Welcome to Staithes Group art specialists, T.B. & R. Jordan's, on-line gallery

Hi, Everyone! Welcome to our site and to our exploration of Staithes and its artists of a century ago!

We're Tom and Rosamund Jordan and we've been dealing in pictures and acting as Fine Art Consultants, researchers and lecturers since 1974. We believe there has never been a better time than now to invest in the work of established artists. An uncertain stock market, plummeting house prices and derisory interest rates combine to make difficult any decisions regarding savings and investments. A genuine work of art is something which can always be enjoyed regardless of market forces and we are certainly continuing to invest heavily in our stock.

We have chosen to spend our lives in the North East of England and divide our time between our house on the banks of the River Tees and our cottage by the sea in Staithes. We have always specialised in the work of British Impressionist artists who painted in the area a century ago, especially that of the Staithes Group (sometimes referred to as the Staithes School) and Impressionist members of Northumberland's Cullercoats Colony.

Many of these artists trained in Paris at the height of the Impressionist movement and went on to attain great honours in the art world including being elected President of the Royal Cambrian Academy and being named Dame Commander of the British Empire. They exhibited briefly, first in Staithes and then in Whitby, as the Staithes Art Club, and individually in most major British public art galleries.Their work is in public collections world wide, although the only comprehensive public exhibition is in the Pannett Gallery, Whitby. Please don't be put off by the comparatively low level of their prices - as the work of these exceptional artists becomes more widely known it is steadily increasing in value. Please click on 'Staithes Group Art' and prepare to be amazed! Particularly in the present economic situation they are very attractive investments in every sense of the word!

A more recent interest is the work of mining artists. These are miners who drew and studied part time while working underground and (in many cases during the aftermath of the Miners Strike) became full time professional artists. What separates them from most Social Realists is that they are Primary Source artists, painting from first hand experience a life they knew intimately and had experienced directly and emotionally. We believe the late Tom McGuinness is one of the best of these 'Pitmen Painters'. This is another group which is beginning to have its true place in British art recognised.

We work from home by appointment, hold one day exhibitions in Staithes and stage longer exhibitions in Harrogate and Whitby. Our next Harrogate exhibition is not until May 2009 (2nd-4th) and we have just finished this year's Whitby Exhibition. We are arranging to show some of our pictures at Staithes Memorial Hall on December 14th where clients can also enjoy mincepies made by ladies of thge Hall's committee. We encourage collectors to visit the area which so attracted these great artists and experience its appeal for themselves. With this in mind we also run study days in Staithes itself and are prepared to lecture or arrange study days on the Group out of the area. Rosamund is on the NADFAS list of lecturers and also wrote the Staithes Group Centenary Caltalogue, now a standard reference work which details the lives and works of thirty four of the artists.

Our aim is to use our expertise to select the best works within our price range both from those which appear on the open market and those offered to us privately. This allows us to present both private and corporate clients with an exceptionally wide choice of pictures from within our narrow specialisms.

We strongly urge anyone interested in Impressionist art - regardless of their location - to look at these pictures as they still represent amazing value for their quality.