Summer Art Exhibition – Attic Gallery Summer Group Show
2nd August – 13th September 2014
The Summer Group Show is the Attic Gallery’s opportunity to showcase and share with the public new work from all the artists that we represent.
With over 50 artists working across a variety of mediums: paintings, sculpture, glasswork, pottery and original prints, it always makes for a lively exhibition.
With a wide range of work and prices, too, the Summer Show has plenty to appeal to art lovers and those looking to start their own collection.
The Summer Group Show is a ‘rotating’ exhibition with new work being added continuously throughout six weeks.
In this forthcoming exhibition, landscapes of Wales continue to inspire the artists originating from and working in Wales, painters like Ceri Barclay who was born in Tonypandy, Rhondda Valley and who remains interested in the valleys. He returns frequently to explore and record the “relationships of terrace housing, mountains and the ever present gathering clouds.” His landscapes are devoid of figures, as he aims to “create an air of timelessness in the scenes.”
Wynne Jenkins is also inspired by the form and colour of the landscape and buildings of Wales. Jenkins is a native of Llangennech, Llanelli and has made Carmarthen his home town for over 30 years. Through his painting he has the opportunity to “transform “everyday” scenes into an art form – the timelessness of Wales’ seascapes and mountains.”
Meirion Jones is a painter from Dyfed whose work is inspired by South and West Wales. He likes to return time and again to visit certain places which have a “physical and emotional ‘pull’, familiar places in the native landscape whose rhythm and personality are timeless and yet again constantly changing”.
This year, the human form also features strongly in the group show through paintings, prints as wells as sculptures and ceramics.
Paul Vyse’s background is in graphic design. His paintings which record contemporary life are inspired by “life around me – people caught unawares, or in relation to their surroundings… kind of ‘reportage’ painting”
Artist-printmaker,Trevor Price, is based in London and Cornwall. He says his figurative prints are in some ways a reflection of his own life, concerned with perhaps the “intimacy between a couple, and the normal obsessions of any man.”
Hilke McIntyre, German in origin, lives near St Andrews. She makes ceramic relief tiles in a simplified figurative style influenced by primitive art and the art of the early 20th Century.
The sculptor, John Huggins, is a recent addition to the gallery’s stable of artists. An established sculptor for nearly 50 years, Huggins has pursued a changing vision of sculptural form. The human figure is a major source, and is seen with both anthropological and contemporary influences.
The gallery is open 10am – 5pm Tuesday – Friday and 10am – 4:30pm on Saturday.
For more information visit www.atticgallery.co.uk
Glenys Cour – Gower Landscape
McIntyre Donald – Abereiddy
Michelle Scragg – Solva from the Hill
