Our show had a mention in the Weston Mail and Wales Online, Link below-
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/5-amazing-pieces-art-show-7532203
Sunday 3 August 2014
Wednesday 30 July 2014
'New Light Through Old Windows'
Info on our 'New Light Through Old Windows' summer exhibition made it into the Carmarthen Journal today, opening this friday night 6.30pm....come and share a glass of wine with the artists at the Powerhouse Llandysul.
Tuesday 29 July 2014
'New Light Through Old Windows'
Welsh Artists Ruth Goodger,
Tirion Haf Rees, Martin Robert Reed and Michele Laugharne Perrott are to Exhibit their Art in a Group Show at
the POWERHOUSE in LLANDYSUL – 1st – 30th August 2014/ – These Final year BA Fine Art students at
Trinity St Davids, Coleg Sir Gar, have put together a selection of their
contemporary paintings and photographs in a show titled
‘New Light Through Old Windows’.
All the artists live and create their art in
Wales and have worked together in past shows including venues in Cardiff,
Swansea, Carmarthen and the National Botanical Gardens of Wales.
The Powerhouse in Llandysul is an emerging Gallery and Arts Centre renowned
for its workshops and community gatherings. Chapel Street, Llandysul SA44 4AH
Suzanne Hughes Owen from The Powerhouse
says she is extremely pleased to have such a showcase of fine artists at the
venue. “The fact that this exhibition
co-insides with the numerous events taking place for the River Festival which
takes place from August 14th – 17th, including the Pop Up
event of Dylan Thomas’s Writing Shed is very exciting. We are expecting a high
volume of visitors and this Art show will be an added bonus for them,
especially as the Artists themselves will be hosting workshops and fun filled
family events over the festival period itself”.
The Artists
Ruth Goodger is interested in how we
see ourselves and how others see us. Social media has made a huge
impact on our ability to see and be seen. We present an image of
ourselves which can literally go world wide. We all have a window on the
world.
www.ruthgoodger6.blogspot.com
Michele Laugharne Perrott , who has lived for most of her adult life
overseas, introduces the vivid colours of Africa and the Caribbean into her
observations of life in Wales. Through expressive marks, hues and shapes, a
mixed narrative unfolds allowing the past and present to co-exist. www.michelelaugharneperrott.com
Martin Robert Reed- The human condition, the nature
of being has inspired an awareness and an investigation into the limits and
boundaries surrounding mankind. Particularly drawn to everyday and
ordinary scenarios of life, our physicality, how immediate and in the moment or
' Right Now ' we all are.
www.martinrobertreedart.com
By investigating the personal and
environmental spaces that surround Tirion Haf Rees, she questions the
influences experienced by Welsh Culture and the impact they have enforced on
one another.
www.tirionhafrees.com
Thursday 24 July 2014
Summer Art Exhibition
Come along and see Ruth Goodger, Michele Laugharne Perrott, Martin Robert Reed and Tirion Haf Rees art work go on display at the Powerhouse in Llandysul, Opening Friday 1st August 6.30.
Sunday 13 July 2014
Tuesday 17 June 2014
A Leap in the Dark- by Ruth Goodger
Ruth Goodger article in the Fishguard Arts Summer Newsletter
A Leap in the Dark
Degree in Fine Art: Painting, Drawing and Printmaking
I had been a civil servant most of my working life and since moving to Wales in 1998 I discovered art was a fabulous hobby. A few years and life changes later, at the age of 56, I found myself taking a degree in Fine Art as a full time student at Coleg Sir Gar in Carmarthen.
How hard can it be?
Very, I had now nearly completed my second year. it has been an amazing experience and mostly in a good way.
Why do it?
How about; to be the same only better, to fulfil a life-long desire, for a new challenge. These are all good reasons but none of them were mine and today i can't quite recall what they actually were.
The course that I am on is a good one: the turors are committed and enthusiastic, there is a wide variety of workshops, and many one to one tutorials. in the first year we are given a lot of tuition, this is reduced in the second year but you are pushed quite hard so that by the third year you have the skills and discipline to work more on your own.
I am interested only in portraiture and life drawing. I have been working on images from Skype and people using mobile phones. I am strongest in drawing so of course the tutors told me to paint. By now, the end of my second year. I feel that I can't paint or draw!
I was surprised by the attention given to making sure that you are prepared for making a living after finishing your degree. As part of this module in the second year we had to organise an exhibition of our work. This was a lot of work from the initial contact with numerous venues, to the publicity and opening evening, everything was left to us.
By the time this article appears I will have my results for my second year's work. Another surprise to me is how much I want to do well. I am not sure that I like that about myself and it certainly adds more unwanted pressure.
I have also been surprised that art is about so much more than wall decoration and hoe relevant art is to what happens in the world. Such an intense course also reveals what you are really made of; I seem to be mostly jelly.
Ruth Goodger
Tuesday 22 April 2014
Setting up our 'Moments in Time' Exhibition at the Elysium gallery.
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