Exhibitions at Denbigh Library 2008
Contact details: denbigh.library@denbighshire.gov.uk
Telephone: 01745 816313
Website: www.denbighshire.gov.uk
Opening Hours:
Monday and Wednesday: 8.30am to 7.00pm
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 9.30am to 5.00pm
Saturday : 9.30am to 12.30pm
8-22 March - Denbigh Textiles
A selection of work from students who have followed a variety of textile courses in Denbigh College over the last 4/5 years. Includes embroidery, felting,m weaving, patchwork as well as showing working methods through examples of preliminary work.
Introductory workshop/taster session - from Denbigh College - textiles
29 March to 10 May - Gerald Dewsbury & Martin Craddock - Earth Matters
Paintings and ceramics from two artists who have known each other since their childhood and have both since settled in Wales. Gerald's verdant canvases inspired by the Welsh landscape bubble over with observed details while a darker meaning often underlies the seemingly tranquil scenes. Martin produces functional pots in glazed earthenware, striving for strong clean forms and enhancing them with rich layered glazes that create bold contrasts through pattern and texture.
17 May to 29 June - Alistair Tucker - New Mixed Media Work and Etchings
Alistair is based in Oswestry and produces mixed media drawings and etchings inspired by the British landscape.
"My work is based upon the British landscape; its shape and form and the effects of the weather and light upon it. The landscape is always changing depending upon the weather or the season; this excites me enormously and I see my art as a visual record of an ongoing playtime where I am searching, probing, observing what I see, feel and experience whilst outdoors. May aim when working back in the studio is to preserve the frisson of the first encounter, to try and capture the timeless nature of a place, the presence and essence or what Paul Nash called the 'gen ious loci'
5 July to 16 August - Clwydian Art Society
A showing of new work by members of this society who exhibit their work annually in galleries across North Wales.
23 August to 4 October - Colin See-Paynton - Of a Feather
A major touring exhibition of Colin See-Paynton's latest wood engravings produced for the important new book 'Of a Feather'. 31 large engravings of birds and 36 small engravings will be on show - results of four years work from Colin. He is well known as a distinguished exponent of the art of Wood engraving and his work is found in many private and public collections, including V&A, Ashmolean and National Library of Wales
11 October to 22 November - Colin Taylor - A Short Walk in the Big Landscape
Recent paintings and drawings from Colin Taylor, some undertaken in situ and some completed in the studio.
'Landscapes' in some form or another, have figured in my paintings for quite a few years. That inclusion took on more significance after I re-discovered the importance of drawing to my practice. It seems for me at least, to be a way or responding, not so much about a specific place, but more about the experience of being in that place at that time. Consequently, the process of mark making for me is not an optical experience but an emotional one.
The use of charcoal and graphite provides a kind of immediacy that seems to resonate with the eclipse of one moment by another and so extends that experience through a visual language which is to me, more valuable than leaden fact.
Painting/Drawing Master class with Colin and/or talk on his work connected to the inspiration for this experience.
29 November to 10 January - Open Exhibition
Artists from across North Wales will be invited to submit paintings for this open selling exhibition. There will be a size limit, but it will be open to 2D work in all media. An entrance fee will be charged to enter, and there will be a cash prize/prizes awarded.