4 - Old Friends Reacquainted
As our relocation draws closer, we’ve started sorting through the stock rooms at both the gallery and the studio - finding old friends from exhibitions past, that haven’t seen a gallery wall for some time.
Rather than take them to Devon with us and continue to keep them in storage, we’ve brought them out and put them all on display in Chester to make our special and very rare Relocation Clearance Sale.
If you’ve been following us for a while you’ll already know that we really don’t do sales, apart from a brief and not-to-be-repeated flirt with Black Friday last year. So, we thought long and hard about this but decided it would be a great way to both make our move a bit easier, and to say thank you and goodbye to all the lovely customers who have supported us in Chester & North Wales for the last twenty years.
Tree, Dyffryn Mymbyr
One of the original artworks in the sale is “Tree, Dyffryn Mymbyr”, 92cm x 61cm oil on canvas. If you know Snowdonia, this is from one of the laybys on the left as you head from Capel Curig towards the Pen y Gwryd Hotel. Ahead of us was the majestic Snowdon Horseshoe, but on this day in 2006 it was the simplicity of this tree on a rocky outcrop that caught Alison’s attention. Full price £5300, this is now offered at £1850.
Everything in the gallery is offered with a general discount of 10%, but most pieces have additional discounts applied - up to a massive 80% off. For full details, please see our dedicated Relocation Clearance Sale page.
Today we’ve been setting up the gallery for the sale, and couldn’t help reflecting on the passage of time, and the different posters we put in our window - announcing our arrival nearly ten years ago as we prepared to paint over the blue of Corbett’s Bookmakers, and now our relocation sale as we leave for pastures new.
Originally built as a Mediæval Merchant’s house in the 13th Century, it’s fair to say that our gallery has seen it’s share of changes over the years, and it’s been an honour to be its custodian for just a short while. Soon we’ll be handing the baton over to a new tenant to give this characterful old building its next lease of life.
