Our forthcoming exhibition ‘Ordinary’ opens on 15th June from 2-5pm: all are warmly welcome to the opening of the show. It then continues until 3rd August and we are open Friday - Sunday 10-5pm.

Oddly I stumbled upon the theme for this show during my last exhibition (it seems to regularly occur - i love how organic the process is) here at the gallery during April 2025 when I heard ‘Ordinary’ by Alex Warren - the song is about loving someone who is extraordinary - Alex explains he met his now wife at a point when ‘I had nothing and she had nothing, but we did it, she slept in the car, and we did this together. We're here together, we travel together we have four dogs and that song is kind of like, this is what we found and it's not normal.

"That's why it's called 'Ordinary', because it's anything but."

I then came to ponder on my own life - full of seemingly ordinary experiences, people, days & moments etc.. even myself - I’m pretty much ordinary: yet when I truly engage with the ordinary in my life and myself I’m left in awe of the depth of beauty & richness there - as Alex shares - it’s anything but ordinary.

The minimalist Joshua Becket describes this so eloquently:

‘Too often we miss the beauty of ordinary things by wishing for something better.

It is a gift to yourself to see the beauty of ordinary things. To not constantly look around you and your circumstances and dwell on all the ways your life would improve if it were upgraded.

Our world encourages discontent at every turn and our minds too often embrace it. Even though it seems unwise to discount the beauty right in front of us, we do it all the time.

We wish the house was bigger, the restaurant was fancier, the vacation was more exotic, or the television was larger.

We wish the furniture was fancier, the clothes were more fashionable, the phone was upgraded, or the mode of transportation was more luxurious.

It is one thing to work to improve your lot in life. It is something completely different to miss the beauty and blessings of the life you are currently experiencing.

Wise is the man or woman who chooses to see them.’ - Joshua Becker

Over 90 artists applied to be in the show & submitted over 280 pieces of art work - 30 truly wonderful artists were selected for the exhibition:

Florian Nkuriza, Shaikha Aldismal, Robert Verrill, Courtney Kyle, Emma Dohan, Becky Nuttall, Tamasine Palmer, Emma Hoten, Volha Druhakova, Dawn Underwood, Charlotte Ashman, Lucy Bristow, Anna Cumming, Florence Mulvey, Aly Kendrick Clew, Lynne Lamb, Sujata Aten, Emma Boiston, Cathy Williams, Kate Marchuck, Julia Lambert, Shani Wray - Jenkins, Ian Dugdale, Rebecca Goldthorpe, Lynne Haslam, Margarita Godgelf, Ronnie Cruwys, Katherine George, Linda Sharman, Helen MacDougal.