For sale - mug £6 (excluding contents)

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Tel: 01392 256206
Email: gallery36exeter@aol.com

Right in the heart of St Leonards, Exeter lies Gallery 36, a former care home turned informal gallery and sculpture garden run by owner Veronica Gosling.  Gallery 36 has been evolving since it’s inception in 2003 when it was first established following Veronica Gosling’s relocation to Exeter from The Forest of Dean where she ran a rural gallery for twenty years.

During that time The Barn at Hay Farm, a Georgian farmhouse turned arts centre became one of the focal points for Gloucestershire’s artistic community.  Over the years an annual exhibition developed, attracting artists and visitors from across the county and beyond.  Hay farm was described by one as “a secret special place that people find and then want to bring their friends.”  Gallery 36 is that sort of place.

Gradually as the secret of Gallery 36 is being discovered it is becoming more firmly rooted on Exeter’s map of already known Arts venues.

For those who cross the threshold of 36 Denmark Road, a rich and thought-provoking visual experience awaits.  The Gallery is home to a permanent exhibition of works by Veronica Gosling as well as a changing display of works by invited local and international artists.  In fact “art runs riot through the whole house, along corridors and up walls.”

One room has been set aside for Veronica’s ceramics; plates, mugs and teapots vividly painted and glazed in Veronica’s unique style. Tableware is dishwasher and ovenproof and available from a starting price of £6.

In another room, experimental assemblages and sculptural forms ignore the boundaries between 2D and 3D.  Familiar objects are welded together into new forms giving life to the inanimate – one off creations laced with fun and eccentricity.

The largest gallery exhibits prints from Veronica’s ongoing series “During the night.”  Full of exuberance and good humour they are available from as little as £10.  The price reflecting Veronica’s rejection of an elitist gallery, instead encouraging accessibility to all.

Other gallery artist’s work on display includes that of Belgian born Nora Claeys.  The sculptress now in her eighties no longer makes the big sculptures she used to but is exhibiting beautifully executed drawings for sculptures.  Ronald Henriques, “outsider artist” displays vivid and colourful paintings from within his vivid and colourful imagination.  The titles such as “Pea Souper mandate, Sorry I’m Late” and “Last Scotch Before the Encounter” are an interesting and integral part of his work.  Also not to be missed, small drawings by Sabine Jesse Kniesel and glass work by Deborah Lowe.

New artists exhibiting at Gallery 36 are: painter Chris Keleher, Furniture maker Tim Orson, and hanging Mobiles by Edward Willis.

Sculpted Birds and cats are dotted around the intriguing garden and chairs sit about in the form of people. This outside space has been the site of one-off events and “unusual happenings.

But the experience doesn’t end inside.

Step outside into the garden and the mood of energetic enterprise continues deep into the undergrowth, where artistic creations can be found hanging from the trees.