What's Happening at Old Grocery?

This Week

Richard Allen is a professional artist and illustrator living in the Essex coastal town of Wivenhoe. He has a passion for the wildlife of the east coast marshes and estuaries, and spends many hours in the field sketching the multitude of birds that flock to the muddy creeks and channels.

A member of the Society of Wildlife Artists Richard won the prestigious Swarovski Birdwatch Artist of the Year Award last year at the “Natural Eye” exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London. This will be Richard’s first one man show and will showcase new oil paintings inspired by the patterns found in bird’s plumage and mirrored in mud and water against the ever changing light of seasons, weather and tides on the Colne estuary. It will present a range of linocut prints from Richard’s successful books, “Coastal Bird” and “Garden Birds”, alongside some new more recent prints, and a series of sketches documenting the birds of a local lake during this spring and summer.

Richard will be attending the gallery every day and will be doing some watercolour sketchbook demonstrations and continuing on some “work in progress”.

October

Observations '24

Another eclectic exhibition from Art Wivenhoe will be held at Old Grocery, in early October.

Ten adventurous artists from Wivenhoe and the surrounding area meet weekly for guided and mentored art workshops run by Jayne Wallett. 

They have been honing their skills and developing new techniques since their previous exhibition last autumn. Come along and enjoy the work on show at Old Grocery on Saturday and Sunday 5 and 6 October from 10am to 4pm.