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Pablo Picasso
We’re so excited to be able to present a collection of Picasso artworks, in collaboration with Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham. We will be exhibiting a collection of over 30 of his artworks. Some of the works you can see in our gallery are shown below. Pop in for a visit to see the whole exhibition and buy one for your own art collection.
We will be having celebration event in the gallery on the evening of the 21st March. RSVP by clicking the link below, adding a ticket to your bag, and checking out for FREE.
The event starts from 5:30pm, and Dr Hannah Lyons, curator of the University of Reading art collections, will be giving a talk on Picasso at 6:30pm.
Christabel Forbes: Time & Place
Join us 20th November - 1st January for a wonderful exhibition of original artworks by local artist Christabel Forbes. Join us from 5:30pm on Friday 6th December for an evening of art, wine, cheese, and music with Christabel. Christabel will be giving a talk at 6:30pm, to give us an idea of her art practice and process. Please RSVP below by adding to the bag and checking out.
Christabel is a mixed-media colourist artist who draws from her reality and memory to discover other worldly, imaginative places. Drawing directly from life is crucial to her practice, which is then explored through printmaking and painting.
We're also having a wine tasting on 22nd November. Doors open at 6:00pm and Emma will start the tasting at 6:30pm. Come along and taste 6 unique wines from central Italy with wine specialist Emma Foster.
Jo Lillywhite: Landscapes of Colour
Join us 2nd October - 16th November 2024 to see a beautiful collection of original paintings and prints from local artist Jo Lillywhite.
From 5:30pm on Friday 25th October, please join us for an evening of art, wine, cheese, and music with artist Jo Lillywhite. Jo works predominantly with acrylic and pastel, painting colourful landscapes on canvas.
Jo will be giving a talk at 6:30pm, to give us an idea of her art practice and process.
Please RSVP below by adding to the bag and checking out.
Melissa Laurence: Floral Reverie
Join us 21st Aug-28th Sept 2024 to see a joyful collection of oil paintings by Melissa Laurence. Originally hailing from the remote Australian outback, Melissa is a self-taught artist who now calls the local village of Hermitage here in the UK her home.
Melissa paints joyous floral still lives with the most vibrant colour palette. With a real sense of fun, her artworks are guaranteed to make you happy!
Japanese Woodcuts
See a collection of 19th century Japanese Woodblock Prints in the gallery by Kuniyoshi and Kunisada.
Matt Emmett: Forgotten Heritage
The exhibition runs 18th May-29th June, with a SPECIAL EVENT: join us for an evening of wine, cheese, and music with Matt Emmett, an intrepid local photographer, who highlights the worlds bygone architecture. He's both nationally and internationally recognised, having won many awards which you can see on his artist page. Matt will be doing an artist talk during the event. Date TBC.
Mary Louise Coulouris: Human Ecologies
SPECIAL EVENT: Friday 5th April. Join us from 5:30pm to celebrate the exhibition with the artist's daughter, Saro Wallace! Saro will be doing a talk about the artist at 6:30pm.
Limited edition prints and originals.
Mary Louise Coulouris (1939-2011) worked in a range of media during her prolific career, with studios in London (1962-1976), Scotland (1976-1999) and Hydra, Greece (2000-2011). Of partly Greek heritage, born in New York and growing up in Hampstead, she trained at Chelsea College of Art in the late 1950s and then Slade to 1960, specialising in printmaking under the tutorship of Anthony Gross and William Coldstream.
Cat Croxford: an Exhibition and an Event
SPECIAL EVENT: 23/2/24 Join us from 5:30pm to celebrate the exhibition with the artist!
Cat is a fantastic landscape painter, who specialises in acrylic on canvas. She paints the Berkshire Downs, and South Oxfordshire Chilterns, so you'll likely see a piece of local woodland you may recognise.
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Exhibition
Born in 1924, Paolozzi is appreciated by many as a pioneer of the Pop Art movement. Some of Paolozzi's most famous work resides in Tottenham Court Road underground station, where many mosaic murals cover platforms, passages and escalator entrances.
We're exhibiting a suite of limited edition thermographic prints and lithographs from Paolozzi's 'Underground Design Folio X', which showcases designs for the mosaics in Tottenham Court Road tube station. See below a side by side of the mosaic in situ, and the design singed by Paolozzi on display at The Caversham Picture Framer.
Drop in to see!
Emily Gillmor: an Exhibition and an Event
SPECIAL EVENT: 1/12/23 Join us from 5:30pm to celebrate the exhibition with the artist!
Emily Gillmor is a screenprint artist. She takes inspiration from her immediate surroundings, producing confident line drawings. She translates these in the print studio into gorgeous, vibrant screen prints, retaining the strong line from her drawings.
Original Artist Posters
See the likes of Hockney, Matisse, Picasso, Miro, Chagall, Braque, and Leger; all on your doorstep in Caversham.
These 20th century posters were printed at the time of the exhibition, to advertise it around the city. The posters that have made it in good condition to today are artworks in their own right. Owning one is like owning a piece of art history.
Roger Smalley: an Exhibition and a Special Event
SPECIAL EVENT: 14/9/23 Join us from 5:30pm to celebrate the exhibition with the artist! Solo exhibition of work from artist Roger Smalley. Roger is a brilliant local stone carver who creates intricate sculptures from limestone, sandstone, polyphant, and rock chalk. Roger is also a collage artist, using imagery from magazines to create surreal and witty scenes.
Adeline Breton: an Exhibition and a Special Event
SPECIAL EVENT: 11/8/23 Join us from 5:30pm to celebrate the exhibition with the artist! Evocative images steeped in myths clash with modern street art. Come in to find out more about Adeline Breton's unique interpretation on the human condition.
Julian Opie: Lithographs
Julian Opie
We're so happy to present a suite of Julian Opie lithographs from a signed edition of 250. The exhibition will include framed and unframed artworks.
Simone Bonnett: an Exhibition and a Special Event
SPECIAL EVENT: 18/5/23 Join us from 5:30pm to celebrate the exhibition with the artist! Simone Bonnett creates beautiful abstracts using colour, resin, and gold. These are all original, unique artworks.
Melissa Topal: Original Paintings
Melissa Topal is an incredible abstract artist. She applies wit and humour to every one of her works.
Anja Percival: Copperplate Etchings
Anja Percival is a Durham based printmaker. We will be presenting 10 of her beautiful Limited Edition Copperplate Etchings.
Anja uses varying techniques to build tone and line, including etching, wax resist, and aquatint. The result is the creation of stunning atmospheric light within her prints.
Chagla Mehmet: an Exhibition and a Special Event
SPECIAL EVENT: 2/12/22 Join us from 5:30pm to celebrate the exhibition with the artist! Chagla is a new emerging artist living and working in London. Her work places an emphasis on the process of creation, which becomes ritualistic and meditative. It often reflects on the dialogue between isolation and the warmth of being.
Honouring Matisse: A Modern Master
We’re so excited to be able to present a collection of Matisse artworks, in collaboration with Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham. We will be exhibiting a collection of over 40 of his artworks. Some of the works you can see in our gallery are shown below. Pop in for a visit to see the whole exhibition and buy one for your own art collection.
Glory Samjolly: an Exhibition and a Special Event
SPECIAL EVENT: 6/10/22 Join us from 5:30pm to celebrate the exhibition with the artist!
Glory Samjolly is a portrait artist who is challenging our traditional narration of history and connecting her sense of self with a more nuanced past. She creates beautiful paintings and limited edition prints of black people of the past with a modern twist.
Sally Castle: an Exhibition and a Special Event
SPECIAL EVENT: 20/09/22 Join us from 5:30pm to celebrate the exhibition with the artist! Sally Castle is an amazing local artist who produces limited edition linocut prints. She takes inspiration from the surrounding towns and countryside, and from all of the projects she's been commissioned to illustrate.
Sally’s linoprints are made by carving lines into a lino (rubbery) block using a special incising tool. Ink is layered over the remaining surface, then printed onto paper.
Berenice Sydney: Dancing With Colour
Berenice Sydney was a British artist who produced a substantial body of work from 1964 until her death in 1983.
Berenice was born in Surrey in 1944. From a young age, she studied ballet and classical guitar. You can see the movement of dance and music within her paintings.
Berenice explored ideas of abstraction from the likes of Picasso and Matisse, before developing her own unique style that reflected her passion for movement and rhythm.
She participated in over 40 exhibitions before her tragic and untimely death of an asthma attack at the age of 39. The legacy she left is a truly amazing collection of artworks.
Super Xiao Ma: 9 Gates of JZ
Symbolism, Symmetry, Structure: Super Xiao Ma is a spiritual artist who creates works based on personal experiences, and reflections on emotional events.
The 9 gates of JZ are the 9 ancient gates of the city of Jingzhou, where Super Xiao Ma spent time living. The artworks were created in a Jingzhou café, where the artist used the china tea cups and saucers to draw the concentric circles within the work. Super Xiao Ma uses techniques like the Golden Ratio to make his works incredibly visually appealing.
Alex Foster: Just Thinking?
Alex is a local painter and printmaker who explores new ideas and symbolism within his work.
Predominantly a figurative artist, most of the artworks are monoprints that explore the properties of colour or conversely are linocuts that are devoid of colour. Recently he has started to create painted pieces again.
Grace Boyle: Well Behaved Women Don’t Make History
Grace Boyle presents a selection of beautifully designed limited edition prints.
Creating collage prints using photos of people and portraiture as the core of her designs, these pieces of art create a story using carefully curated imagery.
Grace has sought to understand the subtleties and impact collage can have on her artistic process, developing her own personal digital collage style, drawing on the emotional durability of this medium.
Bertie Simpson: Familiar Discomfort
It is a pleasure to introduce to you our latest exhibiting artist: Bertie Simpson. His new series of drawings on sale explores the unease of the mundane during a world in lockdown. Each picture distorts stereotypical scenes with vibrant colours and twists to the perspective . . .
