Exhibition programme
Aldeburgh Gallery hosts exhibitions throughout the year and displays the work of different artists each week. Exhibitions include paintings, prints, ceramics and textiles from many talented artists.
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Join Friends of Aldeburgh GalleryAutumn 2024
Fragile Edge – 5th to 11th September
Susan Debham explores the transition and liminality depicted in still life and landscape.
Susan Debham explores the transition and liminality depicted in still life and landscape.
Katherine Barney Ceramics – 12th to 18th September
I produce one off hand painted ceramics in my Norfolk studio.
Everything is a one off piece, using nature and animals as inspiration
I produce one off hand painted ceramics in my Norfolk studio.
Everything is a one off piece, using nature and animals as inspiration
Take 4 – 19th to 25th September
Brian Coetzee, Tobias Ford with guest artists Julie Scarr and Serena Jones return for their second TAKE4 exhibition of the year. They use different media and uses nature as their inspiration.
Brian Coetzee-mixed media paintings and collage
Tobias Ford – steel sculptures
Julie Scarr – prints and Serena Jones – ceramics.
Brian Coetzee, Tobias Ford with guest artists Julie Scarr and Serena Jones return for their second TAKE4 exhibition of the year. They use different media and uses nature as their inspiration.
Brian Coetzee-mixed media paintings and collage
Tobias Ford – steel sculptures
Julie Scarr – prints and Serena Jones – ceramics.
Michael Coulter – 26th September to 2nd October
Michael Coulter's work has a distinctive style influenced by his training in illustration and printmaking. Using his own techniques in handling design, pattern and colour Michael has developed a light hearted look at life and the countryside.
In 1987 he took early retirement from teaching at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk to take up painting full time. Over the years he has had over 25 one man exhibitions, mostly in Suffolk and Dorset, but also London and Washington DC. His work is held in many private and public collections world wide.
Every year Michael donates a some of his designs to charities be used as Christmas Cards. This year The Suffolk Wild Life Trust will be raising funds this way.
Michael Coulter's work has a distinctive style influenced by his training in illustration and printmaking. Using his own techniques in handling design, pattern and colour Michael has developed a light hearted look at life and the countryside.
In 1987 he took early retirement from teaching at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk to take up painting full time. Over the years he has had over 25 one man exhibitions, mostly in Suffolk and Dorset, but also London and Washington DC. His work is held in many private and public collections world wide.
Every year Michael donates a some of his designs to charities be used as Christmas Cards. This year The Suffolk Wild Life Trust will be raising funds this way.
Peter Ward Ceramics Online – 3rd to 9th October
Online Ceramics Gallery represents forty of the UK’s leading contemporary ceramic artists and potters. From Mousehole in Cornwall to Edinburgh in Scotland Online Ceramics visits the artists in their studios and selects a representative cross section of their work for the gallery. All the artists have a minimum of 10 years professional experience and many of them have been making for over 40 years.
Online Ceramics Gallery represents forty of the UK’s leading contemporary ceramic artists and potters. From Mousehole in Cornwall to Edinburgh in Scotland Online Ceramics visits the artists in their studios and selects a representative cross section of their work for the gallery. All the artists have a minimum of 10 years professional experience and many of them have been making for over 40 years.
Christopher Humphries – 10th to 16th October
Contemporary seascape paintings. Views of the Suffolk coast in mixed media acrylic, pastel, charcoal, ink and collage.
Contemporary seascape paintings. Views of the Suffolk coast in mixed media acrylic, pastel, charcoal, ink and collage.
Don Hawkley – 17th to 23th October
My work falls into two significantly different categories; decorative and functional. The main function of one-off sculptural pieces or wall pieces is to bring what inspires me into the home. A shallow dish that suggests a rock pool full of kelp or the confluence of a stream, the ocean and the sea-smoothed rocks at the shoreline, or the uniform fine lines suggested by the wind-swept reeds of a Suffolk estuary marsh, all reflected in the form, function and textures of my pieces.
I'm rarely without a sketchbook and a camera; as I walk along the Suffolk coastline or through countryside beneath the awesome canopy of massive Suffolk skies, I find that both broad vistas stretching away before me and textures I can touch and feel offer a plethora of inspiration.
My work falls into two significantly different categories; decorative and functional. The main function of one-off sculptural pieces or wall pieces is to bring what inspires me into the home. A shallow dish that suggests a rock pool full of kelp or the confluence of a stream, the ocean and the sea-smoothed rocks at the shoreline, or the uniform fine lines suggested by the wind-swept reeds of a Suffolk estuary marsh, all reflected in the form, function and textures of my pieces.
I'm rarely without a sketchbook and a camera; as I walk along the Suffolk coastline or through countryside beneath the awesome canopy of massive Suffolk skies, I find that both broad vistas stretching away before me and textures I can touch and feel offer a plethora of inspiration.
Paint, Cloth and Clay – 24th to 30th October
Kate Walker is a contemporary landscape painter based in the Waveney Valley. A horticulturalist and lover of nature, Kate draws endless inspiration from her countryside surroundings. The captivating River Waveney flows just behind Kate’s studio and is often the subject of her oil paintings.
Jacky Linney designs & makes unique & wearable clothes out of lovely fabrics
Jean McIntosh is a visual artist. She trained as a draughtswoman, has been a painter and also studied silversmithing and jewellery making. Jean began working with clay several years ago after completing a degree in Design. Her work is bold, graphic and distinctive. It is white earthenware clay decorated with coloured slip.
Kate Walker is a contemporary landscape painter based in the Waveney Valley. A horticulturalist and lover of nature, Kate draws endless inspiration from her countryside surroundings. The captivating River Waveney flows just behind Kate’s studio and is often the subject of her oil paintings.
Jacky Linney designs & makes unique & wearable clothes out of lovely fabrics
Jean McIntosh is a visual artist. She trained as a draughtswoman, has been a painter and also studied silversmithing and jewellery making. Jean began working with clay several years ago after completing a degree in Design. Her work is bold, graphic and distinctive. It is white earthenware clay decorated with coloured slip.
Belinda King, Karenza Jackson and Garry Magee– 31st October to 6th November
Belinda is a Suffolk-based landscape artist working mainly in oils. She works in the studio from very quick pencil field studies, which leaves her free to interpret the subject largely from memory. In her colourful and stylised paintings she tries to recapture the emotion of the moment. She has had many group and solo exhibitions.
Karenza Jackson is a contemporary Suffolk artist who gains her inspiration from everyday surroundings at home, the garden, and walking in the English countryside and coastal landscapes.
Belinda is a Suffolk-based landscape artist working mainly in oils. She works in the studio from very quick pencil field studies, which leaves her free to interpret the subject largely from memory. In her colourful and stylised paintings she tries to recapture the emotion of the moment. She has had many group and solo exhibitions.
Karenza Jackson is a contemporary Suffolk artist who gains her inspiration from everyday surroundings at home, the garden, and walking in the English countryside and coastal landscapes.
Garry Magee. As a musician, work has taken Garry to many countries that have helped shape him as a potter. Travelling through Japan and Korea, and seeing their inspiring ceramics, have been an important influence on his making. This recent series of pots, embodies his love of the Suffolk landscape.
Susie Hammond and friends – 7th to 13th November
Suffolk born artist Susie Hammond, formally trained as a garden designer and illustrator, is known for her prolific intricate ink pen drawings and paintings. She draws her inspiration from her rural surroundings in the Suffolk village she lives and illustrates in, where she also hand fires her unique tiles featuring her designs. Hares and Suffolk Sheep are amongst her most popular pieces of work. Susie is influenced by nature in all of its forms and local history, myths and legends. For Susie, every picture holds a story, it may be a glimpse of a hare on the common or the sheep down on the marshes or a complete fantastical character inspired by the imagery in her thoughts and observations. She is also a keen musician, singer-songwriter and poet.
Suffolk born artist Susie Hammond, formally trained as a garden designer and illustrator, is known for her prolific intricate ink pen drawings and paintings. She draws her inspiration from her rural surroundings in the Suffolk village she lives and illustrates in, where she also hand fires her unique tiles featuring her designs. Hares and Suffolk Sheep are amongst her most popular pieces of work. Susie is influenced by nature in all of its forms and local history, myths and legends. For Susie, every picture holds a story, it may be a glimpse of a hare on the common or the sheep down on the marshes or a complete fantastical character inspired by the imagery in her thoughts and observations. She is also a keen musician, singer-songwriter and poet.
David Williams and Julia Wilmot – 14th to 20th November
David's exhibition will be a varied collection of still life paintings, landscapes and seascapes in oils and watercolour – a traditional approach although you can’t escape from all kinds of influences.
Every painting tells some sort of story – this could be about a place, or natural forms and colours, or it could have some illustrative element. You just do what you find fascinating yourself, then hope it’s exciting and of some interest to others!
Julia is committed to hand building ceramics, enjoying the slower and contemplative pace this affords to the creation of her pieces. Working from her studio in a converted windmill in Suffolk Julia works primarily in stoneware using various techniques, including slip, sgraffito, oxides and glazes.
Always experimenting with form and design and finding inspiration in the natural world keeps Julia’s work fresh and ever evolving.
David's exhibition will be a varied collection of still life paintings, landscapes and seascapes in oils and watercolour – a traditional approach although you can’t escape from all kinds of influences.
Every painting tells some sort of story – this could be about a place, or natural forms and colours, or it could have some illustrative element. You just do what you find fascinating yourself, then hope it’s exciting and of some interest to others!
Julia is committed to hand building ceramics, enjoying the slower and contemplative pace this affords to the creation of her pieces. Working from her studio in a converted windmill in Suffolk Julia works primarily in stoneware using various techniques, including slip, sgraffito, oxides and glazes.
Always experimenting with form and design and finding inspiration in the natural world keeps Julia’s work fresh and ever evolving.
Sara Muzira – 21st to 27th November
I work in print and paint (and often mixed media). My images are a mixture of abstract/landscape although I occasionally work in a more figurative way. I have recently been exploring 3D work – one aspect of this has been working with old slate roof tiles removed from the dome at Ickworth House as part of their refurbishment scheme. I have been inspired by Braque's birds and the geese that live by the lake at Ickworth.
I work in print and paint (and often mixed media). My images are a mixture of abstract/landscape although I occasionally work in a more figurative way. I have recently been exploring 3D work – one aspect of this has been working with old slate roof tiles removed from the dome at Ickworth House as part of their refurbishment scheme. I have been inspired by Braque's birds and the geese that live by the lake at Ickworth.
Nicky Loutit – 28th November to 4th December
Nicky moved from North Norfolk to Aldeburgh five years ago. She has exhibited many times in London, North Norfolk, Norwich and Madrid. She now wants to put out some more of her work. Her paintings are a response to life, a way of understanding beauty.
"The great joy of painting - that thrill which is part physical, part mystic and belongs uniquely to the medium - lie in that magical moment when the colour flows off the paintbrush as though it, not you, were in charge of the life-giving event taking place. Only certain kinds of painters are good at communicating the exhilaration of that creative experience to the viewer. Nicky Loutit is, I believe, a painter of that kind." (David Thompson, 1929-2019, Art Critic of the Times for seven years and later Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London)
Nicky moved from North Norfolk to Aldeburgh five years ago. She has exhibited many times in London, North Norfolk, Norwich and Madrid. She now wants to put out some more of her work. Her paintings are a response to life, a way of understanding beauty.
"The great joy of painting - that thrill which is part physical, part mystic and belongs uniquely to the medium - lie in that magical moment when the colour flows off the paintbrush as though it, not you, were in charge of the life-giving event taking place. Only certain kinds of painters are good at communicating the exhilaration of that creative experience to the viewer. Nicky Loutit is, I believe, a painter of that kind." (David Thompson, 1929-2019, Art Critic of the Times for seven years and later Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London)
Lyn Peters and Sarah Baddon Price – 5th to 11th December
Originally from Hampshire and living in Suffolk for the last sixteen years (by way of London and New Zealand), Lyn has been painting since 2019. Self-taught and creating abstract landscapes (often inspired by Suffolk’s big skies) and her own figurative portrait style in acrylic and mixed media; her first significant success was when her portrait ‘Ned’ was selected and sold at the 2021 RA Summer Exhibition. Her landscape ‘Laura’s House’ was also shortlisted for last year’s show.
Renowned in Suffolk, her native Scotland, and across the UK for her vivid and unique work, Sarah Baddon Price brings a vibrant splash of colour to Aldeburgh this December. Teaming up with fellow artist Lyn Peters, she will showcase a collection including portraits, still life’s, bold abstracts, and reimagined florals. Known for her expressive use of colour and texture, Sarah is a keen supporter of the charity Art for Cure. In 2022 she was the artist in residence for the charity’s cycle trip to Kerala. Currently Sarah is preparing & fundraising for Art for Cure’s 2025 challenge.
Originally from Hampshire and living in Suffolk for the last sixteen years (by way of London and New Zealand), Lyn has been painting since 2019. Self-taught and creating abstract landscapes (often inspired by Suffolk’s big skies) and her own figurative portrait style in acrylic and mixed media; her first significant success was when her portrait ‘Ned’ was selected and sold at the 2021 RA Summer Exhibition. Her landscape ‘Laura’s House’ was also shortlisted for last year’s show.
Renowned in Suffolk, her native Scotland, and across the UK for her vivid and unique work, Sarah Baddon Price brings a vibrant splash of colour to Aldeburgh this December. Teaming up with fellow artist Lyn Peters, she will showcase a collection including portraits, still life’s, bold abstracts, and reimagined florals. Known for her expressive use of colour and texture, Sarah is a keen supporter of the charity Art for Cure. In 2022 she was the artist in residence for the charity’s cycle trip to Kerala. Currently Sarah is preparing & fundraising for Art for Cure’s 2025 challenge.
Cindy Lee Wright – 12th to 18th December
Flying into Christmas on the wings of birds, beasts and Angels. A festive celebration of winged creatures with works in wood and metal, fabric and paint.
Flying into Christmas on the wings of birds, beasts and Angels. A festive celebration of winged creatures with works in wood and metal, fabric and paint.
Telfer Stokes – 19th to 25th December
An integral part of the “putting together” process when making my work – is the the consideration of the spacing and interval between the constituent parts. This extends to the reconstruction of the walls, in my workshop, of the architectural setting I’d be placing my work in, and starting from there.
An integral part of the “putting together” process when making my work – is the the consideration of the spacing and interval between the constituent parts. This extends to the reconstruction of the walls, in my workshop, of the architectural setting I’d be placing my work in, and starting from there.
