Now Showing | Nick Hughes & Thomasin Toohie | Imagine That | Until 19th March Inspired by whimsy and a sense of the obscure, these two artists depict life in a world of fantasy. Newport-born painter Nick Hughes is largely self-taught. The artist works his pastels to create dreamlike surfaces in which tiny human figures [...]

Three Printmakers | Sheila Clark, Judith Stroud & Joseph F. Field | 22nd January – 12th February 2010. The Washington Gallery is proud to present an exhibition by three diverse printmakers: Sheila Clark’s prints are usually based on direct observation from the beach and local areas using collage and found material to suggest the rich textural [...]

Washington Friends Exhibition | 1st-19th Feb | Upper Gallery From the 1st -19th February, we’ll be showing a collection of work by Friends of the Washington Gallery,  in the Upper Gallery. The exhibition includes a variety of new work from long-standing and new friends of the Washington – including Shirley Anne Owen, Meurig Jenkins and Lyndon Richard. For more [...]

The Washington is proud to be hosting an exhibition by Paperweight – a group of International artists all working with paper. The exhibiton includes paper chains, friezes, framed work, hand made books and small paper shoes made from fragments toshie paper. The exhibtion also  invloves a talk by Tricia Hubbard, as part of the Washington’s [...]

The lower gallery is currently showing a selection of photographs from the Penarth Pavilion Photography competition. All the pictures are available for sale, framed, at £45 each and proceeds go towards our community fund raising effort for the restoration and reopening of the Penarth Pavilion. The project’s success relies on help and support from volunteers [...]

Penarth Arts & Crafts Limited (the charity which manages the Washington Gallery) has been organising and running an extensive outreach programme since 1998. The scheme, providing art workshops for disabled and disadvantaged groups in the community, has been primarily funded by the Arts Council of Wales and co-funded by the Gallery, and augmented by smaller [...]

The revised bid for Heritage Lottery Funding has been submitted this week and the wheels are now in motion for the Pavilion Project to begin taking shape. The full outline of the project is now in the hands of the Heritage Lottery Fund and they will make a decision later this year as to whether [...]