Private View Friday 23rd February 7-9pm, upstairs at The Art Shop Kumar left the Royal Academy Schools over 15 years ago for the Welsh hill country of R. S. Thomas. His paintings, like Thomas’s poems, are marked by a telling purity of language, simple words, short nouns, harsh and austere in a sombre landscape. Kumar… Read more »
Rows, banks and clusters of paintings, drawings, printworks, ceramics, jewellery & textiles by new artists & old favourites. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine… Oberon to Puck in Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Upstairs at The Art Shop & downstairs at the Chapel… The creative energy of artists, designers, artisans & chefs enlivens our space with their innovative works. Jewellery, textiles, ceramics, painting, printmaking, paper art, photography & edible creations.
CELEBRATING THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD ABERGAVENNY 2016 We are thrilled to be involved in this unique event in the lifetime of our town, Abergavenny. Join us for the private view on Thursday 4th August beginning with drinks at 6pm at The Art Shop, moving onto the Chapel where the Cor Meibion Talgarth Male Choir will perform. There will be an afternoon talk chaired by… Read more »
Upstairs at The Art Shop This exhibition has been a delight to hang. Bringing work up from our store in the basement was like greeting dear friends not seen for a while. Our selection includes… The lovely George Rowlett, landscape painter, with his gorgeous paintings of flowers from his garden; Cornelia O’Donovan MA RCA, whose work… Read more »
Our winter highlights include playful, whimsical, intriguing paintings by new artist, Freya Pocklington; magical automata by Rachel Larkins; jewel like tin nichos by Philippa Robbins; etched renderings of crows by Judy Logan; inimitable mosaics by Rah Rivers; Mari Lwyd painting series by William Brown; eloquent, light of touch angel drawings by Dawson Trapnell and showcasing new collections… Read more »
‘I have stretched ropes from belfry to belfry; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star – and I am dancing.’ Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud Gathering together an eclectic collection of paintings, drawings, printmaking, sculpture, mosaics, textiles and ceramics. Highlights include… exquisite mosaics by Rah Rivers, that run parallel to her paintings… Read more »
A gallery filled with colour – our annual summer show. As any gardener knows, this is the time when our gardens really start to perform – verdant green, lush gardens bursting into colour. Showcasing… Matt Caines – Drifts of…small enough to hold in a hand, Inuit inspired exquisite carvings in shed antler – birds, fish,… Read more »
These panels of 4 or perhaps 5 paintings have been assembled by the artist into a sequence of narrative performances, which take place within theatrical interiors and from behind closed doors, in familiar and intimate surroundings. They are all telling stories, posing questions and suggesting many possibilities, but it is the spectator who makes the… Read more »
Paintings, drawings and watercolours by Royal Academy Schools trained painter, Kumar Saraff. ‘…Kumar really knows how to capture fleeting light and shadow and to make apparently drab scenes zing with pleasurable tension. It is a subtle form of theatre, endorsed by his own enjoyment of the colours and texture of oil and watercolour. Seeing his… Read more »