Featured artists and workshops 2022
7Q Gallery represents artists working in a variety of disciplines and media.
To provide opportunities for their work to be displayed and seen by a wide audience, the gallery works with a seasonal exhibition programme.
Exhibitions are open for viewing from Thursday to Sunday from 11.00am to 4.00pm.
For further details on other events and workshops please email 7Qgallery@gmail.com. You can book and pay for places on workshops and discussion groups from the links within the events listing below.
If you would like to be sent details of our future events, please use our Contact form.
Edge of the Forest
Featuring work by
Jane Foot, encaustic artist
Eleanor Kercher, green woodworker
Jane Simmonds, creative photographer
Frances Warren, glass artist
Discussion: Can demonstrating make a difference
Led by Roger Kerley
With a different topic being pursued each month, this will be another evening of lively discussion.
Donations at the door. Drinks available to purchase.
Book your place here.
26 May to 26 June 2022
Down by the River
Featuring
Christina MacDonald ‘Hand embroidered art inspired by the leaves of the Forest of Dean’
Bruce Allan interdisciplinary visual artist
Novvy Allan printmaker
Toby Thompson video from drone
Darren Hoskins storyteller, and cranky maker
Christine Waygood, textiles
Almutt Ffrench, folk art
Nigel Cann, Natural Materials Artwork and Photography
Ex Forest of Dean, now tackling rural Welsh environment issues with a sad heart [and a little humour]....beautiful riverbanks overhung with plastics, a fly-tipped mountain walk with burnt-out car, bluebell woods with truck tyres, lanes strewn with litter and an an abandoned colliery with rusty metal under the young trees.
And other guest artists.
'Cranky' Panorama Workshop led by Darren Hoskins
Darren will be making a “cranky”(a hand-drawn, hand cranked moving panorama, displayed in a box, often used for telling stories, on the theme of the River Wye.
It will show the whole course of the river, show it’ picturesque landscape, have elements of its history and how it’s being polluted and I will be asking for personal stories and images about the river from local online sources. There will be a puppetry element and it will be made with appropriate recycled materials ie in a cardboard box from one of the factory chicken farms on the river and cut out the chicken shapes. We are wanting families to become involved during the river festival in Chepstow.
Discussion: Should politicians be accountable for their actions?
Led by Roger Kerley
With a different topic being pursued each month, this will be another evening of lively discussion.
Donations at the door. Drinks available to purchase.
Book your place here.
Exploration
"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
Featuring paintings by Rebecca Weissbort
and a selection of paintings by George Weissbort
Pictured: watercolour by Rebecca Weissbort, 'Water element'
Watercolour Workshop
Working to understand the gesture and nature of each colour.
£25
Please book your place here.
Discussion: The cost of living crisis and its impact on individuals and families.
Led by Roger Kerley
With a different topic being pursued each month, this will be another evening of lively discussion.
Donations at the door. Drinks available to purchase.
Book your place here.
The World of Nature
Featuring work by
Laura Butcher
Lisa Deeth
Nikki Moore
Karen Simmons, potter
John McKean, photographer
Mary McKean, glass artist
Workshop: Palette knife painting (playing with paint, tools and textures)
£25 plus materials
Please book your place here.
Creative Discussion
With a different topic being pursued each month, this will be another evening of lively discussion.
Donations at the door. Drinks available to purchase.
Book your place here.
Botanical Art
Featuring
Debbie Devauden
Pauline Rawlings
Sian Phillips
Sue Gubbay
Brian Griffith
We are a disparate group of artists, all of whom live around Chepstow. Drawn together by a love of art, each of us has interests in the wider natural world, as can be appreciated when looking at our work. We met through our common membership of the Gloucestershire Society for Botanical Illustration. We all enjoy the formal discipline of this type of painting of plants and we take these techniques to other natural subjects, such as seaweeds, birds and insects.
https://www.brianonwoodside.co.uk
https://www.debbiedevauden.co.uk
Beginning Botanical Illustration Workshop
For those who have always fancied a go but been too scared, Debbie will show you a sure fire way to draw a plant specimen and turn it into a completed picture using a very quick and easy method. Experienced artists who would like to hone their techniques are very welcome.
Please book your place here.
Creative Discussion
With a different topic being pursued each month, this will be another evening of lively discussion.
Donations at the door. Drinks available to purchase.
Book your place here.
Rendition of what one grasps
Featuring
John Sherahilo
Michael Donnelly
Chris Champness, jewellery maker
Helen Defoe
Wendy Howell
Sue Banford
and guest artists
Creative Discussion
With a different topic being pursued each month, this will be another evening of lively discussion.
Donations at the door. Drinks available to purchase.
Book your place here.