Gallery Events

1 – 7 March

New Horizons Two local artists showing an eclectic range of paintings – 10.30am – 4.30pm every day – Malthouse Gallery – Town Mill Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. Contact Details – Elizabeth Upchurch  – 07815 615393 / eupchurch22@yahoo.co.uk.

1 – 31 March

Kit Glaisyer: West Dorset Oil Sketches A recent series of small studies on show alongside Kit’s evolving exhibition of his West Country landscape paintings in his gallery and studio, including original paintings, drawings, and prints on canvas. Open Saturdays 10am – 4pm or by appointment. Kit Glaisyer Fine Art, 11 Downes Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3JR. 07983 465789 www.kitglaisyery.com @kitglaisyer.

1 March – 5 April

The Spring Exhibition Paintings by Suchi Chidambaram, Oaul Denham, Martin Goold, Robert Hewer. Ceramics by Victoria Meadows. Dog portraits by Amy Balck. Artwave West, Morcombelake, Bridport DT6 6DY. www.artwavewest.com.

5 – 30 March

A Moment in Time – Eight artists who have not exhibited together before share space to showcase their artwork. It will be an eclectic mix of styles with something for everyone to enjoy: to include ceramics, paintings, artists’ books, clay sculpture and a cartoonist. At Ilminster Arts Centre, TA19 0AN. www.ilminsterartscentre.com.

8 – 27 March

Carry Akroyd a painter and printmaker Carry Akroyd’s screenprinting is directly about colour combining monoprinting methods with handmade stencils. There is always a dynamic between planned intentions and spontaneous reactivity to the emerging image – the interface between the deliberate, the impulsive and the accidental. Carry feels that the landscape is inextricably linked to the plants and animals that live in it. She wants her images to project a sense of a place without being too accurate – somewhere between a map and a memory – and her starting point is direct drawing in the landscape. The Jerram Gallery, Half Moon Street, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3LN UK +44 (0)1935 815261 | info@jerramgallery.com. Tuesday to Saturday 9.30am to 5pm.

Until 16 March

Dreamscapes Finn Campbell-Notman b.1970 (Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2023), Robin Rae (1928-2019), Alfred Stockham (1933-2020) paintings, David West b.1939 wood carvings, Petter Southall b.1960 furniture. Artists of the imaginary world, Finn Campbell-Notman, Robin Rae, Alfred Stockham and David West are all masters of the surreal, the strange, unsettling, humorous and beautiful. With Petter Southall, they are all five technically astonishing artists, thinkers and dreamers, whose work lifts us out of the everyday. Sladers Yard, Contemporary Art & Craft Gallery, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL Open: Wednesday to Saturday 10–4pm. All work can be viewed on www.sladersyard.co.uk t: 01308 459511 e: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk.

Until 23 March

Andrew Hardwick Wounded Land Andrew Hardwick paints places that might be lost or go unnoticed, the unspectacular and ordinary, often wastelands that are about to be developed. He uses a variety of found and recycled materials: board, timber, plastics, canvas, roofing materials, and varieties of paint, often decorator’s gloss. Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport DT6 3NR. open 10am-4pm | Tuesday to Saturday. www.bridport-arts.com.

23 March – 13 April

Liz Somerville – A Pastoral Poem Linocuts & watercolours. For most of her career Liz has focussed on linocut, and sometimes woodcut.  There is always a story to the image, the intention is for the viewer to enter and find it. ‘This appeals to my deep seated enjoyment of all those illustrated stories I read at as a child. As an artist I look for this same quality but my attention is also drawn to the lie and flow of the land, unexpected colour, traces of past use (modern or ancient), texture and form.’ Liz graduated from Winchester School of Art in 1988 with a degree in textile design and spent sixteen years working as a designer in London, before moving to Dorset and becoming a full-time artist. Her work has been exhibited widely in galleries and exhibitions within the UK, including The Royal West of England Academy in Bristol and the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth. The Art Stable Child Okeford Blandford Dorset DT11 8HB.

29 March – 1 April

Bridport Art Society presents: Easter Exhibition 2024 At: The Salt House, West Bay, DT6 4HB. bridportart.com.

29 March – 4 April

Local Landscape – Jonathan Mulvaney Jonathan Mulvaney has been painting plein-air for the last 20 years, previous to this he made sculpture, ranging from portrait commissions to monumental urban landmarks. Jonathan says ‘When I look at plein-air paintings I do my best to appreciate the painting as an expression of the time and place, and as an event of making that is keenly tuned through local conditions and the artists understanding and skill. To own a local painting is a complete statement that holds out against the ever-homogenising visual world and makes a stand for the unique nature of local.’ Over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend Jonathan will be demonstrating his painting technique in the courtyard outside the Malthouse Gallery. Malthouse Gallery, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis, Dorset DT7 3PU.

Until 7 July

Spring 2024 mixed exhibition; by gallery artists & guest artists. This mixed exhibition features over a dozen of gallery artists, plus four guest artists, including a range of sculptures, oils, and prints. Devon-based Mary Gillett will be exhibiting a series of her collagraphs along with the corresponding plate for each work. Alongside these will be other prints from Dorset-based Colin Moore and Bristol based Ruth Ander. Many other artists will also be exhibiting their various sculptures, ceramics, and oils including Johannes von Stumm, Alison Wear, and Phillippa Headley. A new guest artist will be pieces by renowned sculptor Almuth Tebbenhoff. Tincleton Gallery, The Old School House, Tincleton, nr Dorchester, DT2 8QR. Opening / performance times: 10am – 4pm   Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon or by appointment. 01305 848 909. www.tincletongallery.com.