EXHIBITION CONTINUES UNTIL 8TH AUGUST The exhibition has paintings by railway artists who create evocative images of the railways of the past and these are combined with the unseen photographs by the late Trevor Grimshaw. Trevor photographed the rusting and abandoned trains, at the time when all steam trains were retired from service. Many of...

Spring Exhibition by Green Door Artists  18th May – 27th June This exhibition celebrates a new beginning for the artists of Green Door after many months without an exhibition. Everything was planned and the exhibition hung in December, when we went into "Lockdown" once again.  Ironically called "Green Shoots",  this is definitely an exhibition of...

12th November – 10th January The Upfront Christmas Ceramics Exhibition. A unique and diverse selection of ceramics.

PAINTINGS by PHILIPPA HEADLEY 29th September - 13th December I have spent many years hiking in the Lakeland Fells and walking along the Jurassic Coast. Whether I’m viewing a precipitous cliff top from the sea or gazing at a fell yet to be climbed I find wonderful opportunities to paint. This everchanging environment, eroded by...

5th November – 12th January This exhibition will feature work by Green Door artists celebrating their diversity and originality. The title ‘Kaleidoscope’ offers artists the freedom to approach their subjects using a wide variety of media and styles, and provides motivation and stimulus. Some may work from the word itself but others could choose to...

Ink Painting (sumi-e and suibo kuga) Calligraphy – Arts of the Brush EXPLORE THE MIND – EXPERIENCE SUMI-E A practical workshop introducing the techniques & methods, along with an overview of the masterpieces of this art form. About Irene Irene Sanderson is a painter, illustrator, printmaker and calligrapher, working mainly in ink and watercolour on absorbent...

Painted images and photographs of a journey around Japan visiting beautiful and mysterious Shinto shrines – the greatest, the oldest, and the newest, enshrining a sun goddess, a mountain, a fox, the mythical founders of the nation and heroes of national modernisation. This journey along with conversations with Shinto priests, historians, ultra-rightist activists, atom bomb...