Ikigai Room

Our Ikigai rooms are not an exhibition, but a way to explore art and its guiding purpose in our changing world. Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means reason for being. ‘Iki’ is to live and ‘gai’ is reason. We will keep the rooms open for a few weeks. We hope you enjoy.

Past

Good, good, good, good vibrations
colour, composition and excitations 2 - 31 Mar 2021 Paintings are arranged outside on the gravel in front of me. They are placed in the sun with a backdrop of flowers. I notice a tiny blob of pink floating among the blues and greys of a seascape. Sometimes an exhibition greets with a wall of painted energy… or it lacks this, and we walk past. It is about vibrations – good, good, good vibrations - when colour, composition and narrative grip. Outside as I look at the paintings, bees buzz around the sweet blue catmint. We are not so different from the bumbles. Vibrations, as the Beachboys sang, lead to excitations. Read more

PRINTMAKER | art and science
the most human and the most humane 21 Dec 2020 - 11 Jan 2021 Every discipline has its bag of technological tricks: the glazes of a potter, the pigment that makes a new colour or a mechanical device that allows a painter to see afresh. They open conduits between man and the experienced world. This technological affair is central to printmaking. In prints, man-as-tool-user is wholly adopted. See, cut, print. We exist, we make, and we show - the artistic printmaker tells us Read more

The Art of Remembering
13 Nov - 5 Dec 2020 Read more

A Celebration of Trees
connecting heaven and earth 17 Aug - 13 Sep 2020 Trees should be kings of this world. Their near immortal lives see all; but instead of short forgettable words, they tell us of the past through bump, callus and ring.... Read more

The Sound of Silence
The Paradox of Quietness 30 Jul - 30 Aug 2020 Silence has been sought since the first noise. When the world is truely quiet you can here the sounds of the hills. Winds carry the ghost of where they have... Read more