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 2010
Location: The Art Shop
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…
William Brown 1953-2008
A collection of unseen drawings and works on paper. Supported by paintings and silkscreen, lino and wood cuts. Drawing was for William Brown an integral part of his daily practice. In fact, he felt it to be an essential part of an artist’s life. He called it his thinking process. William documented what most people… Read more »
Artist in the Garden – Summer Show 2011
Festival of the Arts St. Mary’s Priory Church. 2nd-5th June For the first time The Art Shop is curating a small exhibition in the hall of the Priory Centre, as part of a new annual arts festival. Featured artists will include painter, Andrea Mclean, illustrator, Rachel Tudor Best and ceramic artist, Jacqueline Leighton Boyce. This… Read more »
Peter Greenaway – Tulse Luper
92 framed drawings in pen and ink on paper, sometimes with additional colour in gouache and ink. Peter Greenaway – prime creator, fine artist, curator, writer, film-maker. His trademark or mannerisms are lists, documentary narration, bilateral symmetry and colour symbolism. Born in 1942 in Newport, Wales, Greenaway trained as a painter. He began as a… Read more »
Winter Show 2007
Excerpts from Jayne Lennard’s travelling exhibition ‘Folk Art and Fairy Tales’. Jayne transforms discarded objects into magical pieces such as ‘The Princess and the Pea’- elements of half remembered tales, passed down through generations gathering new strands along the way. Blown glass vessel forms by Clare Henshaw, outside and inside cased with colour. New collection… Read more »
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 »
Philippa Robbins – Magical Thinking
‘Magical thinking’ could not be bettered as a word-window into the art of Philippa Robbins. Her themes are magical, often found in folklore, fairytales or the manifestations of the strange around us, but just as magical is her transubstantiation of thoughts into haunting visual images – her translation of woven baskets into a drawn language… Read more »
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 »
As Bright as a Spring Sun
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 »