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 »
Upstairs at The Art Shop & downstairs at the Chapel… Something for everyone… Jewellery, textiles, ceramics, painting, printmaking, paper art, book art, photography & edible creations. Arts Council of Wales Collectorplan scheme available
Private View Friday 15th September 6-7.30pm, upstairs at The Art Shop ‘Working blind, working in the dark, sifting through sand with eyes shut, working backwards. I sometimes feel lost and feel only that I am compelled to make marks and put images down, I see colours everywhere and take them to the studio with me. they… 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’
Private View Saturday 20th May 2-4pm, upstairs at The Art Shop AUTOMATA . FLAGS. MACHINES . DRAWINGS . PRINTMAKING . JEWELLERY Works spangling with magical realism moving from darkness to enchanting luminosity, all weirdly intertwined. Alexis Snell originally came to us on a residency in 2003 after a Fine Art Printmaking degree at Cardiff. Since then she… Read more »
Private View Saturday 18th March 1-4pm, upstairs at The Art Shop Painted people & curious creatures An exhibition of prints, paintings, mixed media and boxes, including a gallery installation ‘The Artists’ Floor’ – collage arrangement for public involvement and interaction. Adrienne Craddock – ‘I have been enjoying exploring monoprinting over the last year or two and… Read more »
Private View Friday 3rd February 7-9pm upstairs at The Art Shop, Cross Street Themes which were introduced in Magical Thinking (The Art Shop Oct 2013), of children’s clothing and of safe-keeping, are expanded upon in Carapace. Philippa Robbins’ imagination is populated with corvids, “the dark stars of the bird world,” with puppets, imaginary worlds and relics of… Read more »
