Anthotypes

This is a collection of paintings created in the last year or two back to the start of incorporating people and their dogs into my work, whether it be in an urban environment, in the park or at the beach.

People in the landscape

DAVID SOMERVILLE

I love this quote from Terry Tempest Williams. It has informed so much of my work for a long time. 
"When women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world with joy."

Speaking the Language of Birds

Eine Auswahl meiner aktuellen Aquarelle - abstrakte Bilder, abstrahierte Landschaften und Blumen sowie Gesichter - aber immer die fließenden Farben, die Aquarelle auszeichnen.
Die Bilder können mit Passepartout hinter Glas gerahmt werden. Alternativ kann die Oberfläche zum Schutz gewachst werden und die Bilder auf Platte aufgezogen z.B. in Schattenfugenrahmen eingesetzt werden (ohne Glas davor).

Herbst 2025

Step quietly into a world where memory breathes, instinct speaks, and the soul finds its voice. Visions Beyond the Veil invites viewers to explore the unseen layers of emotion, spirit, and transformation. These works do not merely depict—they reveal. They whisper of solitude, resilience, and the wild beauty that lives within.

This collection is a spiritual journey not bound by geography or time, but by the inner landscapes we all carry. Through vibrant color, delicate tension, and intuitive form, each piece offers a space for reflection, empowerment, and quiet awakening.

Let yourself be drawn beyond the surface. What you find there may not be what you expected—but it will be something true.

Visions Beyond the Veil

A Hybrid Exhibition, Online (Virtual) and In-person (Transwerke Uprising Studios - Studio 20, Braamfontein, Johannesburg

A Solo Journey with Many of Us

The face is a surface shaped by light and shadow. The camera does not recreate what is seen but transforms it. In this transformation, the subject becomes a study in contrasts: hardness and softness, permanence and fragility. The details of pores, lines, and reflections tell a story of surfaces in dialogue with light over time. The photographic frame isolates these elements, presenting the image as a three-dimensional presence suspended within two dimensions. At the same time, it carries traces of identity and culture, shaped by social and historical forces.

This perspective considers not only how the subject exists physically but also how experience, memory, and context give it meaning. Light alters perception, and photography reframes reality. What emerges is a terrain of form, material, identity, and culture; a subject of both depth and texture.

Faces

Our annual show as part of the Appledore Book Festival featuring over 30 north Devon artists and makers. Situated in the popular village of Appledore this show features over 90 works and showcases the diversity of creativity being created across north Devon.

New Atlantic Wave at Appledore Book Festival

Archival print on stretched canvas. 100x54"

Narratives in the flesh

ARTISTS TO KNOW: Volume 1 gathers four emerging artists: Derriann Pharr, Nia Winslow, Kiki Joyce, and Aleah Leary whose works weave together themes of transformation, identity, and cultural memory. Presented virtually by SHEER, this collection invites viewers to move through a space where collage, painting, and sculpture meet to create new visions of self and community.

Derriann Pharr creates gestural, shape-shifting figures in mixed media that examine self-compassion and representation.

Nia Imani Winslow uses layered collage to celebrate the vibrancy and complexity of Black life and culture.

Kiki Joyce builds colorful, dreamlike worlds through painting and assemblage that reimagine everyday objects and identity.

Aleah Leary works across painting, textiles, and ceramics to explore memory, family, and selfhood.

SHEER Artists To Know Volume 1

To travel is to step beyond the familiar, moving into places where the ordinary softens and new rhythms take hold. The senses awaken to the textures, sounds, and colours of the world, and every detail carries the possibility of wonder and discovery. Streets, landscapes, and buildings hold stories, while the people we meet offer glimpses of lives lived differently from our own. 

Adventures also expand the mind and deepen understanding. Encountering new landscapes, languages, and ways of being raises questions rarely felt at home. Every step calls for openness and adaptability, challenging assumptions and broadening perspective. In these moments, we begin to notice the patterns of our own thoughts and behaviours, seeing both the world and ourselves with fresh awareness. Life on the road teaches through experience, leaving insights that endure long after the voyage has ended. The journey is not only across space but also towards greater consciousness.

Travel

Archival prints on stretched canvas. 100x54"

No regrets, just baskets with heads.

Scroll-like digital collages translated back into their original material that deconstruct Western image culture through a feminist lens.

Palimpsest of the Feminine

Large scroll-like collages on archival canvas curated with smaller collages in two viewing rooms.

Two rooms with a view

A selection of work from the Charity Art Show on behalf of the Children;s Hospice South West, by Premium members of Artmakers.  The show is at Art Upstairs in Bideford, Devon, UK from 13th-31st August 2025.

Raise a Smile Charity Art Show

Daphne Healing Space

This body of work analyzes the history of societies, as well as Western art history through the prism of feminine empowerment. The collages aim to deconstruct patriarchal power structures through a feminist lens.

Untamed

Collages on archival canvas that break down patriarchal power structures hung in portrait style.

It begins in the mind

Landscapes though my eye's by fine art landscape photographer Ken Strieby.

Strieby Fine Art Photography

SwissZim Heritage.gallery proudly debuts at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, introducing Artgal.Online—a digital platform bridging Swiss precision and Zimbabwean soul. This dynamic collaboration celebrates cultural fusion through contemporary and heritage-inspired works, connecting collectors worldwide to powerful narratives rooted in identity, tradition, and innovation.

Virtual Exhibitions

ANTHOTYPES

PEOPLE IN THE LANDSCAPE

DAVID SOMERVILLE

SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS

DAVID SOMERVILLE

HERBST 2025

VISIONS BEYOND THE VEIL

A SOLO JOURNEY WITH MANY OF US

FACES

NEW ATLANTIC WAVE AT APPLEDORE BOOK FESTIVAL

NARRATIVES IN THE FLESH

SHEER ARTISTS TO KNOW VOLUME 1

TRAVEL

NO REGRETS, JUST BASKETS WITH HEADS.

PALIMPSEST OF THE FEMININE

TWO ROOMS WITH A VIEW

RAISE A SMILE CHARITY ART SHOW

DAPHNE HEALING SPACE

UNTAMED

IT BEGINS IN THE MIND

STRIEBY FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

THE HAMPTONS FINE ART FAIR JULY 2025

JIVAN LEE: DREAMTIME EMISSARIES

AN EXPLOSION OF COLOR