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In December 2008 Bronte Woodruff, an artist friend of ours offered to gather some paintings for us to fill the many walls at No 10 for our launch party - we were stunned and amazed when she arrived with 99 paintings and with no fuss hung them throughout the house.

We feel privileged and deeply grateful to Bronte and her fellow artists who have allowed us to hang their work. All of the pictures are for sale and we can arrange a view at any time. The next public exhibition will be in autumn 2010. Check out the May 2010 exhibition on our Facebook page

Please see below some information about some of the artists currently exhibiting at No 10.

Further information about these artists can be found via links from the 'h-art' website website link

BRONTË WOODRUFF
A rural artist, drawing inspiration from the highly-charged Marches landscape, I prefer to work with natural materials, including Van Dyck crystals, pigments, charcoal, graphite, beeswax and seasalt for their resist and dispersal qualities, and exploring different papers; A stick and a wide flat brush are most liberating tools. My paintings are a distillation of observations, an attempt to evoke atmosphere, contour, colour, texture, and - importantly .. energy. Lifestudy enables me to approach other subjects with renewed vigour and a fresh eye.
Recent Exhibitions include: Spring 2008; Radnorshire Museum, Llandrindod Wells; May 2007. 2008, St Andrew’s Art Show, Presteigne; Green Stage Gallery, Bishops Frome; July 2008, Artist in Residence with English Choral Experience at Dore Abbey; h-Art Open Studios 2003 – 2009; Nov 2008 organised and showed in Help for Heroes, Lemore Manor; Dec 2008, January, April and December 2009, curated and exhibited in Art at No. 10, TheStruet, Brecon; Spring 2009, Blue-Ginger Gallery, Cradley; April – June 2009 Four Women from the Marches , Showborough House Garden Sculpture Exhibition, Twyning, Glos.; Sept 2009, Bevere Vivis Gallery, Worcester; h-Art Open Exhibition Sept 2009; Glasbury Visual Arts Exhibition November 2009; January – April 2010 ‘Treescapes’ 6-man show with Richard Bavin at Pontypool Museum, The Barker Gallery; February 2010 Art for Your Sake – Macmillan at The Colloquy; Art at No. 10, May 2010; Blue-Ginger, Spring 2010,; the Gallery, Bishop’s Castle, May 2010; The Applestore Gallery, Brockhampton, ‘Life as we know it’, May 2010; Showborough House, Twyning, April – June 2010.
In August I have been invited to show a group of life studies alongside the work of Richard Studer, Artistic Director of Opera Project, in The Granary, Lingen. I exhibit at the Palace Art Fest later this summer, followed by my 7th h-Art Open Studio, and also in the Discoed Art Show as part of Herefordshire Art Week. I have also been invited to show a collection of collages at The Haymakers Christmas Show in Hay on Wye.
Brontë’s paintings hang in many private collections in the UK, USA, Europe, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the Far East.

Visitors are always welcome to view her work at home by appointment.

Marsh Cottage, Yatton, Herefordshire, HR6 9TP; Click to email Tel01568 770177

PETER HORROCKS

My work is characterised by a concern for abstraction, carefully constructed structures and a sensual handling of forms. Initial images are often drawn from landscape sources, but a variety of other concerns have influenced my work. These include natural forms, stones and rock formations and themes such as ‘Freedoms and Constraints’ and ‘Traces’. I like to work on a series of images at the same time and enjoy the way the works interact with each other - one work teaches me about the next. I usually work on a square format and the scale can be from as small as 150mm to up to1metre. Some works are presented in a triptych format where the interaction between the three pieces is a significant part of the work.

During the past few years I have been developing my use of drawing media in order to explore more fully the expressive qualities of mark making in my work. Not only do I use conventional graphite pencils, but also graphite powder, pure earth pigments and a variety of mark making tools, some to incise the paper or board to produce grooves into which pigment is rubbed, or blocks of graphite rubbed over to reveal a negative line.

Works entitled ‘Landmarks’ often use natural earth pigments from the place which inspired the work, as in the 2004/5 Tuscan series. I have also sourced a range of ochres from the Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean and they have inspired a series of works over the past few years. The series, inspired by my visit to Uluru, (Ayre’s Rock), respects the sacred site and Australian pigments were purchased from Sydney. I have also started using other additives to give a more textured feel to the soft board on which I work. Recent experimentation working on canvas develops this area of my work further.

Works on the theme of ‘Traces’ explores marks left behind in nature and their possible meaning. I am always more interested in small fragments of the landscape rather than the bigger picture.

Drawing for me is an act of discovery. The works themselves are marks I leave behind, and in that sense, are traces where I have been in the creative process.

10 The Square
Kington
Herefordshire
HR5 3BA
01544 230919
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HAZEL GWATKIN, LRPS

Hazel Gwatkin lives in the small village of New Radnor in Mid-Wales and is inspired by the beautiful countryside that surrounds her. Her photographs are taken locally on Kodak black & white infrared film, creating a mystical feel to what are already beautiful landscapes. By using an opaque filter over the lens of the camera, the infrared film captures light beyond the red end of the spectrum, enabling images to be recorded of what the naked eye cannot see and until the film is developed there is no way of knowing how the photographs will appear. The countryside in a lot of her photographs has remained unchanged for many years with its own memories of bygone days and the unique mystique that results from the infrared film represents the land’s own secrets from the past.

Previous Exhibitions
12 February – 31 March 2010 Erwood Station Gallery,Solo exhibition of B&W infrared Mid Wales Photographs and colour digital photographs.

1 August – 15 August 2009 Ludlow Sumer Exhibition Selected B&W infrared photographs

2 March - 28 March 2009 The Hat Shop, Presteigne Solo exhibition of B&W infrared photographs of local landscapes

22 August - 20 September 2008 The Courtyard Centre for “Mystical World”, solo exhibition the Arts, Hereford of B&W infrared photographs

2 August - 15 August 2008 Ludlow Summer Exhibition Selected B&W infrared photographs of Contemporary Art

10 November 2007 - 20 January 2008 Beetroot Tree Gallery, Christmas Exhibition Draycott, Derbyshire Selected B&W infrared photographs

15 June - 29 June 2007 Michael Young Arts Centre, OCA National Exhibition Barnsley Selected B&W infrared photographs

10 May - 4 June 2007 Art Below Exhibition Photographs displayed on posters Westminster Tube Station on platforms at tube station London Underground

21 March 2007 - 20 April 2007 Stroud House Gallery, “Film Still” Photography Exhibition Stroud, Gloucestershire Selected B&W infrared photographs

3 November - 2 December 2006 The Courtyard Centre for “Made in Herefordshire” Exhibition the Arts, Hereford Selected B&W infrared photographs

30 October - 28 November 2006 Herefordshire College of Hereford Photo Festival Art & Design Selected B&W infrared photographs

27 October - 29 November 2006 Stoneleigh Exhibition Centre, NAME Exhibition Warwickshire Mixture of colour and B&W photographs

20 January- 15 February 2006 Howard Gardens Gallery, Welsh Photography Open Exhibition, Cardiff. Selected B&W infrared photographs

On-going: Saatchi Online Gallery Selection of B&W infrared photographs

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JANE TUDGE

Current exhibitions:
2010 art 360, High Town, Hereford
2010 Art @ No 10, The Struet, Brecon
2010 Life as We Know it, The Applestore Gallery, Brockhampton
2010 Worcester Open 2010, The Pitt Studio

Forthcoming exhibitions:
2010 An Orchestra of Strings, The Crypt Gallery, London

Solo exhibitions:
2008 Fragile Power, Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton-on-Thames
2008 Uncovered, Ludlow College, Ludlow
2007 But that Other Man is Smiling, The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford
2001 Millenniummmm, The Kemble Gallery, Hereford

Group exhibitions:
2010 Art for Your Sake, The Colloquy, Lyonshall
2009 Record Exchange and Celebration by Mark Essen, The Event, Birmingham
2009 Pushing Print, Pie Factory, Margate
2009 h.Art, The Print Shed, Swinmoor
2009 Ludlow Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 2009, Palmer’s Hall, Ludlow
2009 Book Arts, Material, Ludlow
2009 Approaches to Landscape, Applestore Gallery, Brockhampton
2009 Shop Front Show, Bromyard
2009 Paper Work, Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Hereford
2008 Re: International Book Arts exhibition, Northampton University, artworks mk, Milton Keynes
2008 Celebrating Books, Malvern College, Malvern
2007 Glasbury Festival of Art, Glasbury
2007Lying Cheetah, Longleat
2006 Under cover, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
2006 The First Manchester Artist’s Book Fair, Manchester
2006 Literary Festival, Hay-on-Wye
2006 Now We are Four, Gallery Upstairs, Abergavenny
2005 Literary Festival, Hay-on-Wye
2005 8th International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, Halifax
2004 H.Art at the Tidal Wave Gallery, Hereford
2004 Puck, Lead Artist in collaborative project, H.Art, Hereford
2004 Identity, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
2004 Hereford College of Arts, Hereford
2004 Literary Festival, Hay-on- Wye

Awards:
2006 The William Alexander Award for Fine Art, Hereford College of Arts
2006 Folly Arts Book Arts Prize, Hereford College of Arts
2006 Society of Bookbinders Bursary
2005 Folly Arts Book Arts Prize, Hereford College of Arts
2004 Folly Arts Book Arts Prize, Hereford College of Arts

Residency
2008 Artist in Residence at Ludlow College

Collections:
The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University, London National and international private collections

Commissions:
2004 Victoria and Albert Museum, London for Dora Loewenstein & Associates

Education:
2006 BA (Hons) Fine Art – first class
University of Wales (Hereford College of Arts)
2001 City & Guilds Further & Adult Education Teachers Certificate. Hereford Technical College

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