Past
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DNA : AND - MALCOLM LE GRICE, SELECTED WORKS 1960 - 2024
20 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 The British Film Institute (BFI) describes Malcolm Le Grice (b.1940) as “probably the most influential modernist filmmaker in British cinema'. Born in Plymouth and a resident of Thurlestone between 1999 and 2022, Malcolm Le Grice returns to Devon this Autumn for a very special exhibition at Velarde. DNA : AND... Read more -
Colour Stories
Group exhibition 13 Jul - 14 Sep 2024 For summer 2024 we bring you an exhibition of works in bold and beautiful palettes, a curated collection of vivid artworks in paint, print, clay and stainless steel. Scottish Printmaker Paul Furneaux RSA makes work using traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques. His interest in the landscape and his concerns for... Read more -
Paradise
Group Exhibition 25 May - 6 Jul 2024 From late May to early July we present Paradise, an uplifting celebration of summer vitality, exquisite flora and fauna and luscious painting, curated by the highly acclaimed Rapture collective and focused on new paintings by Jesse Leroy Smith alongside other invited artists. This immersive exhibition of colour and light includes... Read more -
The Shape of Now
Group Exhibition 23 Mar - 18 May 2024 For our Spring exhibition we present a collection of calm and contemplative works that express ideas through simplicity of form. Award winning painter Helen Booth uses a language of dots and muted colour to explore the molecular wonder of the atmospheric world. Snowfall, the atomic structure of frozen water and... Read more
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Altered & Abstracted
Group Exhibition 3 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 This exhibition showcases the work of five exceptional artists who bring material and form together to create statement works of abstract art. Bristol based painter Jack Paffett creates imagery that responds to his environment and his memories. Every mark is made in answer to the previous mark, in an ongoing... Read more -
Frances Gynn RWA
Disappearing Marks 11 Nov 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 This winter we present a solo exhibition by Devon based artist Frances Gynn RWA. Frances' work is informed by environmental issues and humanity’s engagement with nature. Through drawings and paintings her practice reflects growing concerns over the effects of plastics in the ecosystem, and in particular deforestation and its influence... Read more -
Into The Light
Group Exhibition 11 Nov 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 This group exhibition is comprised of works that align in its themes of human presence in nature, and the visual simplicity she applies to both figurative representation and abstraction. Included works make figurative or abstract reference to people, nature and objects by way of pared down forms and simple repeat... Read more -
Gareth Edwards RWA
Four Seasons 16 Sep - 4 Nov 2023 This autumn, we present a solo exhibition by contemporary landscape painter and Royal West of England Academician Gareth Edwards. Gareth is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, elected RWA Academician, a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and a resident of St Ives’ prestigious Porthmeor Studios in West Cornwall. Born... Read more
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I Walked A Golden Path
Group Exhibition 16 Sep - 4 Nov 2023 This group exhibition is comprised of selected contemporary works that engage with ideas of the Romantic, the human and the emotive, and includes leading artists and makers from the UK and Europe. British sculptor Tim Rawlins works in bronze, iron and steel using the traditional lost wax technique. He explores... Read more -
Alessandro Twombly
Gyrating Metamorphic Flowers 22 Jul - 9 Sep 2023 Gyrating Metamorphic Flowers is the name given to this group of six works on paper by Italian painter and sculptor Alessandro Twombly (b.1959 in Rome). In these sensory works figures, energies, forms - mineral, vegetable, human, animal - burst and glide across the paper, energetic, creatural, elegant, urgent, there and... Read more -
A Passionate Nature
Group Exhibition 22 Jul - 9 Sep 2023 Titled ' A Passionate Nature' , Velarde are delighted to introduce the inaugural group exhibition responding to the show’s leading artwork Ophelia After Millais , 2018, by British photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten. This spectacular staged photograph pays homage to one of the 19 th century’s most dramatic paintings by Pre Raphaelite... Read more
