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Ceramicist, Adam Buick is exhibiting at Corinium Museum with a response to ancient pottery from the new prehistory galleries. Sitting alongside his own work, Adam explores the mark making and processes of the ancient artisan. With a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from Lampeter University and years of connecting with the earth and experimenting with clay, glazes and inclusions, Adam is well placed to bring a contemporary connection to past societies. Adam’s work uses a single pure jar form as…

Nature in Shards is a collaborative exhibition of work by two local mosaic artists, Yvette Green and Jo Moreman. Both artists have been creating mosaics for over 20yrs and in that time have both honed their own very distinctive and unique styles. Yvette, inspired by the intense colours found in her native homeland of South Africa, and her once in a lifetime visit to the Costa Rica, uses vibrant and lustrous sheets of coloured glass, cutting and shaping each piece…

A collaborative exhibition of work by local artist, Abigail Waddell and photographer Stephen Shepherd. In this show the artists combine their different styles of recording the landscape into a single set of creative images all exploring the nature of light, landscape and capturing that transient moment, never to be seen exactly the same again. Abigail is a contemporary landscape painter working mainly in oils. Living in the Cotswolds, she paints mainly local landscapes, inspired when out and about walking in…

Light from the expansive skyscapes of The Cotswolds has inspired Marion Bond’s landscapes, as kaleidoscopic colours are intensified and details are cast into relief. An admirer of The Scottish Colourists, Marion has taken Feste’s advice in ‘Twelfth Night’ to ‘fear no colours’ and has been emboldened to use a spectrum of hues to depict and to respond to a wide range of subjects. Local scenes and international locations are featured, from South Cerney, to Shoreham, Victoria (Australia) Her debut solo…

This exhibition showcases twenty years of exploration at Belas Knap long barrow. Artist, Elizabeth Poraj-Wilczynska, shares her observations using form, shape, colour, texture, light, feel, space and resonance. Her works, in the words of Professor Timothy Darvill, encourage people to ‘question conventional perspectives and use the archaeological imagination to open up new realms of thinking, experience and understanding.’ An immersive film recording sunrise and sunset at Belas Knap long barrow has been created by Richard Suckling of cavebearfilms.com and accompanies…

A solo exhibition of oil paintings, traditional printmaking, fabrics and stained glass by local artist Anita Saunders. After a Foundation Course at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, Anita gained a degree in Fine Art at Exeter, where a love of printmaking joined her passion for painting. Having illustrated several children’s books in the USA whilst juggling a corporate career, Anita took the step to become a full-time artist in 2017. Using a variety of media, a love of nature…

Liz has been working with stitched textiles for the past forty years and this exhibition will represent work of the past four decades. Originally developing her obsession with cloth and stitch with City & Guilds courses she has continued to develop her practice along with teaching and academic study. Hand stitch and the use of the sewing machine are her tools of choice. Early themes dealt with the depiction of the human body but more recently the natural world whether…