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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Spadge Hopkins and Alice Ridley – 15th to 21st February
Spadge Hopkins’ work is informed by experience gained during a creative career that involved product design, music and engineering. Currently he works in metal and ceramics and also produces prints using various techniques. His metal sculptures often involve the use of void and shadow. Recent subjects have included music icons, natural history and autobiographical themes exploring the past in an attempt to make sense of the present.
Alice Ridley is an artist now living in Suffolk, who pursued a theatre design degree at Nottingham Trent and fine art at London Fine Arts. She strives to provide beauty through the medium of oil with her East Anglian landscapes, botanical paintings and comforting interior scenes. For the last eight years Alice has given clients the best possible experience through tuition and artistic expression, with her acclaimed art lessons - inspiring many to a standard at accomplishment, to exhibit themselves.
Spadge Hopkins’ work is informed by experience gained during a creative career that involved product design, music and engineering. Currently he works in metal and ceramics and also produces prints using various techniques. His metal sculptures often involve the use of void and shadow. Recent subjects have included music icons, natural history and autobiographical themes exploring the past in an attempt to make sense of the present.
Alice Ridley is an artist now living in Suffolk, who pursued a theatre design degree at Nottingham Trent and fine art at London Fine Arts. She strives to provide beauty through the medium of oil with her East Anglian landscapes, botanical paintings and comforting interior scenes. For the last eight years Alice has given clients the best possible experience through tuition and artistic expression, with her acclaimed art lessons - inspiring many to a standard at accomplishment, to exhibit themselves.
Karen Lear – 22nd to 28th February
A retrospective exhibition of the glorious knitwear of te late Rona Lear, together with recent flower paintings by Karen Lear
A retrospective exhibition of the glorious knitwear of te late Rona Lear, together with recent flower paintings by Karen Lear
Aldeburgh Literary Festival – 29th February to 6th March
This exhibition presents work by artists who generously contributed to the anthology of Suffolk writing and art, A New Suffolk Garland, published in 2022 for the Festival of Suffolk. The book was published in aid of charity and has now raised over £15,000 for Suffolk charities. Profits from the sale of the works in this exhibition will also be donated to Suffolk charities.
The works include oil paintings, drawings, linocuts, engravings, photographs and a sculpture. The paintings and artworks on sale are not necessarily the same ones as reproduced in the book. Artists displaying works include:
Derek Chambers, Emma Chichester Clark, Frances Crickmore, Alex Curry, Laurence Edwards, Jeff Fisher, Annabel Gault, Kate Giles, Maggi Hambling, Paul Hamlyn, David Hughes, Bill Jackson, Ffiona Lewis, Eamonn McCabe, Caroline McAdam Clark, Helen Napper, Tessa Newcomb, Sarah Muir Poland, Janet Watson
This exhibition presents work by artists who generously contributed to the anthology of Suffolk writing and art, A New Suffolk Garland, published in 2022 for the Festival of Suffolk. The book was published in aid of charity and has now raised over £15,000 for Suffolk charities. Profits from the sale of the works in this exhibition will also be donated to Suffolk charities.
The works include oil paintings, drawings, linocuts, engravings, photographs and a sculpture. The paintings and artworks on sale are not necessarily the same ones as reproduced in the book. Artists displaying works include:
Derek Chambers, Emma Chichester Clark, Frances Crickmore, Alex Curry, Laurence Edwards, Jeff Fisher, Annabel Gault, Kate Giles, Maggi Hambling, Paul Hamlyn, David Hughes, Bill Jackson, Ffiona Lewis, Eamonn McCabe, Caroline McAdam Clark, Helen Napper, Tessa Newcomb, Sarah Muir Poland, Janet Watson
Nigel Gooding and Jan Hardisty – 7th to 13th March
Nigel Gooding – Since establishing Cut Editions in 2017 in The Cut Halesworth I work almost exclusively in the screen printing medium. My work is born out of the 'modernist ' tradition where the emphasis is on the formal qualities of flatness, colour, line, and texture. For the past five years my prints have been non-figurative but for this upcoming exhibition I'm moving gently back to figuration by incorporating into my prints saturated photographic imagery. I'm juxtaposing this new approach with a series of bold minimalist works.
Jan Hardisty is a photographer. He lives and works in Suffolk. Before concentrating on photography he worked in the theatre as a lighting designer. He uses his camera to record constructions made in the studio from paper, wood, string and sometimes found objects. He has his camera and beyond that anything is possible through imagination. The work is abstract to a degree but refers to architecture, theatre and still life. The final giclee print is printed on Fine Art paper. He has shown at the RA and was represented by Goldmark Gallery.
Nigel Gooding – Since establishing Cut Editions in 2017 in The Cut Halesworth I work almost exclusively in the screen printing medium. My work is born out of the 'modernist ' tradition where the emphasis is on the formal qualities of flatness, colour, line, and texture. For the past five years my prints have been non-figurative but for this upcoming exhibition I'm moving gently back to figuration by incorporating into my prints saturated photographic imagery. I'm juxtaposing this new approach with a series of bold minimalist works.
Jan Hardisty is a photographer. He lives and works in Suffolk. Before concentrating on photography he worked in the theatre as a lighting designer. He uses his camera to record constructions made in the studio from paper, wood, string and sometimes found objects. He has his camera and beyond that anything is possible through imagination. The work is abstract to a degree but refers to architecture, theatre and still life. The final giclee print is printed on Fine Art paper. He has shown at the RA and was represented by Goldmark Gallery.
Take 4 – 14th to 20th March
TAKE 4 is an art exhibition by four local artists working in different media using nature as their inspiration. This year we would like to welcome our guest artists Julie Scarr with her beautiful prints and Serena Jones with her wonderful ceramics.
Other artists are:
Brian Coetzee – mixed media paintings and collage
Tobias Ford – Steel sculptures
An Exhibition not to be missed.
TAKE 4 is an art exhibition by four local artists working in different media using nature as their inspiration. This year we would like to welcome our guest artists Julie Scarr with her beautiful prints and Serena Jones with her wonderful ceramics.
Other artists are:
Brian Coetzee – mixed media paintings and collage
Tobias Ford – Steel sculptures
An Exhibition not to be missed.
Wendy Barlow – 21st to 27th March
Originating from the Northwest of the county, I lived next door to the Peak District with its rugged beauty, craggy windswept trees, and bleak hill tops, lucky for me being a landscape painter inspiration to paint was never very far away. After moving to Norfolk I had to look for my inspiration elsewhere, Norfolk by comparison is a much gentler relatively flat landscape with huge vast sky’s.
My aim is to try and capture a moment in time from the ever changing landscape. I’m fascinated by the way cloud formations change and move so quickly, the dark rain clouds as they disperse over unsuspecting villages far into the distance, the shadows that come and go. The colour shifts off the farmers fields as the crops ripen from cool bright greens to warm golds, the hedgerows with cow parsley bobbing about all truly inspiring.
I mostly sketch and paint outside reacting to what lies ahead of me using acrylic paint and inks then back to the studio to develop the work into larger pieces
Laying down loose expressive brush marks using acrylic paint, inks and pastel drawing into puddles of paint to create interesting reactions. I scratch and scrape into the surface.
Originating from the Northwest of the county, I lived next door to the Peak District with its rugged beauty, craggy windswept trees, and bleak hill tops, lucky for me being a landscape painter inspiration to paint was never very far away. After moving to Norfolk I had to look for my inspiration elsewhere, Norfolk by comparison is a much gentler relatively flat landscape with huge vast sky’s.
My aim is to try and capture a moment in time from the ever changing landscape. I’m fascinated by the way cloud formations change and move so quickly, the dark rain clouds as they disperse over unsuspecting villages far into the distance, the shadows that come and go. The colour shifts off the farmers fields as the crops ripen from cool bright greens to warm golds, the hedgerows with cow parsley bobbing about all truly inspiring.
I mostly sketch and paint outside reacting to what lies ahead of me using acrylic paint and inks then back to the studio to develop the work into larger pieces
Laying down loose expressive brush marks using acrylic paint, inks and pastel drawing into puddles of paint to create interesting reactions. I scratch and scrape into the surface.
Elements of Nature – 28th March to 3rd April
Louise Sant – Louise has been creating jewellery for 40 years, selling to outlets and galleries which include Liberty, Harrods, V&A and designing for RGB Kew, V&A and De Beers.
Now living in Aldeburgh, her jewellery is inspired by the coast and landscape, the colours reflected in her use of gemstones and pearls with silver shells, fish, flora and fauna.
Felicity Jones – Felicity collects and presses overlooked wayside flowers, grasses, plants, feathers, fallen blossom and leaves on pavements and paths. These same plants are later used to form her intricate Slipcast ceramic pieces and, as a final touch, each piece is topped off with a celebratory gold or platinum lustre rim.
Nicola Mountney – Nicola is from London and now lives in Tuscany. Having spent may years studying Tibetan Buddhist Thangka (scroll) painting, she has since changed direction, but kept these painting techniques which have led her to create a unique fusion where East meets West.
Louise Sant – Louise has been creating jewellery for 40 years, selling to outlets and galleries which include Liberty, Harrods, V&A and designing for RGB Kew, V&A and De Beers.
Now living in Aldeburgh, her jewellery is inspired by the coast and landscape, the colours reflected in her use of gemstones and pearls with silver shells, fish, flora and fauna.
Felicity Jones – Felicity collects and presses overlooked wayside flowers, grasses, plants, feathers, fallen blossom and leaves on pavements and paths. These same plants are later used to form her intricate Slipcast ceramic pieces and, as a final touch, each piece is topped off with a celebratory gold or platinum lustre rim.
Nicola Mountney – Nicola is from London and now lives in Tuscany. Having spent may years studying Tibetan Buddhist Thangka (scroll) painting, she has since changed direction, but kept these painting techniques which have led her to create a unique fusion where East meets West.
Paula Sharples and Caroline Fish – 4th to 17th April
Paula gained a degree in Textile Design in the early 70’s and spent 28 years as a freelance textile designer before working as a full time professional artist since 2011.
Having been brought up in Brighton, the coast is a constant inspiration for her paintings.
She works on gesso prepared board and occasionally canvas, with acrylic, ink and graphite and uses a combination of still life and landscape background reminiscent of Italian frescoes with the framing of a distant landscape. Her use of colour and pattern is evidence of her past in textile design.
Paula gained a degree in Textile Design in the early 70’s and spent 28 years as a freelance textile designer before working as a full time professional artist since 2011.
Having been brought up in Brighton, the coast is a constant inspiration for her paintings.
She works on gesso prepared board and occasionally canvas, with acrylic, ink and graphite and uses a combination of still life and landscape background reminiscent of Italian frescoes with the framing of a distant landscape. Her use of colour and pattern is evidence of her past in textile design.
Rob Wyn Yates, Tim Martin, Andrea Newman and Crispin Kelly – 18th to 24th April
Rob Wyn Yates is a painter who works with shape, form, and colour to achieve dynamic spacial realism. His inspiration comes from the natural world, as well as a background in design. Having exhibited widely, this is his first show in Aldeburgh.
Tim Martin studied architecture in Sydney, before moving to L.A. He is now a London based ceramicist with a background in fine art and design. He makes powerful ceramic sculptures from his studio in Holborn. Having completed numerous residences in Denmark, Hungary and the U.K., his use of unusual clays and slab works result in pieces which are both minimal and modern.
Andrea Newman has been working as a figurative fine artist in Suffolk since the late nineteen eighties. She works almost exclusively from life, enjoying the energy and sense of time and movement that she can achieve when working directly from the subject. She has exhibited regularly in the region.
Crispin Kelly is passionate about ceramics. He has a background in architecture and lives and works on a farm in Suffolk. His ceramics are directional and also positionable with moveable elements.
Rob Wyn Yates is a painter who works with shape, form, and colour to achieve dynamic spacial realism. His inspiration comes from the natural world, as well as a background in design. Having exhibited widely, this is his first show in Aldeburgh.
Tim Martin studied architecture in Sydney, before moving to L.A. He is now a London based ceramicist with a background in fine art and design. He makes powerful ceramic sculptures from his studio in Holborn. Having completed numerous residences in Denmark, Hungary and the U.K., his use of unusual clays and slab works result in pieces which are both minimal and modern.
Andrea Newman has been working as a figurative fine artist in Suffolk since the late nineteen eighties. She works almost exclusively from life, enjoying the energy and sense of time and movement that she can achieve when working directly from the subject. She has exhibited regularly in the region.
Crispin Kelly is passionate about ceramics. He has a background in architecture and lives and works on a farm in Suffolk. His ceramics are directional and also positionable with moveable elements.
Christine Hofmann – 25th April to 1st May
The exploration of crystal clear coastal waters has been Christine’s passion for many years. Initially inspired by prolonged stays in Australia and the beauty of its pristine beaches, her more recent work has been focusing on Mediterranean coasts - the French Riviera, Corsica and the Tuscan Archipelago. While her large, true to life paintings are very personal reflections both on nature and the places of inspiration, they tend to resonate with a wide range of people and have been very popular in her exhibitions in Munich, London and Sydney.
“My challenge is to capture the essence of what makes nature fascinating for us to look at. Water has been my favourite topic for many years now, because aside from being endlessly varying in its appearance and a real challenge to bring alive on canvas, it also has all kinds of symbolic, contemplative meanings.”
Having lived in Suffolk since 2007, she is excited about the opportunity to present her paintings for the first time at Aldeburgh Gallery. She will show a selection of breathtaking water scenes inspired by the coasts of Australia, France and Italy.
The exploration of crystal clear coastal waters has been Christine’s passion for many years. Initially inspired by prolonged stays in Australia and the beauty of its pristine beaches, her more recent work has been focusing on Mediterranean coasts - the French Riviera, Corsica and the Tuscan Archipelago. While her large, true to life paintings are very personal reflections both on nature and the places of inspiration, they tend to resonate with a wide range of people and have been very popular in her exhibitions in Munich, London and Sydney.
“My challenge is to capture the essence of what makes nature fascinating for us to look at. Water has been my favourite topic for many years now, because aside from being endlessly varying in its appearance and a real challenge to bring alive on canvas, it also has all kinds of symbolic, contemplative meanings.”
Having lived in Suffolk since 2007, she is excited about the opportunity to present her paintings for the first time at Aldeburgh Gallery. She will show a selection of breathtaking water scenes inspired by the coasts of Australia, France and Italy.
Eastern Edge – 2nd to 8th May
A small but varied group of artists coordinated by Tricia Davidson (painter) and Bill Haward (collages) The other contributors this year are Peter Chadwick (etchings & woodcuts) and Ni Gooding (silkscreen prints).
A small but varied group of artists coordinated by Tricia Davidson (painter) and Bill Haward (collages) The other contributors this year are Peter Chadwick (etchings & woodcuts) and Ni Gooding (silkscreen prints).
Diana Capstick and Spadge Hopkins – 9th to 15th May
Diana Capstick's work is a vibrant testament to the ever-shifting landscapes, where the movement of light upon the sands and sea becomes a well of inspiration. "I draw deeply from the hidden gems concealed within the tranquil shadows of sun-kissed beaches, capturing the elusive essence of idyllic hideaways. I weave patterns that emerge from the interplay of colour and form, inviting viewers to explore the shadows and illumination, as if deciphering secrets whispered by the shoreline. My canvas often hosts structures that dot the coastal horizons—beach huts and shacks that stand sentinel against the tides of time."
Spadge Hopkins’ work is informed by experience gained during a creative career that involved product design, music and engineering. Currently he works in metal and ceramics and also produces prints using various techniques. His metal sculptures often involve the use of void and shadow. Recent subjects have included music icons, natural history and autobiographical themes exploring the past in an attempt to make sense of the present.
Diana Capstick's work is a vibrant testament to the ever-shifting landscapes, where the movement of light upon the sands and sea becomes a well of inspiration. "I draw deeply from the hidden gems concealed within the tranquil shadows of sun-kissed beaches, capturing the elusive essence of idyllic hideaways. I weave patterns that emerge from the interplay of colour and form, inviting viewers to explore the shadows and illumination, as if deciphering secrets whispered by the shoreline. My canvas often hosts structures that dot the coastal horizons—beach huts and shacks that stand sentinel against the tides of time."
Spadge Hopkins’ work is informed by experience gained during a creative career that involved product design, music and engineering. Currently he works in metal and ceramics and also produces prints using various techniques. His metal sculptures often involve the use of void and shadow. Recent subjects have included music icons, natural history and autobiographical themes exploring the past in an attempt to make sense of the present.
