Location: The Art Shop

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 »

Kim Atkinson & Noelle Griffiths – Sounds of the Land

Two friends, Kim Atkinson and Noëlle Griffiths have spent time together in the landscape looking, listening and drawing what they see and hear. They meet each season at two locations close to their homes: mountain woodland and upland in Snowdonia and the coastal headland of the Llyn peninsula. These intense times of looking and being… Read more »

Cornelia O’Donovan – Telling Stories

This exhibition is at The Art Shop and continues at the Chapel (2mins walk away), where all Cornelia’s textiles will be on view, cushions and wall hangings. ‘When I was a child, my sister and I would spend days making paper cardboard houses, sometimes villages – using toothpaste lids to make light bulbs, scraps of… Read more »

The Shape of Magic

Betty Pennell Paintings and drawings. Betty trained in illustration at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. A short spell in the painting department under Carel Weight, Robert Buhler and John Minton had a profound effect on her subsequent work. She is influenced by the landscape, making poetry in rural settings… 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 »

Fauna & Folly

Two RCA graduates, an illustrator and designer, combine craft based techniques with playful narrative to produce a poetic mix of works – collage, drawings, plates, dolls, light sculptures, shadow drawings and more.