The year has begun and this exhibition evokes the coming of spring. New Artists… Daniel Wright RCA – ceramics Daniel produces hand-thrown earthenware covered in white and coloured slips with hand drawn transfers screen-printed in black enamel. His is inspired by English slipware and 1950’s Ridgeware ceramics, and influenced by the Italian designer Piero Fornasetti…. Read more »
Robert Macdonald, a painter and printmaker, has become known for his paintings of landscapes and farming life around his home in the Usk Valley near Brecon. Robert does not see himself first and foremost as a landscape painter, but much more persistent has been an urge to explore psychological aspects of painting and printmaking, to… Read more »
This Christmas 2009… find the inspiring, unique gift (the very opposite of the mass produced), wrapped and festooned in specially commissioned Christmas papers and garlands designed by 3 RCA artists. Bundles of hand-dyed Khadi, glorious coloured tissue and poster papers, tied up with reels of sumptuous ribbons and strings. Upstairs mixed show of painters, printmakers,… Read more »
A collection of paintings, drawings and hand coloured carborundum etchings with collage of his Bedlington terriers. Craigie Aitchison is an inimitable artist, a painter of Bedlington terriers, landscapes, portraits and crucifixes. This will be a unique opportunity to view and buy an exhibition of paintings, large and small, early nude drawings and a stunning recently… Read more »
Sarah Thwaites – Lyrically evocative paintings of landscape and place, beautifully observed and rich in complexity and contrast. Her second solo show at The Art Shop. Sarah Thwaites has lived and worked near Abergavenny for the past 18 years. Born in London in 1959, she studied at Wimbledon School of Art and Goldsmith’s College. Her… Read more »
In our gallery upstairs… New and ever changing collections of curious and covetable one off pieces, paintings, printmaking, mixed media, jewellery and ceramics… …new work from Jacqueline Leighton Boyce, following her recent successful show here of finely illustrated hand built ceramics. First show of exquisite new work by Rachel Tudor Best, a 2010 gold award… Read more »
This Spring The Art Shop is showing exciting work by nineteen current members of 56 Group Wales, one of Wales’s longest established and most prestigious exhibiting groups of artists. Founded in 1956 as 56 Group by artists Eric Malthouse, David Tinker and Michael Edmonds , it originally had twelve members of whom Arthur Giardelli, a… Read more »
“It is a great satisfaction to me to be able to mingle the work of less well-known artists such as Robert Dukes. Cherry Pickles and Ian and Jo Welsh, with ‘names’ like Craigie Aitchison, Gillian Ayres and Maggi Hambling. Not enough people know the elegiac work of Jeffery Camp, possibly the best-kept secret of the… Read more »
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 »
Alchemy of the Imagination Showcasing 3 artists Jayne Lennard – Sculptures inspired by the written word. Jayne transforms discarded objects and captures the intrinsic magic of the fairy tale. Amanda Caines – Contemporary jewellery made from found and discarded pieces that were once worn and loved. Glass, semi-precious stones and vintage jewellery lend a sense… Read more »