October 2010 Programme

Baines Surrey Artist of the Year 2010 Winner Announced:
Closing Ceremony Thursday 7 October

Joint Exhibition: Michael Fairclough and Adam Aaronson
Friday 8th October -
Saturday 6th November

HotHouse: Emerging Makers Exhibition
Friday 8th October - Saturday 23rd October

Surrey Artist of the Year 2010 Private View

Join us tonight for the Surrey Artist of the Year 2010 Private View at New Ashgate Gallery from 6 - 8pm. Come and view the 14 finalists and vote for your favourite to become Surrey Artist of the Year 2010. Artists working in a variety of media will be represented, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and glass.

New Ashgate Gallery and Surrey Artists Open Studios established Surrey Artist of the Year in 2009 as an annual event of regional significance.  This important project will increase the profile of the county’s artists and makers and helps to support their livelihoods, enabling many to exhibit in a professional gallery for the first time. Sponsored by the Baines Charitable Trust, this not-for-profit gallery has a national reputation for its tradition of supporting contemporary art and craft since its first establishment as an artists cooperative.

The exhibition is open from Friday 10^th September – Thursday 7^th October. For more information please call 01252 713208 or visit www.newashgate.org.uk

Artist's Workshop with Vicki Nigoumi: 15 September 2010

The New Ashgate Gallery will be hosting an artist's workshop with Vicki Nigoumi on Wednesday 15 September 2010 at Farnham Museum's Garden Gallery.

The workshop will be delivered by Vicki, focusing on Still Life and Observational painting. All participants are required to bring their own drawing board, painting materials (inlcuding paper, paint and other equipment), rinsing/cleaning equipment and protective clothing and old sheet. 


A picnic will be held in the Museum garden weather permitting so please bring a packed lunch.
Booking is essential as there are only 15 places available at the workshop, with a fee of £35 per person (£30 Patrons & Angels), payable in advance.
Please call the gallery on 01252 713208 to reserve your place.

Artist Focus: Vicki Nigoumi

Vicki Nigoumi studied at Willesden School of Art and Central School of Art and Design ( now Central St. Martins ) London, gaining Central School diploma and N.D.D in printed textiles in 1961.


In 1962 she secured a five year position as tutor in drawing at Khartoum School of Art, Sudan, and whilst in Khartoum established a studio for screen printed textiles.

Returning to England in 1967, Vicki worked as a free-lance printed textile designer, for both fashion and furnishing fabrics. Clients have included fashion designers gina Fratini, Roland Kline, Jean Muir and Jeff Banks. Furnishing designs included in Artizan portfolio and commissions for Warner & Sons and Lewis & Wood among others.


She taught at Adult Education for many years and now takes workshops for painting and drawing.

Her preoccupation with still life painting has enabled her to pursue an interest in colour and drawing and a fascination with the relationship of objects. Many of her paintings include ceramics by contemporary studio potters from her own collection. In recent years Vicki has also been creating and exhibiting her own figurative ceramic peices.


Since her first exhibition at the British Council in Khartoum in 1967 she has exhibited in a number of galleries in the U.K including Medici Gallery, The Mall Galleries, Bankside Gallery London, Eastern rooms Rye, and Arlesford Gallery and regularly at The New Ashgate Farnham.

Vicki has taken part in Surrey Open Studios and is an exhibiting member of both Farnham Art Society and Guildford Art Society.


A joint exhibition of Vicki Nigoumi and John Maltby at the New Ashgate Gallery will be open from Friday 10 September - Saturday 2 October 2010.

Vicki Nigoumi and John Maltby Exhibition: Friday 10 September - Saturday 2 October 2010

Friday 10^th September, 6-8pm

Saturday 2^nd October 2010

Vicki Nigoumi [Painting]

John Maltby [Sculpture]

[Pavilion Room & Foyer]

Images: Vicki Nigoumi (above); John Maltby (below)

The New Ashgate Gallery is delighted and privileged to present Farnham based painter Vicki Nigoumi and Devon based ceramic sculptor John Maltby in an exhibition this Autumn.

As always, the gallery presents an array of new work from more established artists, exciting to the eye and always worth viewing.

Vicki Nigoumi will deliver a Still Life workshop to coincide with the exhibition.

Garden Gallery at Farnham Museum, Wed 15 September

£35pp for public or £30pp for Angels

All day 10-5, Lunch: 1-2pm (Bring your own packed lunch for a picnic outside, weather permitting)

Workshop Details: Still Life - Artist will set up room with still life groups.

Contact the gallery for more details.

September 2010 Programme

Contemporary Craft Collection

Saturday 4 September -Saturday 6 November

Joint Exhibition: Vicki Nigoumi and John Maltby

Friday 10 September -Saturday 2 October

Private View: Friday 10 September, 6-8pm

Artist's Workshop: Vicki Nigoumi

Wednesday 15 September

10am - 5 pm

£35 each (£30 Patrons and Angels)

Surrey Artist of the Year 2010

Friday 10 September -Thursday 7 October

Private View: Friday 10 September, 6-8pm

Artist Focus: Anna Knights

Anna Knights’ close-up botanical watercolours have an immediacy and vitality that transcend tradition. Her highly detailed paintings are a striking blend of vibrancy, sensuality and skilful composition.Each one takes several weeks to paint, as Anna layers up the watercolour to achieve a realistic depth of colour and solidity of form.

Anna is entirely self taught. She enjoyed art as a child but it was only in 2006, at the age of 25, that she discovered an innate talent for botanical painting.  18 months later Anna won an RHS Gold Medal and Best in Show award.

Since then Anna’s fresh style has proved popular and her painting career has blossomed. Anna exhibits regularly at the Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace Flower Shows and her work is now held in the Shirley Sherwood and RHS Lindley Library collections.In 2010 Anna was commissioned by celebrated rose breeder David Austin Roses to produce their first ever limited edition print.Anna also teaches relaxed and enjoyable watercolour classes where she shares the technique she has developed herself. 

Anna Knights is one of the 14 finalists in the Surrey Artist of the Year 2010 Exhibition, on show at the New Ashgate Gallery from Friday 10 September - Thursday 7 October. 

Artist Focus: John Maltby

Born in Lincolnshire, England, 1936. Studied sculpture at Leicester and Goldsmiths College, London. He taught painting and sculpture for two and a half years before working with David Leach at Bovey Tracey in 1962.

In 1964 he started his own pottery at Stoneshill, Devonshire, England, making stoneware, earthenware and porcelain.

He has lectured widely in England and has been a frequent visiting lecturer at Bergen Kunsthandverksskole, Norway. In May 1987 he was the sole judge of the International Pottery Competition (Fletcher Challenge Award) in Auckland, New Zealand. July 1987 he conducted a Seminar in Berne, Switzerland, "Creativity Developing a Personal Style" which was repeated in Basle in 1988. In 1989 he was invited by Galerie Handwerk, Munich, to give a lecture and open the exhibtiion English Ceramics. He has also published articles in Ceramic Review (nos. 29, 78, 102) and Crafts (no. 80: 'The Leach Tradition').

Awards include:
1966 Craft Award, Gwen Mullins Trust
1975 Gold Medal, Faenza, International Exhibitions of Contemporary Ceramics, Italy.
1981 Craft Award, South West Arts.
1986 Major Craft Fellowship, South West Arts
He is a member of the Craftsman Potters Assosication of Great Britain, and the British Crafts Centre and is an advisor to the Leach Archive at the Holbourne of Menstrie Museum, Bath, England.

"Normally my ceramics are 'about', English landscape and architecture: they derive their forms and surfaces from a subconscious sense of our history - 'this sea-washed country where the air is never quite free from mist; where the light of the sun is more often pale and pearly than it is fiery. This atmosphere has sunk into our souls. It has affected our art as it affects our life - but it has not resulted in a congenital softness of vision' (Quotation from John Piper, 'British Romantic Artists, 1943).
Works from the 'Kings, Queens and Angels: Such titles are the very fabric of our English Heritage. They are timeless and yet are a microcosm of our own world. They are ancient players; symbols of our dignity and of our fallibility and they are the myths and the essence of our Englishness".

Artist Focus: John Maltby

Born in Lincolnshire, England, 1936. Studied sculpture at Leicester and Goldsmiths College, London. He taught painting and sculpture for two and a half years before working with David Leach at Bovey Tracey in 1962.

In 1964 he started his own pottery at Stoneshill, Devonshire, England, making stoneware, earthenware and porcelain.

He has lectured widely in England and has been a frequent visiting lecturer at Bergen Kunsthandverksskole, Norway. In May 1987 he was the sole judge of the International Pottery Competition (Fletcher Challenge Award) in Auckland, New Zealand. July 1987 he conducted a Seminar in Berne, Switzerland, "Creativity Developing a Personal Style" which was repeated in Basle in 1988. In 1989 he was invited by Galerie Handwerk, Munich, to give a lecture and open the exhibtiion English Ceramics. He has also published articles in Ceramic Review (nos. 29, 78, 102) and Crafts (no. 80: 'The Leach Tradition').

Awards include:
1966 Craft Award, Gwen Mullins Trust
1975 Gold Medal, Faenza, International Exhibitions of Contemporary Ceramics, Italy.
1981 Craft Award, South West Arts.
1986 Major Craft Fellowship, South West Arts
He is a member of the Craftsman Potters Assosication of Great Britain, and the British Crafts Centre and is an advisor to the Leach Archive at the Holbourne of Menstrie Museum, Bath, England.

"Normally my ceramics are 'about', English landscape and architecture: they derive their forms and surfaces from a subconscious sense of our history - 'this sea-washed country where the air is never quite free from mist; where the light of the sun is more often pale and pearly than it is fiery. This atmosphere has sunk into our souls. It has affected our art as it affects our life - but it has not resulted in a congenital softness of vision' (Quotation from John Piper, 'British Romantic Artists, 1943).
Works from the 'Kings, Queens and Angels: Such titles are the very fabric of our English Heritage. They are timeless and yet are a microcosm of our own world. They are ancient players; symbols of our dignity and of our fallibility and they are the myths and the essence of our Englishness".

Artist Focus: Hazel Craig

Hazel is from Northern Ireland, and her love of the coastline is recorded in many of her oil paintings. Her cottage garden in Surrey is a constant source of inspiration too.

She has  taken part in Surrey Artist Open Studios for the last five years, and has also exhibited in various galleries in Surrey and Northern Ireland.

 

Artist Focus: Diane King

“She’ll be alright when she settles down” , this is a statement made about me recently by a fellow artist to my dear husband of 40 years who supports my artwork 150% and immediately jumped to my defence and said “I can assure you Diana will never “settle down”, she never has and she never will I hope”.

Several people walking into my Imagination Studio during Surrey Open Studios thought there were multiple artists exhibiting but I assured them that all 100 paintings in the various styles and mediums were all mine. I enjoy working in every medium, often mixing them together. I am reluctant to do commissions as I prefer to have no boundaries and total freedom. I love what I do and if somebody else likes it as well that’s a wonderful bonus but if not then I have still enjoyed being alive and taking part".

 

Artist Focus: Terri Smart

"I took up ceramics in 1990 when I was working as an architect in Hong Kong.  The feel of the clay and my delight in making a structured piece out of a formless lump became more and more important in my life as I became familiar with the medium.

On my return to England in 1994 I set up my own workshop, joined the Wey Ceramics Society and obtained a City and Guilds certificate in ceramics.  I regularly take part in Surrey Artists Open Studios.

 In 2000 I helped set up Kaleidoscope, an applied arts cooperative for locally based artists, which held its first exhibition at the Windsor Street Gallery, Chertsey, that year.  Since then we have shown together many times, at places such as Guildford House Gallery, Denbies Wine Estate Gallery, Dorking, Cranleigh Arts Centre, the Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames, and the Fountain Gallery, Hampton Court. 

Two years ago we exhibited at the prestigious Orangery Gallery in Holland Park, London.

 

                   

New ideas generally come to me in the middle of the night, and then I can't wait to get into the studio and work directly with the clay.  I am influenced by natural elements such as wind and water and I like to emphasise the contrasts between nature and man.  Most of my work is hand-built in textured stoneware clays, and decorated with coloured slips, oxides and glazes before firing to 1260°C.

I am a member of Surrey Sculpture Society and the Surrey Guild of Craftsmen".