The Final Event - The Gallery

We’re sad to hear The Gallery, a local art gallery based just off Head Street in Colchester is closing. We loved gallery owner and artist Lee Thomas’s eclectic exhibitions over the past year and glad to hear the doors aren’t closing quietly.

Here at the gallery we’ve decided that we wanted to have a proper ending to the space and go out with a Bang and not a whimper!

Lots of you have generously visited and supported the gallery and so I hope you can make it along for one final send off! If you’ve never made it along this will be your very last chance.

- Lee Thomas

They are going to open for one final day on Saturday the 24th of March from 10am -5pm (good for kids and families) and in the evening from 7pm - 10pm (adults, please bring a bottle).

For the final event Lee Thomas will be selling 100 individual prints at £10 each. This will include lots of work that people will not have seen and some old classics given a new treatment.

They will also be opening up the vintage shop for one final time and filling it with some new goodies.

We hope to see you there! Please RSVP via the facebook event.

Nature & Animals @ The Gallery

Join Lee Thomas at The Gallery this Friday for the private view of the latest exhibition - Nature & Animals. Animals have always been strong staple of artists work, and this collection showcases a wide range of interpretations.

We are very excited by the prospect of ‘The Aviary’, a collection and assemblage of bird like forms.

The exhibition runs from Saturday 15th October - Saturday 12th November. 

Vintage Pop Up!

Get down to Lee Thomas’s gallery space just off head street for a bit of vintage retail therapy. Tomorrow is the last day so make sure you pop in for clothes, homeware, pictures and even vintage spectacles! 

New exhibition @ The Gallery

The Gallery is a new exhibition space based just off Colchester Head St (between Vinnys cafe and the fishmongers) and has a new show opening today.

Lee Thomas set up the space and he gave us the lowdown on the inspiration behind the new show:

The show first took shape when I was sent a package of old sketchbooks from my girlfriends step dad (Tony Kennderdale). The sketches and fragments originate from the years 1972-81. They are predominately inspired by West Yorkshire moorland, and the various aspects of that landscape captured with a variety of materials from ink and acrylic to tea and coffee washes.

I immediately felt that they would make a show and so I decided to include some of my sketches and drawings as well. My drawings are from my travels in Asia in 2007. Our styles are very similar and so it feels like a nice connection to show both together.

Finally Sara E Napoletani came on board when she approached me with her work. She had visited the gallery and seen some of my work. Her work again is inspired by the North and specific area’s around the Lake District. Her work again has a nice link to Tony’s stuff and all three styles have similar threads. Both me and Sara have studied at the institute and Tony lived in Wivenhoe for many years.

We look forward to viewing some brilliant travel inspired sketches tonight, hope to see you there.