Lockdown Closure Update
Please note that the Gallery will be closed for the duration of the present lockdown with appointment access only 07791295146
Welcome to Studio18 an art gallery located in the Garw Valley, South Wales
The most recent exhibition,
“Lockdown Paintings”
Opening times are every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11:00 am – 4:30 pm (please phone to arrange appointments outside of these times).
Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11:00 am – 4:30 pm
Otherwise appointments by request. Please contact the gallery to arrange your visit.
The Garw Valley is a former coal mining community just north of Bridgend, nestling between the Llynfi and Ogmore valleys.
A young Welsh student recently asked me if I had grown up in an artistic home. I said I hadn’t. She looked around the studio and thought for a while and wondered how that could be. I recollected how in the early sixties the youth clubs of South Wales in association with the LEAs used to look out for us kids. For a while there were art and music classes. I could draw and paint, but I had left school early and these places provided mentors, leaders, and characters, that didn’t look or walk the other way. “Oh. The community, then”, my Welsh visitor said.
After some twenty-five years away with more than a few ups and downs, I returned to that very community. It was initially a difficult return, not being exactly what my wife and I had wanted to do. In some ways it was more of a retreat from the challenges that my ambitions demanded I should always meet. Then, the returning of this native provided many more challenges. The artistic benefits, however, during the last fifteen years have been immense. The inspiration which I have gratefully, if not always humbly, received from my immediate environment, has sometimes seemed like a reward for coming home – the “fatted calf” even. A reward for the recognition and acknowledgement of my debt to the place in which my peculiar adventure began.
Please note that the Gallery will be closed for the duration of the present lockdown with appointment access only 07791295146
Kevin will be re-opening Studio18 from the 14th November 2020. Please note the new opening times. Open on Thursday, Friday and Saturdays only from 11 am – 4:30 pm Should …
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