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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
‘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 »
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 »
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 »