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2025 | October Newsletter
2025 | October Newsletter
As autumn fires the landscape, October is shaping up with an exciting new sculpture from Peter Randall – Page; our October curated collection and The Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair on the horizon.
We recently made a visit to the studio of Peter Randall-Page RA, tucked away in the Devon countryside, to see an exciting new project in progress. Peter had telephoned me the previous week with an invitation to view the drawing he had made on a boulder (prior to cutting the stone) for our newest sculpture commission. The impact of the piece was immediately clear and our excitement will build towards its completion and installation in the Rabley farm landscape next year.
October 25, this month’s curated collection celebrates the long and integral friendships that have taken both Rabley and the artists on exciting journeys, with Peter Randall Page RA, Emma Stibbon RA and Amy-Jane Blackhall.
It’s almost time for Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 13–17th November. Come Into the Forest with Rabley Gallery, as we present new prints by Eileen Cooper RA, Lucy Farley, Sarah Gillespie, Katherine Jones RA and Natasha Michaels. There are a limited number of complimentary tickets available. Register your interest here. More updates soon.
Whether collecting art or acorns this Autumn, enjoy the season!
Meryl Ainslie
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Curated Collection | October 25
Peter Randall-Page RA, Emma Stibbon RA and Amy-Jane Blackhall
Our October curated collection celebrates the long and integral friendships that have taken both Rabley and the artists on exciting journeys – recently to the Devon studio of Peter Randall-Page to view ‘the perfect stone’ for a new large sculpture commission and a reflection on the career of Emma Stibbon.
In the collection are small sculptures ‘A Little bit of Infinity’, Randall-Page’s hand carved stones of Serpentine granite from Cornwall and our latest print made with Peter ‘Beebop’; Emma Stibbon’s first woodcut! ‘Oddicombe’, an epic coastal woodcut in two blocks that gave a glimpse of the ambition for works that were to come; and early monotype and intaglio prints ‘Britannnia’ and ‘Dispatch’ made in the Rabley Print Studios with artist Amy-Jane Blackhall. Blackhall herself is now master printer at Ink on Paper Press and her recent prints ‘Kentia Palm’ and ‘Shutter’ sit gracefully alongside Stibbon’s duo-tone wrecked ships from the Bristol channel.
I first met Emma Stibbon in the 1990’s while teaching at the art school in Swindon. I have been very proud to observe the stellar rise in her reputation, from those early days, through her election as Royal Academician and to her recent solo exhibitions ‘Rising Tides’ at the Towner Eastbourne and Bideford Museum. Don’t miss her forthcoming solo exhibition ‘ Rising Tides’ at Cristea Roberts Gallery opening on 23 October.
Emma Stibbon RA, Dispatch
Intaglio and Monoprint
Amy-Jane Blackhall, Screen, Kentia Palm
Photopolymer Gravure with Chine-collé
Peter Randall-Page RA, A Little Bit of Infinity – 13
Hand-carved Cornish Serpentine
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Image: Eileen Cooper RA Butterfly (2025) Woodcut, paper size 56.5 x 46cm, block size 45.5 x 36cm, Edition 40. NEW print!! Launching at Woolwich Contemporary Print fair.
Into the Forest
Rabley Gallery’s upcoming presentation for WCPF includes new print publications by Eileen Cooper RA, Lucy Farley, Sarah Gillespie, Katherine Jones RA and Natasha Michaels. We are drawn into the forest to hear the nightingale’s song, to dappled shadow with playful interpretations of myths and symbolic metaphors. This exhibition celebrates nature’s fleeting beauty and highlights the vulnerability of our woodlands.
Now in its tenth glorious year this art fair goes from strength to strength with its combination of galleries, a curated hang of artist submitted works and exciting events. Dates: 13–17th November 2025.
More information and list of all artworks coming soon!
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