The Rossiters at the Seagull

There is an exhibition of paintings by Pam and Peter Rossiter at the Seagull Gallery, St Mary Street, Cardigan, 27 to 30 March and Wednesday 3 to 6 April.

This is the first time Pamela has joined her husband, Peter, to create a combined exhibition. Pamela has made arts and crafts for many years; her new abstract paintings, made over the past ten months, are said to reveal “her natural feeling for colour and composition. Each painting can be seen as a personal individual response to the process of ‘making’; they create a dialogue with the paint surface, and the work contains a record of exploration and discovery.”

Below: Two abstract paintings by Pam Rossiter.

Peter’s landscapes are mostly based on scenes in and along the Pembrokeshire coastal path, he also occasionally ventures into Mid and North Wales. Some are made direct from life (eg Abercastle, Ceibwr Bay and Dinas Head) while many of the others are based on sketches or recollection. Peter’s application of acrylic paint to the surface of old photographs is said to give “his work a distinctive quality, the original images on the recycled photographic paper provide little or no connection to the final image, but sometimes intriguing hints of shapes or colours seep through the glazes of pigment. Each picture is unique. The works he is exhibiting in the Seagull Gallery are selected from several hundred made using this technique over the last three years.”

Along the coastal Path. Peter Rossiter