exhibitions and events ...

Curiouser and Curiouser..... Group exhibition featuring fine art and craft that is quirky, whimsical and enchanting. Featuring work by Barbara Beaumont, Samantha Bryan, Lucy Casson, Jennifer Collier, Magie Hollingworth, Claire Loder, Cathy Miles, Alison Moger, Jane Muir, Zillah Puri, Annora Spence, Kaori Tatebayashi & Lauren Van Helmond. Modern British Print Collection - Collection of amazing prints, on loan from London gallery Osborne Samuel. Including work by Edward Bawden, Prunella Clough, Brian Ingham, Henry Moore, John Piper and Michael Rothenstein.

Jewellery - Daisy Choi, Anne Finlay, Jed Green, Charlie High, Rebecca Keast, Ashi Marwaha, Jean Scott-Moncrieff, Bernadette Ripley, Julie Ann Seaman, Helen Smythe, and Syann Van Niftrik. Craft - Mike Braisher, Arwyn Jones, Judith Rowe, Jane Ryan, Yo Thom, and Maddie & Flo. group: individual - Exhibition by the Farnham Maltings Jewellery and Silversmithing Group - Ruta Brown, Alex Maryon Davis, Diana Greenwood, Jenefer Ham, Liz Hancock, Olivia Lowe, Lindsey Mann, Emma Perry, Poppy Porter, Janet Richardson, Sue Shaw, Rebecca Skeels, Clare Stiles, and Jane Tadrist.

Recent Graduates - Shelley Doolan, Amy Duggan, Danielle Eveleigh, Hannah Facey, Adam Frew, Toni Ann Green, Hana Lumsden, Christine Kaltoft, Sarah Malone, Leah Miles, Mie Miyakawa, Emmy-Gai Palmer & Asha Singh.

New @ the Ashgate - paintings by Felicity Keefe & Dion Salvador Lloyd, ceramics by Jane Blackman.

February Focus - paintings by Anne Davies.

Jewellery - Clara Breen, Hazel Davison, Alice Highet, Louise Irving, Hannah Lamb, Lindsey Mann, Rachel Mcknight, Lynn Miller & Miranda Sharpe.

Craft - Lucy Burley, Kyriaki Gerontaki, Rupert & Alice Johnstone (Ramp), Stephen Parry, Massey & Rogers & Kaori Tatebayashi.

Sir Peter Blake, Sandra Blow RA, Charlotte Cornish, Jenny Devereaux, Sir Terry Frost RA, David Greenwood, Anna Marrow, Richard Spare and Richard Tuff

New prints

Mixed show focusing using textiles as a medium in art. Including work by Rosalind Davis, Alison Moger, Priscilla Jones, Rosalind Davis, Alison Ellen & Zoe Lathey.

Jewellery - including work by Lorraine Allan, Disa Allsopp, Alena Asenbryl, Marion Barclay, Donna Barry, Rosie Buck, Anne Finlay, Liz Hancock, Katrin Jaeger, Jo Lavelle, Anne Massey, Jane Moore, Anne Morgan, Malcolm Morris, Kathie Murphy, Jill Newbrook, Zoe Pook & Bernadette Ripley.

Craft - featuring ceramics by Christopher Barnes, Sue Binns, Lucy Burley, Bryony Burn, Rachel Holian, Yo Thom and James & Tilla Waters; wire sculpture by Lauren Van Helmond; wood by Rosemary Wright; textiles by Poppy Treffry and Sally Weatherill.

Artists - Emma Dunbar, Michael Fairclough, Fiona Millais, Vicki Nigoumi, David Ralph Simpson & Charles Sutton. Makers - Nick Barberton, Christine Meyer-Eaglestone, Richard Miller, Jane Muir & Susie Thomson.

Jewellery - collection of jewellery including work by Clara Breen, Joanne Cox, Hazel Davison, Rachel Dorris, Gill Forsbrook, Alice Highet, Louise Irving, Becky Keast, Sue Lane, Ashi Marwaha, Lynn Miller, Betty Pepper, Kaz Robertson, Jean Scott-Moncrieff, Julie Ann Seaman, Miranda Sharpe, Hannah Simpson, Catriona Stevenson, Lesley Strickland.

Craft - focus on smaller scale and lower priced, functional and non-functional work featuring ceramic work by Kyriaki Gerontaki, Virginia Graham, Timea Sido, Kaori Tatebayashi, Sasha Wardell, and Bethan Worthington, textiles by Debbie Bryan, wire sculptures by Cathy Miles, and wood and acrylic vessels by Sarah Thirlwell.

New paintings by Bonnie Brown - Bonnie studied at Winchester School of Art in 1982, and creates stunning and sensitive abstract paintings. She divides her life and work between studios in Christchurch and Mirambeau in the Charente-maritime region of France. She has exhibited widely, drawing inspiration from the experiences of both locations, working in an abstract way, constantly exploring a surface in order to find an emotional depth within a personal visual language. She has won several major prizes, including The Discerning Eye and The Laing Open.

New paintings by Tony Scrivener - Tony returned to painting after a successful business career and have been painting professionally for twelve years. He gained a first class BA (Hons) degree from the Open University, which included the study of modern art practices and debates and the philosophy of art, in 1999. He has exhibited at ART 2001/2/3/4/5, lslington, London and other major London fairs, including the 20/21 at the Royal College of Art, when his work was reproduced in the catalogue. Tony's work has regularly been hung in The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

New ceramics by Sophie Cook - Sophie graduated in 1997 from Camberwell School of Arts. Her work now sells worldwide and is also featured in permanent museum collections. She is currently throwing porcelain bottles and pods on the wheel. Her vibrant glazes embody subtle, sculptural shapes to create fluid, almost luminous forms which suggest a contemporary feel to a traditional craft.

New ceramics by Jack Doherty - Jack makes thrown and slab built functional forms. He is currently Chair of the Craft Potters Association and is involved with the organisation of potters conferences, fairs and workshops. All of his work is once fired and soda glazed, which has become an increasingly important part of the making process. This way of firing ceramics introduces an element of risk and unpredictability .

New paintings by Ruth Brownlee - a new collection of seascapes mixed media paintings. Ruth's paintings explore interpretations of the visual drama of the Shetland environment where she lives, and are concerned with capturing the atmosphere, the play of light on the sea and coastal landscape, through mixed media.

New ceramics by Kazumi Harnett - Kazumi's thrown and altered vessels exploring the malleability of wet clay inspired by landscape elements. The forms are manipulated to capture the movement, softness and fluidity of the material leaving marks and textures on the surface which preserve moments from the making process.

New sculptural baskets by Lise Bech - In her work Lise strives to share with the onlooker her reverence for her materials, the meditative act of weaving and her almost symbiotic relationship with her local landscape. She is passionate about basketmaking and gets intense pleasure from using natural materials.

New paintings by Anne Davies - In Anne's paintings fine layers of acrylic are built up and stripped away creating delicate colour passages and textures reminiscent of stone and ceramic. She does not usually seek to record a specific scene, rather to capture a memory and sense of place. Her most recent work brings together a love of both colour and line in landscapes inspired by travels in the Greek Islands.

The Field Paintings: Patterns, Marks & Memory

Justin has been showing paintings at the gallery in mixed shows for a few years and is now exhibiting a larger collection with us. The landscape around him is a recurrent theme in his paintings, particularly the South Dorset Ridgeway and the coast, and he has also adopted Cornwall as another source of inspiration. Justin's paintings are typically painted in mixed media of watercolour and pastel. Layers of colour are built up over time which creates a distinctive texture and allows colours to combine together.

Our annual art graduates exhibition, this year focusing on a selected group of fine art graduates from the University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham. Graduates involved are Steve Came, Katherine Dewey, Tomoko Motomochi, Anne Nolan, and Liz Willis.

Featuring new prints by Mychael Barratt, Michael Kennedy, Margaret Knott, Ursula Leach, Susie Perring, Trevor Price, Manja Scott and Nigel Swift, and a new collection on loan from gallery Osborne Samuel, including work by Lynn Chadwick, Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore and Julian Trevelyan. Osborne Samuel is one of London's leading specialists in Modern British prints and painting and has a high reputation for the quality of its exhibitions.

Jewellery - seasonal collection of jewellery including work by Marianne Anderson, Kate Bajic, Hannah Bedford, Amy Chan, Jed Green, Joanne Haywood, Lindsay Mann, Lianne McCurrach, Louise Miller, Abigail Percy, Helen Smythe and Penny Warren.

Craft - focus on smaller scale and priced, functional and non-functional work by Elena Blunsum, Alison Cockcroft, Betty Pink by Hanne Crease, Rebecca Harvey, Sarah Perry, Este MacLeod and Karen Shapley.

a new collection of prints by Sandra Blow, Sir Terry Frost, Heidi Konig & Charlotte Cornish.

This collection includes jewellery by Claire Antill, Hidemi Asano, Alena Asenbryl, Laura Baxter, Ruta Brown, Anne Finlay, Liz Hancock, Catherine Hills, Jo Lavelle, Edward James Mahoney, Malcolm Morris, Lina Peterson, Bernadette Ripley, Olivia Schlevogt, and Syann van Niftrik, and silver pieces by Louise Loder and Edward James Mahoney.

Includes work by Peter Archer, Marisa Arna, Bi-me, Matthew Blakely, Karen Bunting, Lucy Burley, Bryony Burn, Jane Charles, Jane Cox, Maiko Dawson, Wendy Edmonds, Alison Gautrey, Nawal Gebreel, Ninna Gotzsche, Virginia Graham, Charlotte Grierson, Jennifer Hall, Lisa Katzenstein, Sun Kim, Lisa Marklew, Cathy Miles, Susan Nemeth, Stephen Parry, Victoria Richards, Vivienne Ross, Julia Roxan, Margo Selby, Karinna Sellars, Will Shakspeare, Kaori Tatebayashi, Catherine Tough, David Tucker, Belle Walker, Wallace Sewell, Michelle Wild, Yoyo Ceramics, and Pauline Zelinski.

Exhibiting Makers

Helen Beard, Brian Blanthorn, Samantha Bryan, Deirdre Burnett, Carina Ciscato, Clare Crouchman, Eddie Curtis, Ann Catrin Evans, Carolyn Genders, Sarah Hillman, Ashley Howard, Claire Ireland, Christy Keeney, Wendy Mason, Christine Meyer-Eaglestone, Kellie Miller, Peter Parkinson, Zillah Puri, Elizabeth Rollins-Scott, Anna Silverton, Matthew Tomalin, Ruthanne Tudball, Annie Turner, and Tessa Wolfe Murray.

Guy Royle was born in 1954 and received no formal training as a craftsperson. He became apprentice to artist Breon O'Casey in 1987 where he assisted with weaving, jewellery and more recently sculpture. He has exhibited widely since then, namely at Primavera, Cambridge; Godfrey & Twatt, Harrowgate; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Leeds; New Ashgate Gallery, and most recently at Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA in an exhibition titled Celebrating the Necklace.

Exhibiting Artists

Allyson Austin, Michael Barratt, Clare Bassett, Barbara Beaumont , Patricia Crowther, Felise Dumas, Emma Dunbar, Rachel Edgar, Joan Elliott Bates, Eleanor Engle, Anita Klein, Geoffrey Lanham, Angie Lewin, Mary Malenoir, Christine McArthur, Fiona Millais, Vicki Nigoumi, Trevor Price, Charlotte Readhead, Sonia Rollo, Manja Scott, Colin See-Paynton, Charles Sutton, Nigel Swift, and Heather Young.

Jenny Grevatte - paintings

I am constantly exploring the boundaries of paint and mixed media, the better to understand and engage with my subject. I travel always with my sketchbooks, making endless drawings and notes which aid my memory on my return to my studio in Leicestershire."

Ewa Wawrzyniak's glass work is inspired by Gaston Bachelard's book 'The Poetics of Space' and is dealing with the perceptions of a house as a 'private space'.

Bernard Irwin - new ceramics. Ten years ago Bernard Irwin moved from Bristol to the rural seclusion of the Penwith Peninsular in Cornwall. A place he visited regularly before his move there in 1996, it had long been a significant influence on his work as a ceramist and painter.

Jewellery - seasonal collection of jewellery including work by Maike Barteldres, Nicola Becci, Shimara Carlow, Lucy Easton, Rachel Galley, Grace Girvan, Joanne Haywood, Nuala Jamison, Sarah Lindsay, Jill Newbrook, Simone Nolden, Kate Smith, Clare Stiles, and Lesley Strickland, and jewellery and silver pieces by Samantha Maund.

Craft Gallery - a range of affordable domestic craft with a focus on five makers: Louise Bassant, Ken Eardley, Noriko Matsumoto, Colin Norgate and Judith Rowe.

Our craft gallery displays a wide range of individual & affordable craft pieces. The summer collection features ceramic pieces by Lucy Burley, Karen Downing, Jonathan Garratt, Tanya Gomez, Akiko Hirai & Kaori Tatebayashi.