Igor Tavares - Phases Within The Cycle

Opening Event : Friday May 10th 6pm - 7.30pm

Exhibition open - Wednesdays 10am - 2pm (other times by arrangement - we are a vibrant working creative space - please contact to arrange)

Igor Tavares is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated with a BA in Illustration at Newcastle College University Centre. He works across various art forms, including dance, performance, poetry, photography, and film. The purpose of his work is to incite change, both personally and spiritually, in the audience. Tavares uses abstraction to explore dimensions beyond the figurative, which opens up and expresses thoughts and lived experiences.

Igor continues to push his boundaries, exploring his Portuguese, African heritage, and spirituality through drawing, painting, and performance.

Opening Event : Friday 7th June 6pm- 7.30pm

Tell It How It is - An exhibition that pays homage to the lived experience of carers in the UK

This exhibition aims to capture your attention by utilising the well known form of positive affirmation signs that have become so much part of mainstream culture. Things like  Love Life Laughter or  Living my best life.

 We asked carers to subvert  this aspirational lifestyle form to inform people of  what life is really like if you are a carer.

Successive governments have promised and then failed to address the crisis in care. Everyone knows the system is broken and scarily anyone of us and yes that includes you could become a carer.

It involves giving up freedoms you took for granted and more often than not huge amounts of stress emotionally and financially

Art is not just about painting and beauty, at its best art can inform educate  and motivate us into action

We urge you to come to the “ Tell it as it is “ exhibition and to see and feel what it is like to be a carer

During Careres week the Dry Water team are offering FREE workshops for registered carers - check out the pop up event page for information.

Exhibition open - Wednesdays 10am - 2pm (other times by arrangement - we are a vibrant working creative space - please contact to arrange)

BENEATH SHADOWED WOODS - Opening Event Friday 6th September 6pm - 7.15 pm

“The hope that the seasons offer … Even in a seemingly dormant state, changes are happening underneath, and in a while, everything will come to life again” A note from my sketchbook - January 2021

The inspiration for Beneath Shadowed Woods began during 2020 - a time few of us will forget. I moved to a new house in a small village with an ancient woodland, where I would walk almost daily. I would then return home and paint in sketchbooks at my dining table in the weeks and months before I could return to my studio. I would spend hours just painting layers and layers, trying to capture the feeling and atmosphere of the woodland and something of the experience of that time. Then came Storm Arwen later in 2021 and the devastation of the woodland and forests in Northumberland and beyond. The impact on our landscape was clear for all to see. Like many others, the tiny scrap of woodland in my village changed dramatically. 

Though these paintings feel dark, to me, they reflect the beautiful, earthy, mysterious atmosphere of the woodland and undergrowth. Trees allow us to feel as rooted and grounded as they are—a chance to pause, observe, and connect with nature and ourselves.