The next art exhibition in Lyme Regis Museum’s Rotunda Gallery runs from 8 March until 24 April and is Dorset artist Christine Allison’s tribute to the planet’s most important and too often undervalued resource: trees. As Christine says, “Now more than ever we need to take notice of the trees we have around us. These […]
Category: Exhibitions
Albion (This Tiny Island), 5th February – 20th February 2022
New work by Bridport artist and designer Alex Friedman. Open daily 10.30-4.30, free admission.
An Artist’s Journey, 19th January – 6 March 2022
Paintings by Dianne Mary Alice … a professional artist who came to be living by the sea in Dorset via West London and the French canals. She started taking art classes after retiring from a career in fashion, textiles and garden design. An Artist’s Journey is her first solo exhibition, and it runs from 19 […]
A Show of Love, 24th January – 27th February 2022
Kissing Fish – Cass King This exhibition, running over Valentine’s Day, is the Sou’-Sou’-West Shop’s first ever selected open for Designer Makers. As we near our first year of trading in the Shop, we’ve invited our collaborating artists and designer makers to participate in an array of 2D and 3D work inspired by the theme […]
Winter Open, 4th December 2021 – 23rd January 2022
We’ve had an amazing response to our call for entries for this exhibition – 50 artists and 150 pieces of work! The show is open tomorrow at 10.30 and coincides with the Symondsbury Christmas Market on 4th and 5th, so there will be lots to see and do on the first weekend. With a wide […]
Big Skies, Distant Views, 8 December 2021 – 16 January 2022
Steve Manning is an Exeter-based printmaker working out of an attic studio that commands fine vistas of clouds and sky. The landscapes of Dorset and Devon have understandably become the subject of much of his work, including this exhibition, Big Skies, Distant Views, one of the series of Lyme Bay Arts exhibitions at the Rotunda Gallery […]
Language of Colour, 13th November – 27th November 2021
Paintings by Patrick Jones & Nigel Moores Sou’-Sou’-West Arts Gallery Open Daily: 10:30am to 16:30pm Sou’-Sou’-West Arts Gallery is delighted to welcome internationally-respected abstract artist Patrick Jones and Nigel Moores with their joint exhibition of paintings, ‘Language of Colour’. The show celebrates colour as an entity, with its own ‘logic’, that can express all […]
All Wrapped Up, 1st November – 24th December 2021
Festive Exhibition of Handmade Gifts In the Sou’-Sou’-West Arts Gallery & Shop Open Daily: 10:30am to 16:30pm Get your festive preparations done early with the opening of SSW Shop’s ‘All Wrapped Up’: a special selling exhibition featuring some of the best handmade decorations, tableware, greetings cards and gift inspiration our local artistic community has […]
Where the Mist Rises, 27th October – 5th December 2021
Abstract paintings by Annie Ward. Based on Lyme Bay Artist Annie Ward’s research into satellite photographs and historic maps of the Dorset coastline, these abstract works explore the changeable spaces where the land meets the sea. Annie begins with detailed drawings on canvas that she scrubs over with layers of paint allowing shapes to be […]
The Sky is the Limit, 23rd October-7th November 2021
Christine Allison describes her latest show at Symondsbury: In my latest work I have returned to a favourite theme – the sky. Back in 2005 I was making oil paintings of Lyme Bay with the sunrise and Portland on the horizon, I was fascinated by the ever-changing colours and moods of the sky. A sketchbook […]