Terry Wigley

Local Artist Terry Wigley's collection is now available to view and buy online

Terry Wigley uses traditional photography. He has been building up a portfolio of work covering the Eastern Cotswolds for the last 10 years. He sells his work as framed Art work and concentrates solely on landscape photography.

“In my case it started with the time I spent as a youngster growing up in the fifties. Brought up in villages, a lot of my spare time was spent outdoors wandering across the fields. This gave me the opportunity to enjoy myself, with little restriction on where I went. This interest has not diminished over the years and it has evolved to become my favourite subject. I love the sense of space and isolation that can be found.

It is difficult to be precise as to when I first started enjoying photography but I do remember my girlfriend (now my wife) and my brother, buying me a camera for my twenty first birthday. This was a Penteflex S.L. and although not an iconic brand, armed with that and my light meter I recorded many different scenes over the years. Gradually I found myself focusing more and more on landscape work and there are examples at home of pictures that I liked and had framed from as long ago as 1985. By chance six years ago I was given the opportunity to take part in an exhibition and following this I have become much more focused. I am constantly striving to take dramatic pictures and my subject matter is totally related to the landscape. Since starting to build this portfolio, I have become much more aware of how the seasons change, where the sun rises and sets and how much impact nature has on the multitude of colours in the countryside. It is also worth noting how much our farmers do, by adding a tapestry of patterns and colours with their various activities and crop rotations.

I love the purity of nature and deliberately avoid man made structures or objects that interfere with a natural composition. My camera is a Nikon S.L.R.and I use Fuji Velvia transparency film, none of my work has been digitally manipulated or computer enhanced. Taking a picture that is good enough is not the main challenge. Finding a suitable subject at the right time of the year, with near perfect light and achieving a stunning impact is much more difficult.”

Christmas opening hours

This christmas Creative Art Gallery is open during the following hours:

Christmas Eve - Closed
Christmas Day - Closed
Boxing Day - Closed
Thursday 27th Dec - 10am - 5pm
Friday 28th Dec - 10am - 5pm
Saturday 29th Dec - 10am - 5pm
Sunday 30th Dec - 11am - 5pm
New Years Eve - Closed
New Years Day - Closed
Wednesday 2nd Jan - Closed

Thursday 3rd Jan back to normal opening hours, Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 5pm Sunday 11-5pm

Originals by Doug Hyde

We are excited to announce we have two Doug Hyde originals available for viewing.
Described as "The most popular living artist in the UK" BBC TV National News, Doug Hyde vividly expresses his own emotional responses to life though his paintings. He produces his distinctive artwork on a large scale, unorthodoxy applying pastels or charcoal with fingers and thumbs or even the side of a hand or wrist allows him to create highly communicative and engaging images that make an immediate and lasting impression, provoking a positive heart warming response. We have two fabulous black and white charcoal sketches on paper.

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Secret Garden - Doug Hyde

The gallery are excited to announce that one more copy of Doug Hyde's spectualr sold out piece Secret Garden, has now become available to buy.

With Secret Garden Doug makes a brief foray across the spectrum with a breathtaking burst of light and colour. This definitive image celebrates all the uplifting ideals behind this stunning collection: love, companionship, friendship, laughter, hope and togetherness are all here, summed up once again in Doug's inimitable style.

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Local Sculputor - Rob Good

Creative Art Gallery was introduced to Sculptor Rob Good through this year’s Art in Woodstock festival, the first of an annual event celebrating the visual arts in Woodstock, an event which the gallery is involved in organizing


Rob Good is an Oxford born artist who studied Sculpture at the University of Leeds, where he was awarded a 1st Class BA (Hons) degree in 2005. Prior to this he received a distinction for Foundation Studies in Fine Art from North Oxfordshire College of Art and Design. Rob’s work has been exhibited in several venues around the country including Stroud, Huddersfield, Brighton and Oxford.


The series entitled ‘Branch Out’ has developed from a project started in the final year of his university education. The intention was to create an installation using the limbs of a felled tree. Branches where to be arranged dynamically in an established space; however, an economy drive by the university resulted in a change of location of Fine Art studios and the graduating class of 2005 found themselves without adequate facilities and unsure of a venue for their final exhibition. With these problems in mind, Rob started to create a series of boxes merely as an aid; to establish his own space within an overcrowded studio in which he could experiment with different compositions of branches and twigs.
The boxes soon became an integral part of the work, and the working models grew into sculptures in their own right. The cubes offer a dialogue with the irregularity of the branches, and create a contrived union between the man-made world and that of nature. As these two worlds are forced together, a struggle unfolds between the boxes normal state of containment and the natural woods desire to grow and expand.

Come into the gallery and view Rob's work on exhibition now

Fabian Perez - San Telmo

San Telmo is one of the oldest districts in Buenos Aires; it was also the wealthiest until the 1870s when many residents started relocating to more spacious areas. The ancient cobbled streets of San Telmo then began to come into their own; the city's oldest square, the Plaza Dorrego, became home to dancers and musicians, the old colonial buildings transformed into bars and clubs, and as the social climbers moved out, the Tango moved in!

World-renowned South American artist Fabian Perez is in an unique position to convey the atmosphere of this seductive and glamorous world having spent his childhood amongst some of its more striking characters.

Born in 1967, Fabian grew up outside Buenos Aires in a turbulent world of political upheaval during the post-Peron military regime. Such a childhood could not fail to impact on every area of his life including his artistic ethos, especially when taken in conjunction with his unconventional upbringing.

At the age of 9 he became fascinated with the paintbrush, and using watercolors and tempera he painted portraits of his friends and family. His mother, Edua Herreria, a beautiful Brazilian women, met his father, a handsome and charismatic ladies’ man, Antonio Perez, in the late 1950’s, in Campana, a small city outside Buenos Aires.

Edua was the creative force in Fabian’s life and Antonio was the inspiration for his work. Fabian witnessed his father’s unorthodox and often difficult life, portraying him in his paintings as “the cool guy” outside nightclubs and bordellos. Antonio owned a number of brothels and illegal nightclubs in Campana, and was frequently chased and closed down by the police. Nevertheless the young Fabian was constantly exposed to beautiful women who could seduce a man “simply by lighting a cigarette”. Today we see these “ladies of the night” exquisitely portrayed in many of Fabian’s paintings - memories of his youth and the nightlife he observed. At the age of 16 Fabian was faced with the loss of his mother and 3 years later the loss of his father. The sadness and despair he experienced left him confused and searching for answers.

This formidable collection of hand-embellished Canvas Editions represents Fabian's figurative gift at its most impressive; his controlled yet passionate compositional style allows these beautifully described, authentic figures to live and breathe against the distinctive backdrop of a sulty San Telmo night.

The Retreat

For Canadian painter Danielle O'Connor Akiyama, seeking out the ideal working atmosphere is an essential part of the creative process. Accordingly she has set up a beautiful studio at her lakeside cabin which offers the perfect retreat, with light, space, inspirational surroundings and, most importantly to Danielle, the peaceful opportunity to get in touch with her inner voice.

Danielle O’Connor Akiyama is based in Toronto where she has been painting for over 30 years, during which time her flamboyant artwork has become highly sought after worldwide. Her exhilarating floral images are vibrant with life, energy and riotous colour. Her deceptively loose and impressionistic style disguises the intricacy of her brush work and the stylish formality of each delicate composition, introducing an almost tangible mood of tranquility and harmony into any setting. Her interest in eastern culture has contributed to this individual style. Trained in the fine art of Japanese brush painting, she is always conscious of the impact of each individual brushstroke has on the final composition.

To view Danielle's luminous floral collection follow this link

Home by the Sea - Philip Gray - Fine Art Trade Guild Best up-and-Coming Artist 2007

Philip's achievements over the last year have ranged from winning a highly convered artist's award to represetning Ireland in a major cultural festival organized and hosted by Dolly Parton.

Widely acknowledged as a modern master of the seascape genre, he has attracted the attention of Prime Minsters and American Presidents, and his work has hung in the White House under two different administrations.

Yet despite all this international success, Philip has never lost sight of reality and lives a grounded family life back home in Ireland. The familiarity, friendliness, and of course the famour Irish charm keep him on an even keel and allow his creativty to flourish. Proximity t0 the Coast is also essential to Philip; he describes the 17 years he spent as a diver in the Navy as 'a period of study' that gave him 'the confidence to paint the sae with genuine understanding, and to become a part of what i'm painting.'

This experience also offered him a unique perspective on Irish landscapes and seascapes seens from the Atlantic Ocean rather than the more conventional shoreline views.

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Half a Million for Vettriano Original at Auction

A Painting by Jack Vettriano fetched £468,000 at a Sotheby's auction this September. 'Bluebird at Bonneville' (as seen above) was commissioned by Sir Terrence Conran 10 years ago for the Bluebird club in Kings Road, Chelsea. This classic contemporary image shows Sir Malcolm Cambell's celebrated land speed record-setting car against the white sands of the Utah Salt Flats in 1935.

Vettriano has said about the series of paintings he did for Sir Conran; “I was thrilled when Sir Terence Conran approached me with the project. The brief was pretty clear: ‘I know you have to paint cars, but try to make them sexy’. “I did a lot of research on the subject and spent six weeks in my studio producing the works - that’s slow for me. I then waited for the dreaded call. He loved them.”

Click on the painting to view Jack's current releases on our website

New Artists available in the Gallery

We now have the new collections by renowned artists Jack Vettriano, David Farrant, James Blinkhorn and David Farren avaivable online.

Jack Vettriano is the UK's most distinguished figurative artist. His new pieces are very colourful and upbeat. 'The Defenders of Virtue' bears all the hallmarks that have built Jack's formindable reputation. An almost aggresvie boldness of style is tempered with nostalgic charm and, of course, compositional brilliance.
'The Tourist Trap' explores the feelings experienced when in unfamiliar territory; Jack conveys a heady mixture of excitement and trepidation with his superb depiction of facial expressions and body language.

James Blinkhorn's new collection,' To the Limit' is a must see; dramatic panoramic visions os New York City. James's powerful ultra-stylish compositions have placed him firmly at the forefront of the international contemporary art scene. He exhibits in the Uk, Europe and the USA, and has a range of prestigious collectors from both the corporate and private sectors.