Artist Exhibition Space

We are excited to be exhibiting and celebrating local artists’ work in Riverside café. Throughout 2025 we will be welcoming work from each month from a local artists to our space. They work in various techniques, all capturing botantical beauty.

All pieces seen here are for sale! Please get in touch with Riverside or the artist if you are interested in finding out more!

 

Interested in exhibiting? Please email us at admin@riversidegardencentre.com or fill our our customer enquiry form to find out more

 

Currently Exhibiting:

Chris Dawson

Chris is a Bristol based colourist landscape painter exploring the interplay of colour and light. His work is influenced by trips to coastal areas and rural landscapes often highlighting remote buildings or industrial landscapes within his paintings. He primarily works in oil, with some work in acrylics or mixed medium.
 
Chris recently won the Jean Kent prize, the selectors’ choice, for Artist Merit at the Clevedon Summer show 2024. 

More of his work can be seen on his Instagram page.

Instagram: @Chrisdawson13
Email: Chrisdawson13@gmail.com

 

 

Previously Exhibited with us:

2024

Throughout 2024, we had 8 wonderful artists display their work in our cafe. Thank you for all sharing your love of the artists and we hope your new artwork has found the perfect spot. We offer to display in our space for no fee, helping local artists share their work. For all pieces sold through our exhbition, 75% of the sale goes straight to the artist and the other 25% gets doanted to a local charity. In 2024, this went towards Alive Activities, an amazing charity who help older people in care live their life to the fullest. 

"Alive is one of the leading practitioners in the UK of meaningful activity for older people in care. Not only do we provide meaningful engagement in care homes, we provide community activity and support through our Meeting Centres and community gardening."

Find out more at www.aliveactivities.org

Rosie Reiter

I launched my Bristol based brand in 2021 creating unique high quality art prints, greeting cards, stationery and gifts. My greeting cards have been stocked in over 80 shops and garden centres across the UK, USA and Europe. I also sell my artwork at local art trails, fairs and markets.

After completing my art degree at Chelsea School of Art, I began my career in the art departments of TV and film, including working on Batman, Harry Potter and James Bond. I then went on to teach Art including a stint as an artist in residence. After helping others express their creativity, I decided it was time to listen to my own creative urges and set up my own studio, designing digital artworks.

Wildlife and exotic climates have always fascinated me and I have been hugely inspired by my travels to South, Central and North America, Asia and Australia. These exotic, colourful designs are inspired by the vibrant hues of the jungle and arid landscapes of the desert, made up of tropical flowers and plants, cacti and jewel toned birds, showcasing my passion for bold, contrasting colours, shapes and textures.

Nowadays I visit botanic gardens to gain my inspiration and immerse myself in nature. I also love to surround myself with colour and plants at home.

Sustainability is an important aspect of my business. My art prints, cards and paper products are all printed locally in the UK, working with other UK-based small businesses as my suppliers and fulfilment partners and I am passionate about minimising my impact on the environment in every way that I can, using eco-friendly, plastic-free packaging wherever possible.

All of my textile ranges are also designed and fabricated in the UK, by Oeko-Tex certified bespoke fabric printers who use environmentally friendly water-based dyes and printing methods. All my lampshades are handmade in my studio.

All pieces seen here are for sale!

Riverside is a stockist of this artist’s greeting cards, find them in our shop!

See more on the artist’s website

Instagram @rosie.reiter

www.rosiereiter.co.uk

 

 

Jacqui Watkins

Jacqui trained for a degree in Surface Pattern Design at Loughborough College of Art Design. She went on to have a long career as a textile designer in the fashion/furnishings industry working in the UK and abroad. Since moving to Bristol she has gone back to her love of drawing, painting and printmaking. Her painting work is primarily focused in watercolour/ink drawing and her loose and free style of drawing is complimented by using many forms of printmaking i.e. monoprint, etching, lino cut and collagraph. There is still a decorative quality to her work in the use of line, colour and texture with her main subject matter based in the landscape.

Instagram @linenprints  |  www.jacquiwatkins.co.uk

 

FIONA WILLIS

I have a passions for the patterns and words that connect us to nature. The Devon coast, where i grew up, along with my family garden got under my skin and is still an important memory bank all these years later. My mother was a draughtswoman and graphic designer and used very fine rapidograph pens which often broke. I would mend them and do my own little doodles and fine drawings mainly of animals then. The work you see here is mixed media, watercolour, pen and ink and collage. Thank you for taking the time to look. 

www.fionawillis.com

 

 

LOUSIE WILMOT

Louise studied Graphic Design BA (Hons) at UWE with a special interest in animation and typography. She became a title sequence designer working in TV for 15 years before having a family and going freelance. Transferring her skills to the fashion industry, she was part of a small creative team designing seasonal collections and campaigns for a yoga clothing company.

Inspired to pick up a paintbrush for the first time during the pandemic, Louise has started to forge a new creative path and is excited to see where it leads.

She brings her designers' eye to these bold botanical paintings.

Follow her on socials and visit her website to view more of her paintings and prints, including some new abstract work...

Instagram @by_louisewilmot  |  Facebook @by.louisewilmot  |  www.bylouisewilmot.co.uk

 

 

 

 

RICHARD GIBSON

Richard Gibson is a painter based in Bath who paints bold, vivid paintings of the natural world, and as he is a keen gardener much of his subject matter comes from his garden. He studied painting at Northumbria University and has exhibited at The Bishop's Palace, Wells, Trebah Garden, Cornwall, in numerous Art Fairs as well as at various local art events.

He has developed a style that is based on observational study whilst endeavouring to embody the vitality and dynamic of nature. The paintings are executed in oil paint allowing for a "painterly" physical technique with bold backgrounds bringing the subject into strong relief producing a powerful sense of presence. The work is informed by his drawings, which are often executed in charcoal and conte crayon and are also boldly executed in a vigorous style with an almost sculptural technique.

More original paintings available on the artist’s website

www.richardgibsonartist.co.uk | Instagram - @richardgibsonartist | Facebook - richard.gibson.182

  

 

 

 

LOUISE BOULTON

Original hand produced screenprints

Louise Boulton is an Artist Printmaker who studied BA(Hons) Graphic Design specialising in Scientific Illustration at Middlesex University, London.

Having worked in publishing and lectured at the University of the Arts, London she developed her own practice at Spike print Studio, Bristol. Working directly in front of nature she produces detailed drawings which are developed into screenprints & etchings. The artworks exhibited here are made by preparing a number of silkscreens with designs which are then hand printed in sequence with inks onto paper, produced in small limited editions which are numbered and signed.

Her work has been exhibited at The Bishops Palace, Wells, University of Bristol Botanic Garden, Trebah Garden, Cornwall, the William Morris Gallery, London and Spike Print Studio, Bristol.

www.louiseboulton.co.uk | Louiseboulton@louiseboulton.co.uk | Instagram: @Louisenboulton