We are very excited to introduce our first exhibition for 2020! The exhibition will open on Friday 14th February and run until Friday 6th March.
It is free entry into the exhibition.
We are open Monday - Friday 10am-4pm, with some late and weekend days for special events as advertised on our social media.
We recommend for you to call us on 01246 500799 to confirm your visit to the gallery.
Spokes by Andrew Buckley
In preparation for Andrew’s exhibition, we asked him a few questions about his work.
What medium is your exhibition and what is the exhibition’s name?
I work mainly in acrylics, but also in fused glass. I am calling this exhibition: Tangential Thoughts
What can people expect when they come to your exhibition?
My work relates to emotions and memories, the style can be challenging as the imagery and its conception comes from my mild form of synaesthesia
What inspires you? This could be a specific person, genre, time period etc.
I am inspired by the Bauhaus movement, modernism and cubism. The artists that I most admire are Man Ray, Picasso, Rothko, Damian Hirst, Grayson Perry, Gustav Klimt and Frida Kahlo
#5 by Andrew Buckley
How long have you been a practising?
I started in the early eighties designing posters for theatre and record sleeves for local bands, but took a long hiatus working a series of “proper jobs”. I began painting again on a serious basis a couple of years ago.
Many people have a creative passion but don’t ever think they will take it further. What helped you to decide that you were going to build on your passion?
I had the proverbial year from hell in which I was diagnosed with a serious health issue. Shortly after this I lost my job and my wife left me. I decided to concentrate on a passion which had been placed on hold for a long time. This was given an extra push when as my health improved and I began to return to normality as my illness had left me with a form of synaesthesia in which I related to thoughts and memories as blocks of colour, pattern and shading.