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HAYLEY BUCHANAN IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Each month a different King Street Gallery artist is featured in our Spotlight Room. Throughout August painter Hayley Buchanan will be showing her work in a colourful and vibrant new exhibition.
Hayley told us: "I spent my childhood in rural South Wales and after studying art and design at Loughborough University I went on to have a fulfilling career teaching design and silversmithing. I now live back in South Wales and work as a professional artist.
“Influenced by impressionism, I try to bring such elements as Seurat's pointillism and van Gogh's dynamic skies into my paintings. The beauty that is right on my doorstep inspires me and I try to fill my paintings with vitality, and of course the colour I see. I have a passion for colour and portray my natural environment as a slightly surreal, vibrantly coloured, atmospheric world.
“Pointillism has always fascinated me. The way tiny marks of colour can be positioned in a painting to represent, sometimes very realistically, objects and scenes. I often use this technique to create the illusion of movement or to represent the subtle variations of tone seen in natural light. In many of my pictures I also, consciously, echo the pixilation of our digital world combining ideas from two different, yet strangely convergent themes: an area I intend to explore further in my future works!"
Find out more about Hayley Buchanan
DEBBIE DUNBAR AND VALERIE PRICE-WEST IN THE CHATE ROOM
Running from Friday 9th to Thursday 29th August in the Chate Room, “For the Love of Horses... and of Other Things” brings together the work of ceramic sculptor Valerie Price-West and King Street Gallery painter Debbie Dunbar.
A love of horses originally drew Valerie and Debbie together as artists, and their work inhabits a space harmoniously, with paintings and sculptures working with and complementing each other. In this exhibition the artists draw the threads of a shared past into new directions.
Debbie’s paintings will present a wider subject range including exploration of the landscape, in particular green lanes and the mystery of where they may lead to.
Valerie’s ethereal, timeless sculptures hold their place in any setting, provoking reflection and empathy with other sentient beings and deeper consideration of the extraordinary history they share with us.
Don’t miss this stunning exhibition at King Street Gallery by two very treasured artists!
HIGH SUMMER SHOW NOW ON
Our High Summer Show is now on – presenting a wide array of work, from painting and fine art ceramics to photography, prints, sculpture, textiles and jewellery.
Come for a visit and be inspired! The show runs until early September.
STILL TIME TO CATCH THE 2019 GRADUATES SHOW
Above: King Street Gallery Chair Charlotte Leadbeater and fine art lecturer Catherine Fairgrieve open the 2019 Graduates Show
Every year King Street Gallery showcases the very best graduate work from Carmarthen School of Art.
This year six of the best 2019 graduates from Carmarthen School of Art present their degree work – and you have two more days to catch their diverse and exciting selection in the Chate Room.
During the show, visitors to the gallery vote for their favourite artist. The winner of the public vote will receive the “John Malcolm Chate Award” which means they will be invited to showcase their work in a solo exhibition in the Chate Room in 2020. Look out for an announcement on our social media in the coming weeks!
CATCH OLWEN AT THE EISTEDDFOD!
King Street Gallery ceramicist Olwen Thomas is at the Eisteddfod in Llanrwst this week! If you’re there, do pop in and see Olwen’s stunning work which is inspired by the Welsh cultural icons of blankets, shawls and carthenni.
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