Studio Cennen

20th March - 28th April, 2025

The very process of making art invites “the unexpected” as the artist and the world they inhabit combine to reveal a vision that can only exist as a consequence of the existence of both. An “interaction of colour, gesture and the tactile qualities of materials” (Lorna Edmiston). A certain randomness that makes each artistic statement unique.

However, despite the juxtapositions of colour, texture and symbolism that bring these works into being, the works’ familiarity is also intuitive. The colours, the textures… the symbolic signifiers are all embedded in our cultural and personal psyche. Familiar looking places, mythology, art history, dreams... None of these things are unique, they are all products of a shared experience: A human condition. What it is to be human? To be alive here and now? At this very point in time and space within an unmeasurable universe? The tension between the familiar and the novel is what resonates and allows these works to connect with the viewer. To invite enquiry, to suggest and engage the viewer into becoming a third participant in a conversation. To reveal something unexpected about ourselves perhaps?
Gustavius Payne

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Studio Cennen, Heol Cennen, Ffairfach, Llandeilo, SA19 6UH

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Lynne Bebb
Lorna Edmiston
Anthony Evans
Gustavius Payne
Alan Salisbury
Thomasin Toohie

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(Image: Gustavius Payne)

​8 Shows

The Welsh Group is a collective formed and run by artists, where there is no dominant style or particular agenda; rather the group provides a snapshot of work out of artists studios across South and West Wales and establishing a connection with current concerns and practices.

This project aims to bring the Welsh Group to a wider audience and to focus on particular ideas or aspects of fine art practice by a series of small themed shows.

 

‘8 Shows’ begins at Queens Street Gallery in Neath, auspiciously on March 1st - St. David's Day - and ends in the landscape of Ceredigion in the Spring of 2025.

‘About Time’ Queens Street Gallery, Neath:
An exhibition that brings together artists who make work about time explicitly, or who explore variations on a theme or subject over time, often over many decades.
March 2 - March 30, 2024

‘Where are we now?’ Oriel Canfas Cardiff:
Have the pandemic years impacted on or changed the way we make art today and has an increased awareness of our mortality altered the way we look at the world? These are some of the questions five women artists are hoping to explore
March 23 - April 13, 2024

‘Genius Loci’ Oriel Canfas, Cardiff:
This is an exhibition where artist respond to nature, going beyond the mere surface of things, finding a quality described as genius loci or spirit of place - a quality that defies description but is present nevertheless.
July 2 - July 20, 2024

‘Seen and Unseen’ Bay Art, Cardiff:
As artists we gather memory sensations, specific observations and feelings. Sometimes this results in dreamlike, disembodied spaces. Chromatic intensity heightens the mood. Absence of specific colour also creates gaps for new space sensations and feelings to occur. Some artists delve into a fantastically rich European tradition of colour density and Eastern sensibilities of emptiness…
Part of the Autumn programme at Bay Arts - November 6 - 23.

‘Making Space / Shaping Space’ West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff

An exhibition that exploits the architectural environment either by making sculpture that explores the interior architectural environment, - actual space and actual object - or by exploiting the illusory space contained within the edges of the picture.
November 6 - December 31, 2024

‘Witness’
Online project. Andy Warhol said ‘Voyeurism is a director’s job description. It’s an artist’s too. An online showing of work that exists in the digital world alone or that reframes an event or happening.
Screening Friday, 17th January, 2025 at the Grange Pavilion, Grange Gardens, Cardiff CF11 7LJ.

‘The Unexpected’ Studio Cennen, Llandeilo:
In some ways all artists deal with the unexpected, sometimes explicitly and more often by default.
Georgia O’Keeffe describes it this way ’making your unknown known - a rediscovery’ or as Magritte puts it ‘The beauty of art lies in the unexpected connections it makes between things’.
March 20 - April 28, 2025

‘In the Landscape’ Woodland, Llandysul, Ceredigion:
A project where artists make work that responds to place, an area of land in Ceredigion approximately 30 acres of woodland, meadow, reed beds, an area that is a wildlife habitat. The work for this project has a haptic presence using materials found on site to form structures that are hand made and then changed by the passing of time and the action of nature.
April 4 - May 9, 2025

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(Image: 'Self Portrait with Bo' by Paul Edwards)