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York Fine Arts has been a family run, established art gallery for over 45 years.

Over the years we have gained an international reputation for sourcing high quality traditional and contemporary fine art from some of the very best artists practising today. The gallery deals in original oil paintings, watercolours, signed limited edition prints and bronze sculptures; we also offer a number of services, including oil painting restoration, international shipping and a comprehensive picture framing service. York Fine Arts has been an established art gallery for over 42 years with an international reputation for sourcing high quality traditional and contemporary fine art. The gallery is situated in an idyllic 15th Century building only minutes from the Gothic Minster in the heart of York.

24/10/2026

A jubilant antidote for the incoming storm, Sara Hayward’s ‘Cotswold Way, Spring I’ is presently delighting all here at the gallery. 🌞🌾

Bathed in vibrant light, Sara’s lush landscape unfolds amid an orchard of blossoming trees and golden farmland. It is an irrefutably uplifting artwork, where even the briefest glance offers a joyful, dreamlike adventure.

📍 View our full collection of Sara’s work on our website, or visit us in the heart of York, at 83 Low Petergate. The gallery is open seven days a week from 10am-5pm.

We look forward to welcome you soon. 🙏🏻

Sara Hayward

22/10/2026

Welcome Sara Hayward. 💐

We are thrilled to welcome Sara Hayward to York Fine Arts this month. 🥂 Sara Hayward

Sara boldly explores still life, landscape, seascape and figurative subjects through expressive mark-making and a striking approach to colour. Her broad range of work combines recognisable subject matter with a semiabstract visual language.

Expressive yet considered, Sara’s approach moves between observation and abstraction, retaining elements of her chosen subjects while allowing colour, pattern and painterly gesture to shape their interpretation.

A formally trained artist, Sara’s rigorous education has served as a firm foundation for her practice. Following her studies at Bournville School of Art, she attended the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford before specialising in printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London. Her training in printmaking continues to inform her painting practice today.

Sara’s work is held in the permanent collections of the University of Birmingham, Worcester City Art Gallery and Jesus College, Cambridge. She has exhibited widely in the UK and the USA and worked with publishers and commercial clients including John Lewis, Rosenstiel’s, HarperCollins and Washington Green.

Sara lives and works in Worcestershire with her artist husband, Paul Powis, who is also newly represented by the gallery. paulpowisart

Keep a close eye on our feed in the coming weeks, as we share more of the wonderful new work we have received by Sara and Paul.

Swipe for details on Sara’s featured artwork. ➡️

All new work is available both in the gallery and on our website now.

‘Still Life No. 89’ by Sara Hayward. Acrylic on board. £1,495.

‘Still Life No. 90’ by Sara Hayward. Acrylic on board. £1,495.

Sara Hayward, pictured with a display of her paintings.

21/10/2026

Welcome Paul Powis ! 🎉

It is our pleasure to announce the arrival of Paul Powis to the gallery.

Characterised by vibrant colour and bold aesthetics, Paul’s paintings are invigorating statement pieces, offering new energy to any space in which they reside.

Though representational, his landscapes lean towards abstraction, using constructional spatial devices in the composition and use of subjective colour to describe space. Often choosing to set his landscapes in the early morning or late afternoon, his paintings are known for dramatically capturing long shadows as they rake over surrounding hills and fields.

Exhibiting extensively throughout his career, Paul has grown to become an internationally recognised artist with collections in America, Japan and Europe.

Having received a beautiful collection of work by Paul, stay posted to discover more this month.

🎨 All new work is available both in the gallery and on our website now.

Featured painting: ‘Early Morning’, acrylic on canvas by Paul Powis. £795.

Swipe for more details. ➡️

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We are equally delighted to be welcoming Sara Hayward to York Fine Arts. Sara and Paul are husband and wife and their combined collections have created quite a stir at the gallery. Keep an eye out as we introduce Sara over the coming days!

Sara Hayward
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‘Late Afternoon’, acrylic on canvas by Paul Powis. £795.

‘Hill View’, acrylic on canvas by Paul Powis. £795.

Paul in the studio. 🖌️

03/10/2026

SEAN DURKIN: A R T • F O R • A L L

~ Open now ~

Experience contemporary artist Sean Durkin’s 5th solo show at York Fine Arts, open now on our first floor.

Having long since captivated the art world with his atmospheric scenes of industrial life and the sensational story that led from his father ‘borrowing’ an L.S Lowry painting, to Sean’s own celebrated artistic career, his work has become some of the most sought after contemporary art collected in the UK.

📍 Drop in to view the show 7 days a week, from 10am-5pm, though with the show selling fast, we recommend an early viewing.

We look forward to welcoming you.

24/09/2026

SEAN DURKIN: ART FOR ALL!

~ Opens next Friday ~

We are delighted to announce 𝑺𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝑫𝒖𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏: 𝑨𝒓𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑨𝒍𝒍!, the fifth solo show of original paintings, by British contemporary artist Sean Durkin.

Shining a light on Britain’s industrial past, Sean’s work brims with grit and the artist’s signature wry sense humour. Challenging preconceived notions of what and who merits being the subject of a painting, Sean’s interests lie in the collective struggles and merrymaking of ordinary working people.

Gallery Director Philip Short tells us:

“Sean masterfully resurrects and honours tales of British heritage with wit, warmth and a generous sense of community pride. To collect his work is to share in that heritage, paying homage to the past while celebrating the reach and bearing of contemporary art in the here and now.”

📩🔔 Preview catalogues are available upon request.

🎨 Join us from Friday the 2nd of October to experience Sean’s exclusive collection of original paintings.

🌅 An early viewing is advised to avoid disappointment.

We look forward to welcoming you soon!

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13/09/2026

It is a joy to formally welcome Scottish contemporary artist Jennifer Irvine, RGI RSW to the gallery. 🥂✨

Pairing rich, vivid colours with a profusion of pattern and shape, Jennifer’s work explores the interplay of light and shade to full, chromatic effect. Immersive and transportive, her work embraces a diverse range of subjects from intimate still life to vibrant sea and townscapes.

Working from her studio in Glasgow, and frequently from Argyll, Jennifer enjoys painting the sea and the ever-changing reflections of light on water. In the last few years she has spent time in France, Spain and Italy, being provided with inspiration and subject matter anew.

Beginning with a loose, expressive underdrawing, Jennifer uses brushes and palette knives to block in elements of the composition, building up layers of vibrant colour and tone that retain an uncanny realism and palpable sense of place.

Jennifer’s celebrated career has seen her election to the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI) in 2015 and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 2016, as well as awards including The David Cargill Award, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Award, The Mark Greer Award and The Sir William Gillies Award.

We are delighted to be showing Jennifer’s work, which you can view now both in the gallery and on our website.

Featured painting: ‘Capileira Village, Evening, Alpujarra’, gouache and watercolour, 81cm x 81cm.

👉 Swipe to discover more.

Jennifer Irvine Rgi Rsw

Jennifer Irvine in her studio. 🎨

‘Palm Tree and Tower’, oil on canvas, 51cm x 51cm.

‘Winter Landscape, French Alps’, gouache and watercolour, 51cm x 56cm.

10/09/2026

”Staying in Spain with family, we had some home-grown olive oil and lemons delivered, and there they sat, shining and vivid and absolutely in need of celebration.”

So says Terence Clarke in this wonderful 6 page double spread feature, in a very special edition of Artists and Illustrators magazine. We are delighted to have received the beautiful ‘Olive Oil and Lemons’, spotlighted in the article, which you can view in the gallery now.

For an insightful step-by step guide to how Terence marries visual delight with harmonious compositions, grab a copy of the 500th special collectors’ issue of Artists & Illustrators magazine, out now. 🗞️

Terence Clarke 🍋

03/09/2026

A porthole, a dreamscape, or as one admirer so memorably put it, ‘the reflection of a cat’s eye’, however you see it, Colin Wilson’s ‘The Distant Call’ is an invitation to stop and wonder.
A spellbinding contemporary classic. 🐠

View ‘A Distant Call’ in the gallery and on our website now. 📍If you’re in York, you’ll find us at 83 Low Petergate. We are open every day from 10am-5pm, with three floors of fine art to explore.

We look forward to welcoming you soon!

28/08/2026

Hold the phone! ☎️ Ian Rawling’s ‘Red Rotary Telephone’ is currently turning heads in the gallery and the question we are most often asked? ‘Is it a photograph?’ We are of course delighted to report that no, this is an original pastel, created by an artist at the height of his powers.

With two of four new pastels by Ian snapped up as quickly as they arrived, be sure to visit our website or stop by the gallery to view his available work, including the arresting ‘Red Rotary Telephone’.

Ian Rawling

14/08/2026

C L A R E • H A L E Y
L I G H T O F Y O R K S H I R E

With just over a week left to experience Clare’s beautiful 11th annual solo show, pop into the gallery and head up to our first floor this weekend - a truly outstanding body of work awaits.

With over three quarters of the collection now sold, make sure not to miss the chance to acquire your very own Clare Haley. ✨

‘Clare Haley: Light of Yorkshire’ runs until Sunday the 23rd of August.

We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿

Clare Haley

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York
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Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

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+441904634221

Website

https://www.yorkfinearts.co.uk/

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