We are kickstarting our 2021 exhibition programme with our Spring Exhibition. Selected by Lotte and Hannah, these works reflect the start of the new season and a time for optimism.

Add art to your daily walk! We have displayed a selection of the works from this exhibition in the windows of the gallery. We hope you will enjoy browsing them as you take a walk in the beautiful village of Fen Ditton. If you see any works below that you would like to view in person, we can arrange for them to be displayed for a 'window viewing'. Contact us on info@fendittongallery.com to enquire.

This exhibition will introduce James Horton, Past President of the Royal Society of British Artists, to the gallery for the first time. We are delighted to have a selection of his oil and watercolour paintings, the subjects of which span his travels in India to his own garden.

We are pleased to welcome Frances Priest back to the gallery, with three drawings from her Grammar of Ornament series, created especially for this exhibition. Yorkshire glassmaking duo, Gillies Jones, also return with their superb glass bowls which draw inspiration from the wildflowers they encounter on their daily walks.

Other artworks include mixed media works by award-winning wildlife artist Nik Pollard and a new screenprint to celebrate the end of lockdown by Nigel Hall RA in collaboration with Kip Gresham (Cambridge Print Studio); as well as Daphne Carnegy's plant-inspired ceramics, screenprints by member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, Kittie Jones, art nouveau inspired ceramics by Lola Swain, a thoughtful study of snowdrops by Lotte Attwood and still life mixed media studies by Carmen Renwick.

8 - 23 June 2019

Fen Ditton Gallery is excited to announce its next exhibition celebrating the importance of birds.

Birds form an integral part of the landscape and soundscape of our daily lives. Their familiar sounds and comings and goings bring pleasure and interest to people all around the world, and though they often hover at the edge or our vision, birds provide the opportunity to celebrate our deep connections with all of nature.  

The exhibition is an opportunity to view a range of works inspired by encounters with birds by talented artists who study their habits, form and character.

For time immemorial, birds have been used as environmental indicators.  They play a vital role in monitoring the health of our planet, and BirdLife International based in the new David Attenborough Building in Cambridge, maintains the Red List for birds on behalf of IUCN, and works at the forefront of bird conservation research, policy and practice.  The BirdLife Partnership is active in over 120 countries. 

One of BirdLife’s active global programmes is called ‘Forests of Hope’ and focuses on the challenges of sustaining forests which are key habitats for may threatened bird species, as well as other fauna and flora.  Forests are also important to human communities, providing a wide range of livelihoods.

In support of Forests of Hope, the Fen Ditton Gallery will donate a percentage of exhibition sales to the international work undertaken by BirdLife.

Exhibiting artists:
Norman Ackroyd, Lotte Attwood, Geoffrey Cory-Wright, John Fanshawe, Jill Fanshawe Kato, Rebecca Jewell, Roger Law, Hannah McAndrew, Amanda MacPhail, Nik Pollard, Belinda Rushjansen, Nina Sage, Lynne Strover

Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 December 2018
Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 December 2018

Fen Ditton Gallery is shining a festive light on artists and makers whose skill and imagination with using (and re-using) materials create beautiful works for everyday living.  

Exhibiting artists:
Norman Ackroyd; Malcolm Appleby; Lotte Attwood; Sebastian Bergne; Tord Boontje and Emma Woffenden; Clive Bowen; Buckmaster French; Robert Cooper; Susan Cupitt; Christine Grey; Paul Hart; Dorothy Hogg; Janet Powell; Ptolemy Mann; Michael Marriott; Belinda RushJansen; Jennifer Talbot; Ed Teasdale; Simone ten Hompel; Joanne Thompson; Rezia Wahid; Laura Woodhouse.

Works include a new collection of leaf prints by Buckmaster French; silver spoons and beakers by Simone ten Hompel; hand-printed photographs and photographic books by Lotte Attwood and Paul Hart and engraved jewellery by Malcolm Appleby  - reflecting our first year of exhibitions here at Fen Ditton. 

Sculptor Belinda RushJansen is showing some of her rarely exhibited wire and cast bronze animals together with new textile collections from London weavers Rezia Wahid  - whose delicate scarves upcycle Bangladesh silk saris  - and Laura Woodhouse. Ptolemy Mann will exhibit a wonderful colourfield ikat-dyed flatweave rug, developed with textile masters in India alongside Ed Teasdale’s recycled timber chest/seat.  

Fabulous party necklaces made from discarded inner bike inner tubes by leading jeweller Professor Dorothy Hogg MBE can be seen alongside a new collection of sensual silver chain necklaces by Jo Thompson.

Festive drinks are on offer helped by bottle openers made from bike parts by Michael Marriott and Studio Tord Boontje’s Transglass range of carafes, glasses and jugs fashioned from upcycled bottles. Designer Sebastian Bergne’s Candloop wire candleholders and Robert Cooper’s collaged broken china candlesticks will help the light fantastic. Domestic pottery by Clive Bowen and others will be pressed into service for sharing a few delicious homemade snacks.

An exhibition of artists’ perspectives on trees in celebration of the work of Oliver Rackham OBE (1939-2015) and the Woodland Trust.

21 September - 28 October 2018

"Oliver’s work has had a profound influence on our understanding of trees and woodland as places where history and ecology, human influence and natural forces have combined and interacted to create complex and continuously fascinating places." Mike Townsend, Principal Advisor, Woodland Trust

Twelve artists, one subject -  trees and woodland : an exhibition devised to celebrate the life and legacy of  Oliver Rackham and to support the work of the Woodland Trust.  All works are for sale and a percentage of sale proceeds will be given to the Woodland Trust as a contribution to work they continue in Oliver’s memory.

Oliver Rackham was the leading historian and ecologist of British woods as well as a fellow and master at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He spent many years researching the history and ecology of ancient woods and the remarkable adaptability of trees, which allowed him to write with extensive knowledge and insight, bringing the history of woods to life. In 1986, he decided to write a number of distinct volumes on the ancient woods of Britain. Although only one was published, he worked on several others including The Woods of the Helford River, Cornwall. Sadly it was not quite completed and remained unpublished at the time of his death in 2015. The Woodland Trust has been working closely with Corpus Christi College to finish and publish the book, so that Oliver’s outstanding knowledge can be passed on to future generations. 

Exhibited works are drawn from different disciplines and demonstrate distinct visual responses to trees and woodland: all however are conceived by artists for whom this subject has been a central concern. David Nash’s massed charcoal rendering of the ‘giz’ of old lime trees; a pine cone minutely observed in pencil and then transformed into chased silver by Michael Lloyd; Paul Hart’s acutely observed photographs of trees edging the industrial farmlands of the fens; an oak log elegantly realized as a dramatic black seat by Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley. Printmaking, drawing, engraving and tapestry are all explored as the means to capturing the experience of trees and their continuing presence in our twenty-first century lives.  

All works will be for sale and a percentage of sale proceeds will be given to the Woodland Trust to support the work they continue in Oliver’s memory.  

Exhibitors:

Norman Ackroyd – Etchings and Aquatint; Malcolm Appleby – Engraved Silver; Lotte Attwood – Black and White Photography; Wilhlemina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) – Drawing; Sara Brennan  - Drawings and Tapestry; Buckmaster and French – Etchings;  Paul Hart – Black and White Photography; Michael Lloyd – Drawings and Chased and Handraised Silver Vessels;  Garry Fabian-Miller – Photograms; David Nash – Drawings; Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley – Furniture/Wood ; James Ravilious (1939-1999) – Photographs of the work of Jim Partridge in woodland in the late 1980s.

8 - 24 July 2018

International Blues launched an occasional series of shows devoted to a single colour. Working with Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Amanda sourced a vibrant selection of modern ceramics from Japan, Denmark and the UK which were installed alongside screenprints and lithographs by Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 -2004) and a tapestry by Jo Barker.

International Blues and subsequent shows planned on 'red' and 'yellow',  acknowledge the considerable importance of Cambridge-based research into pigment and the culture of colour  in particular through the work of the late John Gage. 

Ceramic exhibitors included:
Michael Casson; Walter Keeler; Jin Eu Kim; David Leach; Bodil Manz; Maeda Masahiro; Niisato Akiro; Colin Pearson; Lucie Rie; Inger Rokkjaer; Shinobu Kawase; Janice Tchalenko.