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Opening soon on July 6th. 11-3pm
Court Cupboard Craft Gallery is open every day. You are welcome to sit on the terrace and soak up the glorious weather. Because of C19 our toilet is only available for emergencies. |
Our new exhibition starts on 6th July Featuring Vanessa Rhead paintings and Susan Bain sculpture . Two very talented and fascinating artists.
Vanessa Rhead
My name is Vanessa and I'm an Artist (so people tell me). I have been painting and making things for as long as I can remember. I love to lock myself away with what my other half calls "a bad film” and draw, paint and make things.
I love to draw amazing old buildings thanks to a childhood spent being dragged from Land's End to John O'Groats and visiting every Castle and Stately Home in between - Thanks Dad xx I am fortunate enough to spend my time split between the Wye Valley and Zante, one with it's quiet villages and winding river surrounded by deep dark forests and then there is the shimmering sea and hills containing the remnants of old villages of Zakynthos that allows my artistic ideas to wander between beautiful historic buildings, amazing birds of prey, jewel coloured sunsets and seas that change like the seconds on a clock.
For years I struggled with the teachers lessons believing I had to "loosen up my style “not worry about what it looks like but rather "how it feels", well I feel that every brick matters, when I look at a painting and the brick work is incorrect it feel off and the more you know a building the greater the sense that something is not quite right, so now I paint every brick, I paint what I feel and when you look at a building that you love, it will feel right, comfy, like coming home and you will stare at it as an old friend through new eyes.
Every piece I work on is my favourite until I start the next, then I get to fall in love all over again. I hope you find a piece that you fall in love with even if it's only a brief affair ... x Vanessa
My name is Vanessa and I'm an Artist (so people tell me). I have been painting and making things for as long as I can remember. I love to lock myself away with what my other half calls "a bad film” and draw, paint and make things.
I love to draw amazing old buildings thanks to a childhood spent being dragged from Land's End to John O'Groats and visiting every Castle and Stately Home in between - Thanks Dad xx I am fortunate enough to spend my time split between the Wye Valley and Zante, one with it's quiet villages and winding river surrounded by deep dark forests and then there is the shimmering sea and hills containing the remnants of old villages of Zakynthos that allows my artistic ideas to wander between beautiful historic buildings, amazing birds of prey, jewel coloured sunsets and seas that change like the seconds on a clock.
For years I struggled with the teachers lessons believing I had to "loosen up my style “not worry about what it looks like but rather "how it feels", well I feel that every brick matters, when I look at a painting and the brick work is incorrect it feel off and the more you know a building the greater the sense that something is not quite right, so now I paint every brick, I paint what I feel and when you look at a building that you love, it will feel right, comfy, like coming home and you will stare at it as an old friend through new eyes.
Every piece I work on is my favourite until I start the next, then I get to fall in love all over again. I hope you find a piece that you fall in love with even if it's only a brief affair ... x Vanessa
Susan Bain
I have had a lifelong interest in the figure in sculpture, working initially in stone, wood and clay.
More recently I have been working with wire , finding it immediate, exciting and surprising at times with the wire dictating the character and movement of the piece as I work.
As a result my pieces have changed from being very grounded , still figures to ones that dance, swim and fly. I especially love the shadows they cast, sometimes seeming to interact with the piece.
For this exhibition I have been working on a series of birds, the wire lending delicacy and movement to the pieces . I have also started to explore using recycled materials and will be bringing
some pieces made out of drinks cans .
I have had a lifelong interest in the figure in sculpture, working initially in stone, wood and clay.
More recently I have been working with wire , finding it immediate, exciting and surprising at times with the wire dictating the character and movement of the piece as I work.
As a result my pieces have changed from being very grounded , still figures to ones that dance, swim and fly. I especially love the shadows they cast, sometimes seeming to interact with the piece.
For this exhibition I have been working on a series of birds, the wire lending delicacy and movement to the pieces . I have also started to explore using recycled materials and will be bringing
some pieces made out of drinks cans .
