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Past Exhibitions
SUMMER 2010
Fri, Jul 9th 2010 - Sat, Aug 28th 2010
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CERI AUCKLAND DAVIES
Thu, Jun 10th 2010 - Sat, Jul 10th 2010
New Works
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LIAM MARC O'CONNOR
Sat, May 1st 2010 - Sat, May 29th 2010
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CAROLINE BAILEY 2010
Fri, Mar 19th 2010 - Sat, Apr 17th 2010
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CHRISTMAS 2009
Sat, Nov 28th 2009 - Thu, Dec 31st 2009
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AUTUMN FEATURING ROB NEWTON
Fri, Oct 2nd 2009 - Sat, Nov 21st 2009
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SUSAN BROWN & SUMMER EXHIBITION
Fri, Jun 26th 2009 - Sat, Sep 5th 2009
NEW WORKS
The Summer Exhibition will feature 40 new works by Susan Brown.
Susan Brown contemporary paintings are bold and striking . Her architectural studies explore the rhythm and movement within buildings and interiors and her abstract paintings are inspired by still life subjects and landscapes, focusing on texture and pattern.
At least 30 of the leading gallery artists will also be showing new works.
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NAOMI TYDEMAN,RI Watercolours & SARAH TOMBS Sculpture
Fri, May 8th 2009 - Sat, Jun 13th 2009
NEW WORKS
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Floral Exhibition
Fri, Mar 27th 2009 - Sat, Apr 25th 2009
THE GALLERY WILL BE OPEN 10am-5pm OVER THE EASTER PERIOD - INCLUDING SUNDAY
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CHRISTMAS 2008
Fri, Nov 14th 2008 - Sat, Dec 27th 2008
Mixed exhibition of gallery artists.
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DAVID KNIGHT & EMILY GREGORY - SMITH
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 - Sat, Nov 8th 2008
NEW WORKS by two leading and emerging artists
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SUE HUNT
Fri, Sep 12th 2008 - Sat, Oct 11th 2008
RECENT WORKS
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SUMMER EXHIBITION
Thu, Jul 3rd 2008 - Sun, Aug 31st 2008
New works by over 30 leading contemporary artists including Judy Buxton, Gareth Thomas, Luke Martineau & Robert Newton.
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MICHAEL MONAGHAN & CARL CHAPPLE
Fri, May 30th 2008 - Sat, Jun 28th 2008
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WELSH WONDERS@THE CELTIC MANOR
Tue, May 27th 2008 - Mon, Jun 2nd 2008
From Wednesday 28th May through to Monday 2nd June 2008 the gallery at the Celtic Manor will feature works by leading Welsh Artists to coincide with the Wales Open. Featuring works by Sir Kyffin Williams, RA, Gareth Thomas (with paintings of the 2010 Golf Course) and a new series of prints by Valerie Ganz.
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GEORGE WEISSBORT - 80th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Fri, Apr 11th 2008 - Wed, May 14th 2008
It is often said that nothing under the sun is really new: only new twists on existing themes. Is this what can be said about George Weissbort’s work, or is this a story of a neglected genius?
An exhibition showing at Denise Yapp Contemporary Art is attempting to prove that the latter is true. Simply by the huge number of paintings and drawings he has produced throughout his 80 years testifies to the persistance of his creative will. The quality of his work is generally high, yet what escapably strikes one on encountering it is the unfamiliarity of his name. How is it possible that such an artist of such range and productiveness has remained so little known?
George had seen his work exhibited every year at the Royal Acadamy until it was no longer considered cutting edge, yet be sold at leading galleries in London and across the globe and remain as treasured pieces in many of the finest private art collections in the UK, Europe and the USA; and in the Museum of Modern Art in Tel Aviv.
George Weissbort is a quiet, gentle, reserved, almost reclusive man who finds solace in his work. It has been with great reluctance that he has agreed to exhibit on the day of his 80th birthday. For a publicity-shy artist, the exhibition will be a baptism of fire; and a testimont to his love of the art, as he parades himself among the public.
George is a man who has an overriding compulsion to paint – be it on canvas, paper, board, brown paper shopping bags, receipts and napkins, anything that is available to hand if paper is not, it is all there neatly filed in his studio where no piece of work has ever been discounted. Such is George’s obsession to paint, the midnight oil can be seen burning from his studio until past two in the morning. From early self portraiture in the 1940’s where Raphael and Michealangelo were his main influences to Cezanne and later Impressionism the old masterly influences can clearly be seen in most of the works on display. Several of the landscape and flower paintings bear witness to his discovery of Impressionism. Gone is the control and order of his classical period, instead comparative disorder and wild abandon can be seen in these paintings with the love of colour and soft edges bringing an unshakeable authenticity about them. Later, with his still lifes one is immediately struck by the truthfulness to visual experience – it is not rare for George to have two paintings of the same still life on the go at any one time, one in oil, one in acrylic so as to play with light, medium and colours to achieve the closest impression of what he is painting, although to the untrained eye they look identical.
However, throughout the many influences and changes in his work he remains energetically interested in human beings and in figure composition. Indeed, for many years he dreamed mainly of painting portraits, however he lacks one essential ingredient for this task: a taste for socializing. This is not to say when in company he is not animated, particularly when discussing his favourite subject – his work and that of other great artists.
He has for many years badgered members of his family, friends and neighbours to sit for him and when this avenue is exhausted he resorts to painting himself, hence the large number of self portraits in this show.
The work in this show spans almost 60 years of his working life and whilst he has exhibited and been applauded in the past and sold paintings, although not as many as he should have done, he has acquired a certain fame among artists as an anaylist of exceptional skill. So it begs the question: Why has he remained so relatively marginal when lesser lights have achieved prominence?
Finally to quote David Lee, editor of the Jackdaw,” to those willing to look, figurative painting is an open book and this is why, in the end, people will be studying George Weissbort’s work in a hundred years time; that is long after so much of what is now fashionably challenging and winning prizes has been despatched to the landfill. It will move future generations in the same way as it moves us now because the best art is always beyond fashion.”
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LIAM MARC O'CONNOR & JO DIXON
Fri, Mar 7th 2008 - Sat, Mar 29th 2008
NEW WORKS
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CHRISTMAS
Fri, Nov 9th 2007 - Mon, Dec 24th 2007
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AUTUMN
Fri, Sep 14th 2007 - Sat, Oct 27th 2007
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New Beginnings
Fri, May 25th 2007 - Sun, Sep 2nd 2007
The title of my first exhibition literally captures the essence of my new enterprise, the establishment of a unique gallery in a beautiful setting, that allows me to build on over a decade of Gallery Management at the Albany in Cardiff and my continuing relationship with some of the best contemporary talent in the UK.
Situated in the picturesque village of Whitebrook in the heart of the Wye Valley, the entire property will be used as gallery space, thereby allowing buyers to see art & sculpture in situ, in an informal and refreshingly novel approach.
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