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…
The gallery is full of colour, life and variety from big to small, bright to muted, expensive to affordable, fragile to robust and decorative to functional, and we look forward to welcoming you. Everything has the potential to delight as exemplified in this enticing watercolour above by renown wildlife artist Julia Cassels. We have a collection…
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…
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,…
Cape artist Liz Robertson happily admits to being obsessed with light and colour, and the magic created in their interplay. “Capturing the delicate lilac shadow cast by an lemon, or the rainbow highlight in a glass of flowers on a windowsill makes my heart sing.” This featured painting of lush, rich, red tomatoes is an apt…
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…
New year, new exhibition, and we are delighted to announce the dates. It is earlier than usual, driven by Easter in March and a busy summer. We know we are chancing our luck with the weather in April; hoping for a host of golden daffodils but we could easily get rain, wind or snow! Our first feature artist…