A R T S G U Id E & Op En S T U Dios 2020
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FREE NORTH PEMBROKESHIRE ARTS GUIDE & OPEN STUDIOS 2020 Painting - Ceramics - Glassware - Photography - Sculptures - Textiles 1 Welcome to North Pembrokeshire Arts Guide and Open Studios 2020 Last year was the launch of North Pembrokeshire Open Studios and it has been a huge success for both artists and visitors alike. We have 47 artists and makers who are more than happy to receive visitors throughout the year. Please see artists contact details to arrange your visit. Open Trail - 22nd August - 6th September Artists and makers will also be opening their studios and homes to the public, free of charge for two weeks for the Open Art Trail from Saturday 22nd August – 6th September. We hope the use of the maps, the artists open trail calendars, directions and information in this brochure will help you to plan a relaxing meander through Pembrokeshire’s beautiful countryside and to enjoy the wonderful artwork from North Pembrokeshire’s finest artists. Visitors will be able to talk to the artists and makers in relaxed and informal surroundings, be able to buy direct from the artists and perhaps commission bespoke pieces of work. Discover and explore the historic, rugged, beautiful landscape whilst on the trail. North Pembrokeshire Open Studios will be holding an exhibition at the Cloisters Gallery, St Davids Cathedral, St Davids, during the open trail from 25th August - 6th September, with a launch evening on Friday 28th August at 6pm. This is an exciting and long overdue venture for Pembrokeshire and one that with your enthusiasm, commitment and participation, will become a special annual event that will encourage more art lovers to visit the area. Andrew Brown Project Coordinator, North Pembrokeshire Open Studios 2 How to use this guide Contact Us For more information on North Pembrokeshire Open All artists taking part in this event are listed in the guide by Studios please get in touch via: [email protected] area and colour coded as indicated. Find the Studios Each of the Pembrokeshire regions begin with an overview map. The maps indicate the location of each venue so you can see where there are groups of artists. NORTH MAP PAGE 3 WEST MAP PAGE 9 Please Note Visitors to North Pembrokeshire Open Studios visit entirely at their own risk. Adults are responsible for any children at all times. The organisers and participants MID MAP of North Pembrokeshire Open Studios cannot accept liability for any loss, damage PAGE 16 or injury sustained by members of the public. Artist’s studios and maker’s workshops are working environments and may be equipped with chemicals and sharp tools so take great care when visiting them. 3 1. Clare Rose North East Pembrokeshire Map 2. Peter Bodenham 3. Billy Adams 2 4. Alice Tennant 1 5. Sarah Hope 6. Dawn Reader & Simon Probryn 7. Gallery Yr Oriel Newport 3 8. Elspeth Hart 4 9. David Arthur Light 9 5 6 10. Anne Seymour 8 7 11. Kathy Thomson 10 12. Flora McLachlan 11 12 13. Erica Frances George 14 14. Linda Unsworth 13 16. Ruth Sargeant 16 17. Robin Dale-Thomas 17 18. Elizabeth Haines 19. Andrea Kelland 18 19 Map: Provided by Google Maps 4 1. Painter 2. Ceramics 3. Ceramics 4. Painter Clare Rose Peter Bodenham Billy Adams Alice Tennant The Pemb’s countryside is a constant Trained in Ceramics in the early 1980s My ceramics explore aspects of Alice works in watercolour and mixed source of inspiration. My recent at Camberwell School of Art. Gold landscape through texture and colour media, painting the Pembrokeshire landscape work has moved towards medal winner for ‘craft’ at the 2011 within the vessel format. landscape. Her work is in public and gentle abstraction, creating images that National Eisteddfod, Wales. Work is private collections around the world. embody both sense of place & memory. held in the Crafts Council Collection of As you enter Cenarth coming from Great Britain. Cardigan on the A484, cross the Directions: From Newport take the stone bridge and turn right at the From St Dogmaels High Street go Peter makes utilitarian wheel thrown A487 towards Cardigan. After 2 miles, White Hart Inn. Continue on this road directly uphill & take 1st right on to ceramics and hand-built vessels. turn left signposted Nevern B4582. (B4332). You will pass a caravan site. Go through the village, passing the Ffordd Y Cwm. Continue uphill, bear Intuitive brush marks reference Peter’s Further on the left, you will come to a right at top & turn right after white phenomenological experience of a church on your left. Continue up the large white wall (Pen-y-banc). Parking hill and turn left at the “Gallery” sign. bungalow into cul-de-sac. My wooden sense of place. at the top of the drive. studio is immediately on left. Disabled St Dogmaels Pottery is situated within Ample parking. Everyone welcome. Studio open from March - October. access & parking. St Dogmaels village, on the road to Pen-y-banc, Glandwr, Cenarth, Poppit Sands beach. Carmarthenshire, SA38 9JN Hawddamor, St Dogmaels, Cardigan, 07876 451887 Penrallt, Velindre, Crymych, Pembrokeshire, SA43 3JG 2 Graig Terrace, St Dogmaels, [email protected] Sir Benfro, SA41 3XW Cardigan, Pembrokeshire, SA43 3JY 01239 612444 01239 821269 [email protected] 07785 185549 [email protected] www.clareroseartist.co.uk [email protected] www.alicetennant.net www.peterbodenham.co.uk 5 5. Painter 6. Painter / Sculpture 7. Mixed Art 8. Potter Sarah Hope Dawn Reader & Simon Probyn Gallery Yr Oriel Newport Pembs Elspeth Hart An award-winning figurative artist Dawn Reader’s serene oil paintings The Gallery Yr Oriel is situated in Stoneware vessels made using who likes to work in innovative ways, of land and sea embracing peace, the pretty coastal town of Newport throwing and hand-building specialises in portraiture, but also freedom and light, inspired by Pembrokeshire. The exhibition space techniques. Matte slip and silky glaze explores other themes. Different Pembrokeshire, exhibited inside and has been created with a minimalist create a contrast of textures pleasing mediums including oils, pastels, upstairs. look, for a modern, clean feel to to the eyes and the touch. These coloured pencils, printmaking and the gallery. Many well known and are pots to be used; to bring joy animation. Simon Probyn’s evocative and established artists show at the gallery, and an element of ceremony to life’s abstract sculptures placed in the including sculptors, ceramicists and everyday rituals. Entering Newport on A487 from courtyard are made from heavy jewellers. Cardigan turn right, or A487 from industrial steel, all inspired by natural Heading towards Newport on A487. Fishguard turn left into Lower St forms. All the works exhibited are SatNav incorrect - in Dinas look on Mary Street (‘Cnapan’ pink building contemporary original pieces, left for signs and a grey house, set the corner). 50 metres down street Based in the heart of Newport, featuring a distinctive selection of back from road. Parking on drive. entrance on right to the Old School, opposite the Llwyngwair Arms, access paintings celebrating some of the Studio signposted. follow signs. through archway to back of building. unique styles of contemporary Welsh No disabled access. Art. Redlands, Dinas Cross, Newport, Unit 5, Old School Business Centre, Pembrokeshire, SA42 0XE Lower St Mary Street, Newport, The Old Stables, East Street, 5 Bridge Street, Newport, Pembs, 07976 291932 Pembrokeshire, SA42 0TS Newport, Pembrokeshire, SA42 0SY SA42 0TB [email protected] 07809 013644 07785 900434 01239 821514 www.elspethhart.co.uk [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.artist-sarah-hope.co.uk www.dawnreader.com 6 9. Painter 10. Potter 11. Painter 12. Printmaker David Arthur Light Anne Seymour Kathy Thomson Flora McLachlan I graduated from Hornsey Art I make individually illustrated pottery, My paintings and drawings are Flora McLachlan’s etchings have an College with a First-Class Honours thrown and hand built. Our showroom, inspired by the landscapes of unforgettable presence, infused with a Degree in Fine Art. My work depicts Ink.Clay.Wood, displays my work Pembrokeshire, Ireland, Cornwall, and haunting sense of poetry. She creates the seasonal changes of flora and alongside woodwork by my husband the South Downs. Rather than record sinewy curves and twists of ancient landscapes. I paint the natural forms David Sears. Other work on display a picturesque or particular view, I seek woodland under windy skies, where of plant species and features of land, includes prints, books and cards by to make expressive and evocative the flying moon leaves pools of light sea and sky to experience a journey other family members. interpretations of places I have seen and spaces crossed with shadow. Visit or a “walk” of a specific area. The and explored. the moorland workshop where I make Gallery serves refreshments. Visitors are welcome all year round, my etchings and lithographs. just ring first. From Newport, follow signs to the Located in Brynhenllan, Dinas Cross Candle Centre. Turn immediately left From Crosswell on B4329, turn left Newport. There are two steps into the See our website contact page for over the bridge. Studio is 400 metres down track signposted ‘George the Gallery. detailed directions (for satnav users on the right at the top of the lane. Framer’ just before the Brynberian we are between SA42 0QS and SA42 Good off road parking in front of the turning; Penyllyn’s the last house. David Light Gallery, Myrtle Hill, 0QR). There are two steps down to the house. Dinas Cross, Newport, showroom. Penyllyn, Brynberian, Crymych, Pembrokeshire, SA42 0SE Awel Ingli, Cilgwyn, Newport, Pembrokeshire, SA41 3TL 01348 811212 Pantry Fields, Cilgwyn, Newport, Pembrokeshire, SA42 0QS 07952 993649 07715 737225 Pembrokeshire, SA42 0QS 01239 821595 [email protected] [email protected] 01239 820535 [email protected] www.floramclachlan.co.uk www.dalight.co.uk [email protected] www.kathythomsonartist.co.uk www.pantryfields.com 7 13.