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CAMrelief – Emergency Art Exhibition and Auction for Haiti

Ashley — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:52:10 +0000

This weekend at Williams Art!

The 35 or so artist members of the Cambridge Arts Movement, based at the Williams Art Gallery at Dales Brewery, Gwydir Street, are each donating a piece of artwork to be auctioned for the Haiti Disaster Appeal. Many well-known and successful artists will be represented, a list of these can be seen at www.williamsart.co.uk

The show will be mounted this Friday and will be available for public viewing and the taking of fixed bids until this Sunday the 24th. The auction will take place at 3pm on Sunday, so come along and get a genuine Cambridge original at a knock-down price.

More information from Nick Ellis on 01223 500506 or from Chris Williams, Williams Art, 5 Dale’s Brewery, Gwydir Street, Cambridge CB1 2LJ . Tel: 01223 311687. The gallery is open 10am till 6pm, Tuesday till Sunday each week.

Self-portrait

Ashley — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:52:15 +0000

The private view for the Cambridge Arts Movement self-portrait exhibition at Williams Gallery was great fun and very well received. The range of work from all the different artists is very exciting and many of the visitors were interested in how each artist approached the subject.

And I was very pleased with the very positive feedback I got from fellow artists and visitors. It has given a real drive to do more experimental work.

CAMaraderie private view

Ashley — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:45:21 +0000

What an evening, the private view (Thursday 17 September) of the self-portraits by Cambridge Arts Movement members was a huge success. I was amazed by the variety of work entered by the other 29 artists and the feedback from the many visitors was very positive. It was amazing to see the variety of styles and techniques used – how each artist approached the subject differently.

The exhibition runs until the 30th September so if you get a chance visit the Williams Art Gallery in Gwyder Street, Cambridge. Or visit the Williams Gallery site

CAM’s first group show – 18-30 September

Ashley — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:45:43 +0000

CAMaraderie is an exciting collection of self-portraits created specially for this show by all 30 current members of the movement. Expect the unexpected from this diverse collection of artists – paintings, sculptures, photographs, montages and more. But all within the confines of a specially-made A3 panel.

CAMaraderie will run at Gwydir Street, Cambridge until the end of September then selected works will move to our corridor gallery space in Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre from 6 to 30 October.

Abstract paintings displayed at Cambridge Gallery

Ashley — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:01:22 +0000

Two of my abstract paintings are now hanging at Cambridge based Williams Art Gallery.

I have had some very positive feedback about both paintings, Inside Out and Street Walk, from fellow artists and visitors. It always good to get feedback (good or bad) especially with abstract art as it is fascinating to find out if the viewer sees what you intended or something completely new. A lot of work time and much thinking went into creating both paintings.

Street Walk - oil on canvas

Tree paintings in exhibition

Ashley — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:20:15 +0000

Decided to show two of my paintings depicting avenue of trees and different times of the year.

June Avenue, oil on canvas

June Avenue was painted a few months ago but is based on paint sketches made last year.

Autumn Avenue, oil on canvas

Autumn Avenue is also based on sketches made at Jesus Green, Cambridge last autumn. Both paintings are very influenced by Impressionism.

Cambridge Arts Movement

Ashley — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:56:49 +0000

I am very pleased to say I am now a member of the Cambridge Arts Movement. As members, we regularly exhibit at Williams Art gallery and much of the work is rotated weekly so it always worth a visit.

For more info visit: www.williamsart.co.uk.

Spring Morning at St Ives Lakes

Ashley — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:58:38 +0000

Finished this painting of a Spring Morning at St Ives just in time to go into the Landscape II exhibition at Williams Art Gallery. I only had minutes to sketch and photograph the April sky before it changed again.

Oil painting depicting an April fen morning sky

New Landscape Exhibition

Ashley — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:27:40 +0000

I am exhibiting paintings from my Fenland Series at the Williams Art Gallery. Exhibition starts May 5th. Other artists involved will be Richard Keys, Gail de Cordova, Nicholas James Juett, Jess Sutton and Maureen Mace.