Susan Sands

Oriel Fach

Jacqueline Palit

A collection of saris

 

Stairs

Sian Boissevain

Photographs from her Indian travels

Main Gallery

An Indian Summer

10 October to 7 November

 

Opening on Friday 9 October at 7.00pm.

 

An Indian Summer is the title for the three exhibitions on show during this time frame.

Susan Sands brings her sketches and memories of India, land of her birth, to a colourful climax in this exhibition of prints and paintings.

Her work can be divided into three categories: the larger acrylics, developed from the tiny sketchbooks she keeps with her all the time on her travels; a response to the more decorative rhythms and patterns of Indian culture in linocuts and collagraphs based on temple decorations, mosaics and dance; and remembered scenes from as long ago as in her childhood under the Raj.

One of the favourite places for her to draw is on the busy platform of an Indian railway station, full of people eating or asleep on their luggage, men shaving or washing, girls braiding each others hair, itinerant shoe cleaners at work or even the devout at prayer – all presided over by a burly policeman with his beret, fierce moustache and stick!

Susan enjoys showing work in progress and will have her notebooks and other preparatory work available for viewing on Saturday 17 October from 2.00pm to 4.00pm.

Dancing ganesh | Drying ground Elephant wash | Moghul battle To the well at sundown

 

The gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10.00am to 5.00pm.