Anne Morgan: Contemporary Jewellery
1st-28th February Lower Gallery
Anne Morgan produces handmade jewellery that blends together a unique combination of organic texture with simple geometry. Using experimental techniques, Anne fuses the relationships of form and surface to create jewellery of distinctive quality and unique design. A member of the Makers Guild in Wales, she shows work both nationally and internationally.
Anne produces both a commercial range of jewellery alongside more conceptual ranges, more suitable for exhibition although still very saleable. The work in this show features USB memory sticks and was developed with the support of the Arts Council of Wales. The idea behind the work is ‘wearable memories’.
Anne Morgan: Pendants
Anne Morgan: Necklaces
Anne Morgan: Ring
Helaina Sharpley
1st-15th February
Lower Gallery
Helaina Sharpley is a vibrant young artist who has always had a big passion for tea and everything tea related. She believes that tea is a drink for every occasion and therefore every tea set, every mug or cup and saucer can tell a different tale.
Helaina also has a deep interest in old architecture, mainly Edwardian and Victorian, that led her onto creating very linear drawings using pen and ink to capture the intricate details of the buildings. This led to using wire as another drawing material and all the pieces she now creates start as pen and ink drawings to then be translated into 2D/3D wire work.
Helaina Sharpley: Teapots and cups
Helaina Sharpley: Cups
Helaina Sharpley: Building
Romance
8th-20th February
Upper Gallery
Several Washington Gallery artists’ work will be exhibited together for a romantic Valentine’s themed show in the upper gallery. Dominic Gubb makes dogs festooned with flowers, printmaker Jason Davies presents flamboyant flower prints while Newport-based painter Nick Hughes and Rhumney’s Graham Jones offer poignant scenes of love found and love lost.
Flower Dog, plastic flower. Dominic Gubb
Sludge Rose, Jason Davies
Jason Davies, Posterrose
Andrew Machon -
Photographic Exhibition
22nd-26th February
Upper Gallery
Andrew Machon is a PhD scientist and psychotherapist specialising as a life and work coach. For over twenty years he has worked as an infrared photo artist. The medium of infrared sits outside the visible light spectrum so Andrew has to sense his images rather than see them. This allows him, he believes, to include in his images glimpses beneath the superficial and material mantle of everyday living and nature.
Image08, Andrew Machon
Penarth Pavilion Project Exhibition
Photographic Competition
28th February- 6th March 2008
Upper Gallery
Following the high number of participants in the Penarth Pavilion Photographic Competition the Washington Gallery is happy to host the exhibition of selected pieces.
On the opening night photographer and artist, Patricia Aithie will award special commendations.
Carol Humphreys
Rob Hudson
The exhibition has been sponsored by Adam Framers.
John Goddard: Recent work
7th-30th March
Upper Gallery
John Goddard is a distinguished painter associated with the Rhondda Group. This show unveils a fairly comprehensive exhibition of new work with some examples of his earlier styles
John Goddard-Office Group
John Goddard-Pans
John Goddard-White drawers