Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery

The Cinema Gallery is a light, bright and inviting space. Throughout the year it is let on a weekly basis to exhibitors both local and more widely known. Paintings, photographs, sculpture, jewellery, oriental rugs, books and artefacts from overseas, all have taken their turn and they are interspersed with private parties, meetings and workshops during the Poetry Festival.   

The Gallery can accommodate a maximum of 40 people, but the attractive and very sheltered walled garden behind the foyer and alongside the auditorium can also be hired for sculptures, garden furniture and party use with a proviso that an emergency exit for the auditorium is preserved.
    
The space measures approximately 30 x 16 feet. The impressive natural light is enhanced by a Concord spot lighting track while black Venetian blinds at the three large, latticed windows can be used as a filter if required.      There are three rails at differing heights for displaying pictures. Hooks are supplied.
    
The Gallery is a particularly pleasant place to hold an exhibition. Apart from its general ambience, and unlike the situation of many other galleries, its exhibitors benefit from the fact that the Cinema is a working building, with friendly personnel on site most days of the week. There is also a small kitchen which can be used for light refreshments.

Dates remain available for hire during 2010 and we are now taking bookings for 2011. For full details of rental and available dates, please call Julie Latimer-Jones on 01728 604395, or pop into the Cinema one morning during the working week to have a look round and speak to Susan Harrison. You will be most welcome.

In the Gallery

HOT AND DRY:  LANDSCAPES FROM ARABIA TO ALDEBURGH AND BEYOND.    David Britton.

20th August -  26th August 2010 inclusive

Opening time 1000 – 1700 daily.

Born in 1937, educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and New College Oxford, David Britton holds an Honours Degree in History and pursued his interest in Art at Ipswich Art School.     He has held numerous one-man exhibitions, visiting Aldeburgh several times, as well as having his work accepted in many another established gallery.

The East Anglian landscape provides the inspiration for much of David’s work though he has made excursions into other parts of Britain and to some hot dry landscapes abroad.   Egypt,   Lanzarotte, Corfu and Tuscany have played their part in his working life as have his boyhood memories of Eritrea.

He says his work alternates between the large, pale and spacious and the smaller, more coloured.   Very recently, some of the work has become a little more abstract ‘in the sense of interlocking shapes in landscape’.  

David says:  ‘I began painting at thirteen as a colourist with a love of Van Gogh and it seems that a colourist I remain.   I have also put in by now the famous 10,000 hours of hard work to qualify as just about ‘good enough’ at drawing.   It is all pure joy!’

MIGHTY FINE ART – Peter Williams

27th August – 2nd September inclusive

We are delighted that Peter Williams enjoyed his stay with us so much he is returning for another week.   To remind you:

Peter was born in Hertfordshire in 1952.   He first tasted success as an artist at the age of eight when a painting won third prize in the Hornimans Tea National Painting Competition.    It was at this point that he realised that to be able to draw and paint was not a universal talent.    He’s been doing it ever since.

He became a full time artist in 2002, after a working life which involved many changes, from soldier to college tutor.  Anyone who logs on to his website at www.mightyfineart.co.uk will fully understand why ‘things have gone quite well so far’.    He has enjoyed sales all over the world and his work has featured in several publications.

Peter lives near Aldeburgh with his partner and a big dog called Murphy. He exhibits around East Anglia and in London and has a wide portfolio of subject matter and media, including landscape, portraiture, wildlife and illustration.

More recently he has become well known for Western and Native American artwork which is marketed quite successfully in the USA and is becoming more popular locally too.

Peter says:  ‘I don’t try to be historically accurate, but attempt to portray palpable and arresting emotions, suspending reality to present the viewer with the wild, unchecked passions and stoic serenity of Native America’.