Exhibition Opening on Saturday and Live Music this Friday Evening at Willow Gallery Oswestry
Meet the Artists this Saturday 22nd September, 11am to 2pm
Including poetry readings by Eileen Harrisson
Look out for our full What's On email next week with full listings of exhibitions, events and workshops.
Autumn Open Exhibition
Penny Beautiman, Lightship, Relief Print
15th September – 27th October
Meet the Artists : Saturday 22nd September, 11am to 2pm
Featuring OutlineArt
OutlineArt are a group of professional artists, who live on the borders of Cheshire East and Staffordshire. Their work covers different styles across a wide range of disciplines, including painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography, stitch, original printmaking and installation.
Also included in our Autumn Open are abstract paintings by Allan Howard, collages by Gill Crozier and Janie McLeod, oil painting by Myfanwy Powell, textiles by Joanne Frankel and photography by Mari Wyn Lloyd.
War & Conflict, Poetry & Peace
as part of Wilfred Owen Festival  Eileen Harrisson, A Belfast Peace: In the Name of Peace 15th September – 11th November Meet the Artists & Poetry Readings by Eileen Harrisson
September 22nd September, 11am to 2pm
An exhibition of remembrance and commemoration to mark the centenary of Wilfred Owen's death and Armistice day.
Artwork inspired by conflict and peace. More information about the Wilfred Owen Festival:
www.wilfredowenoswestry2018.org.uk Featuring;
Conflict and Redemption – Eileen Harrisson
Poetry Readings by Eileen: September 22nd September, 11am
Eileen's work, in this exhibition and for her PhD, is centred around the theme of conflict, local and global, past and present, and conflict resolution. She approaches the subject through the prism of her experiences of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, first expressed creatively through her poems on the Troubles and she is currently exploring how the symbiotic relationship between stitch, sound and word can be used as vehicle to express the tragedy and horror of conflict and its counterpart, healing. The Picturemakers
Remembering The Great War', thus closely mirrors Wilfred Owen's words;-
'My subject is war and the pity of war.. my poetry is in the pity'.
A number of the resulting paintings, drawings and prints in reaction to the First World war, are closely based on actual photographs taken at the time and inspired by the war poetry that gave witness to this catastrophic world changing event. Selected poems are displayed with the art works and add poignancy to the exhibition.
Also on display as proposals for the Wilfred Owen statue by Oswestry artists.
The Autumn Open exhibition finishes 27th October and the War and Peace exhibition will have its last day on Sunday 11th November. | 
