July 2018 – Olivia Browne
Olivia will be showing the first of a new series ‘walking the dog’.
She talks about her work here:
‘My collaged landscapes play with pastoral stereotypes. Recent work responds to British countryside imagery. The medium of collage allows me to construct fantasy rural scenes that are not what they at first seem, by arranging and re-arranging papers […]
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June 2018 – Jean McNeil
During June we will be showing a selection of artist Jean McNeil’s prints and collages entitled ‘Aspects of the Sea‘. She talks about her work here:
“I am a landscape painter, but have always been drawn to representing the sea, a fascinating and elusive subject. I made a series of monoprints in 2016 and 17 […]
May 2018 – Sandrine Singleton-Perrin
Sandrine Singleton-Perrin’s beautiful textiles will be on show at the gallery during May. She talks about her work here:
‘I’ve been living in Wivenhoe for over 20 years and teaching at the University. I have been creating textile art for two or three years. The pieces showing in the bookshop gallery are machine embroidered and hand-stitched […]
April 2018 – John Wallett
‘SHIFT#2’ by John Wallett
‘Over The Sofa Fortnight’
This week and next John Wallett will be showing a selection of print work Over the Sofa in the Wivenhoe Bookshop.
John talks here bout the work:
“A couple of years ago I started doing printmaking evening classes with Kitty Reford at Colchester Institute. Printmaking brought many artistic preoccupations back together […]
The Long Spring – with Laurence Rose & Richard Allen
Art Exhibition & Book Launch
‘The Long Spring’
6.30pm Friday 16th March
Wivenhoe Bookshop
& 7.30pm at the Nottage Institute
Entry £4 on the door
Wivenhoe Quay
Join us for the launch of Laurence Rose’s The Long Spring – we’ll start with the Private View of Wivenhoe artist Richard Allen’s beautiful illustrations for the book at the Bookshop Shed, and proceed to […]
