Weald Contemporary @The Mill Studio, Ford

John Harmers new paintings extend his exploration of surface texture and colour, alongside his ongoing experiments with the range of effects that are possible using his chosen materials.

Harmer is clearly fascinated by the relationship between landscape and architecture; how they are depicted in disparate media, and broadened to how natural forms and buildings co-exist in an immediate environment.

View In conversation interview with John Harmer here

Works also available to view and purchase online

 Weald Contemporary @The Mill Studio, Ford,

Thursday- Saturday 10am-3pm, Sunday 10am-1pm

Alice Macdonald and Jessica Jane Charleston have been drawing together since 2016 when they first met at The Royal Drawing School in London. In the upcoming exhibition, Looking Glass, at Weald Contemporary we see them deepen this connection, by spending time exploring the self-portrait and the intimacy of really looking at another person.

Whether gazing through a window or into a mirror, we are confronted with our own image and, by extension, our place in the world. Glass thus becomes a metaphor for introspection and contemplation, inviting us to consider our relationship to the world around us and one another. The connection between glass and the act of looking is intrinsic. A mirror is a glass made into a tool for looking at oneself, or around corners. We use a glass prism to reveal the colours of light. Eyeglasses, telescopes, microscopes, or binoculars, these are all tools for seeing more than our eyes can see on their own.

Similarly, the process of drawing can also be used as a tool for seeing and looking. A way of revealing more than what is literally there.

You can view interviews with Alice Macdonald and Jessica Jane Charleston via our In Conversation feature page

Visit Exhibition

Open: Thursday - Saturday, 10am - 3pm

Sunday 10-1pm

The Mill Studio

New House Farm Barns,

Ford Lane,

Arundel,

BN18 0EF

You can also view an interactive virtual tour of the Exhibition here

Or view works available to purchase via our online shop

Please Join us for Cathrine and Lucinda’s Private View on Friday 23rd February

The concept of time in relation to nature seems to reach down through the whole superstructure of life. In this exhibition Catherine Knight and Lucinda Oestreicher expose unseen organic objects and spellbinding landscapes for their elusive and ephemeral-selves.

Join us for Josephines Private View : 19 Jan 2024 6-8pm

In September 2023 Josephine Birch was awarded the Mortitz-Heyman Residency at Borgo Pignano, creating a vast body of works inspiring this solo exhibition with Weald Contemporary.

In Josephines new collection of drawings, prints and paintings we are drawn into the heat and light of Tuscany. The Images work in series; zooming in and out of details, some left floating as though merely glanced at, some brought into sharp focus though through the artists eye. In her drawings hours pass, and the sun burns through the back of our shirts as we gaze into landscapes we could almost step into.

Join us for our PV on Saturday 28th October 6-8pm

Dark Was The Night, the title of this exhibition, is taken from a Blues song written by Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground). These words imply certainty, facts that can’t be denied. Night brings darkness and yet the night remains full of colour despite - or perhaps because of - the dark, and we are forced to examine the night closely for differences in the blue pigments that make up this complex landscape form.

The majority of these paintings were made in West Sussex. Their subjects are the view from the artist’s garden (increasingly encroached on by new houses); and of Northern Ireland, where he visited often before moving permanently this year.