Erwood Station Gallery, near Builth Wells, which is now run alongside The Lion Street Gallery in Hay-on-Wye, recently rated as one of the best galleries in Wales, is going from strength the strength.
At 2,000 square feet of exhibition space housed within a railway station and vintage carriages, Erwood Station Gallery is the largest privately owned contemporary applied arts gallery in Wales. In addition it also exhibits paintings and sculpture and has four seasonal exhibitions a year.
The gallery focuses on showcasing the very best in contemporary craft and applied arts from artists and makers based in Wales and the Borders. New names arriving this month include artists Peter Kettle, Sheridan Ward, Ceri Auckland Davies, Wynne Jenkins and Karen Pearce, ceramicists Melanie Brown and Christine Gittins.
An exhibition of work by celebrated Pembrokeshire sculptor Perryn Butler, has been secured for the months of August and September:
Erwood Station Gallery also an ideal place from which to explore the surrounding hills and River Wye with plenty of free parking, a picnic area, a Radnorshire Wildlife Trust bird hide in a signal box and a restored diesel train.
The gallery, which is open seven days a week from 10.30am to 5pm, also has a tearoom, which serves homemade cakes and tea until 4.30pm daily.
Picture caption:
Christine Gittins’ pot with quilled lid.
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For more information please contact Erwood Station Gallery, Llandeilo Graban, Builth Wells, Tel: 01982 560 674.
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