Artist: Matt Caines

Artist in the Garden – Summer Show 2017

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’    

Matt & Amanda Caines – Intersection

Upstairs at The Art Shop Matt Caines studied Architectural Ornament after first completing a Fine Arts Degree. He designs and carves in stone, wood, marble and after recently living and working amongst the Inuit people especially with one of the Arctic’s finest artists, Goota Ashoona, he now produces exquisite carvings in shed antler. Amanda Caines… Read more »

A Winter Wildness – Winter Show 2015

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 »

Artist in the Garden – Late Summer Show 2015

‘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 »

Artist in the Garden – Late Summer Show 2014

Gathering together a collection of artworks – paintings, drawings, printworks, ceramics and jewellery by artists who have closely looked at the world around them. Maybe a small flowering space, a wooded copse, the rolling landscape, a jug of garden picked flowers. From the very simplest to the all embracing… bright, beautiful, metaphorical, meditative, quiet, gentle… Read more »

Artist in the Garden – Summer Show 2009

A summer assortment of new artists and Art Shop favourites. Printing on textiles workshop with Cornelia O’Donovan RCA

Artist in the Garden – Summer Show 2010

Painting, printmaking, ceramics, jewellery and stone-carving This exhibition is about bringing together young, talented new painters and established artists whose work we have admired over the years.

Artist in the Garden – Summer Show 2013

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 »

Painters & Printmakers

Recent paintings and limited editions of handmade prints by artists who regularly exhibit at our gallery and introducing some new names. There is an overlap between painting and printmaking and the imagery of the work is very diverse – mythology, beasts and whimsical creatures, dreams, visions, metaphorical journeys and long remembered places, narratives…

The Long Winter Show 2013

An eclectic collection of art and toys by painters, printmakers, jewellers, ceramic makers and sculptors. Upstairs there is a series of rooms in a domestic interior where works are found in unexpected contexts to emphasise their beauty and uniqueness… In a room (of cobalt green and viridian), lit up by glorious, painterly paintings by Royal… Read more »