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Our elves have been working hard here at Flux to get things ready ahead of Christmas. As well as brand new pieces from our established makers, we have a number of exciting fresh artists we'd love to introduce you too. Come along for a drink and mince pie on one of our Seasonal Celebrartion events and get ahead of the game! We hope to see you soon.
Our elves have been working hard here at Flux to get things ready ahead of Christmas. As well as brand new pieces from our established makers, we have a number of exciting fresh artists we'd love to introduce you too. Come along for a drink and mince pie on one of our Seasonal Celebrartion events and get ahead of the game! We hope to see you soon.
An exhibition of one-off and very limited edition screen prints by Bristol artist Emily Ketteringham.
Niamh was offered the chance to work for three months at the historic Porthmeor Studios in St Ives. Feeling it was the ideal opportunity for her work to evolve, she embraced the opportunity with no expectations, allowing herself to be inspired by St Ives.
All the paintings are full of the nature of Cornwall, the movement of water in all it’s forms, the mark it makes upon the Cornish landscape and inspiration from the human activity of St Ives from fishing to tourism.
Being away from her usual environment inspired her & she was able to experiment, her work becoming looser and allowing her to feel less constricted.
Sally Imbert made a commitment as an artist to make one small creative act every day for a year and share it on her social media, (Instagram @sallydove).
Firstly, to re-engage with her lost feelings, to rediscover what she loved & make herself paint & draw. Secondly, to force herself right out of her comfort zone, by putting it out into the world.
Sally painted whilst roaming around her locality, in mist, snow, 7 types of rain, biting cold, blazing sun, at dawn & dusk, & all times in between. On her way to work & back, she took detours & painted in other peoples’ houses. She climbed hills she had only wondered about before, encountering deers, cows, dogs & birds. Over tors, coastlines, bluebell woods and buzzing meadows.
Through 4 seasons, 22 paintbrushes, 5 sketchbooks, 37 twilights, 9 sheds, 1 major breakup & 12 migraines, she painted. They are a visual diary of artistic practice, reconnecting with life, recalibrating her senses, the process being the goal; 365 days of art in one life.
This show reveals what emerged in her work & what a committed focus added by changing just one tiny thing. Sally shared everything, the ‘mistakes' & the triumphs all being part of her wandering. An artist’s response to living life from the heart, Sally Imbert’s year in pictures; the fruits of which are shown here at Flux.
Purchase Sally’s artworks online here.
Quiet Reflections on Landscape and Nature
An exhibition of new paintings and stained glass by Stuart Low.
Stuart Low will be exhibiting recent paintings and stained glass which are centred around landscape and form personal between connections between walking, place and wellbeing.
Stuart has been inspired by the reflective time he has spent exploring the Brecon Beacons hills and coastlines of Somerset and Devon.
Based in Bristol's BV Studio Stuart is artist and maker who respects the traditional skills of the craft while imbuing a unique and contemporary spirit to the glass he makes. He designs and makes pieces to commission for both churches and secular buildings.
Preview evening Friday 1st November - Come along from 6pm, be amongst the first to see Stuart Low's new works, meet the maker himself, celebrate with us and enjoy a little autumnal refreshment too!
Previews 6pm - 8pm, Friday 12th October
Garden of Earthly Delights ” is the latest exhibition at Flux to showcase the work of Bristol artists Louise Blois and Judy Rodrigues, both inspired by elements of nature and their transience.
Ceramic artist Louis Blois is has an enduring fascination for the natural world and how to capture it creatively. After studying ceramics at Camberwell School of Art Louise completed her masters degree Cardiff. Louise creates sculptural lighting, tiles and hand built vessels that portray the transience of a flower's bloom but give it a permanence. Working with paper porcelain clay, she encapsulates the essence of botanical elements through her use of impressing and press-moulding with plaster blocks. This technique helps to explore the potential luminosity, translucency and delicate nature of Porcelain. Louise’s glazes highlight the natural form of the flowers. The transforming effect of light through translucent porcelain makes the subtle details more apparent and creates a beautiful 'atmosphere' that transcends the objects to both functional items and works of art.
Judy Rodrigues is based at Spike Island. Her paintings, journals and studies draw from nature in both direct and metaphorical contexts, with research areas in the poetics of environment and diaspora. Her childhood on the Isle of Wight first inspired her to work from the elemental landscape and world around her as a free, direct and natural way of open learning & enquiry. Judy is interested in the bringing to life of painting - and its ecological conditions, as a mark and/or form of individual, collective, timeless and a communicable production. Judy’s paintings evolve in connection to places that generate intuitive associations and responses. The larger canvases suggest their form through a process of continual application, erasure, excavation and layering.
All works on show are for sale. A selection of works will be available to purchase online following the preview.
Flux has now closed it's doors for Christmas. We will re-open at 11am until 5pm on Friday 28th & Saturday 29th then close for New Year until 11am on Friday 5th January.
Purchases from our online shop over Christmas will be handled on 28th & 29th Dec. Purchases from our online shop over New Year will be despatched when we reopen on Friday 5th January 2018.
Thanks to each and every one of our wonderful makers, customers, students and neighbours.
We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a fabulous New Year!
Come and enjoy a spot of Christmas shopping and support our uniquely independent designer makers at the same time!
Join us from 5.30pm onwards this Thursday evening as the Christmas lights throughout Christmas Steps Arts Quarter, our wondrously unique neighbourhood, are switched on. Many of the shops and businesses will be open later than usual, including our marvellous neighbours Stafford Townsend, Makers, Blaze, I am Acrylic, Weber & Tring & 20th Century Flicks. There'll be some special offers and live music on the Christmas Steps.
Come along and meet artist Angie Kenber whose exhibition of wonderfully vibrant abstract paintings are currently on show.
Angie Kenber is a Bristol-based professional abstract painter, working in bold and expressive colour. Her beautiful jewel-coloured abstract paintings evoke feelings of joy and freedom.
Angie paints on canvas and wooden furniture, and her work is printed onto luxurious cushions and high quality coasters.
Our next exhibition is 'Where Stories Begin' - David Chilton's solo exhibition.
Bristol based ceramicist David Chilton was born in the West Country and studied studied at Cardiff. He works in the medium of porcelain paper clay; hand building delicate, figurative vessels and sculpture from sheets of clay. Formed by a technique developed and refined over time; his work is enhanced by the use of glazes, precious lustres and metallic oxides.
David takes particular inspiration from a variety of mediaeval and 18th Century techniques, references in decorative and fine art as well as historical and contemporary fashion.
