Fountain Fine Art

21/11/2009 to 31/12/2009

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A changing show of new work from 50 gallery artists including three newcomers to the gallery, Joanna Griffiths, Ceri Auckland Davies & Sarah Young.

01/01/2010 to 31/01/2010

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We are pleased to announce our exhibition schedule for 2010.

12th Feb - 5th Mar, Esther Tyson & Beth Marsden
3rd Apr - 28th May, Easter Group Show
29th May - 18th Jun, Seren Bell
26th Jun - 16th Jul, Sallie Wakley & Penny Timmis
24th Jul - 13th Aug, 'Small Wonder' - an exhibition of small works by Steven Griffiths, Sarah van Niekerk & Wendy Lovegrove
28th Aug - 17th Sep, Grahame Hurd-Wood & Sarah Young
25th Sep - 15th Oct, Sarah Richards
10th Nov - 31st Jan 2011, Winter Group Show

13/02/2010 to 05/03/2010

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A refreshing exhibition of vibrant new paintings from two of the gallery's most exciting young painters.

Whether living in a bedsit, studio or caravan, and now having two young children, Beth Marsden's passion for painting is uppermost, and her fascination with people and their surroundings. She received a 1st Class BA Honours at West Wales School of the Arts and is already highly regarded as a professional portrait painter.

Born in 1973, Esther Tyson was brought up in a small town at the edge of the Lake District, Cumbria. She studied at Carlisle College of Art and Design, Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art and then London's Royal College of Art. Esther has exhibited with the SWLA (1999 - 2009) where she was Associate and Bursary winner 2000 and was elected a full member in 2004. In 2008 she won the CAPMARK Award and the RSPB Award.

03/04/2010 to 28/05/2010

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Once again, this year, we have a group exhibition over the Easter period involving the majority of our artists. The show starts Easter Weekend and continues for another seven weeks, with new work appearing to replace those items sold.

We will catalogue as many items as we can, prior to the show opening. Please check back for further additions to the website.

29/05/2010 to 18/06/2010

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The timeless quality of Seren’s pen & ink drawings has endured from her first solo exhibition back in 1980. Thirty years on, with pieces in public collections across the United Kingdom, she presents a solo exhibition of 37 new paintings here at Fountain Fine Art.

26/06/2010 to 16/07/2010

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This is Penny's first exhibition since being elected into the RBSA and SWA this year. As one of our most promising new painters, she shares this exhibition with Sallie, who has exhibited with us since graduating from art college in Carmarthen in the late eighties, and who continues to be our most popular sculptor.

10/07/2010 to 17/07/2010

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For his latest exhibition, painter Andrew Douglas Forbes has struck out in a new direction, creating a walk-in installation piece of ghostly and dream-like beauty.

A winter in Russia gave Llandeilo-based painter Andrew Douglas-Forbes the inspiration for his latest exhibition. Best known for his paintings of the buildings and people of rural Wales, Forbes usually paints in the subdued browns and greens of his native landscape.
After these, the stark whites of the Russian winter formed an intense and shocking contrast.
“The snowy winter went on unusually long so I saw many scenes day after day in the snow,” he says. “I noticed how objects covered in snow become just ‘form’. Brown forests become otherworldly – a friend’s black dog threw out of context the whites that surrounded him, and the scene looked like a drawing.”
Returning to Wales, he was haunted by this experience of whiteness. White started to dominate his paintings (he even painted one of his favourite props, a Welsh dresser, white) but he still hadn’t found a way to fully express the depth of its impact on him.
His latest exhibition, at Fountain Fine Art in Llandeilo, is an attempt to do just that. Rather than sticking with his usual medium, Forbes has effectively created a walk-in version of one of his paintings.
Recognising that the rear part of the gallery was once a separate cottage, he furnished it with objects you might find in a traditional Welsh home.
“I had the idea of recreating the atmosphere the cottage must once have had,” he says. “The installation is a whitened cottage interior full of drawings of places and faces that might have once been familiar to the dweller. I wanted to create the feeling that someone lives in there.”
Everything in the cottage has been painted white. The show also includes the use of candlelight to explore how tone and form are affected by light, and a video installation showing Forbes at work.
The result is what Forbes has been longing for since his visit to Russia: total immersion in whiteness. Forbes has used the show to explore ideas of white as purity, and the way in which white – perhaps as snow or whitewash – can either reveal or obscure information about an object.
But it is also simple expression of his painterly infatuation with the whiteness that surrounded him for a few weeks in Russia, and has remained in his imagination ever since.

The show contains a rare selection of drawings from Andrew's sketch books - figures going about their daily business, vignettes of Llandeilo, street corners and shop fronts, the familiar and the unfamiliar.

Some images are framed and individually priced. Some are decoration for the installation

The show runs from July 10th to 17th and runs in conjunction with the Llandeilo Music Festival at which Andrew will be singing, July 17th, at 1pm in St. Teilo's Church

24/07/2010 to 13/08/2010

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A three person show of small works from Sarah van Niekerk, Wendy Lovegrove & Steven Griffiths

Steven studied at Newport School of Art before gaining an MA at Reading University. He is a regular exhibitor at the Mall Galleries in London and currently tutors at Coleg Sir Gâr.

Wendy studied at Filton College of Art & Design. She has been selected to exhibit by the Royal West of England Academy and for the Welsh Artist of The Year on numerous occasions.

Sarah studied at St. Martin’s college before moving on to the Slade School of Fine Art in 1950s. She is a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and her work is held in public collections worldwide

28/08/2010 to 17/09/2010

Two person show

25/09/2010 to 15/10/2010

Solo Show