About Big Sky Fine Art
Big Sky Fine Art is a family run independent art gallery. We stock original artworks from the mid nineteenth to the late twentieth century and supply both private collectors and interior designers. Our collection is eclectic in nature, is regularly updated and includes pieces of historic significance. We present an extensive biography of each artist so that their life can be appreciated, and their work can be understood in context. Most of the artists featured are distinguished in their field, giving their work an intrinsic value addition to their aesthetic delight. W...Read More
Featured Pieces
Lady in the sea. Dora Holzhandler.Polish-Jewish Descent.Original Pastel Drawing
By Dora Holzhandler
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Dora Holzhandler.
Lady in the Sea.
French - British ( b.1928 - d.2015 ).
Pastel and Felt Pen on Paper.
Signed & dated 2007 lower right.
Image size 10.8 inches x 8.3 inches ( 27.5cm ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Felt Pen
Torcello. Venice Lagoon. Italy. Mid 20th Century Oil Painting. Ivor Davies 1961.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Torcello. Venice Lagoon.
Signed Ivor Davies. Dated 1961.
Oil on Board.
Image size 16.9 inches x 21.3 inches ( 43cm x 54cm ).
Frame size 21.3 inches x 25.6 inches ( 54cm x 65cm ).
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Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
On the Gallops. 1976.Race Horses. Equine.Jockeys.Horse Racing. Racetrack.
By John Rattenbury Skeaping
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
John Rattenbury Skeaping.
English ( b.1901 - d.1990 ).
On the Gallops, 1976.
Gouache and Watercolor. Signed & Dated Lower Right.
Image size 18.5 inches x 26.8 inches ( 47cm x 68cm )...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Giant Refreshed, 1953. BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, Canopus.Airliner Aviation.
By David Shepherd
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
David Shepherd.
English ( b.1931 – d.2017 ).
Giant Refreshed, 1953. BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, Canopus.
Oil on Canvas.
Signed & dated 1953 lower right.
Image size 19.7 inches x 2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rural Derbyshire.Impasto Landscape Oil. Impressionist. Nottingham Artist
By Arthur Spooner
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Arthur Spooner.
English ( b.1873 - d.1962 ).
Rural Derbyshire.
Oil on Card. Signed.
Image size 6.7 inches x 9.1 inches ( 17cm x 23cm ).
Frame size 10.2 inches x 12.6 inches ( 26cm x...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Low Tide The Minnows. Islands, Cornwall. Padstow. Original Impasto Oil Painting.
By Nancy Bailey
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Nancy Bailey.
English ( b.1913 - d.2012 ).
Low Tide on The Minnows, Cornwall, 1972.
Oil on Canvas. Signed.
Image size 19.3 inches x 39.4 inches ( 49cm x 100cm ).
Frame size 25.4 inc...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life of Gourds with Japanese Celadon Vase & Dragon Decorated Plate, 1944.
By Denis Mitchell
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Denis Mitchell.
English ( b.1912 - d.1993 ).
Still Life of Gourds with Japanese Celadon Vase and Dragon Decorated Plate, 1944.
Oil on Tea Crate Plywood Panel
Image size 17.5 inches ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Wartime Still Life Watercolor by Important British Ceramic Pottery Sculptor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
James Tower.
English ( b.1919 - d.1988 ).
Still Life of Flowers in a Jug and a Plate of Fruit.
Watercolor & ink.
Image size 15.4 inches x 13 inches ( 39cm x 33cm ).
Frame size 22.2 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Sunshine & Shadows. Lake District.Helen Layfield Bradley.Original Oil Impasto.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Helen Layfield Bradley.
English ( b.1900 - d.1979 ).
Sunshine & Shadows Across the Leven Estuary, Lake District, 1965.
Oil on Board. Signed.
Image size 15.9 inches x 16.9 inches ( 4...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Long Life & Happiness.Queen Victoria's Daughter, Princess Alice. Royal Family
By HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary Hanover
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Queen Victoria’s Daughter, Princess Alice Maud Mary, of the House of Hanover.
English ( b.1843 - d.1878 ).
Long Life and Happiness – June 11th 1860
Watercolor. Signed and Dated.
Imag...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Such Young Love. The Anticipation of a Kiss. Last of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Noel Laura Nisbet.
English ( b.1887 - d.1956 ).
Such Young Love. The Anticipation of a Kiss.
Watercolor. Signed.
Image size 17.3 inches x 13.8 inches ( 44cm x 35cm ).
Frame size 25.4 inches x 20.9 inches ( 64.5cm x 53cm ).
Available for sale; this original painting is by Noel Laura Nisbet and dates from around 1930.
The watercolor is presented and supplied in its original frame that has an Arts and Crafts aesthetic.
This antique painting is in very good condition, commensurate with its age. It wants for nothing and is ready to hang and display.
The watercolor is signed lower right.
Noel Laura Nisbet was an English oil and watercolor artist, who painted figures, landscape, fantasy and romantic scenes. She created some wonderful original Pre-Raphaelite-influenced works which are now much sought-after.
She was the youngest daughter of Hume Nisbet, a Scottish artist, author and traveller, whose support and generosity enabled her talent to flourish. The family moved from Scotland to London in 1887 and Noel was born in Harrow on 30 December that year. Noel attended the Notre Dame Convent school in Clapham, then studied art at South Kensington, under L.C. Nightingale, where she won three gold medals and the Princess of Wales Scholarship (established on 1863 to reward the most distinguished female art student in the UK and what is now the Republic of Ireland). Noel’s elder sister Margaret also became an artist.
In 1910 Noel married Harry Bush, who she had met as a fellow art student. They went on to have two daughters. Harry was away for most of the Great War, and Noel stayed with her daughter Hazel in Bath Cottage in Speen. A few years later her father set up his artistic daughters in two matching houses, with purpose-built attic studios, on an estate then being built in south west London. The address of Noel Nisbet...
Category
Early 20th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Into the Final Furlong. 1965.Race Horses. Equine.Jockeys.Horse Racing.Racetrack.
By John Rattenbury Skeaping
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
John Rattenbury Skeaping.
English ( b.1901 - d.1980 ).
Into the Final Furlong, 1965.
Pastel on Colored Paper. Signed & Dated 1965.
Image size 18.9 inches x 27.6 inches ( 48cm x 70cm...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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