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Silent Seasons

Three of our local gallery artists celebrate the beauty of our peninsula in their own distinctive styles.

Fiona Philipps
Ronnie Drillsma
Andy McFadden

Thursday 21st May – Saturday 27th June
Thursday – Saturday 10am – 4pm


Fiona Philipps

“My artistic practice is deeply rooted in my daily coastal walks, as well as the familiar rhythms of home and garden. These quiet moments of observation, together with treasured memories from my childhood, continue to shape and inspire my work…”

Ronnie Drillsma

“As a visual creative Artist, I enjoy exploring methods of practice without notion of what the outcome will be. I know these tentative, exploratory marks will inform my future work. My visual language stems from observing the surface qualities found in the landscape, I seek to recreate those textures and patterns in my paintings….”

Andy McFadden

Andy McFadden’s oil paintings are concerned with a balance between the experienced and the observed. The familiar places he regularly visits are continually recorded, remembered and imagined. This, coupled with the manipulation of paint and the discoveries that arise from a cycle of putting on and taking off, is what facilitates his landscape compositions.