Artist Jim Nind

Doing Different

The way we see, and the way we respond to what we find there, are primarily features of the cultural conventions we inherit. To step beyond, to think different thoughts, to enact new ways of working, is to challenge those shibboleths – the ‘holy cows’ that go very largely unquestioned in our day-to-day cultural lives. To do things differently is to step outside the conservative societal bosom and to progress upon a migrant journey into places that may seem odd. So the emerging products and the processes through which they are made may appear strange, and to risk adopting such things may render the maker ‘alien’.  In making this show of his work Jim entices the viewer to embrace difference and to explore the potential for affirmation through the process of ‘Doing Different’

Instagram: @ jim.auto

Artists

Delia Tournay - Godfrey

James Maberly

Gerry Spiller

David Spiller

Liz de Planta

Claire Fried

David Stone

EXHIBITION

Title: COASTAL CAPTURE

Paintings by Mary Gundry & Graham Rider

Ceramics by Sue Eyre

Mary Gundry

I find it difficult to talk about what motivates me to pick up a brush or a pencil - it's a kneejerk response usually - perhaps to the way the light is falling on the sea, or the way two figures walk hand in hand, or how a swimmer emerges from the sea. I don't know what I'm going to paint until I see it in front of me and then I face the challenge of expressing what I've seen with the emotion that I felt at the time. I have been using my imagination more recently creating midnight scenes of fishermen which are more about colour and light than the subjects themselves. A different and exciting direction for me.

Instagram: marygundryartist

Graham Rider

Graham is primarily a landscape painter with a particular focus on the hinterland between land and sea. Increasingly he has become more interested in the inhabitants of the shoreline and the restlessness of the scene, the rise and fall of the tide, the flights of the birds and their patterns of flight. The whole scene with its energy and enduring shift between permanence and temporary patterns and structures. Necessarily the technique he uses is looser, more impressionistic, his sources more eclectic, the method of planning and composition build up more layered. Over the years Graham has completed various commissions such as a tryptch of Liverpool St. station for Railtrack now in the National Railways Museum, he has works in public and corporate collections as well as in private collections including the Duke of Bedford.

Instagram: grahamriderartist

Sue Eyre

Sue is a ceramicist living in Clare, the smallest town in Suffolk. She hand builds her quirky and colourful ceramics in her garden studio, complete with woodburning stove to keep her toasty warm through the winter. Sue took up pottery in 2017 after several years of watercolour and acrylic painting, and was immediately drawn to the limitless possibilities of clay. She loves colour and her ceramics are extremely vibrant and full of humour. Sue exhibits and sells her work in several shops and galleries throughout East Anglia, particularly on the North Norfolk coast. Together with a fellow potter,she organises Clay in Clare each September, a very successful selling exhibition involving numerous ceramicists. She is a member of Anglian Potters and is part of their Social Media team. Sue confesses to having a lifelong crush on Bob Mortimer and is the proudowner of a very lively cocker spaniel called ….Mortimer!

Instagram: sue_eyre_ceramics

An Exhibition of paintings by Rosemary Claydon

with Pottery by Kate Reynolds and Robert Wickens

  A RETIREMENT.

“Picking up a paintbrush for the first time in forty years was quite daunting. I had no idea what I might achieve but I wanted to find out. Artists colours replaced the dried fragments in my childhood paintbox and I acquired a few new paintbrushes. These later became redundant when I discovered the joys of using a mop-head brush. After spending many hours attempting to paint vast skies, water and boats all along the coast and at Pinmill, I realised that I needed to acquire some real painting skills. Several two-day painting courses at Snape and Flatford followed.

    A visit to the Royal Watercolour Society‘s annual exhibition at The Mall Galleries changed everything. I was stunned by the vibrant, contemporary paintings using various combinations of pastel, ink, gouache and watercolour. To learn more I contacted several of the artists to find out whether they offered any short courses. In this way I travelled to the North Yorkshire Dales, Cornwall and Cumbria. Soon I felt free from all the conventions that previously I had thought were sacrosanct.

Whilst driving in Cumbria one beautiful evening, the sunlight glinting on the tops of the grey stone walls fleetingly reminded me of the effect achieved by tearing across a piece of newsprint. The tops of the glistening walls resembled the newly created white edge of torn newsprint. The next day I set to with newspaper and paints to create a Cumbrian Landscape. Nowadays, I use various combinations of watercolours, gouache and pastels with newsprint. The shapes and patterns of the letters and numbers are often the inspiration for the painting. Otherwise, a painting might be based on the meaning of the text. The newsprint is never randomly selected.”

                                                                                Rosemary Claydon.

Exhibition of New Works - Springtide 26

The East Anglian Group of Marine Artists (EAGMA) is a small group of professional and semi-professional artists with a shared enthusiasm for depicting marine subjects.

In addition to holding exhibitions, EAGMA meets socially and takes part in outdoor painting days several times a year, often including one session “afloat” on members’ yachts or aboard a Thames Sailing Barge.

The group originated in 1979, when six marine painters met at the famous “Butt and Oyster” pub at Pin Mill on the banks of the River Orwell in Suffolk. Soon others were invited to join, including several well-known and highly regarded artists drawn to the marine subjects along the East Coast. Following an inaugural exhibition in 1980, EAGMA has progressed in both quality and diversity and is now regarded as a respected organisation.

“Springtide 26,” the upcoming exhibition at ArtSpace Gallery in Woodbridge, will feature many new works by members of EAGMA, including local scenes of the Deben and Orwell.

A local Women’s Group exhibition - showing paintings, prints, ceramics and sculpture for sale or commissions taken

Artists

Lisa Berry

Claire Fried

Brenda Nash

Geraldine Spiller

Honor Surie

Valerie Armstrong

Kate Reynolds

Claudia Silva

To Artists, Collectors and Friends

    Thank you for your visits.

Each year we take some time to improve the Gallery,

fresh paint to walls and plinths,

mend the easels and deep clean everywhere.

We are therefore closed until the end of February 2026

Wishing you a Happy New Year and

looking forward to seeing you all soon.

If you would like to rent the gallery for a day for a drawing class,

please get in touch

Artspace Team - enquiries@artw.co.uk

John Roberts Solo Winter Exhibition

3rd - 17th January 2026

open every day between 10am-3.30pm

The winter exhibition by local artist John Roberts, pays homage to

our wonderful old town with some new work featuring the glorious

architectural mix. In addition there is aspecial focus on the town’s

 pubs which also includes many from the surrounding localities in a 

series of drawings.

Louise Sant - Jeweller

Garry Magee - Ceramicist

Wendy Raynsford - Painter

Claire Fried - Painter

Suffolk Artist Kate Roocroft studied Textile's specialising in surface print at the University of Central England in 1998 and later focussed on her love of oil painting in 2021 she began selling her work through galleries and exhibitions.

Kate’s creative process is very experimental  and includes building layers with acrylics and oils and mixed media. Creating abstract  and interpretations of local landscapes with simplified blocked areas of colours and many layers to incorporate texture and depth. 

Kates work takes inspiration from artist Paul Klee.

About the Connection Project

How connected are you to your local landscape and if you had to depict that connection through a series of photographs what would you portray?

The Connection Project was set up by Suffolk Landscape Photographer Gill Moon. The inspiration came from the question above.

The project began in January 2025 with the connection of 8 photographers from different parts of Suffolk who all came together through a shared love of photography and the landscapes of Suffolk.

The bodies of work that make up this project explore our connection with landscape and nature, with rural traditions and with our emotional wellbeing and the past. Each story is personal to the photographer who photographed it but each tells of a deep connection with the landscapes of Suffolk

Remembering in Paint

Klair Bauly -Artist of Natural Materials

Brigitte Girling - Painter in Acrylics and Mixed media

Klair Bauly -Artist of Natural Materials

Klair specialises in working with natural materials. She uses paints made from pure minerals, paper from plants and natural fibre textiles. It is important to her to create art without causing environmental impact, both as a working artist and in the work left behind in the future.

Being in nature is a constant inspiration, walking the coastline and countryside, to inform abstract paintings she creates work to portray the feeling of being in a place, a moment in time. Using repetition and minimalism to create a sense of calm contemplation; to allow space to breathe and be still, in the moment.

Balance, harmony & simplicity bringing a sense of calm contemplation is at the heart of her ethos. Creating art without harming the environment brings a purity to her expression.

She has work in collections in USA, Canada, Norway and the UK.

Graduate of West Surrey College of Art & Design 1976-79

Instagram: @klairbaulyartist

Brigitte Girling - Celebrating the humble humdrum of life.

Brigitte Girling is a self-taught, contemporary still life artist living in Suffolk, UK.

Brigitte celebrates the beauty of the ordinary and every day. Those precious small moments of whimsey and charm often unnoticed and overlooked. The mundane and domestic. She sees and feels the underlying beautiful narrative of life, whether busy and messy or quiet and still.

Working primarily with acrylic paint and some mixed media, She creates intuitively, from her imagination, until the painting chooses to reveal itself. This process leads to the build-up of many layers. A process resulting in a beautifully textured surface full of past ideas, scratches, scrapes, washes, marks and colour.

Brigitte states ‘I hope my art brings you joy, smiles and fills you up with happiness too.’

Instagram: @brigittegirling

BIRDS AND LANDSCAPES

by BRIN EDWARDS SWLA

with Jewellery by HELEN WALLACE

Brin Edwards is a wildlife and landscape painter who works from his straw bale studio near Sudbury in Suffolk. A member of the Society of Wildlife Artists his work focusses on light and atmosphere giving a contemporary twist to natural subjects. The paintings are the result of direct field observation and are worked up in the studio from on the spot sketches and compositions. The show includes some thrown ceramic bowls and sculptures also of wildlife subjects.

Instagram brinedwards_art

www.brin-edwards.com

Helen Wallace

Helen Wallace has always had a love of jewellery and a fascination for how pieces are put together. She has an advanced jewellery diploma through the Jewellers Academy in London working on intricate stone settings and designs. She has worked for many years with fine silver clay enjoying the tactile experience and flexibility it allows and finds the enhanced texture and detail in the final pieces very rewarding. She takes much of her inspiration from the natural world and incorporates the ides, shapes and forms into her bespoke handmade jewellery.

Title of show: WildWire

Paul Green is a self-taught artist and sculptor.

He draws inspiration from his love of nature, passion for birds, and his previous career as a nature reserve warden at Minsmere. Paul’s work has been featured on Channel 4’s “Grayson’s Art Club” and displayed at the Manchester Art Gallery.

Paul specializes in sculpting wildlife by observing various species and capturing their essence through the use of wire. Each piece is unique and can take many hours to create, using only wires and pliers. You might find him twisting wires at any of the birding hotspots along the Suffolk coast.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paul.green_wildwire/?hl=en

Colour / Form, is a joint exhibition between painter Gabriella Buckingham and ceramicist Karen Byford. Gabriella Buckingham's colourful art juxtaposes beautifully with the bold shapes of Karen Byford's vessels. Both artists appreciate strong form, which Gabriella explores in her experimental still life paintings and her intuitive abstracts. The artists became lifelong friends while studying different BA Hons art degrees in Kingston Upon Thames in the late 1980s and have been working full time in art and design ever since. Gabriella has been a fine artist for several years and her work featured in the 2025 RA calendar after her second showing at the RA Summer Exhibition. Karen works internationally as an architectural designer and runs her own gallery and pottery practice in Kent. This will be the launch of her new collection. 

Gabriella Buckingham Painter

https://www.instagram.com/gabriellabuckingham/

Karen Byford Potter

https://www.instagram.com/KlaybyK/

IAS SMALL WORKS 25

Artists from the Ipswich Art Society show Small works for the ninth year here in Artspace Woodbridge

NICOLA COE 'YEARTIDES'

Nicola Coe will be exhibiting a solo show of new works inspired by a year of seasonal changes in nature.

Nicola uses natural inks and tools to create both her works on paper and her sculptural pieces.

A gentle and peaceful exhibition reflecting a deep love and respect of the natural world.

EAGMA - East Anglian Group of Marine Artists

We are a small group of professional and semi-professional artists with a shared enthusiasm for depicting marine subjects.

Together with holding exhibitions the group also meet socially and take part in outdoor painting days several times a year, usually including one 'afloat' on members' yachts, or often aboard a Thames Sailing Barge. 

'Way Beyond' - A solo show of paintings and sculpture by Lisa Berry

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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