2018 Exhibitions

ROUTE TO THE SUN

Artists 303

17 March – 14 April

Private view Friday 16 March 6–8pm
Lino-cut workshop Monday 26 March 10am–4pm

Meet the artists Saturday 14 April 2–4pm

Painting, printmaking and sculpture, by this contemporary and vibrant group of artists. Works are imaginative and energetic, and have broad appeal.

WEATHER REPORT

Deborah Westmancoat

21 April – 19 May

Private view Friday 20 April 6–8pm
En plein air workshop Saturday 5 May 10.30am–12.30pm

Deborah Westmancoat is based in Somerset and currently undertaking an MA in Fine Art with Bath Spa University, aiming to commence PhD study later this year. Her work is exhibited frequently throughout the UK and internationally. She was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2014 and became an RWA Artist Network member in 2015.

For the past six years she has been engaged in a long-term project researching the four stages of classical metaphysical alchemy in relation to the natural environment; considering how each stage might help us to understand the cyclical process of how landscape moves and forms. Recent paintings have included collected floodwater, moonlit stream water, icicles, hoar frost and hailstones. Organic materials collected from each site, particularly oak galls, often contributed to pigments used in the process. The work in this exhibition has been made using water collected from weather events and locations around Somerset, Dartmoor, Cornwall, the base of a Swiss glacier, the wilds of the Scottish Highlands and the Neolithic landscapes of Ireland. They draw focus to the simple beauty, poetry and mystery to be found in the everyday – in falling rain, puddles reflecting the bluest of skies and ground frost silvering silent country lanes, churchyards and wooded hollows. Every painting began in a quiet place where one of these moments became apparent and is an attempt to tell that story.

THE TRANSFORMED LAND

Curated by Paul Newman

26 May – 16 June

Private view Friday 25 May 6–8pm
Curator Q&A: Friday 8 June 6–8pm

The Transformed Land collects work from various artists who are interested in place. Some frequently return to the same place, others are visitors, some are residents, and some are creators of imagined places.

MATTER OF IDENTITY

Pip Woolf

23 June – 21 July

Private view Friday 22 June 6–8pm
Artist talk Saturday 21 July 2–4pm

Drawings and installations exploring dementia and identity: mine, yours, ours.