Gin, apples, chicken & paint – a winning combination

September 29, 2015 by freespaceatthewigg

Another busy week comes and goes at Free Space Gallery with Creative Arts Well-being Workshop on Friday followed by our Urban Harvest Festival on Saturday. We pressed apples, petted hens, learnt about distilling gin and tried our hand at making planters from old pallets. Quite a weekend. Creative Arts Well-being Workshop, facilitated by artist Barbara Dean, was a day of discussions about creativity and well-being followed by some action painting in the local park. We caused quite a stir marching […]

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Creative Arts – Well-being Workshop & a trip to the ballet

September 21, 2015 by freespaceatthewigg

What a week was had! On Friday Free Space Gallery hosted the first of a two part workshop series Creative Arts Well-Being Workshop. There are still places available for the second workshop on Friday 25th September 10am – 3pm so please do get in touch if you would like to come along. Artist Barbara Dean who was leading the workshop began with book binding, a mediative walk in silence and then an afternoon of painting exercises exploring decision making and risk. […]

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Interpretations open evening & some mono printing

September 7, 2015 by freespaceatthewigg

Friday 4th September was a busy day at Free Space Gallery with an afternoon drop in mono-printing workshop with artist in residence Philly Hunt in the Well-Beeing Garden and a late evening opening for Interpretations our current exhibition by Nicola Jayne Maskrey. Philly was in her element holding an informal printing workshop in the garden where she has been artist in residence for the last few months. The heavy down pours and aging felting on the Spirit Shed roof has […]

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Interpretations

September 3, 2015 by freespaceatthewigg

Friday 4th September  6.30 – 9pm we are pleased to be hosting the late evening opening of Interpretations an exhibition of photographic work by artist and photographer Nicola Jayne Maskrey. Nicola explores the internal and external experiences of living, creating layered narrative images. Nicola will be on hand throughout the evening to answer any questions you may have about her work and will also be taking the opportunity to show some of her projections. In addition to Interpretations we also have […]

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