ARBOREAL: Mixed exhibition by gallery artists / Arddangosfa gymysg gan artistiaid yr oriel

The Arboreal - trees, woodlands, forests, orchards, and thickets — stands in art as it does in life: elemental and abiding, ab ovo, like air. Inescapable to artists, they have returned to the arboreal as subject and object, as medium and material, as symbol, metaphor, and state of mind,  as both source and point of departure.

Each of us carries some remembered tree and can recall how the arboreal has marked our lives and affected us in meaningful ways. Or how the depiction of something so familiar by artists can render it anew,  and in these gestures of re-seeing, can shift our understanding of nature, and ourselves.  

With a diverse and broad range of mediums and styles, this exhibition bring together gallery artists John Macfarlane, Eleri Mills, Harry Holland, Annette Marie Townsend, Daniel Crawshaw, Sigrid Muller, Vivienne Williams, Sarah Thwaites, Stephen Young, Simon Gaiger, Gareth Edwards, Clarissa Galliano, Cefyn Burgess & Lynne Cartlidge. We are also pleased to introduce Stephen West to the gallery, alongside visiting artist Maggie James.

“Never ignore what a tree or a body of water has to tell you.” — Peter Handke, Nobel Lecture, 2019

More work by all the gallery artists can be found on their individual pages.