This year’s programme includes three artists who are each holding their first exhibition with us. They are Gareth Parry who joined the gallery last year, and Jane Carpanini and Maurice Sheppard who have contributed to group shows at the gallery for several years.
16th January – 10th March
Winter Group Exhibition
This group exhibition is being re-launched with additional new work from the featured artists. This is a continually changing exhibition which will display paintings, graphics, sculpture and stained glass from all the artists the gallery represents.
17th March – 7th April
Jack Jones 1922 - 1993
The gallery is holding a major retrospective of the work of Jack Jones. Born in the Hafod, Swansea he went on to study at the University of Paris and returned to the UK to teach in London in1951. At the same time he started to paint and successful exhibitions followed in both London and Swansea. This exhibition will include previously unseen work.
14th April – 5th May
Brenda Hartill
Brenda Hartill is considered one of Britain’s leading painter-printmakers. Her work explores the texture, pattern and light of the landscape, and ranges from finely drawn figurative works to bold, heavily embossed abstract images. This exhibition will include much new work but will also take a retrospective look at her printmaking.
12th May – 2nd June
Gareth Parry and Gordon Stuart
Gareth Parry is a well established North Wales based landscape painter who has recently joined the gallery. Gordon Stuart is one of the gallery’s founding artists, first showing here in 1962. He is particularly well known for his portraits - his work is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
9th June - 30th June
Leonard Beard, Jane Carpanini and Maurice Sheppard.
The exhibition features three well established painters. This will be the first major exhibition of work by Jane Carpanini and Maurice Sheppard at the gallery, though they have contributed to mixed shows for some years. Sheppard is a former President of the Royal Watercolour Society while Carpanini is a Member of the Society. This will be Beard's second shared exhibition with the gallery.
7th July – 22nd September
Summer Group Exhibition
This mixed exhibition marks the 45th anniversary of the opening of the gallery. The first exhibition in July 1962 was also a mixed show of new work. It featured all the artists that had newly agreed to exhibit in our gallery. Forty-five years on, a number of these artists still show with us. This is a rotating show so work may be taken away on day of purchase.
There are over 100 works on
display – Click
here to view a selection.
8th September – 22nd September
Elizabeth Thomas
This exhibition marks her 80th birthday and will be hung for two weeks as part of the Summer Show. It features her popular flower paintings, and will also include some landscapes.
29th September – 20th October
Karel Lek and Donald McIntyre
Donald McIntyre is an established landscape painter while Karel Lek is a keen observer of people. What they have in common is that they both live in North Wales and in the past few years have each received the wider recognition their work so richly deserves.
27th October – 17th November
George Little
"Lost Landscapes"
This solo exhibition celebrates George Little’s 80th birthday. Born in Danygraig, Swansea, he studied at Swansea College of Art and the Ruskin School of Drawing of Oxford University. His main subject has been the industrial environment in which he grew up and as a consequence has chronicled the decline of heavy industry across South Wales.
24th November – 24nd December
Winter Group Exhibition
This is a popular exhibition and a showcase for all the artists we represent. It features new work by all our artists and, as it is a rotating show, work can be taken away on day of purchase.
The gallery will reopen 15th January 2008
Attic Gallery is an original member of the Arts Council of Wales "Principality Collectorplan" scheme and can offer interest-free loans of up to £2000 to purchase original works of art from these exhibitions.
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