss Carter”, a woman who always wore pink.

In the 1978 Birthday Honours she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) but sadly died at her home, 2 Green Villa Park, Wilmslow, Cheshire, on 19 July 1979, before her investiture.

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27/12/2025

Merry Christmas 🐷🎅

The best Christmas painting ⬆️

GARY BUNT | PIGGIN SNOW!

Message for more details - The perfect gift this Christmas 🎁
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10/10/2025

09/08/2025

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Mary Fedden (1915 - 2012)
Jug & Flowers
8” x 6 “
Signed & Dated 1988

Expertly framed by



Mary Fedden was born in Bristol and wanted to be a painter even as a child. Leaving Badminton School at sixteen, she studied at the Slade School of Art in London from 1932 to 1936 under the theatre designer Vladimir Polunin, who had worked with the Ballets Russes. She painted sets for professional performances at Sadlers Wells, but decided against stage design as a career. Returning to Bristol, she taught art and made a living by painting portraits. During the war she served in the Land Army and the Woman’s Voluntary Service, and on settling in London she worked as a stage painter for the Arts Theatre in Great Newport Street and produced propaganda murals. In 1944 she was called up, and sent abroad as a driver for the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI).
In 1946 she resumed easel painting. She held her first exhibition at the Mansard Gallery in Heal’s Department Store in 1947, showing a number of still life and flower paintings. She was subsequently commissioned to paint covers for Woman magazine. In 1949 she moved to Durham Wharf, a complex of studios on the Thames at Chiswick, where she still lives and works. In 1951 she married the artist Julian Trevelyan, whom she had met before the war. Together they travelled in Europe, Africa, India, Russia and America. Since 1946 Fedden has painted prolifically and has had regular exhibitions at the Redfern Gallery, the New Grafton Gallery and many other galleries throughout Britain. She painted murals for the Television pavilion at the 1951 Festival of Britain. From the late 1950s she taught painting at the Royal College of Art. In 1992 she was elected to the Royal Academy and she has been a member of the Royal West of England Academy at Bristol since the mid-1930s, serving as its President from 1984 to 1988.

15/07/2025

N E W 💫

Neil Helyard | Jostling
Oil on Paper | 21.5” x 21.5”

“I need to satisfy my own creativity. A lot of artists only paint in one style, however for me, my style, whether it be classical, contemporary or expressive, depends very much on how I feel.” Neil Helyard