A GALLERY has opened a new exhibition featuring pieces from a Chester artist duo.
Oriel Glasfryn Gallery, in Caerwys, has a new exhibition titled Tywyllch (Darkness), which explores themes of mystery, transformation and imagination through ceramics and painting.
It features work by Wirral-based artist Kim Harley-Griffiths and Chester ceramic duo End Times Pottery Club.
End Times Pottery Club is the artistic partnership of Helen Chamberlain and Matt Latchford, British artists and ceramicists based in Chester.
Co-founding the studio in early 2024, the duo create evocative, narrative-driven ceramic works with a gothic, mythic, and whimsical edge.
Their debut collection at Oriel Glasfryn Gallery introduces a series of imaginative characters and creatures brought vividly to life in clay.
The duo said their work ‘reflects our shared background as designers’.
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They said: “We approach ceramics with an illustrator’s eye and an animator’s sense of movement – surfaces ripple, motifs twist, and characters seem caught mid-story.
“Themes of darkness, duality, and transformation run through everything we make, often drawing on folklore and the tension between ruin and renewal.”
Kim Harley-Griffiths, who has a permanent display at Oriel Glasfryn Gallery, presents a new body of work created exclusively for Tywyllwch.
Kim says her new collection focuses on folk custodians of the wild wood.
She adds: “From the treetops and woodland floor to the waters that flow through – they are guardians of the ancient woods.”
Gallery manager, Charlotte Roberts, said: “This exhibition presents a new body of work by ceramicist Kim Harley-Griffiths who continues to explore the folklore of Wales using earthy clays, rich oxides and dark charcoal.
“In contrast our debut collection from End Times Pottery Club consists of colourful, narrative-driven ceramic works which could be straight from a stop-motion animation film set.
“The theme of 'Tywyllwch (Darkness)' has been pushed to limits we never expected.
“It is our pleasure to welcome you into Darkness!”
The exhibition will run until December 24, for more information visit orielglasfryn.com
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