WHAT'S NEW?
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STRANGE LAND
A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH PAINT
7TH - 15TH SEPTEMBER 2024
Join Mike Rollins in his new solo exhibition 'Strange Land' this September at the Wynd Gallery.
Mike Rollins is an award-winning artist living in Hitchin. His expressive style of painting has its origins in the stark landscapes of West Yorkshire, where he grew up, and in subsequent years as an attraction designer.
Mike is also an art tutor, demonstrating and holding workshops for regional art societies. He has featured in various publications, including Leisure Painter magazine, where he regular contributes articles on how to paint in acrylics.
Mike has exhibited in London, Nottingham (Patchings Festival) and throughout Hertfordshire. He is a member of Herts Visual Arts, the Wynd Gallery, and a Professional Associate of the Society of All Artists. In 2022, Mike was a finalist in the British Art Prize run by Artists & Illustrators magazine.
INFINITE
Victoria's solo exhibition showcases her work on paper, board and canvas. She values the freedom to explore various mediums and supports, as she believes it keeps her art practice invigorated.
Regardless of whether the source material is an abstracted landscape view or an interpretation of an aerial perspective, Victoria employs a consistent technique. She applies layers of paint, ink, and mixed media. Using different tools, she adapts her mark-making to blend shapes, colours, and textures, all of which are important to her.
"I am delighted to be presenting ‘INFINITE’.
INFINITE embraces variety. This exhibition brings to The Wynd Gallery Letchworth, interpretations of the landscape on paper, board and canvas.
I continue my investigation into Abstracting the Landscape and Aerial Views, and am excited to share my artwork with you."
Please 'wander down the Wynd' and come and meet Victoria, she will be in the gallery 20-28th 10-4pm (excluding 25th July) inviting you to enjoy the artwork and if you wish, have a chat about her art practice, tools and techniques.
Join me at the Private View or as I’d prefer to call it the ‘Opening Event’ of INFINITE on Saturday 20th July from 5.00-8.00pm ish.
I’d love to hear from you if you can attend. If this is a difficult date for you please do try to visit on any of the other days. Please note I will not be at the Gallery on Thursday 25th but one of the other gallery artists will be in attendance.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes
Victoria
TAKING TIME EXHIBITION
1ST - 9TH JUNE 2024
Taking Time Exhibition : Claire Pringle, Graham A. Matthews and David Holmes
‘Taking Time’ explores the relationship between nature, entropy and perception.
Whether it's the time eroding effects of wind and water on drift wood, or the fossil like imprints of life on ceramic, or the appearance of the slowing down of time through photographs, the three collections of work, suggest to the viewer to slow down and to take their time....
WYND GALLERY 'ARTIST OF THE YEAR' LIVE EVENT
SATURDAY 8TH JUNE 11AM - 3PM
THE BIG 100 EXHIBITION
20th FEBRUARY - 4th APRIL 2024
Join us at the gallery for our new exhibition - The Big 100!
Starting on Tuesday February 4th, the gallery will be hosting a special show of all 32 artists displaying 100 works at £100 or less!
This is a fantastic opportunity to begin or expand your art collection whilst supporting local artisans and makers. There are beautiful paintings, Amazing glass wares, ceramics and textiles as well as jewellery, photography and more!
Running until April 4th, this enchanting display is packed with beautiful and original art all at very affordable prices!
THE WYND GALLERY SALE
10th - 18th February 2024
Its the Wynd Gallery sale this weekend and the gallery will be absolutely brimming with fine arts and fabulous crafts all at discounted prices!
We open at 10am Saturday and are open every single day until Sunday at 3pm.
It's a fantastic opportunity to treat yourself to a piece of beautiful fine art, hand crafted ceramics, glass wares, a special piece of jewellery or a lovely textile piece.
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VISIONS
6th JAN - 8th FEB 2024
Welcoming 2024, the Wynd Gallery presents "Visions." Diverse perspectives come together in this January exhibition, offering insights into unique artistic journeys undertaken by our members with each piece they create!
Wishing our visitors and customers a creative New Year!
Join us for a straightforward, captivating start to 2024.
QUIETLY CONNECTED
21st - 29th October 2023
Quietly Connected
Lucy Sugden
21 st -29 th October
Glimpse into a woven world of nature and gardens in Lucy’s one-week solo show at The Wynd Gallery.
Lucy is a woven tapestry artist who loves to weave with fishing line! A love of light play and garden life inspires much of her work which she creates using traditional woven tapestry techniques on anupright loom, and her own exploration of the tapestry processes on the circle loom.
‘My work explores a fascination of light play, combining fibres and a love of nature. It is important to me to maintain a sustainable art practice by recycling and upcycling fibres where possible, which has become an integral part of how I work’.
To accompany her exhibition Lucy is holding a series of events at The Wynd Gallery. Tapestry sampler workshops on Monday 23 rd October, family weaving workshops on Wednesday 25 th October
and she is hosting one of her talks on the evening of Thursday 26 th October.
For full information of these events please visit her website on the following link lucysugden.co.uk
CATHY'S BIRDS
9th - 17th SEPTEMBER 2023
Coming up next at the gallery is a solo exhibition by Cathy Smale, showcasing her wonderful bird paintings.
Cathy will be at the gallery each day demonstrating how she creates her colourful characters, and working on a big woodland scene throughout the week.
It will be a fun and enjoyable show for all ages with lots of new work to see and buy. Including large paintings, prints and little birds, playful puns and poems, crafts and games - plus each visitor can enter our free prize draw to win a little bird painting of their own!
Please come and see Cathy's Birds - from Saturday 9th to Sunday 17th September 10am-4pm
(You are also invited to join us for a glass of Pimm's at the Friday evening preview on 8th September, 6-9pm)
THREE CERAMIC FAIRS AND ONE EXCITING EXHIBITION
by KATE WINDIBANK
I am delighted to be able to share with you that I have been selected to create a large site-specific ceramic installation for this year's Wells Art Contemporary, This exhibition transforms the magnificent Cathedral of Wells in Somerset into an art gallery for the month of August. My exhibit 'A Gathering' will be displayed in the stunning Chapter House pictured here. More details to follow.
Thankfully I have had a very productive winter/spring period because this summer I am also going to be exhibiting at three ceramics fairs; Potfest in the Park 28-30 July, Potfest Suffolk 11-13th August and Celebrating Ceramics 14-16 July.
AYOT ST LAWRENCE ART SHOW
17th - 19th June 2023
The 48th Ayot St Lawrence Art Show will be held 17-19 June 2023, and many of our Wynd Gallery Artists will be exhibiting! It is a wonderful weekend, and in 2022 the Art Show attracted over 1,000 visitors.
Showing a fantastic range of artists, many of whom exhibit every year in a variety of styles and media including oil, watercolour and acrylic. In addition to the framed art available for sale, there are browsers full of excellent unframed art, plus a variety of art-based greetings cards designed by the artists.
The Art Show is held in the beautiful Grade I listed Palladian Church of the charming village of Ayot St Lawrence and runs from 17th - 19th June 2023.
THE BIG ART FAIR
The Big Art Fair is back for another year and many of the Wynd Gallery Artists will be exhibiting!
A major event in the creative calendar, the Big Art Fair brings a great buzz to Hitchin Town Hall with a total of 60 artists exhibiting beautiful work.
Last year the sponsors of the event chose their favourite artists including our very own Wynd Artists
Daniella Saavadar and Heather Miller.
The Big Art Fair runs from Friday 23rd June 7pm - 9pm until Sunday 25th June so don't miss out on this amazing art event!
A big thank you to everyone who took part in our Coronation Colouring Competition. We had almost 50 entries and the gallery window has looked wonderful for the Coronation Weekend celebrations.
It was a tough decision to pick our winners, with such fantastic efforts and detailed colouring from all involved.
Competition Winners!
We chose 3 winners, who each receive a
£10 David’s Bookshop voucher,
their work can be seen in the front of the window.
All the other entries are still on display too, and if you would like to keep your entry please just pop in soon to collect it.
(The Wynd Gallery is open 10-4 Tuesday to Saturday and
11-3 on Sundays)
We hope you all enjoyed the colouring designs by our artists Cathy Smale and Hayley Trampenau
and thanks again to all who took part!
CARBON FOOTPRINT
At the Wynd Gallery our artists are dedicated to making the Gallery more ecologically sustainable.
As part of our commitment to lowering
our carbon footprint we are endeavouring to reduce our plastic packaging usage.
To that end, you may now receive your purchase in clean recycled/reused wrapping and packaging.
Image courtesy of Evie S via Unsplash
CORONATION COLOURING COMPETITION!
CALLING ALL LITTLE ARTISTS!
Join us in decorating our gallery for the King’s Coronation
celebrations by colouring in our crowned characters!
Free to enter - pick up a copy in the gallery or
download a copy below and drop it into us!
Win prizes for the best efforts:
3 x £10.00 voucher for Davids Bookshop
(please write your name and a contact number/email on the reverse to
be included - and look out on social media for our winning entries)
Designed by Hayley Trampenau and Cathy Smale the 2 sides will be
folded and hung together to make bunting for our gallery.