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LOOKING FORWARD TO A SUMMER CELEBRATION!

2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of The Garden Gallery. Plans are coming together for a celebratory exhibition of sculpture, ceramics and lettering opening on Saturday 1 June. More information will follow in due course. Please save the date!

The gallery is currently open by arrangement, and new exhibits can be viewed from after Easter.

Please browse the website for current stock.

https://www.gardengallery.uk.com/

Image: Bowl by Peter Furlonger (engraved, gilded, painted, 28 x 15 cms, text from Tintern Abbey by Wordsworth, The still sad music of humanity, glass by Potter Morgan Glass)

ARTISTS' NEWS

Patricia Volk FRSS

Recently, Patricia's ceramic sculptures 'popped up' as a backdrop during the continuity announcements between ITV programmes.

Patricia was selected as one of 52 artists to be commissioned in the ITV Creates project, aiming to convey the creativity of contemporary artists. Patricia says, "I'm really pleased with the series of short films the team created showing my sculpture morph into the ITV logo!"

Click to view Patricia's sculpture Beat at the Gallery.

https://www.gardengallery.uk.com/galleries/abstract-sculpture-in-glass

Johannes von Stumm FRSS

Johannes's Welcome Figure (commissioned by the Greenham Common Trust) has moved to a more prominent location at Greenham Business Park, where it now welcomes everyone approaching the site. ‘The Base’, shown in the photograph, is an art exhibition centre with a cafe for West Berkshire.

Click to see Johannes's sculpture, Unintended Moment, at the Gallery.

https://www.gardengallery.uk.com/galleries/abstract-sculpture-in-stone

Rebecca Newnham FRSS

Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth has commissioned an outdoor sculptural installation by Rebecca celebrating their new Design Hub, which opens in Spring 2019. "The 4m tall installation references progressive stages in a fluid dynamic vortex and is accompanied by water mist, referencing STEAM, an educational approach to learning which encompasses science, technology, engineering, art and maths."

Click to view Rebecca's work, Vermeer II, at the Gallery -

https://www.gardengallery.uk.com/galleries/contemporary-scultpure-for-interiors

Nick Durnan

Nick reports, "As a result of my study tour of pre-Romanesque, Visigothic and Mozarabic stone carvings in Northern Spain last October I will be teaching stone carving at an art retreat centre, Flores del Camino on the Camino de Santiago near Leon and Astorga in September 2019." 

Image: Visigothic Rose Window (Caen stone, 50 x 50 x 13 cms, stained glass to follow)

https://www.floresdelcamino.com/2019/01/16/stone-carving-retreat/

Click here to view one of Nick's sculptures at the Gallery -

https://www.gardengallery.uk.com/galleries/contemporary-scultpure-for-interiors

Sally Fawkes MRSS

Copes of the catalogue which accompanied Sally Fawkes's solo exhibition in France last year are available from the gallery for £9 or £10.50 including postage.

Sally spent ten weeks 'in residence' at the Glass Workshops of Musverre, Sars Poteries, France, culminating in her exhibition.

Musverre is a leading international museum presenting a prestigious collection of contemporary works in glass by artists from around the world. Adjoining the museum is the Glass Workshop, a site dedicated to glass creation where international artists-in-residence are hosted and educational training sessions are offered by these creators.

Almuth Tebbenhoff FRSS - last chance at Salisbury Museum!

Time is running out to see Almuth's monumental Anello Flow at Salisbury Museum! The Carrara marble sculpture will be at the Museum until 14 February. Almuth's exhibition of small sculptures continues in the Museum until 16 February. Photo: Steve Russell.

Click to view the small version of Anello Flow, Anellino Flow (white Portugallo rosso marble, granite base, 53h x 40.5w cms) for sale at the Gallery.

https://www.gardengallery.uk.com/galleries/abstract-sculpture-in-stone

STEVE RUSSELL PHOTOGRAPHY

Based at Pangolin Editions, the bronze foundry in Gloucestershire, Steve Russell photographs some of the beautiful sculptures shown at the Gallery, for example by Charlotte Mayer FRSS and Almuth Tebbenhoff FRSS.

Steve is also a travel photographer. This month his exhibition, Mountains of the Moon, is showing at the Royal Geographical Society in London. Do go and see Steve's spectacular photographs of the landscapes, flora and fauna of the Rwenzori Mountains in Africa. 

https://www.rgs.org/events/mountains-of-the-moon/

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