Lasting Impressions An Exhibition of Printmaking

Artists;

Brian Whitely

Julie Orpen

Anne Townsend

Julie, Anne and Bryan are all printmakers making relief images mainly from lino and wood block, also some engravings.

Jacinta Nalpon

Jacinta’s first showing at Artspace exhibits abstract art and painted ceramic.

It flaunts her eclectic mix of cultural and travel experiences.

Jacinta welcomes you to experience the essence of life and art, painted not on just a canvas.

Join her on her voyage of metamorphosis.

Instagram: Nalpon_art

The Shape of Colour, a collaboration where sculpture and painting collide. Mark Croxford’s striking and colourful sculptural forms juxtapose with the decorative figurative works by Naomi Munuo. Both artists making dynamic use of colour and shape. Both studied a BA with Hons degree, Mark Croxford, Fine Art at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic and Naomi Munuo Fashion Design at Central St Martins. They crossed paths in Suffolk through the art scene, where they both enjoy careers as full time artists. Both artists exhibit their work regularly and are collected widely.

https://www.instagram.com/naomimunuo/
https://www.instagram.com/markccroxford/

Mark Croxford

Naomi Munuo

Alice Ridley, painter and Spadge, sculptor show new work.

Spadge Hopkins

Elizabeth Williams

Emily Keith

Alice Ridley

Amedeo Castellani will be showing street photographs and portraits in monochrome and in colour. Castellani has been a photographer since the mid 1970s from when he attended art school and worked at Cinecittà film studios in Rome. This will be Amedeo’s last UK exhibition prior to moving abroad after living almost thirty years in and around Woodbridge.

East Anglian Artists will show recent work.

James Power,

John Shave,

Susan Williams

Suffolk Summer Creative

Louise Sant - Jeweller

Kate Reynolds - Potter

Claire Baldwin - Painter

Mike Hughes - Painter

David Gillingwater - Painter

Richard Dack - Painter

Ruth Simpson

‘A Solo Exhibition’ of landscape and botanical paintings.

Ruth’s work will be familiar to anyone who has spent time in the Suffolk countryside. She captures the beauty and special character of the county’s woodlands, heaths, coasts and farmland.  Her work is particularly known for its incredible detail and realism, capturing the intricacies of the smallest flowers and seed heads, through to summer wildflower meadows in full bloom and magnificent ancient trees. Every one of Ruth’s paintings has the ability to connect you to a little bit of Suffolk.

This will be Ruth’s first solo exhibition at Artspace.

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ruth_simpsonart

John Roberts summer exhibition

Celebrating the everyday architecture of country towns - especially Woodbridge - is a passion for John Roberts.The casual siting of structures on narrow streets over time produces an exciting mix of shapes, textures and colours.

He has been a resident artist in Woodbridge since 1960 and as well as townscapes paints landscapes and natural forms.

Artworks artists taking part are: Valerie Armstrong; Lyn Aylward; Hazel Bradshaw; Terry Bryan; Louise Chapman; Martin Coe; Nicola Coe; Cathy D'Arcy; Gillian Crossley-Holland; Nicci Dedman; Judith Glover; Jazz Green; Julia Groves; Janet French; Simon Kimmins; Christine McKechnie; Joe Pattison; Elisabeth Rutt, Rick Tomasi.

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A Brit Abroad by Will Thompson

Travel photography from Japan,The Philippines, India & Sri lanka.

Will Thompson is a street and travel photographer based in Hackney, London. He captures candid moments and overlooked details, both in urban and remote settings across the world. His work has been featured in publications such as the Financial Times, The Telegraph, Metro, Evening Standard and NME. A Brit Abroad is his first solo show, which brings together his images from Japan, Vietnam, India, The Philippines and Sri Lanka.

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Pete Hawkins

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Alexandra Oliver’s artwork is focused upon an exploration of the serene beauty of the English countryside that surrounds her in Suffolk. She emboldens the viewer with a sense of immersion within the landscape, capturing the animate energy that flows throughout the natural world.

 She integrates her experiences exploring her local countryside landscape and alchemises them into her own visual language.

 Oliver’s influences span the poetic sensibilities of Constable and Gainsborough, the drama of Turner, and the ethereal opulence of Rococo aesthetics. Her art blends these elements to infuse her work with a representational flourish.

 Her traditional approach to painting has evolved from a background following a BA in Fine Art with History of Art at the University of Leeds, practical art training in Florence and art history at Sotheby’s Institute of Art where she completed her MA in Fine and Decorative Art & Design.

Exhibition:

 Title: Viridis

(Latin: green, verdant, vitality) 

While the literal translation of 'Viridis' denotes the colour green, it also suggests playfulness and evokes visions of lively, abundant vegetation. Green echoes throughout this exhibition – a dreamscape of a temporal realm. Viridis draws upon the artist’s connection with the Suffolk landscape where the artist grew up. Interwoven with memories of these places and art historical influences, the exhibition presents a world where nature becomes sanctuary and source. 

Instagram: @alex_oliver_art

A mixed media exhibition by three artists from Essex and Suffolk.

Hanna Buck Abstract Artist

Emma Wren Watercolour Artist

Kim Croysdill Ceramicist

Theycome together with their combined passion for flamboyant colour and organic forms.

Hanna Buck

Hanna uses colour to commit feelings and ideas onto canvas. Painting in acrylic, she lets each piece establish its own course. Allowing the colours and shapes to dictate the final outcome of her work. She gradually builds up layers of colour, complimenting and sometimes clashing one another. Expressing her feelings on canvas and seeing where it leads is her favourite part of the process. 

www.hannabuck.com

Instagram: @hannabuck

Emma Wren

Emma works primarily in watercolours but not necessarily in a conventional way. Using the bleeding effects from the vivid pigments to her full advantage she allows the paints to flood and flow, thus letting the paint do most of the work! Along with painting soft meadow flowers, Emma creates bold, large scale florals, capturing their delicate details and soft forms. Nature is an awesome mixer of colours, so why look anywhere else for inspiration? Emma’s work has sold to collectors all over the UK and Internationally. 

www.emmawren.co.uk

Instagram: @emmawrenart

Kim Croysdill

Kim is a small batch ceramicist working from a garden studio in the heart of Suffolk. Working with stoneware her inspiration comes from the garden, nature and organic forms. Wabi-sabi, embracing imperfections, is a practice she follows and enjoys. Glazes are kept minimal to allow the work to speak for itself. Oxides, woodfiring and raku are other finishes used which capture the organic beauty and no two pieces are the same. 

Instagram: @kim_c_design

Open evening Fri 23rd 6.00 – 8.00pm

Psycho-Geometries 

by Jim Nind                                                                                    

It’s 3.10am on August 6th 2024. Jim has just awoken from a powerful dream into the darkness of his bedroom. He knows the dream has aroused in him such strong emotions that he won’t get back to sleep immediately. Downstairs he makes a cup of tea and sits at the kitchen table trying to make some sense of the dream.

It started in a dark and cold place and he was struggling to escape. Falling backwards through the circular hatchway he dropped at speed into an abysmal emptiness. Every sinew of his being screamed out as he fell into the empty void. It was at this point that he became aware of a network of vivid colour rising towards him. His speed slowed to a still point and he discovered that he was held, wrapped around, and safe within the rainbow womb that now embraced him.  Having found his way through some mysterious transition he knew that now he was safe; he was on the other side.

The dream prompted a shift in Jim’s artwork as he continued to ponder what had occurred, finding fresh energy within the new geometries which featured there, and exploring the nuances of subliminal meaning he began to uncover within the colours and forms he found held within the rainbow web.

https://www.instagram.com/jim.auto/

Cherry Beesley is a Professional Commercial and Food Photographer based in Suffolk. 

With a personal attitude and mantra of “always look up” I tend to see things from a different perspective, challenging the normal view. An inanimate object to anyone else may go unnoticed, it may even seem mundane, but to me, I see something interesting, beautiful from a unique angle. So while harnessing natural light I find I can create photographs that tell a story with intrigue, drama and instant engagement. I apply this to my work when capturing a business and for my personal projects. 

https://www.instagram.com/simplycphotography/

Bluebird Pottery Charity Sale

Founded in 2018, Bluebird Pottery is a ceramics workshop / showroom for ceramic artworks made by the founder Christopher New. It is also an active pottery school with over 40 resident potters.

From 8th to 14th May we are holding our annual charity sale of work contributed by our resident potters. The work promises to be creative, diverse and highly individual from our 40+ talented artists who have donated work to raise money for charity. The venue is the ArtSpace Woodbridge.

100% of all income (with no overheads deducted) will be donated to the following causes:

• Medecins Sans Frontiers (50%)

• St.Elizabeth Hospice (50%)

Please come and support us. Our work is amazing, well priced, and ideal as a gift. In doing so, you will be supporting the work of two very deserving charities.

Christopher New

Abundance

Corinne Peacock is a self-taught Suffolk-based acrylic artist, who paints in a distinctive semi-abstract style. Her paintings are brightly coloured and joyful, characterised by patterns, shapes, mark-making and symbolism. Full of energy, movement & vibrancy, evoking a myriad of emotions.

Corinne is a dual-heritage artist, having a South-African and British mix. Her style is naturally influenced in some way by this, although aboriginal influences can also be found within some aspects of her work. With no formal art training her style has evolved intuitively through the natural process of consistently painting and enjoying her craft.

Abundance is the name of her show. Her collection of paintings are inspired by nature & reflect the riches that life has to offer. It is an invitation to be reminded that we are surrounded by riches at all times: from the sky, the moon, the stars, trees, flowers and everything in between. They are all about connection & the cycles of life. With a thread of love running through them all.

Instagram Name: corinnepeacockart

Spring

An exhibition capturing the hope and potential of the new season. Artworks by Alice Ridley and Spadge Hopkins. Paintings full of light and colour alongside sculptures from nature for both inside and out.

Alice is a renowned Woodbridge oil painter with a loyal following of collectors and pupils. Spadge has escaped his studio and rustic home gallery in Framlingham to bring us a small selection of his metalwork apposite to the theme.

Harry Chrystall is a mixed media artist with a predominant interest in the nature of identity and authorship, and how they have evolved and function within the pervading conditions governing the human experience.

With an emphasis on process often involving what we think of as natural phonomena, his means of creation reflect in a literal sense this mysterious relationship between individual and setting.

The structure of 'A house on the beach is not a dream' is fabricated from weathered garden fence panels and constructed to resemble the familiar coastal groynes which extend from the land into the sea.

The purpose of these structures is to prevent the repeated movement of the waves removing parts of the land.   'Across this structure there are monochromatic 'Polaroids' of ink on watercolour paper which I shall be selling for £100 each including a display easel'.

Instagram ; https://www.instagram.com/harrychrystalls

‘Seeing Thru'

With drawings, sculpture, illustrated poems, prints and woodcuts, James Maberly takes us on a journey through our own lives and the lives of those around us and asks fundamental questions about our hopes and beliefs.

When we see thro’ the eye, we see thro’ the lens of the soul. We sense so much more through feelings than we realise and through the soul we have access to infinite wisdom.

Part of ‘seeing thro’ the eye’ is in recognising the need for balance in all things and particularly between the masculine and the feminine. With a very macho culture of power currently creating havoc in world politics, it’s time we refocused on a sense of balance in our lives.

https://www.instagram.com/jamesmaberly/

Opening Dates and Times:

10th – 16th April 2025

10.00 to 5:00 pm

Private View Date and Time:

Friday 11th April from 6.00-8.30 pm

Art Gatherings

With works by Delia Tournay-Godfrey, David Spiller, James Maberly Geraldine Spiller, Liz de Planta and Claire Fried.

Open evening Fri.4th April 18h - 20.00

A group show of four artists who all share a love of colour.

Anna Bagnall paints glowing still lifes and landscapes with bold blocks of colour and strong lines.

Jennie Foley was a textile designer for 30 years, and her abstract paintings reflect her interest in colour and pattern.

Sarah Spence is a mosaic artist whose 3D figures of animals and people reflect her strong sense of design combined with a great sense of humour.

Sara Sweetland creates intricate decoupage paintings of flowers and vintage ceramics using gouache and ink.'

SPRING AWAKENING

FARO returns to Artspace Woodbridge with SPRING AWAKENING alongside artist, Victoria Hall .

The exhibition showcases Hand-crafted homewares, Textiles and Watercolours from the verdant Kashmir Valley, the deserts of Rajasthan and the British countryside in a delicate spring palette to brighten our homes and lives.

Farheen and Ozma, sisters whose backgrounds are in fashion, textiles and design lead FARO and work with artisans in their motherland India to create items using heritage crafts of blockprint, papier-mâché, embroidery and weaving that bring exuberance and make every day feel special.

Victoria Hall has created Cluck Cluck! a country homeware & lifestyle brand featuring her bird drawings and original paintings.

ART-FORMS is a pioneering show introducing 140 emerging artists from Year 8 to Year 13.  Each was given the challenge of making an artwork for a public display.  Each had to make the work, in their own time, outside of the curricular timetable. There was no brief other than to be yourself. 

Opening times:

7-11 March 10:30am-3pm

8 Suffolk Women Artists show Work in Progress

Geraldine Spiller

Valerie Armstrong

Claudia Silva

Lisa Berry

honor Surie

Kate Reynolds

Claire Fried

Marie-Anne Bartlett

Please contact me about the space at enquiries@artw.co.uk

Thank you Artists and Collectors,Visitors and Friends for contributing to make 2024 a great year for Artspace Woodbridge. We have had fabulous shows and astonishing sales. ,

John Roberts

Collections of everyday domestic architecture often surprise the viewer with a feeling of excitement and elegance - and not just in Woodbridge.

Local artis, John Roberts, resident painter for 60 years, has recently explored some of the world’s other quaint corners to add to his forthcoming winter exhibition.

Wendy Raynsford - Painter

Garry McGee - Ceramisist

Louise Sant- Jeweller