30th September - 20th October
56 Group Wales
Upper Gallery / Yr Oriel Uchaf
This latest exhibition by the 56 Group Wales offers new works from its current membership of twenty artists, which include Arthur Giardelli, Glyn Jones, Robert Harding, Sue Williams, Peter Spriggs and Harvey Hood.
30th September - 20th October
Wire & Wool
Upper Gallery / Yr Oriel Uchaf
Using different media, three South Wales artists demonstrate personal responses to animal identification markings. Pat Johnson is a felt maker using merino fleece, silk fibres and fabrics in bags, garments and vessels. Lynn Walters' 3D sculptures use wire, aluminium, stainless steel and tin. Jean Roberts spins and dyes her own yarns.
23rd October - 09th November
Chris Griffin & Brian Smith
Upper Gallery / Yr Oriel Isaf
Chris Griffin continues to fashion his images from his immediate surroundings, bringing to each subject the intensity of colour and structure that has characterised his work for a number of years. Still life and a series of window paintings are new themes.
Here he will show with painter Brian Smith who depicts actual locations in what he sees as their most ancient or raw state.
23rd October 9th November
Bryan Alcock
Lower Gallery / Yr Oriel Isaf
Bryan Alcock was Design Director of a large international firm of architects in Cardiff until 2000 when he decided to concentrate on painting. Characteristically the abstracts play on contrasting textures and colour while his current preoccupation is with Celtic iconography.
23rd October - 9th November
Ceri Pritchard
Round Room
Brittany based Ceri Pritchard here presents a synthesis of video with his paintings,attempting to extend each 2D work within time.
23rd October - 9th November
James Beale
Café
James Beale's series of 14 etchings and collographs reveal his fascination with harbours: the colours, light and interaction of forms and shapes. A Senior Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, this is Beales second exhibition at the Washington
During October
Mandy Schmidt
Throughout Gallery
Guided by the knots and grain of her redeemed timber offcuts, Mandy Schmidt shapes tables, chairs and other functional pieces.
During October
Featured artists
Georgia Pawelko - A young designer currently experimenting with fabrics and laminates to develop her unusual jewellery pieces.
Mark Hall - Exquisite sculpture from the Hampshire based Mark Hall. Recurrent motives include fruits and marine forms.
Simon Rich - A well-known potter from West Wales with a collection of crystalline glazes and green, yellow and iron red colour glazes on elegantly turned vessels and bowls.
Caron Burroughs - A Wales-based jewellery maker currently in her second year of City & Guilds. Primarily created in silver natural elements such as plant and flower forms inspire her delicately textured surfaces. Doming and hammering add a three dimensional aspect.