Past exhibitions have included art demonstrations, mini lectures, book signings, film screenings, and the occasional sushi-tasting…
We are delighted to invite you to our next exhibition in the gallery, featuring original, signed, limited edition screenprints by R B Kitaj, beginning on Saturday 25th May.
Kitaj had a significant influence on British Pop art, recognised as being one of the world’s leading draughtsmen...
Please click below to view our film invitation and our online turning pages invitation.
We are delighted to announce an exhibition beginning Saturday 27th April 2013, featuring ceramics by leading French potter Jean-Nicolas Gérard.
Widely regarded as the potter’s potter, Gérard makes freely thrown and decorated domestic ware.
Jean-Nicolas was born in Brazzaville (Congo) in 1954. He returned to France in 1961. He started studying ceramics in 1978 and was Jean Biagini’s student at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence. He also trained with Claire Bogino.
His work has now gained international acclaim. He is regularly invited internationally for workshops or residencies and has exhibited in USA, Australia, China and Japan.
His work will be with us at the gallery in a few weeks. Keep checking or sign up for our newsletter for more information.
Jean-Nicolas Gérard was born in Brazzaville (Congo) in 1954 and returned to France in 1961. He makes domestic slipware or terre vernissée...
An exhibition featuring paintings by gallery artist, David Kirk, begins in the main gallery on Saturday 9th February 2013.
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Born in 1960, Kirk was brought up in Somerset and went on to study at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford where he graduated with a degree in Fine Art. The following year he won first prize in the National Religious Painting Competition. In 1985 Kirk held his first solo show at the St. James Gallery in Bath and he continued to exhibit there regularly during the 1990s.
Since 2001 he has held many one man shows at the Rona Gallery in Mayfair and also exhibited at many other venues throughout the U.K. Kirk continually explores English landscape and buildings in his art and though he seems to have been influenced by Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash his work displays a highly individual approach.
David Kirk grew up in Somerset. He graduated from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford in 1983 and has held regular...
Svend Bayer is widely regarded as one of the world’s finest potters.
An exhibition featuring over 200 pots by Svend Bayer. Over the previous 2 years Bayer had been putting aside the very finest of his pots for this show. Exhibition Pots are now available for sale.
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Each subtle pressure of palm, finger or thumb is transmitted immediately to the clay. Every angle of force, each leg brace, bow of the back, lift of the arm, results in a direct transmission of ideas, experience and skill from thought, through body, to pot. A poem is a product of mind. A pot is a product of everything that makes a potter. At their most elevated, each vessel embodies a direct representation of experience, contemplation, physical skill, co-ordination and character. As they leave the wheel these are supremely personal objects.
Tim Gent from the Svend Bayer monograph 2012
Born in Uganda in 1946 and raised in Tanganyika into a ‘life style of undeserved privilege typical of the beginning of the end of the colonial...
An exhibition featuring paintings by Jenny Grevatte began in the main gallery on Saturday 20th October 2012.
Jenny’s pictures give pleasure to all who own them, surely one of the most important attributes of art.
Lillian Browse (‘The Duchess of Cork Street’) Art dealer and Historian
Jenny Grevatte grew up in Leicester and trained at De Montfort University. In 2010 she completed a Residency at Leicester’s New Walk Museum and Art Gallery where she had access to the hidden collection in the art stores for study and inspiration. This has taken her out of her comfort zone completely and she is working in new, expressive ways, painting figures and faces for the first time.
She builds layers of mixed media, often including collage, to create surfaces that entice the viewer to look time and time again. Today, her work is in demand in Britain and abroad with paintings in public collections including New Hall and Christ’s College, Cambridge; the National Museum of Johannesburg and the Saarland State Collection, Germany.
Jenny Grevatte grew up in Leicester and trained at De Montfort University. Today her work is in demand in Britain and abroad...
Each Lisa Hammond pot has a life of its own, its own sense of renewal. They all offer their own pleasures, an intimacy that adds another dimension to the way we eat and drink, to the ceremonies of the everyday, to the space we occupy. In short, to the way we live our lives. – David Whiting
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We are delighted to announce our ceramics exhibition, featuring the work of top UK potter, Lisa Hammond. The exhibition opened in the gallery on Saturday 22nd September 2012 and had over 200 of the very best of Hammond’s pots, made over the previous 3 years.
Lisa Hammond set up her first pottery in 1980. Aged only 23 she spent the next 5 years establishing Greenwich Pottery Workshop in London...
Every now and again, life smiles.
We have just been extremely fortunate that a body of work by one of Korea’s top potters has landed here in Uppingham. It was destined to have been shown in a top US gallery.
Short notice so no catalogue this time, but we are holding 96 selected pots by Lee Kang Hyo and circumstances allow us to sell at advantageous prices.
Lee Kang-Hyo, born 1961, is widely regarded as one of the finest Korean potters working today. He has exhibited all over the world and his work is...
Short talk by Rogers
● Phil Rogers talks about his influences and working methods.
100 new pots
● A one-day exhibition of new work.
Book launch
● Phil Rogers’ new book A Portfolio, published by Goldmark, £25.
Buy any Phil Rogers pot and get a free signed copy of the book together with a new signed, limited edition Phil Rogers etching. (Together worth £200. First 100 buyers only).
Wine and light lunch.
Phil Rogers was born in Newport, Gwent in 1951. He attended Newport and Swansea Colleges of Art and had originally intended to become a...
10.00 am to 5.30 pm
Saturday 26th May 2012
full colour catalogue £10 plus £2.50 p&p
price guide £400 to £2500
wine and light lunch
Sid Burnard’s studio sits on the edge of a little village in the hills of Radnorshire in the Welsh marches. It is a county with a population density...
Prices range from £1500-£10,000.
Born in Leiden in 1606, Rembrandt was to become the most important artist of the Dutch Golden Age and, as summed up by Gombrich in...
Our first ceramics exhibition of Anne Mette Hjortshøj’s work got off to a great start. Many of you came to the gallery and we have already sold over 100 of her beautiful pots. We have also had a fantastic response to our documentary which we have now put online for everyone to watch.
Anne Mette Hjortshøj comes from a long line of potters from Denmark, often female, who make or have made strong, gutsy pots with little...
Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Russia in 1887. After studying in St Petersburg he went to Paris in 1910 where he met and became...
It is about picking up a pot with just the right weight, individual feel and texture that makes it different, makes one want to use it everyday.
David Whiting 2011
Mike Dodd was born in 1943 in Sutton, Surrey. He has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and his work is held in collections at the V&A...
There will be a re-discovery of Reyntiens as an artist of considerable stature in his own right. Sir Roy Strong
Patrick Reyntiens OBE was born in 1925 into a very different world. Best known for his collaboration with John Piper, with whom he worked...
Malone has had articles published in Pottery Quarterly and Ceramic Review and has exhibited widely throughout the UK and USA. His pots can be found in the collections of the V&A; Ulster Museum, Ireland; Manchester Metropolitan University; Liverpool Museum and Art Gallery to name but a few.
Jim Malone was born in Sheffield in 1946. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family back to her native Wales. Malone went to...
Ken Matsuzaki was born in 1950 in Tokyo. It was an artistic family – his father was a Nihonga painter and his brother went on to become a...
Christmas Exhibition featuring signed and unsigned original lithographs and etchings by Marc Chagall, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Russia in 1887. After studying in St Petersburg he went to Paris in 1910 where he met and became...
An exhibition of original Henri Matisse lithographs from the Florilège des Amours suite.
Henri-Emile-Benoît Matisse was born on December 31, 1869, in Le Cateau–Cambrésis, France. He grew up at Bohain-en-Vermandois and studied...
An exhibition of pots by Nic Collins, one of the foremost wood firing potters in the UK.
Nic Collins was born in 1958 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. A self-taught potter and woodfirer, he started building kilns and wheels...
An exhibition featuring paintings and prints by Dora Holzhandler. We invited Jack Dee to open the show but due to unforeseen circumstances he couldn’t attend. So, Mike sent Alex and Jay down to his London offices and recorded this message especially for the day.
Dora Holzhandler’s beautiful paintings of lovers, family groups, solitary contemplatives, mothers and children and people at home and in the...
Ceramics exhibition featuring the very best of work by one of the greatest potters in the UK.
Born in Uganda in 1946 and raised in Tanganyika into a ‘life style of undeserved privilege typical of the beginning of the end of the colonial...
Collage and paintings by this interesting artist. Davison said that he was the only true collagist, relying entirely on found papers, more often torn than cut.
Francis Davison, born 1919 in London, studied at Cambridge, where he read English and anthropology. He moved to St Ives in 1946 at the...
