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Heads up – we are Open!

Our 2024 Spring Exhibition, “A Thing of Beauty” is now open.  Visitors are welcome daily between 10am and 4pm from today, 6th April, until Friday 19th April.  There is a packed gallery to peruse, with paintings, ceramics, jewellery and craft to admire; whilst outside the spring garden looks resplendent with a striking collection of stone…

Kunene river

A Window on Africa

Our new spring exhibition has no less than eight remarkable original oil and watercolour paintings by award-winning Kenyan artist Karen Laurence-Rowe on show.  In this beautifully crafted short video, the artist herself takes us on a journey through the background of each one.  We travel up the unpopulated Kunene River in Namibia with its extraordinary…

Are you Lost?

Many Things of Beauty

According to Keats, a beautiful thing can give us extreme happiness and delight forever.  How much more appealing then is a collection of things of beauty such as the proliferation of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, jewellery and crafts on this spring exhibition? From the large to the small, as exemplified in this charming oil painting above by Karen Laurence-Rowe,…

crowned cranes

A Thing of Beauty

As Keats explains in his poem, a thing of beauty delivers extreme pleasure and delight for eternity.  What could be more applicable to the work produced by our talented artists? And is there any more beautiful bird than the majestic crowned crane, symbolising good fortune and happiness? Supreme original printmaker, Polly Hosp, captures a range of birds…