Art et Facts Gallery

01/09/2026

WE WILL BE CLOSED THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 4TH AND 5TH SEPTEMBER.
OPEN AGAIN MONDAY 7TH

17/08/2026

06/08/2026

A wee change of hours this weekend.
Friday 10 til 2.30pm
Saturday 10 til 12pm.

01/08/2026

01/08/2026

A few from the cellar this weekend.
Now 40% off all paintings.

24/07/2026

We will be closed tomorrow Saturday 25th.
Going to the Garden Party.
Oops I meant A garden party. Not you know what. 🥳
Back Monday 27th

12/07/2026

Due to an appointment in the morning we will open from 1pm Monday 13th.

10/07/2026

Original oil on canvas board by

Girth Russell
Gifted to Henry Evison in 1927.

Sale price now £800

Overall size 450mm x550mm in frame

GYRTH RUSSELL
Considered one of the best coastal painters of the 20th century, Gyrth Russell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April 1892. At the age of fourteen, Russell began his artistic career at Halifax School of Art, and quickly graduated to the School of Art at Boston, Massachusetts. His first job was as a draughtsman in the Public Works Department of Canada, in Halifax. It was during this period he saw and sketched the cable ship Mackay Bennett returning to her Halifax Station, her decks piled high with coffins containing bodies found after the Titanic Disaster. In 1911 Russell left Canada to study at the Academie Julian and Academie Calorossi in Paris. In 1914 at the outbreak of War, he left France for London where he was commissioned, under the command of Lord Beaverbrook, as an official War Artist for the Canadian Sector, and spent most of 1918 in Northern France painting the landscapes and coasts travelled by the Canadian military during the conflict. During the course of the First World War he worked with amongst others, Augustus John, William Orpen & Frank Brangwyn, who greatly influenced him. Russell enjoyed considerable success between the Wars, exhibiting extensively at the major galleries, and was elected to membership of the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters n Watercolours, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Marine Artists as well as being an active member of the Langham Sketch club. In the Second World War Russell became an acting Petty Officer in the Royal Navy Patrol Service and met and married his wife, Ronagh. In 1944, bombed out of London, Russell and his wife moved to Yorkshire, where apart from continuing his work as an artist, he became a regular visiting lecturer at Doncaster School of Art. In 1953 he moved for the last time, to Penarth in South Wales, where he continued to work until his death on 8th December 1970. Whilst in South Wales his talents as an artist and a lecturer were as much in demand as ever. He became an active member of both the Watercolour Society of Wales and the South Wales Art Society. Gyrth Russell was a prolific and clever Artist whose works were much sought after during his lifetime and has become increasingly more so since his death. His work is represented in several public collections

23/06/2026

Just off the easle of Raymond Campbell.
Another masterpiece