Artist: Rachel Eardley

In the Kitchen – Celebrating Abergavenny Food Festival

Upstairs at The Art Shop The kitchen is intrinsically an important space in the lives of our exhibiting makers and artists – nurturing and nourishing their senses.   Arts Council of Wales Collectorplan interest free credit scheme available.  

Favourites from our In-House Collection

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 »

Abergavenny Food Festival 2008

Enjoy the exhibitions on view, with ‘On the Table’, an abundance of new works, cupboards full of gorgeous ceramics by some of the very best contemporary makers. Thrown and hand built jugs, plates, bowls and drinking vessels, enduring and timless with sumptious glazes. Kaori Tatebayashi, Dylan & Jane Bowen, Helen Beard, Philomena Pretsell and Kate… Read more »

Abergavenny Food Festival 2009

For a humble pie or a festive banquet… In celebration of the eleventh Abergavenny Food Festival, an abundance of functional and decorative contemporary ceramics for all occasions.

Abergavenny Food Festival 2010

This year we are putting on quite a spread… Rachel Eardley, printmaker and textile artist, combines print and embroidery to produce a delicious, stunning window display. New ceramic work by two talented recent BA graduates from Cardiff, Jessica Hopewell and Anisha Mistry. Beautiful new collections of ceramics – honest and earthy jugs, the flamboyantly hand-decorated… Read more »

Abergavenny Food Festival 2011

Graphic designer, David Meldrum, one of the guest speakers at the Abergavenny Food Festival, will be showing works on paper from ‘The Food Illustrator Project’, a culinary journey he undertook last year. Come and enjoy The Art Shop’s Festival Fete with Jessie Chorley and Cornelia O’Donovan RCA over the festival weekend 17th-18th September outside our… Read more »

Abergavenny Food Festival 2012

A Theatre of Plates – An exhibition of artist decorated ceramics Stimulate the senses with a fusion of art, trickery and fun. 1 Take a piece of vintage, reclaimed China 2 A selection of porcelain pens in many colours 3 A visual artist Combine these with imaginative flare and themes – maybe flora, mythology, follies… Read more »

An Anthology of Works by Painters & Printmakers

Alongside a mixed show of paintings, we have set up a Print Room for all our exhibiting printmakers. Framed and unframed limited edition Lino, wood block, wood engraving, collograph & silkscreen prints available. You can select an unframed edition and use our framing service, with a wide range of mouldings, mounts and prices. The Printmakers… 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…

Winter Show 2008

An opportunity to see a special collection of paintings by George Rowlett, by kind permission of Art Space Gallery: Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London. Also showcasing work by new, young printmakers, Jazmin Velasco, Mexican illustrator, printmaker and member of the Greenwich Printmakers Association, recent Cardiff graduate Marega Palser and Stephanie Turnbull. Recently discovered watercolours from… Read more »