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Court Cupboard Craft Gallery is open every day 10.30 - 5.00 pm.
Treat yourself to tea or coffee and cake and chase away the winter blues in front of our log fire, while enjoying the varied art works on display. |
Calling all wood carvers, the gallery would dearly like to show the work of anyone who carves love Spoons!! Please contact Sandrina; sandrinagay@aol.com
Our new exhibition wall showcases work of Tottie Aarvold, fantastic photographs of found textures and colour on anything old!! Also Beryl Morgans with her internationally renowned glass. Until Nov 21st.
Join us for a free glass of wine on Saturday 28 Sept.
Join us for a free glass of wine on Saturday 28 Sept.
Tottie Aarvold is a Fine Art Graduate from Hereford College of Arts. She is an artist, fine art photographer and urban explorer who focuses on the abstract qualities of the world in paint or through a lens. She sees her photographic images as ‘found paintings’, an organic fusing of both the human and natural world.
Aarvold is drawn to textures, layers and entropy. Her images are of the abandoned and unnoticed, the unusual and random in everyday life.
Aarvold’s work is very personal and involves self-exploration. She has worked for many years as a psychotherapist which has led to her interest in the hidden and revealed, in what lies beneath. Aarvold creates a story, an uncertainty and psychological confusion in her work. She aims to convey pathos and loss.
It is important to her that the photographic image is as she saw it, that it isn’t highly manipulated in Photoshop. She uses natural light and never alters a scene. The camera is her eye, it captures what stands out for her in the world.
Born 1961, Wolverhampton, UK.
Fine Art BA (Hons), Hereford College of Arts, 2012 – 2018.
BA Psychology & Counselling, Open University & Birmingham University, 2003
Solo Shows
2019 Metal, Applestore Gallery, Hereford
2019 Irregular Regularities, Photospace Gallery, Ludlow
2017 The Blank Page, Hereford College of Arts
2016 Torn, Globe at Hay, Hay on Wye
2015 Chang Thai, Ludlow Group Shows
Group Shows
2019 Canary Ride, Warehouse 701, Hereford
2019 Next Steps, Applestore Gallery, Hereford
2019 Cass Art, London
2019 Signature Art Prize Winners, Trinity Art Gallery, London
2018 Peace, Suffrage& The End of War, Applestore Gallery, Hereford
2018 Not the Final Major Project, Brighton Photography Fringe, Hastings Art Forum
2018 Vision, Free Range, London
2018 Synthesis, Hereford College of Arts, Hereford
2018 Pain, Stables Gallery, Leominster
2018 Ludlow 7, Photospace Gallery, Ludlow
2018 A4, De Koffie Pot Gallery, Hereford
2018 Upwards & Onwards, Renaissance & BuskellGallery, Ludlow
2017 Damage, Hereford College of Arts, Hereford
2016 Say Yes to Everything, Paper Arts, Bristol
2016 Not all its cracked up to be, Hereford College of Arts
2015 Not at all obvious, Applestore Gallery, Hereford
2012 Hereford College of Arts Summer Show
2012 Tros GynnalPlant, Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan
2012 Shelton Hospital, Shrewsbury
Publications
2018 Photo Story, Wojo Magazine
2019 ‘Lost in Space’, Shropshire Rural Mental Health in an Age of Austerity.
Awards
2019 Photography winner, Signature Art Prize, International
2018 Exhibition Prize, Applestore Gallery, Hereford
2018 Winner, Ludlow 7, Photospace Gallery, Ludlow
Aarvold is drawn to textures, layers and entropy. Her images are of the abandoned and unnoticed, the unusual and random in everyday life.
Aarvold’s work is very personal and involves self-exploration. She has worked for many years as a psychotherapist which has led to her interest in the hidden and revealed, in what lies beneath. Aarvold creates a story, an uncertainty and psychological confusion in her work. She aims to convey pathos and loss.
It is important to her that the photographic image is as she saw it, that it isn’t highly manipulated in Photoshop. She uses natural light and never alters a scene. The camera is her eye, it captures what stands out for her in the world.
Born 1961, Wolverhampton, UK.
Fine Art BA (Hons), Hereford College of Arts, 2012 – 2018.
BA Psychology & Counselling, Open University & Birmingham University, 2003
Solo Shows
2019 Metal, Applestore Gallery, Hereford
2019 Irregular Regularities, Photospace Gallery, Ludlow
2017 The Blank Page, Hereford College of Arts
2016 Torn, Globe at Hay, Hay on Wye
2015 Chang Thai, Ludlow Group Shows
Group Shows
2019 Canary Ride, Warehouse 701, Hereford
2019 Next Steps, Applestore Gallery, Hereford
2019 Cass Art, London
2019 Signature Art Prize Winners, Trinity Art Gallery, London
2018 Peace, Suffrage& The End of War, Applestore Gallery, Hereford
2018 Not the Final Major Project, Brighton Photography Fringe, Hastings Art Forum
2018 Vision, Free Range, London
2018 Synthesis, Hereford College of Arts, Hereford
2018 Pain, Stables Gallery, Leominster
2018 Ludlow 7, Photospace Gallery, Ludlow
2018 A4, De Koffie Pot Gallery, Hereford
2018 Upwards & Onwards, Renaissance & BuskellGallery, Ludlow
2017 Damage, Hereford College of Arts, Hereford
2016 Say Yes to Everything, Paper Arts, Bristol
2016 Not all its cracked up to be, Hereford College of Arts
2015 Not at all obvious, Applestore Gallery, Hereford
2012 Hereford College of Arts Summer Show
2012 Tros GynnalPlant, Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan
2012 Shelton Hospital, Shrewsbury
Publications
2018 Photo Story, Wojo Magazine
2019 ‘Lost in Space’, Shropshire Rural Mental Health in an Age of Austerity.
Awards
2019 Photography winner, Signature Art Prize, International
2018 Exhibition Prize, Applestore Gallery, Hereford
2018 Winner, Ludlow 7, Photospace Gallery, Ludlow
Artist Statement Beryl Morgans
My inspiration is mainly focused on the structures I have encountered whilst walking in Herefordshire and the neighbouring counties.
I have used drawing to consolidate ideas and draw together the key elements of the structures and then translated these elements into glass usually through strip cutting and crucible pouring techniques.
Glass by its very nature is unforgiving but still holds a fascination for me. I have learnt that it cannot be forced into do anything it doesn’t want to. It has to be coaxed gently and even then it is still defiant, breaking at the least provocation. It has the ability to alter the depth and tone of colour, which for me, may link into my delight in drawing and the richness of tone that can be achieved with a single colour.
The body of work, which has emerged from this research, has incorporated these strong and soft elements in the creation of glass vessels. Each piece is individually hand crafted from the smallest piece of glass used to the largest.
From Concept to completion I have endeavoured to produce a unique pieces, which capture the passion and delight I get from creating these vessels.
Beryl Morgans
Glass Artist
My inspiration is mainly focused on the structures I have encountered whilst walking in Herefordshire and the neighbouring counties.
I have used drawing to consolidate ideas and draw together the key elements of the structures and then translated these elements into glass usually through strip cutting and crucible pouring techniques.
Glass by its very nature is unforgiving but still holds a fascination for me. I have learnt that it cannot be forced into do anything it doesn’t want to. It has to be coaxed gently and even then it is still defiant, breaking at the least provocation. It has the ability to alter the depth and tone of colour, which for me, may link into my delight in drawing and the richness of tone that can be achieved with a single colour.
The body of work, which has emerged from this research, has incorporated these strong and soft elements in the creation of glass vessels. Each piece is individually hand crafted from the smallest piece of glass used to the largest.
From Concept to completion I have endeavoured to produce a unique pieces, which capture the passion and delight I get from creating these vessels.
Beryl Morgans
Glass Artist
