Naomi Márquez is more than 80 years young and still working on her ceramics in Caracas, Venezuela. This year Encounters has give over an entire room to show three pieces of her work and photographs of her, a film in which she talks about her life and work and a kiln in which works are transformed. […]
Patricia Davenport is an established artist who has always been interested in the primitive in nature. At one time she produced huge, abstract canvases that often contained references to ancient symbols and signs. There were creaded with a mixture of materials, natural pigments and objets trove – like pieces of gold from women’s fabrics in […]
South Korean Artist il-yong Kim has fascinated many visitors this year. His ‘lifecasts’ are directly taken from life, with all of its beauty and (some would say) uglyness but these casts have a strange beauty in themselves. Moments of truth are captured and they become frozen – speaking to us from a time and place […]
Not only is Gorka a sculpter, painter and digital artist – he is also a writer and singer of songs in his native Basque language . Hearr him singing at informal session around our kitchen table. He’ll also sing for visitors!
Steve Andrews is a Community Participation Worker for the Trust for Developing Communities. Steve has organised special visits to Encounters outside of our normal opening hours so that the wide variety of different artists’ work could be seen and discussed in a relaxed way.
Whilst Edgar was visiting Encounters earlier this month he kindly agreed to make a short video about himself and his work. You can see the paintings that he is discussing in his video in our Open House.
Recently Gaudi Este’s body of work was given its own exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in Bogata. Her horses were too big to put in her suitcase! – but one of her sculptures of a dog is here as are two magnificant bronze statuettes. But, most importantly Gaudi is with us and, in […]
One of the great benefits of Encounters is that artists come to visit and they share their experience, artistic journeys and techniques. New for Encounters artists from South Korea came for the Opening Weekend of this year’s AOH and there were many discussions as they mingled with other artists. In the photograph below there is Mr […]
This year Rafael’s sculptures have attracted a gread deal of attention.There is so much energy and wisdom in his work. Just two are illustrated below. They must be seen!
Encounters’ 2015 Flyer was designed by Malex Salamanques. There are flyers in lots of places around town but if you would like one please let us know and we will send you the pdf.