Galleries - July 2014

JULY 14 GALLERIES 19 Important to that has been the advent of Sladers Yard which, with its busy schedule of events, talks and poetry evenings alongside its enterprising exhibition programming, is a mini-arts centre in itself. Characteristic of the latter is its show of the work of Dan Llywelyn Hall, a young Welsh-born painter who has won numerous important national awards for his intensely-charged and richly- coloured, almost neo-Romantic land and town scapes. Journey’s end is in Bournemouth at the ARThouse Gallery, with its individual attitude to art-dealing – a changing exhibition of excellent 20th C. and contemporary art set in a fully- furnished Edwardian townhouse – typical of the variety and originality of approach shown by the galleries in this survey. Ex-estate agent Paul Watts really knows his art too with Basil Beattie, Ursula Leach, Prunella Clough, Peter Joyce and Sven Berlin among those regularly sharing wall space. Nicholas Usherwood Winter storms may have done their worst in Cornwall but if the memories are vivid they are just memories and Cornwall still remains one of the most interesting and exciting places to buy art. Padstow, with its somewhat ‘fishy’ reputation, in the Rick Stein culinary sense that is, is home to some excellent galleries of which The Padstow Studio remains in pole position. It is both a gallery (showing work by a variety of local and not so local artists) and studio for Sarah Adams whose extraordinary cliff and coastal scenes caused such a furore at London’s Maas Gallery last year that buyers queued around the block, one even camping out overnight. Comprehensive building work has extended the studio spaces to allow visitors more opportunity to view both the working process and its culmination. Besides its public galleries – the Exchange, Newlyn Gallery and Penlee House – Penzance is also well endowed with commercial ones. Newlyn School Gallery , as its name suggests, specialises in early, mainly 19th C. work while Cornwall Contemporary has consistently interesting contemporary exhibitions, usually of local artists. In July, Gaff Rigs and Gulls perfectly titles a show of paintings by Simon Stooks whose bird’s eye perspective highlights the colour and idiosyncrasies of the Cornish harbour. Run as an artists’ co- operative, NewStreet Gallery shows work by twelve local artists spanning virtually all disciplines – painting and prints, photography, ceramics, jewellery etc. and is a great place to find affordable items and presents. Alverton is similarly eclectic and with work from more than 100 artists and makers there is something here for virtually every taste. Redwing Gallery specialises in ‘outsider art’, work somewhat outré perhaps, by artists unlikely to fit the bill of the more conventional galleries. In Mousehole, always a must for visitors, the Little Picture Gallery is an Aladdin’s cave of paintings ranging from the representational to the idiosyncratic. Out on the Lizard (a term continued on page 25 THE ROUNDHOUSE AND CAPSTAN GALLERY This unique circular gallery is a showcase for excellence in Cornish fine art & crafts. Artists include Romi Behrens Neil Pinkett, Michael Strang, Paul Armitage Colin Caffell, John Piper & Michael Praed Sennen Cove, Cornwall TR19 7DF T: 01736 871859 roundhouse.gallery@btconnect.com Daily summer opening times: 10.30am – 5.30pm www.round-house.co.uk from left: C laire Loder ‘Flora’ ceramic at New Craftsman Gallery Katherine Webster ‘Dog’ ceramic at the Roundhouse & Capstan Gallery Sarah Adams ‘Porthmissen Bridge, Uplit’ oil on board, 40 x 30cm at Padstow Studio Emily Myers ‘Ceramic Vessel’ at The Art Room