The Gallery
Step inside our evolving showcase of creativity.
This is where the work of Swan Hill Studios' artists comes to life—on the walls, through the lens, across disciplines. From painting and print to ceramics, textiles and digital, our gallery celebrates the diversity of talent nurtured in this space. Whether you’re discovering a new artist or revisiting familiar names, The Gallery invites you to pause, explore, and connect.
A Thing That Walks Again
10th - 28th October 2025
In A Thing That Walks Again, Rob Lawton presented a contemplative body of work that delved into the intersections of personal memory and collective history, using the language of painting to question how the past lingers within the present. Working primarily in oil, Lawton’s practice foregrounded the physicality of paint — its weight, texture, and resistance — revealing paintings not just as images, but as objects that share space and presence with the viewer.
Through this exploration, the exhibition examined how material and memory intertwine, each layer of paint echoing the act of remembering and reinterpreting what has come before.
Originally from Oswestry, Lawton has exhibited widely, including Hyper X at The Dispensary, Wrexham (2024); Antidote at Oriel Canvas, Cardiff (2024); Lle Celf at the National Eisteddfod (2025); and the John Moores Painting Prize, Liverpool (2025).
Mediterranea
25th September - 2nd October 2025
Drawing from her Italian heritage and enduring connection to the Mediterranean, Stephanie Eufemia’s new body of work is shaped by the light, colour, and quiet rhythm of the region. From the expansive stillness of the Italian lakes to the luminous blues of Mallorcan waters, these paintings are imbued with both familiarity and longing — offering moments of still reflection and dreamlike escape.
Defined by elevated horizons, simplified forms, and a palette of tranquil greens and blues, Eufemia’s compositions invite the viewer into a suspended space where sea and sky dissolve into one. Boats appear on distant horizons, evoking solitude and possibility, distance and arrival.
As much about feeling as it is about landscape, MEDITERRANEA is a meditation on belonging, nostalgia, and the quiet beauty of simplicity. In these works, the Mediterranean emerges not just as a place, but as a state of mind - a timeless, expansive, and ever-calling.
This House is Hers
12th - 23rd September 2025
Megan works from her studio at English Bridge Studios, developing a practice rooted in observation, emotion, and the rhythms of domestic life. A lifelong maker, she has explored many mediums and first exhibited at The Mall Galleries in London while still at college.
For this two-week exhibition at Swan Hill Studios, This House is Hers, Megan transforms the space into a lived-in gallery. Her paintings of flowers, food, landscapes, and portraits inhabit the atmosphere of home, offering a deeply personal perspective on everyday beauty.
All Roads Lead to Mother
3rd - 18th July 2025
All Roads Lead to Mother was a bold and intimately personal exhibition that offered a deeply layered exploration of motherhood through the intertwined perspectives of mother and daughter artists, Sam Pooley Stride and Daisy Pooley Tolkien Williams. Spanning painting, sculpture, embroidery, ceramics, and assemblages of cherished objets d’art, the multimedia show served as both a confessional and a celebration,
a life’s work forged through shared experience and creative kinship.
The exhibition traced the complex, often unspoken dimensions of maternal identity: the vulnerability of teenage pregnancy, the grief of baby loss, the invisible battle of endometriosis, the yearning to become a mother, the complexities of parenting both within and outside of partnership, and the transformation of self through menopause.
By baring their souls, the artists transcended the personal, inviting audiences into a space of reflection, recognition, and healing. All Roads Lead to Mother stood not only as a tribute to the journey of motherhood but also as a radical act of empathy and understanding, a show that asked visitors to look closely, feel deeply, and honour the many paths that lead us home.
Verdia
15th - 20th June 2025
Verdia, inspired by the Latin word viridis, meaning green, fresh and full of life, reflects the themes of renewal and transformation that run throughout Amy’s work. Her expressive use of colour and form evokes the emotional connection we have with nature and invites viewers to pause and reconnect with the world around them.
This exhibition marks an exciting milestone as Amy’s first solo show. Created at a time of personal reflection and creative expansion, the works in Verdia speak to the rhythms of life, its imperfections, beauty and ever-evolving nature. With each piece, Amy encourages us to embrace growth, however gradual, and to find joy in the everyday.
Forage
28th February - 14th March 2025
Inspired by the quiet elegance of winter nature, the exhibition weaves together landscapes, ceramics, and abstract works to reflect on the season's serene palette, its inherent stillness, and the promise of renewal.
The show’s cooler tones and textures draw from the understated beauty of winter’s landscapes, where nature appears dormant but is quietly alive. Forage explores the artistic process as an act of discovery, finding beauty and meaning in nature’s overlooked details, principles of simplicity and impermanence.