Death Dreams and Desire


About Memento Collective A collective of five working artists who meet regularly to share and discuss the progress of their work. Through doing so they have identified a number of common themes; memory, loss, re-emergence and return. These are expressed by each artist through a variety of practices, concepts and techniques, including drawing, painting and printmaking; sculpture; photography and film; documentation, installation and live art.

‘In Our Garden’ at New Maynard Gallery Welwyn April 2nd 2020


Digswell Artists are creating new work in response to Welwyn Garden City's Centenary. The group exhibition will be launched on April 2nd 2020 with a private view at 8pm at The New Maynard Gallery Campus West Welwyn Garden City. The exhibition continues until May 16th. The work I have created relates to my own garden, …

Open Studios May and September 2019


Digital Image May 11-12 at The Forge Digswell (B1000 AL60BU) will be Digswell Arts Annual Open Studio Event. 15 Artists will be opening their studios and displaying their work, also exciting children's events will be taking place in the grounds. Look out for the signage and bunting- parking across the road. Map Hope to see …

Time and Tide – Exhibition with Caryl Beach and Cathy Smale- Save the date.


PV Thursday May 31st 7-9 pm. Time and Tide   Caryl Beach - Cathy Smale   Digswell Fellows, Caryl Beach and Cathy Smale have been brought together in this collaboration through their love of seascapes and a fascination of the beach pebbles found on our shores worn away over millions of years, each unique from …

Open Studios @ The Forge Digswell 1st-3rd June 2018


Save the date! June 1-3 Press Release Digswell Arts Trust Open Studios  An exciting opportunity to get to know your local artist community, to meet practicing artists, visit their individual studio spaces and purchase affordable works of art The Forge, Hertford Road, Digswell, AL6 OBU Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 June 2018 11 – 4 …

Delighted to have work accepted for Courtyard Arts Open Exhibition


In addition to the work showing at The Women's Society in St Andrew's Street Hertford (as part of The Hertford Art Trail) I am delighted to have had work accepted in the Courtyard Arts Open Exhibition. Visit the gallery to view work by local artists from Tuesday April 10th. The work I submitted for the …

December – It’s snowing on WordPress!


Just returned from an amazing 10 days in Cornwall. My brain is bombarded with imagery of landscape and art. The Chance into Abstraction 3 day workshop was so inspiring. Ian Robertson led the workshop and it was all I had hoped for. You can view his work here: http://www.robertson-wardman.co.uk The Robyn Denny exhibition was also amazing …

The Forge Open Studios 2017- 60th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION


Press Release 60th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION The Forge Open Studios 2017 6th & 7th May  11am - 4 pm Digswell Arts, a thriving artists’ community based in the heart of Digswell on the site of the old forge, is opening its doors to the public for its 60th Anniversary Showcase which will include work by studio …

Work in progress February 2017


At last I have been able to return to the studio after a prolonged Christmas break...life gets in the way sometimes and although much of it is pleasurable there comes a time when I yearn to be back in my retreat at The Forge and creating again. I have re visited some canvasses and started …

Inspirational – my take on Cornwall


The pin board in my studio is mostly covered with panoramic landscapes taken in Cornwall. The place that inspires me every time I visit and compels me to make new work when I return home. I just ask myself why is 'here' my home and 'there' the place I just visit two or three times a …

Caryl Beach – Portfolio-Paintings


Caryl Beach - Portfolio.on Art Limited  When and how do you start to create? I am photographing the 'everyday' on a daily basis. Observing and recording the everyday, the landscape changing constantly, my journeys through each day present new experiences for me to note and capture: moving images; macro images; moments in time. All inspiring …

Visit St Albans Christmas Market| List of Exhibitors


praesentia @ St Albans Christmas Market we will be there this coming weekend December 6th/7th/8th Visit St Albans | Information for daytrips and holidays in St Albans | Attractions | Hotels - List of Exhibitors. St Albans Christmas Market St Albans knows a thing or two about markets, having one of the oldest regular markets …

Everyday Encounters: Panshanger Airfield


Praesentia are developing new work for their group project 'Encounters' to be exhibited at Parndon Mill Gallery in May/June 2015. As part of this project I will be producing work that responds to this theme and also relates to my practice of recording my everyday experiences in the landscape. This short video is my first 'encounter'.  On …

For Printmakers | DIGSWELL ARTS TRUST


Ross Loveday - above and below. For Printmakers Digswell Arts Trust has excellent printmaking facilities at its purpose built studios in Digswell, Welwyn, Hertfordshire. Our print studio is large, clean, bright and fully equipped. Current facilities are:The largest flatbed etching press in the country W90cm x L220cm suitable for a wide range of print making …

Nothingness @ Parndon Mill Harlow


7th August - 14th September http://www.parndonmill.co.uk/next_exhibition.html       'Nothingness' includes the work of five artists with links to Digswell Arts: Hideki Arichi, Ella Carty, Jo Howe, Alex McIntyre and William White. These artists respond to the theme of nothingness using a variety of media: Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture and Drawing. Originally inspired by an edition …

Ella Carty Exhibits in Two Shows in Cornwall Next Month


  Ella Carty Exhibits in Two Shows in Cornwall Next Month. Ella Carty will be taking part in two group Shows in Cornwall next month. Ella will be showing new printmaking work in the ‘John Howard Print Studios Exhibition’ at the Crypt Gallery in St. Ives. The Exhibition runs from 9th – 22nd August and is held …

Permindar Kaur-Hiding Out – Nottingham Culture – LeftLion.co.uk


12/06/2014   Hiding Out, the new exhibition by British artist Permindar Kaur, is an expansive collection of her works touching on camouflage, childhood and cultural identity and with more fleece on offer than a sale in a camping shop. The first thing you’ll see as you enter is Untitled 2014, a new work commissioned especially …

Museum of Curiosities II – featuring work by Digswell Alumni, Mark L’Argent | DIGSWELL ARTS TRUST


Museum of Curiosities II – featuring work by Digswell Alumni, Mark L’ArgentNew work  by Digswell Alumni Mark L’Argent in Museum of Curiosites II at Gatehouse Arts.Mark writes… via Museum of Curiosities II – featuring work by Digswell Alumni, Mark L’Argent | DIGSWELL ARTS TRUST. 'The ‘typing machine’ is secondary always to hand-lettering and typography, despite being …

Richard Long, Richard Grayson, Otto Dix: the weeks art shows in pictures | Culture | The Guardian


Permindar Kaur, Nottingham. Things are not quite right in Permindar Kaur’s nursery playground, which is stuffed with cuddly toys that turn out to be more nasty than nice. One row of floppies, resembling cosy hot-water bottle covers, are seen on closer inspection to sprout mean-looking beaks, talons and claws. Elsewhere, red-uniformed soldiers are pinned to …

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