Thursday 28 November 2024 - Sunday 2 February 2025
FREE ADMISSION
OPENING TIMES
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 8:30am - 4pm | Wednesday - CLOSED | Saturday 9am - 3pm | Sunday 10am - 3pm
Please note that we occasionally have to close the foyer bar part of the exhibition space: please check this page before visiting. Thank you.
'Ophelia Redpath is the most brilliant artist of her type currently working in Britain. To my eye, the special field of art that she
represents falls into a radiant pocket of the spectrum that runs from illustration to painting, with all the purity and self-sufficiency
of the unique painted work of art'. - Clive James
With a career spanning 40 years, Ophelia Redpath has exhibited work in over 100 shows in the UK and overseas, painted several murals and produced two books. She became a household name in 2021 when she won Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year and was commissioned to paint Dinas Oleu, the first piece of land donated to the National Trust. The painting currently hangs in the Butler's Pantry of Penrhyn Castle in Snowdonia. Redpath was David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2023 in the Environmental Artivism and Editor's Choice categories. Her 2014 illustrated book, The Lemur's Tale, was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Prize for Children's Literature.
Her figurative oil paintings are versed in traditional techniques with a symbolic language of her own. Redpath finds inspiration in jazz, literature and the natural world; her current work explores the relationship between civilisation and the wilderness, highlighting the conflicts and the possibilities of change.
'Much of my work is based on hearsay, via reading, films, concerts, conversations, travels, or simply an inner vibration
which needs to turn into something living. Perhaps my work is a form of painted gossip'. - Ophelia Redpath
READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH OPHELIA REDPATH