Square Club Gallery
Square Club Gallery
Current Exhibition: Carla James
November-January 25th
Exhibition Opening Times:
Monday – Saturday, 8am – 9pm
Sunday, 8am – 3pm
We’re delighted to be showcasing talented Bristol-based artist Carla James’ latest exhibition here at The Square Club throughout November, December and January. As an artist, James has always been inspired by her identity, culture, surroundings, and adventures around the globe.
From her home in the Somerset countryside near the city of Bristol to her family home on the tropical island of Trinidad, James finds inspiration everywhere. She loves travelling to beautiful destinations, from the intricate, decorative spaces in Thailand to the sensational beauty of Bali. Passionate about exploring the world, James enjoys capturing a little piece of the exotic and bringing it back to the studio to create beautiful works of art.
James designs and paints every original artwork, with some pieces then being transformed and printed as unique products and limited-edition art prints. She is known for her use of vivid colours, delicate techniques and strong sense of style, with artworks often embellished with subtle gold details that reflect her identity.
You can learn more about James here – www.carlajames.co.uk
Past Exhibition: Polly Luce
Polly Luce is a North Somerset-based contemporary artist. Her work responds to the joy of experiencing a landscape, focussing on how it feels to be within a landscape rather than depicting a realistic representation.
Through Polly’s pieces, the viewer is invited to meander through vibrant fields, gardens or along the coast and to celebrate the small joys of day-to-day life.
Polly’s paintings are full of colour, with free and loose compositions.
You can learn more about Polly here – https://www.pollyluce.co.uk/
Past Exhibition: Nicola Knill-Jones
Bristol-based artist Nicola Knill-Jones creates beautiful landscapes capturing the light and colour of our coastline.
Her fascination with the sea, weather-fronts, cloud formations, landscapes and skies fuel her desire to capture these coastlines on canvas. The appeal to ever-changing nature is captured in her work.
Nicky’s paintings are bold, fresh, and instinctual, with immediate and characterful brushstrokes.
You can discover more about Nicky here – www.nickyknilljonesart.com and on her instagram @nickyknilljonesart
Past Exhibition: Stephanie Gay & Chi-Yien Snow
Stephanie Gay has worked as a silk artist for over 20 years and is based in Somerset. Painting mainly on pure Chinese habotai 8 silk with specialist silk paints, for Stephanie, painting is not only about capturing the visual appearance of her subject but more importantly, the feelings it inspires in her.
Chi-Yien Snow works in acrylics and oil in a style which shows a playful use of colour and light. Capturing the spirit of her subjects, Chi-Yien uses bold yet loose brushstrokes to express emotion in her paintings, giving shape and colour to things that can’t always be seen. However more recently, Chi-Yiens style has developed into a more minimimalistic style, using virtual lines and white space.
You can find our more about the artists on their websites, chiyiensnow.com and www.stephaniegay.co.uk
Past Exhibition: Annie Meier
Article written for Squarely Magazine.
Annie Meier is a Corsham-based artist, who is passionate about colour and its ability to have a profound effect on daily emotional wellbeing. In addition to being an artist, Meier is also a garden designer, and the influence of this certainly comes across in her paintings. Within her work, Meier harnesses the therapeutic power of colour, with an aim to invigorate and uplift those engaging with her work. As an inquisitive hunter-gatherer and explorer, with a thirst for discovery, Meier quenches her enthusiasm for exploration during winter months by immersing herself in landscape painting. Meier tries to bring a sense of ‘joyful energy, lush tropical leaves, sunshine and vibrancy’ into each of the colourful paintings she creates.
Through her work, Meier aims to transform the home environment, to make it a happier and more exciting place to live. Meiers paintings draw inspiration from her South West surroundings, such as historic Cornish cottages and the rolling hills of Sussex and Wiltshire. Though be prepared to be transported further afield, to distant lands where sunlight is eternal, such as Morocco, St.Lucia, Mallorca and Greece.
Using both acrylic and watercolour, Meier works in an energetically playful way building layers of colour, line and pattern, bringing in free-gestural mark-making and intuitive paint colours to describe the quality of the landscape and sense of place. While she paints, Annie often immerses herself in up-beat music while she goes about ‘infusing each canvas with joyful energy, lush tropical leaves, radiant sunshine, and vibrancy.’
Each artist has different motivations behind their creativity, however for Meier, she has always had an intrinsic need to paint. She will often forgo packing essentials in favour of critical art supplies. Meier uses the process of painting to enter a very immersive and mindful free-flowing state that helps to soothe her frequently frenetic mind.
