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​Four new exhibitions for 2020

March 2020    Restlessness 2 
This will be take two on the theme we opened the Gallery with back in March 2019, about the changing nature of the East Anglian landscape. We will be showing work of our popular East Anglian artists together with some new artists who will respond to the natural flux in the landscape, wrought by sunlight and shade, wind and rain, coastal erosion, and new growth.
June 2020      Wilhelmina Barns- Graham (1912 - 2004) together with Patricia Cain PS, ARWS, NEAC
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (Willie) was one of the key influencers of Modern British Art and an early member of the St Ives School. We will be showing Willie's work alongside that of Scottish artist Patricia Cain. Patricia has had many solo exhibitions and has exhibited widely in Scotland and England, including a major exhibition at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow called Drawing (at) the Riverside. In 2013 Patricia was awarded an RSA residency through the Barns - Graham Trust at Balmungo House in Fife, Scotland. One of her paintings from this residency won the RWS Award at the RWS Contemporary Competition in 2014. We are very grateful to Rob Airey, Director of the Barns- Graham Trust for his support in putting this exhibition together.
September 2020   People and Places
This Show is a tribute to my Dad who visited the Gallery recently, and who I thank for my love of modern and contemporary art, giving me the inspiration to open Gallery East. This show will feature the human form and its landscape. For the artist each human form can be regarded as a landscape, infinitely diverse in appearance and subject to constant change in response to the events of life.
November  2020    East Anglian Arborealists
In this show we will be working with Tim Craven curator and artist and The Arborealist Group, which Tim founded in 2013 after the critical success of Under the Green Wood : Picturing the British Tree, an exhibition he co-curated with Steve Marshall and Professor Anne Anderson at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire. This exhibition was in two parts. Part one was an historical review of artists who had occupied themselves drawing and painting trees and tree-landscapes including, John Constable, Paul Nash and Paul Sanby amongst other nineteenth and twentieth century celebrated artists. Part two featured 32 contemporary artists, and included a Turner Prize short-listed and two Royal Academicians but also less well-known artists who had given trees, forests and woods a special value and who had developed new perceptions of painting and language while painting trees. We will be working with Tim to showcase the work of East Anglian and London Arborealists.

Past shows and events - highlights 

Surface - a celebration of women's abstract art September 2019
Featuring:
Patricia Cain PS NEAC,ARWS
Michelle Cobbin
Mari French
Caroline Gold
Helengai Harbottle
Jane Human
Jane Lewis, RWS
Ruth McCabe
​Sula Rubens, ARWS

Stillness-  seeing harmony and balance July 2019
​In this Show we explored Stillness - in a landscape, in an arrangement on a table,  in a figure, and in abstraction.  At the centre of the Show were still life works from one of Canada's best known artists Joe Plaskett (1918-2014). Joe lived in Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK from 1994. 
Landscape - landscape with made structures  May 2019 ​
Sponsorship of Woodbridge School summer show June 2019


​We were delighted to make our award to Oscar Butcher. 
​Big thanks to my fellow judges, Perienne Christian and Caroline Poole, and to the Head of Art, James Hutchinson for working with us to make this happen. 
We will be making a further award to a promising student in 2020. 
Restlessness - changing East Anglian landscape  March 2019
Cambridge Art Fair - pre launch October 2018

Artists in Conversation 2019:
Perienne Christian and John Crossley -12 October.

Francis Bowyer  PPWS, NEAC - 20 July
​Jane Human and Roger Hardy - 2 June