Spaces Available

The Cambridge Art Salon has SPACES TO RENT at Unit 13, Barnwell Drive, and is delighted to be able to offer them to members of the public in arts or creative making.

Rent starts from £125 per month subject to space size.

All creative practices are welcome, including ceramics, fashion, painting, millinery, and many more.

Contact: info@penelopehayes.co.uk

Review: Rebel Women – Inspirational Girls

Romsey Town Roller Billies - a moment of relaxation

Romsey Town Roller Billies – Daisy Zoller

Slate the Disco, a Cambridge-focused artist and criticism site with a broad inclusion policy for the arts, has plenty to say on the Salon’s recent show. Rebel Women – Inspirational Girls celebrated International Women’s Day in the Salon, and was produced by Ruthie Collins, our Creative Director.

Led by teenagers who were guided and supported by the local Romsey Mill charity, Rebel Women is the result of a year’s work by many amazing women and those who supported them in their work, women and men together.

Read what Slate the Disco has to say:

Interviewing successful but also everyday women, women “who could be your neighbour”, Ruthie says, these girls have seen other perspectives of what being a woman means – expanding ideas of what female role models might be, celebrating women. The show itself fuses visual art, live art, video and text – all with a feminist twist. From photoshoots of women in Romsey Town (like the Romsey Town Rollerbillies), to the pop videos of live artists Bryony Kimmings’ feminist pop star Catherine Bennett, to videos of Hollie Mcnish’s poetry – there’s animation and film, too.

Slate the Disco interviewed Ruthie, to find her inspirations behind the show, and what she felt people could learn. Read the review and interview, on their site.

Christmas Art Fair on!

The Cambridge Art Salon are delighted to open their Christmas Art Fair, with affordable, hand-made works of art and craft, and festive workshops every weekend.

This Sunday, Jill Fordham, stained glass artist, will be hosting a workshop making stained glass angels, for a contribution of less than five pounds per angel – make your own decoration.CAS_Christmas_Fair

Writing Wrongs: the first signwriter exhibition

Writing Wrongs: signwriting exhibition

We are delighter to welcome Wayne Tanswell to the Cambridge Art Salon for the first ever gallery exhibition of signwriting works.

Daisy Zoll in Conversation

 

Daisy Zoll talks in detail about the ‘Explore’ exhibition at the Art Salon featuring photographic work by herself and Catherine Bullen.

The joint exhibition features work from very different positions on the spectrum of unadorned photography with both artists documenting their explorations of the world around them.

The Art Salon is delighted to announce that the exhibition has been extended until the 20th October.

Celebrate our Birthday with the Art Map

A map of art spaces in CambridgeYou are, as the image says, warmly invited to celebrate our first birthday with us, at the Cambridge Art Salon. This year has been a busy one, but now we are seeing the launch of the Cambridge Art Map as well as an increased interest in our work and possible expansions left, right, centre, up and down. It’s new, it’s slightly scary, and it’s happening just off Mill Road.

Exhibition: Karen Stamper

A flier with dates (1st-7th December) for Karen Stamper's exhibition

The Cambridge Art Salon is delighted to host Karen Stamper and her beautiful, intense paintings.

Christmas Craft and Art Fair

Christmas Art Fair 10-11 December

Exhibition: Reflections on Milongas

The Cambridge Art Salon invites you to attend an exhibition of the work of Golnar Malek-Frickelton, continuing on the 26th, 27th and 29th November, between 10am and 5pm. Golnar’s work concentrates on surface and bold colour, in abstracted figures and worked paint. It includes gold leaf and pen and ink with equal boldness. There are over twenty works on display.

Exhibition: Drawing Inspiration

The Cambridge Art Salon is hosting Diana Probst’s show ‘Drawing Inspiration’ until Wednesday 16th November. She is showing original still life and portraiture and a selection of limited edition screen prints and monoprints.

Visit between 10 and 6 to meet the artist and see what she has done over the past year.

Exhibition: Spaced Out

Ship made of shaped nebulae, sailing through space

Spaced Out Ship

An exhibition of celestial paintings and illustrations by Lou Peajeux plus metal creations by Stephen Bedrikovs. Taking inspiration from outer-space, with all its beauty, magnitude and breathtaking swirls of colour, two local budding artists have worked in their own preferred mediums to create an astral display that is, almost literally, out of this world.

Lou is a resident artist at the Cambridge Art Salon, having graduated with a first class degree in Graphic Design and Illustration. Now working as a freelance illustrator, specialising in greetings cards, hand-painted ceramics and prints, this exhibition showcases a different and perhaps more painterly style. Whilst a love of vibrant colour and playful humour is still evident, the pieces are on a larger scale and have been worked to a high level of detail, contrasting smooth, cloudy gradients and sharper, glowing highlights.

There are five original canvases on show – four in acrylics, one in oils and six digital illustrations. The paintings depict a range of colourful nebulae, whilst the illustrations are either visual puns or comical space scenes featuring creatures on a journey through the stars. All original artwork is for sale, plus a range of signed and mounted prints.

Stephen Bedrikovs is a friend of Lou’s, having both known each other from school, throughout college and then university. Graduating with a degree in Design Crafts, Stephen is a metalsmith, jeweller and crafter, working predominantly in copper for this show, creating and shaping dishes with an iridescent, outer-space finish. All original pieces will also be for sale.

Drop-In Drawing

Close-up of a wooden artist's mannequinThe Cambridge Art Salon invites anyone who wants to drop in and draw to come during our opening hours, and make use of our facilities. We are open on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday for normal shop hours, and we have set up a table with objects to draw. Bring your own equipment and make use of our peaceful environment, for an art-break of any length. Donations are welcome.