ARTifex is 20 years old!

COME & JOIN US FOR OUR 

20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION ON

Saturday 16th November, 10am - 5pm

Artifex Gallery, the Midlands’ leading gallery for contemporary British Arts & Crafts, will be celebrating its 20th anniversary on Saturday 16th November.

Karen Van Hoff

There will be the opportunity to win numerous prizes, including an original painting by Robert Perry titled ‘Last Glimmers of Daylight’, worth £680. Robert is one of the Midlands best known artists, and he will be in the gallery to chat about his work. Jeweller, Karen Van Hoff, will be demonstrating her jewellery techniques and customers can win one of her flamboyant necklaces.

Robert Perry

Meet other artists and makers and watch demonstrations, including pot throwing.

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On the day, Artifex will be supporting ‘Speight of the Art’, a charity set up by artist and BBC ‘SMart’ presenter Mark Speight’s family, following his tragic death in 2007. ‘Speight of the Art’ organises projects and events throughout the UK to bring the benefits of ‘The Arts’, in their many varied forms, to children of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.

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Mitchell Centre for Art and Craft

Weedford Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. B75 6NA.

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Bernie Wisniewski, Presents ‘Bright and Bold’

An Exhibition of Original Paintings throughout July in our Birmingham Art Gallery!

The work of Bernie Wisniewski will be filling the gallery with bursts of vibrant colour for the month of July. His inspiration comes from the North East and Scotland, and the exhibition will feature his distinctive paintings of landscapes and still life.

‘Being self taught, I let my paintings come from the soul, working rapidly to convey the emotion generated by a subject in an expressionistic style. My studio is bright and always full of music, excitement and activity.’

Consequently Bernie’s work is loose and dramatic, with bold shapes and textural brushstrokes. Strong, bright colour also characterises his work, reminiscent of the Scottish Colourists and Fauve painters.

‘I’m not influenced by fashion or the current trend – these things are transient. I’ve been working for the last 12 months to create some of my brightest, most colourful work, which I hope will provide impact and interest wherever they may hang.’

New Paintings by Al Saralis

The paintings of Al Saralis reflect the classical beauty of the human figure. The dramatic use of light, coupled with the directness of the pose, results in images that are powerful and sometimes confrontational, while also echoing the fragility and vulnerability of contemporary man.

Al is a professional painter and a teacher of Fine Art. He was born and brought up in South Wales and now lives and works in Hampshire and has exhibited extensively over recent years and has been involved in a number of group and one-man exhibitions. Since his early life drawing sessions at Art College, the human figure has always been Al's main source of inspiration. This fascination of the form, structure and movement of the figure continues to be central to Al’s work.

The paintings usually consist of a single figure which is stripped of any narrative reference. Recent works have included a series of paintings where the figure has been fragmented or left incomplete. These were in part inspired by a trip to Florence where Al saw the unfinished ‘Prigioni’ sculptures of Michelangelo.