Exhibitions & Events

Welcome to Artisan, Queens Park Arts Centre’s exciting programme of exhibitions and events. Led by our Arts Centre Coordinator, this special project offers free-to-view exhibitions all year round featuring work from the most talented and inspirational artists working both locally and nationally.

Alongside our exhibition spaces we have a beautiful gallery shop stocked with handmade art and craft. You can find out about the latest artists stocking their work by clicking here, or see below for our upcoming exhibitions. Skip to exhibitions here.

EVENTS

QPAC Open Day

Saturday 12 September | 11am – 2pm

Come for demonstrations, workshops, performances, exhibitions, coffee and cake!

Book one of our taster session here.

QPAC Artisan Craft Fair Saturday 7 November | 10am – 4pm

The annual QPAC Artisan Craft Fair returns this year on Saturday 7 November!

With stalls set up throughout the building, live theatre and music as well as drinks, cakes and an activity for children, it’ll be a great day out!

CURRENT / UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
FREE-TO-VIEW

DWELL ON THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE

Diana Parsons
Friday 4 – Tuesday 22 September
Coffee Bar Gallery

Paintings of the sea, the sky, of walks in nature and of people

Diana has a wide ranging interest in art and in nature. She paints seas and skies, portraits of friends and frequently experiments in a wide range of mediums.

SHARED GROUD: NATURE, PEOPLE, PLACES

Joanna Brownridge, Paul Chappell, Michele Greene, Emma J Williams
Saturday 5 – Tuesday 22 September
Main Gallery

This exhibition is a collaboration of four Buckinghamshire-based artists; Joanna Brownridge, Paul Chappell, Michele Green and Emma J Williams. The focus of the exhibition is the exploration of nature, people and places through the artists’ different styles and use of materials. These include watercolours, oils, drawing, sculpture and mixed media.

Joanna Brownridge

Master in Arts – Wimbledon School of Art London
BA Hons – Farnham School of Art (Guildford University)

Joanna exhibits extensively in Buckinghamshire and is an active member of Buckinghamshire Art Society and West Wycombe Art Group. Her prize winning paintings are an attempt to capture the essence or atmosphere of a land or seascape rather than to achieve an accurate view of an image or place. ‘Happy accidents’ and a healthy dialogue with the materials and surface create patterns and texture which is more satisfying than correct perspective or illusion.

www/joannabrownridge.com

Instagram – joannabrownridge70

Paul Chappell

Paul Chappell sketches, paints and people-watches in our local towns and countryside, from bustling market stalls to car-boot sales, a commanding church or sleepy canal scene where our industrial past and present intertwine!

He shares the human stories surrounding his scenes and experiences the vibrant culture and changing landscape we all enjoy in Bucks.

Two Sides Stoneware

Michele is a sculptor working with a variety of materials including Clay, Wire, Resin and Bronze. Her subjects are mainly human and animal figures.

There is often a narrative element to her pieces. She exhibits widely in the UK and has work in many private collections.

01296 714601

www.greenesculpture.com

Emma J Williams

Inspiration for Emma’s work is drawn from places explored, travelled paths, gathered maps, and the quiet language of trees.

Paintings and drawings offer shifting perspectives of the landscape, layering real location with geographical references and elements of local flora. Tree trunks, roots and leaves are re-imagined in pen, becoming quiet lines of connection that thread through the work.

By blending actual places with fragments from maps and nature, the pieces merge the real and the imagined into seamless, intertwined worlds that feel both discovered and dreamt.

Instagram: emmajwilliamsart

PAST AND PRESENT

Brenda Hurley
Monday 5 – Saturday 17 October
Main Gallery

An excting mix of paintings from the start of Brenda’s artistic journey to where she is today. Be overtaken by colour, expression and emotion as you view these paintings from across time.

Brenda has painted, taught and exhibited for the past 40 years. All subjects excite her from life to landscape to still life.

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