William Brown was born in Toronto, Canada in 1953 and died in Wales, 2008. He is a prolific painter and printmaker whose work is informed by poetry, literature and travel. He exhibits widely in Britain and overseas with shows in France, Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic. Recent projects have involved sojourns in Galicia, Southern… Read more »
A summer assortment of new artists and Art Shop favourites. Printing on textiles workshop with Cornelia O’Donovan RCA
A painter from Sweden and a ceramic artist from South Africa. Both artists share an exuberance for dazzlingly rich and textured colour. These works sit comfortably together. Clementina Van Der Walt Clementina has been a significant force in South African ceramics for the last three decades. She comes to us fresh from exhibiting at Ceramic… Read more »
William Brown, the fearless, uncompromising maker of paintings, drawings, silkscreen, lino and wood cut prints. These are full of metaphor and magical legends, the Venus of Blaengwynfi, allegorical beasts, the Mari Lwyd, the Welsh Valley and of course his iconic bear. There is a sense of theatre, humour and great tenderness in the work. With… Read more »
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.
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…
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »