Summer Exhibition
2023
Our Summer 2023 Exhibition features various artists from across the United Kingdom, delivering Ceramics ,Prints, metal sculpture and jewellery.
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
Polly
Dixon
Polly Dixon is an artist/printmaker living and working in rural West Wales. Her prints range from strikingly large woodcuts and Lino prints, to small, intricately detailed etchings and collagraphs.
Polly creates illustrative pieces which carry a personal narrative, based on life experience and observations. She is especially influenced by historic artworks and tales of old and likes to borrow and play with characters to bring about new meanings. Animals are a regular feature in her work, which are usually adorned with a touch of humanisation. Her work carries an intriguing dialogue, and intends to spark the imagination of others.
Polly Dixon has exhibited widely and has works held in collections across the world. She has a background in Mental Health work and facilitates workshops for local mental health organisations as well as producing her own work
Paul Young
Ceramics has been a part of Paul’s creative heart and profession for over twenty-five years. During this time he has been drawn ever closer to the traditions of English earthenware, slipware and European folk art.
While taking inspiration from all of these, Paul feels the strongest bond lies with the Staffordshire wares of the eighteenth century. Potters like Ralph Wood, John Astbury and Thomas Whieldon continue to please, excite
and amuse him. Appearing both naive and sophisticated in its execution, their work has a charm and honesty combined with the sheer joy of just being alive.
Claudia Petley &
Paul Shepherd
Claudia and Paul share a studio forge, and have developed a unique working relationship, where both create pieces individually and together.
Their interest in sculptural forms has led to the development of life size birds and animals. These pieces are formed out of beaten, forged and welded steel. They are then galvanised, etched and left to weather naturally.
Paul and Claudia work together to capture the essence and character of the creature, whether this is the rowdiness of crows, the serenity of the barn owl or the comedic strut of a chicken.
Xuella Arnold
Silver, bronze and gold jewellery designed and individually crafted at Xuella’s Devon workshop. Xuella creates her work with the individual in mind, someone who is looking for unusual, but personal pieces of jewellery.
Xuella’s designs are inspired by song lyrics and poetry, which creates narrative and wearable imagery.
