With Exhibitions Changing Most Months – come along and view the current artworks on display
Walsall Society of Artists, hold monthly exhibitions at The Crossings Gallery, St Pauls Church, Walsall for the public to view, free of charge. We have a varied program of artists with solo exhibitions and mixed groups, exhibiting a wide variety of styles in their creative artwork, and most of the artwork is for sale. Many artists will be engaging with the public through, Meet the Artist Days, Demonstrating and offering Workshops . Come and have a look round, relax and have a coffee, brunch, afternoon tea, whilst viewing Walsall’s local artists paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics and much more.
Unfortunately due to lack of members coming forward to assist in the management of this gallery space, we will be handing back the management of our exhibition space to The Crossing. WSA will still put two group shows on a year, and members will still be able to exhibit here, but it will be managed directly with The Crossing Management Team.
Inspiration includes buildings and architecture around Walsall, commemorative statues, the arboretum and Walsall businesses. Our artists were inspired by the leather and blacksmith industry Walsall is famous for saddles, bridles as well as other leather goods. Inspiration was also taken from the diversity of the people and cultures in Walsall and local beauty spots, parks, and nature reserves. What does Walsall mean to you?
This is an interesting exhibition looking at what Walsall means to our artists. with over 65 artworks inspired by the diversity of Walsall.
Artists have depicted the bus stops, the churches, walks in the parks and gardens, friends and family, places we pass on a bus, fleeting glimpses of the overlooked and forgotten.
This will be a vibrant day at The Crossing Gallery where you come and chat to the artists. They will also be selling cards, prints and original artworks, throughout the day.
This month we have three amazing artists exhibiting their work at The Crossing Gallery, and they couldn’t be more different. Do take the time to visit this exhibition it will delight and intrigue you.
Fusing my design and architecture background of accuracy, with the free whimsey of my imagination, I use metal, a material traditionally viewed as hard and unyielding, to create playful, flowing, and often pipe-filled works. These are in part inspired by the madness of William Heath Robinson’s over-engineered machines. My works are all embossed painstakingly by hand and embellished with a variety of inks, paints, and resins to create a colourful 3D piece that reflects the light bringing them to life. My aim is to add a host of intricate detail, that keeps the viewer returning for yet another look.
Denise is also displaying her handmade resin jewelry in the display cabinets.
Winner of the Birmingham open in 2025, Ispahani is an emerging multidisciplinary artist whose intricate ballpoint pen artworks explore identity, cultural spontaneity and the divine. Drawing from his Cameroonian heritage and life in the UK, his work revives overlooked histories and sparks dialogue around identity. The sensitivity of his biro drawings creating patterns to define his sitter and their clothing. Ispahani is definitely an artist to watch, as his career unfurls.
Buffy as an Autistic Oriental Artist is inspired by her special interest in “Japan” and a deep-rooted connection to nature. Using a wide range of techniques from both “Sumi-E“ (su-mi-eh) Japanese ink painting and “xiěyì” (shi-ay-ee) Chinese Brush Painting methods. Buffy seeks to explore the delicate balance between structure and fluidity, order and chaos.
“Each creation explores the deepest, innermost thoughts of my autistic Japanese spirit revealing itself through the lines and strokes of time-honoured Oriental ink painting techniques.”
Sarah work on sculptures cast from her own body, bringing to the forefront how we view the older body. Elder is a continuing body of work to confront the popular view of what is beautiful. As we age we become scared worn creased and wrinkled, Srah like to show the beauty found in the crevies of our minds and body.
Exhibition Opens 30th May – Extended to 24th July
Photography has been a hobby of mine for around the past 4 years, where I have spent most of my time travelling around the continent of Asia. I have a passion for capturing people in their natural environment, and trying to convey their emotions through to my work. In this exhibition I bring you a selection of some of my favourite photos taken over the past few years. The people and places I have captured in these scenes mean a lot to me, and I hope that you feel some of what I felt as you look through the exhibition.
A self taught artist from Walsall, my passion for art started at an early age, and shifted from viewing art to creating art when I retired. Being a member of the WSA has helped me to develop my creative skills, my work covers a wide range of nature and contemporary art. I work mainly in acrylics, but have worked in oils and watercolours too. I sell work at art markets and fairs, along with prints and cards.
Jude’s ceramic practice dialogue is with nature, working primarily with stoneware clay and her own glazes, she creates vessels that carry the weight of history and landscape. Rather than offering a direct representation of the land, her pieces reflect its essence, its weathered textures, layered history, and traces of human presence over time. She is particularly drawn to the form of platters, vessels for gathering, sharing, and connection. Just as landscapes bear the marks of those who have lived and worked upon them, her ceramics hold the imprints of their making. In an era dominated by sleek, machine-finished surfaces, Jude seeks to reconnect people with something raw, tactile, and imperfect. Her vessels are textured, weathered, and sometimes fractured—echoing the beauty of landscapes shaped by forces beyond human control. “Nature is visceral, wild, and unfiltered. I want my work to embody that—to create something that is felt, something real.”
Exhibition Opens 25th April – 29th May
Drawing is fundamental to all artists it’s where we start our creative ideas, for a sculpture, painting, jewelry, ceramics, the list goes on. This is how we as artists interrogate our subject; it doesn’t matter what medium we use a traditional pencil, biro, chalk, or pastel. I love to use charcoal, layers of dust and marks to excavate the image from the paper. Messy ink and feathers, I usually end up with more on me than the paper. When is a doodle not a drawing? I remember talking to someone who said they didn’t draw but doodled his ideas on bits of paper to hand. These were his thought processes before creating a final piece, yes I call them drawings, we so often under-value our scribblings.
Come along and have a coffee as you wander through the exhibition.
Exhibition Opens 28th March – 24th April
Pauline said “when we stop to gaze at a landscape our senses drink in the beautiful colours, textures, sounds and smells around us; putting aside the stresses of everyday life to be in the moment”. Through the use of light, colour and texture she endeavoured to capture the feeling of this precious moment in her paintings. Every walk whether it was on a beautiful beach or a local park, gave Pauline further inspiration for her paintings. Working from photographs and sketches, Pauline painted predominantly in oil which allowed her to build up thick and thin layers, soft and hard edges, smooth or textural marks.
Meet The Artists – Saturday 5th April 11am – 1pm
Pauline was a generous and beautiful person, from the moment she joined the WSA, Pauline designed posters for exhibitions, and redesigned the Annual Exhibition Catalogue. Pauline will be sadly missed by everyone at the Walsall Society of Artists.
Exhibition Opens 28th February – 27th March 2025
Every week this group meet in Rushall to share their joy of painting. It is a social event with everyone giving each other tips and advice. This will be a joyous exhibition celebrating a variety of styles and subjects.
Meet The Artists – Monday 3rd March 11am – 1pm
Exhibition Opens 28th February – 27th March 2025
Gwenda Jones is a contemporary British portrait and figuritive sculptor known for her unique exploration of human and animal studies, where texture meets form to create deeply emotive works.
Her pieces, ranging from intimate portraits to large-scale sculptures, capture the essence of her subjects with a refined sensitivity and an innate understanding of form. Gwenda’s sculptures often celebrate her lifelong love of horses. This passion began during her early childhood in the rural landscapes of Oxfordshire, where this connection to nature is reflected in the graceful dynamism of her equine sculptures, which evoke a sense of power, serenity and human connections.
This is a group exhibition brought together by 28 of our Walsall Society of Artists members. It is an eclectic mix of styles and genres from ceramics to papercrafts, paintings to sculptures, collage and mixed media, there is something to excite everyone.
For the first time since taking on St Pauls Gallery at the Crossing we will be exhibiting 3D work in the newly available glass display cases. So ceramics and sculpture will be a focal point of the exhibition.
Private View – Saturday 11th January 11am – 12pm TBC
More details to follow
Local artist Delilah Lee is holding a solo exhibition at St Paul’s Gallery, The Crossing in Walsall. Everyone is more than welcome to come along and see these creative paintings in oil and mixed media. Her work is inspired by her travels, reaction to world events as well as fantasy inspirations. If you are curious and want to know more about Delilah and her work, there are lots of dates available for you to come and see what it’s all about.
Wendy’s exhibition at St Paul’s Gallery is her first solo exhibition, sharing with you,examples of artwork from throughout her life. Wendy’s exhibition includes a few examples of early works from her A level and college artwork. There are floral artworks using a variety of media, including pencil, pastel, ink, pen and scraperboard. Wendy also mixes these media with watercolour.
More recent artworks are inspired by features from the locality; including Walsall, Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Smethwick, Dudley and Birmingham.
This diverse group are experienced in a variety of aspects in art, including impasto, washes, shape and form.
The exhibition shows the individuality of each artist in their chosen mediums, and how they interpret through observation the world around them.
Tutor – Ann Hackett RBSA
Walsall Society of Artists, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Hazel Lea, Ann Hackett, Steve Woodhams, Jean Walker, Pam Renhard, and John Renhard, have come together in a group exhibition as “The Painterly Set”.
All of the artists are extremely talented and the exhibition shows the full diversity of styles and skills that the Walsall Society of Artists has to offer and share. There is something for everyone, from traditional oil painting landscapes and studies, by Hazel Lea and Jean Walker.
Vibrant watercolours by Elizabeth Whitehouse, and delicate florals by Ann Hackett. Contemporary still life, and landscapes in acrylics by Pam Renhard. Meticulous eye bending abstracts by Steve Woodhams, to intriguing satirical digital creations by John Renhard, all thought provoking and inspiring.
Anne Nicholls has been a member of Walsall Society of Artists for many years, and is an accomplished watercolourist. She is happiest when painting landscapes and florals, she teaches an art group in Great Bar and this exhibition includes selected works from her students.
Art is often described as a dialogue between the creator and the observer, a conversation that transcends time and space. But what happens when this conversation takes place within a family, across different generations, and with contrasting artistic philosophies? The exhibition “Lines of Descent: Artistic Grudge Match: Baby Boomer vs. Gen X Slacker” at St Paul’s Gallery in Walsall brings us an intriguing answer.
Running from June 29th to July 25th, this exhibition features the works of Pam Renhard, a Baby Boomer, and her son John Renhard, a Gen X Slacker. Both have a deep passion for art, yet they approach their creative processes with distinctly different styles and methodologies. This divergence prompts the playful yet profound question posed by the exhibition: should it be “descent” or “dissent”?
Saturday 8th June 11am – 1pm
Come along and listen to our local poets recite poems inspired by the artwork, they will be running workshops and reciting their own work at this fantastic venue, “All are Welcome”.
Jude is inspired and fascinated by nature, recalling places experienced or imagined as the work forms, creating from a place of no time, no space. She uses marks like an impressed memory, trying to recapture the essence of that moment.
Jude constructs images with multiple layering, but at the same time leaving space for surprise, for something unexpected to happen. Her paintings are created through a performative process of applying pigments, oils, creating pools, then tilting and manoeuvring the canvas. “Water is such a powerful force in shaping the natural landscape” and by using the fluidity of the paint in her process, resonates with ways in which the landscape is formed and eroded.
Anne Nicholls has been a member of Walsall Society of Artists for many years, and is an accomplished watercolourist. She is happiest when painting landscapes and florals.
Steve is a Self Taught Artist, based in the West Midlands, Steve specialises in his own unique take on cubism and abstract art. Often taking inspiration from environmental and conservation issues, Steve will be equally moved to create a painting inspired by his inner thoughts, frustrations and personal day to day life.
Steve’s artwork teases the viewer’s eye and over time allows the viewer to interpret the painting and impart their own perspective. By a clever use of lines, creating a three dimensional space, they take the gaze of the audience across and then through the painting, on an otherwise two dimensional space.
Himley Park and Hall is a beautiful exhibition setting. The grounds and Exhibition are free so why not have a morning or afternoon out to browse the Walsall Society of Artists current art exhibition.
The coffee shop is just next door and all the art is for sale.
Elizabeth Whitehouse, Pamela Renhard, Celia Mortlock, David McGuire, Nataliya Hodson, Jude Hanly, John Renhard, Pauline Astle, Gordon Sanderson, Francella Jean, Terry Leek, Ann Nicholls
Exhibition opened on 13th December and ran until 2nd February
What visitors have said:- “An absolutely breathtaking experience. Inspirational!”
“My visit to the art gallery was nothing but breathtaking. One particular piece of work, literally, stopped me in my tracks. An amazing experience.”
We look forward to seeing exhibitors, members and friends visiting the New Art Gallery Walsall, remember to vote for your favourite painting for the Peoples Choice Award.
