UPSTAIRS AT THE ART SHOP, CROSS STREET
Artists include – Eleri Mills· Tereza Horáček· Jacob Buckland· Stuart Low· Rachel Sudworth· Rachel Larkins· Sally Hamer· Justine Allison· James & Tilla Waters· Rose Teleri· Thomasin Toohie· Tim Lake· Tarragon Smith
An assorted selection for autumn and winter to lift the soul – paintings and works on paper drawing on the warm colours and subtle hues in the landscape. With new collections of handmade ceramics and jewellery by both familiar and new names.
We are delighted to welcome back the artist Eleri Mills after her highly successful solo exhibition here in 2023. This is a unique opportunity to see three of her most recent large scale works on display together for the first time.
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A small selection of artists statements. Please enquire for further information.
ELERI MILLS – Eleri lives and works in rural Mid Wales. She has a dynamic and multi-layered artistic style, creating exquisite hand-stitched pieces and mixed media paintings that depict a personal, timeless and poetic vision of Wales. Yet while Eleri seeks to pay homage to the ancestral lands and histories of Wales, her work remains highly contemporary.
Eleri has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad including the Museums of Modern Art Kyoto and Tokyo, Museu Textil d’Indumentaria, Barcelona and the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid. In 2010 she won the Arts Council of Wales’ Creative Wales Ambassador award followed by a three month residency in New York at Columbia University. Eleri has exhibited with Ruthin Craft Centre at Collect, the international art fair organised by the Crafts Council, firstly from 2004 to 2008 at the Victoria and Albert Museum and most recently in 2017 and 2018 at London’s Saatchi Gallery.
STUART LOW – ‘The work I make in my studio begin with time spent outdoors – walking in the landscape, noticing how weather, light and season affect a place and my presence in it. I’m drawn to the notion of deep time, particularly to rock-strewn, mountainous landscapes – the distant and “over there” – but equally to the immediate and “under foot” : emerging springs from hillsides, cairns that guide in the mist, lichen on stone, the earthy decay of a tree in a forest. The natural world is cyclical, growing, shedding and returning. In paying attention to these changes I find a mirror to our own impermanence. Painting for me, is a quiet way of reflecting on this momentariness and finding beauty in it.’
JACOB BUCKLAND – Jacob is a landscape painter, a graduate in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art. He makes paintings of landscape and nature, based on direct observation and memory. The work explores colour and mark making, focusing on variations in weather and season. Colour washes are left to chance and combined with more precise lines, as a way of layering and reflecting both the structural and ephemeral qualities found in nature.
RACHEL SUDWORTH – Rachel’s work explores a deep connection with landscape, feminine energy and emotional experience. Working with oil paint and other mixed media, materials and techniques are used in experimental and intuitive ways. It is an organic journey, exploring ideas through process. After studying for a BA in Printed Textile Design at Loughborough University School of Art and Design, Rachel settled in Manchester where she worked for nearly 10 years in the textile industry.
TEREZA HORÁČEK – Tereza graduated in MA Children’s Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art, following a BA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art. On painting the Black Hill in early 2026 – ‘I visited The Black Hill, often referred to as ‘Cat’s Back’ on 3rd January. The road is too icy to get any closer to it, and I must view it from afar. I am aware that this is the only opportunity I had to see it before I must begin painting. It is 3:30pm, and already the light is fading. The sun lights up the side of The Black Hill, and it glows. Back in the studio, I work from sketches and reference photographs. I was thinking about paintings by JMW Turner. I have painted a series of imaginary landscapes that reference Turner’s paintings of Wales and my own memories of The Black Hill.’
LOIS HOPWOOD – My paintings and drawings are definitely affected by the seasons. The three pictures called ‘Hayfield / Gwyrdd’ are an expression of love for the green summer hay fields and blue hazy skies of summer. The two paintings of Orange and Lilac are the hot sunny days. And in winter it gets very dark again. If I have given some sort of shape to my day I like to draw first. The little bird studies are in graphite on gesso with a wax varnish. Drawing in pen and ink is irreversible. I like to work on a long sheet of lining paper and draw still lives with a stick pen and Indian ink as a sort of meditation.

