The Gardens Gallery Cheltenham

The Mixed media Art Collective 1st Annual Show We are a group of artists who met through a local art class. This show highlights the diverse ways we depict our world through our art and includes paintings done in oils, watercolour, acrylic, pastel and pencil and hand printed linocuts. Mair Hitchings Forever mother and daughter Oil on canvas 10" x 8" unframed/ framed 15" x 13" £250[/caption] I have been painting in oils for over 40 years, first by myself and then with local art groups. I have a deep love of cats and often these are the inspiration for my art. I am fascinated by colour and take great care over the selection and application of different hues. I have successfully exhibited with the Society of Feline Artists for 9 years. Viv Lee-Hynes I am based in the wonderful Forest of Dean and have been painting since about 2011. I've not had any formal training but joined an excellent art group and have enjoyed experimenting with various mediums. I dabbled with watercolour, but my preferred medium now is Pan Pastel with pastel pencils, I have also worked with coloured pencil, scraperboard and silk paints. I put my own interpretation on many varied subjects but landscapes and animals feature strongly in my work. I love the atmosphere and social side of the art group and I am pleased to have the opportunity to exhibit my pictures, now and again, for others to enjoy. Chris Sinden  It was while I was living in Southern Norway that I learned how to cut lino. My earlier prints were local landscapes or humorous subjects. When I moved back to the UK I began to specialise in wildlife. Over the years I have developed an individual collage-style of printing where smaller images butt up against each other to make a larger irregular shaped final picture. Since 2007 I have been exhibiting these complicated linocuts with the Society of Wildlife Artists and in 2015 I was elected a Member of the Society.Pam Callow I have been painting for several years, starting with watercolours and then moving on to include pastel pencils which I found lovely to use. I have since been encouraged to try silk painting and scraperboard which gave me very different insights about the way I worked. My preferred subjects are landscapes and animals and I am attracted to the impact of light and colour in the subject. Jackie Cox I loved drawing as a child and started doing pastel portraits of animals when I was training as an animal nurse. In 1981 I had my first exhibition in Tewkesbury and since then I have exhibited work around the UK and abroad. About 20 years ago I was asked to take over an art class and it was then that I found that my curiosity in trying different mediums and surfaces gave me the valuable experiences I now pass on. I have been fortunate to have won a number of awards and these successes have spurred me on to try further experiments in new mediums, concentrating even more on light, shadows and nuances of colour.

Pam Callow 

I have been painting for several years, starting with watercolours and then moving on to include pastel pencils which I found lovely to use. I have since been encouraged to try silk painting and scraperboard which gave me very different insights about the way I worked. My preferred subjects are landscapes and animals and I am attracted to the impact of light and colour in the subject.

The Mixed media Art Collective 1st Annual Show We are a group of artists who met through a local art class. This show highlights the diverse ways we depict our world through our art and includes paintings done in oils, watercolour, acrylic, pastel and pencil and hand printed linocuts. Mair Hitchings Forever mother and daughter Oil on canvas 10" x 8" unframed/ framed 15" x 13" £250[/caption] I have been painting in oils for over 40 years, first by myself and then with local art groups. I have a deep love of cats and often these are the inspiration for my art. I am fascinated by colour and take great care over the selection and application of different hues. I have successfully exhibited with the Society of Feline Artists for 9 years. Viv Lee-Hynes I am based in the wonderful Forest of Dean and have been painting since about 2011. I've not had any formal training but joined an excellent art group and have enjoyed experimenting with various mediums. I dabbled with watercolour, but my preferred medium now is Pan Pastel with pastel pencils, I have also worked with coloured pencil, scraperboard and silk paints. I put my own interpretation on many varied subjects but landscapes and animals feature strongly in my work. I love the atmosphere and social side of the art group and I am pleased to have the opportunity to exhibit my pictures, now and again, for others to enjoy. Chris Sinden  It was while I was living in Southern Norway that I learned how to cut lino. My earlier prints were local landscapes or humorous subjects. When I moved back to the UK I began to specialise in wildlife. Over the years I have developed an individual collage-style of printing where smaller images butt up against each other to make a larger irregular shaped final picture. Since 2007 I have been exhibiting these complicated linocuts with the Society of Wildlife Artists and in 2015 I was elected a Member of the Society.Pam Callow I have been painting for several years, starting with watercolours and then moving on to include pastel pencils which I found lovely to use. I have since been encouraged to try silk painting and scraperboard which gave me very different insights about the way I worked. My preferred subjects are landscapes and animals and I am attracted to the impact of light and colour in the subject. Jackie Cox I loved drawing as a child and started doing pastel portraits of animals when I was training as an animal nurse. In 1981 I had my first exhibition in Tewkesbury and since then I have exhibited work around the UK and abroad. About 20 years ago I was asked to take over an art class and it was then that I found that my curiosity in trying different mediums and surfaces gave me the valuable experiences I now pass on. I have been fortunate to have won a number of awards and these successes have spurred me on to try further experiments in new mediums, concentrating even more on light, shadows and nuances of colour.

Pam Callow 

I have been painting for several years, starting with watercolours and then moving on to include pastel pencils which I found lovely to use. I have since been encouraged to try silk painting and scraperboard which gave me very different insights about the way I worked. My preferred subjects are landscapes and animals and I am attracted to the impact of light and colour in the subject.

An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Angela Spencer “There is a grace and presence in Nature which longs to soothe the human heart and return it to its original innocence and naturalness - to imbue the often troubled mind with the vastness of the open skies, to remind the heavy heart of the calm of a still lake, and to allow the tired body to soften like a warm field under the sun. It is my belief that the spirits of Nature long to interact with humanity and, as Wordsworth said in The Prelude, to bring to ‘The fretful dwellings of mankind....the calm that Nature breathes among the hills and groves’ As a thank you to Nature itself, I donate 10% of all my sales of originals to charities that help to support the environment “ Angela Spencer, July 2020. This new collection includes oil studies and larger canvasses of the River Frome in Stroud completed during lockdown, and a series of 15 paintings based on 30 sea studies from my 2018 residency at Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Co. Kerry. I begin all of my paintings with contemplative plein air sketches, either in oils or drawing materials. In this way I am able to feel the full presence of the place I am studying and then remember it when I return to my studio to work on the finished canvas. I will often also have recourse to a specific piece of music during the final work to act as an ‘aide memoir’ of the atmosphere. The paintings in this exhibition have been ‘assisted’ by Sibelius, Delius, Ina Boyle , Beethoven, Arvo Part and Mozart as well as local composers Jonathan Trim and Andrew Heath. Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1959, I graduated with a BA in Fine Art in 2004 and have exhibited at Hadfield Fine Art, the Little Buckland Gallery and at Syde Manor Tithe Barn. I am a classical violinist and am currently the leader of the Stroud Symphony Orchestra. I also play with the Capriol Chamber Orchestra. I have a studio in Stroud. For more information see www.angiespencer.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/AngieSpencerPaintings https://www.instagram.com/angiespencerpaintings/ Opening times Wednesday 23 September 1pm - 5pm Every day Thursday 24 - Monday 28 September 10am - 5pm Social distancing in place with a one-way viewing system Private and family viewing by appointment: email:aspencerpaintings@gmail.com

Abigail Waddell, Rachael Thorogood & Jayne Tricker bring their exhibition Looking for the Miracle in the Madness to The Gardens Gallery running 30th September - 5th October. Abigail Waddell Local artist working mainly in oils and mixed media, painting contemporary landscapes and seascapes. Jaynie Tricker  Local artist and art educator. Rachael Thorogood Landscape and sky inspired artist working in oils and cold wax and sculptor of birds from wire sewn with cotton.

August 2020 VIEWPOINT The VIEWPOINT exhibition at the Gardens Gallery features recent work by three well-known local artists. Landscape, in its widest sense, is the main focus of the exhibition, which explores each artist's approach to the genre. Betty Harrison's atmospheric landscapes, Sally Wyatt's expressive abstracts and Mike Duckering's evocative urban scenes, all use differing media and mark making in their interpretations. And yet, in this bold and cohesive display, the paintings successfully complement each other, and reveal how personal perceptions influence visual expression. Mike Duckering first studied architecture at the University of Bath, and then worked for many years as an architect in Bristol, where he established his own practice in 1986. After retiring from architecture, he went on to study art at the University of Gloucestershire, gaining a BA Fine Art degree in 2013. Mike now lives and works as a practising artist in Cheltenham from his studio at Lansdown Art Studios. He has exhibited locally at Hadfield Fine Art, Cheltenham Open Studios and the Fresh Art Fair; and in Bristol at the Affordable Art Fair, Lime Tree Gallery and the Royal West of England Academy. For more information visit: mikeduckering.co.uk Betty Harrison was born and brought up in the northwest of England. After moving to Cheltenham she gained a BA in Fine Art at the University of Gloucestershire in 2007. In her second year at university, Betty was awarded the Summerfield scholarship to study at the British School of Rome. On completion of her degree she moved into her studio in Cheltenham. Betty has been represented by Hadfield Fine Art, a gallery in the Cotswolds, which has included participation in Affordable Art Fairs in Bristol and Battersea. She has shown and sold her work at the RWA Autumn Shows since 2010, and has also completed several commissions. For more information visit: bettyharrison.com Sally Wyatt is a self-taught artist with background in Earth Sciences and Decorative Arts. She works from her home studio in Fulbrook, Burford. Finding beauty in the bleak, her paintings are as much about life as they are about the real, imagined or half remembered wilderness landscapes that she loves. Emphasising texture and tone, intuitive processes and creative choices mimic entropy and evolution, continua and extremes. Hadfield Fine Art and The Burford Garden Co. Gallery represent her work in the Cotswolds.  Paintings have been selected by RWA Bristol, SWAc Exeter, and The Mall Galleries London by RSMA and The Discerning Eye. Oxfordshire Artweeks Open Studio 9 -17 May 2020. For more information visit: sallywyatt.com  

Exhibition from 17th - 20th October 2020 to be confirmed, more details will be available shortly.

 

A LIFE IN PAINTING An exhibition of figurative paintings by Cheltenham based artist Tim Turton. THE GARDENS GALLERY, CHELTENHAM.

Wednesday 21st October to Tuesday 27 th October.

This exhibition covers a range of subjects – Cotswold Landscapes, Still Life, Drawings, Horse Racing, Seascapes, Modern Dance, Still Life and on show will also be my portrait for NHS heroes. Work will be for sale including framed and unframed paintings and drawings.

I predominately work in acrylic and love the versatility of this medium. I have been described as a painter’s painter. I think this means that there is intrinsic beauty in the mark making and the design elements – a process I use to capture the essence of the subject.

ABOUT TIM TURTON.

After leaving Art College, I like many artists had to work in other trades to supplement my artistic career. At twenty-five I was fortunate to get a position of artist in a nationally recognised studio. After 6 years there I moved into Graphic Design for a couple of years. Since then I have produced public artworks - mosaics and paintings, successfully exhibited, instructed painting in Greece and had a short stint as artist in residence.

This exhibition features predominately new work with some older work being included. I paint what interests me and endeavour to create something new each time that is a response to a place, a moment or incident – partly from memory, partly from the sketches I make on location and partly from source references. Over the years there’s been an interesting mix of subjects, which have progressed into themes – with a recognisable style running through the work. Repetition isn’t something I do – I need to be fired up, inspired by a new subject and direction.

NEW WORK (IN LOCKDOWN).

Lockdown has restricted all of our movements, but for me it has helped me focus on ‘back to basics. I’ve always been inspired by what I love, I feel this gives me a knowledge and joy for the subject. Lockdown has seen me move into Still Life and smaller impressionistic works.

PORTRAIT FOR NHS HEROES.

I’ve recently finished my portrait for NHS heroes. The painting depicts an Oncology nurse, who was re-deployed to work in a Covid 19 Ward. The painting has received great feedback and Sarah, the mum, thinks I have captured her daughter even under the PPE. It was a privilege to paint her – it was a moving experience to paint a young mum who was playing such an important role in our community’s welfare. I tried to capture the person under the disconcerting PPE.

DRAWING AND OBSERVATION

I’ve always drawn, for me it’s the bedrock for creativity whether it’s a painting or a sculpture. When you draw, you think about the subject in a subconscious way, making alterations to the drawing without thinking – responding automatically to what you see. I use my drawings as the starting point for almost all my paintings.

MY STUDIO.

I work from my new studio on the outskirts of Cheltenham. Its a bright and airy space, which nestles in our pretty garden. As part of the Open Studios scheme visitors are welcome by appointment only please.

For more information :

Website: art-timturton.blogspot.com

Instagram: instagram.com/art.timturton/

Tel: 07580 802334

I hope you enjoy your visit to the gallery.

Tim