Oxmarket are delighted to welcome AG Creatives to the Wilson Gallery. The group can usually be found at Artisan Gallery in North Street, Chichester which they run together as a cooperative. AG Creatives is made up of artists and makers, several whom have been working professionally in their chosen genre for decades, others who are returning to art after time out. For the group, creating art is an urge that just can’t be ignored. Self-taught or formally educated the creation of art is what brought the group together, sharing what they create with the public enables them to carry on creating by financing their lives, expressing their passions, and helps to validate their work.

For AG Creatives, the idea of exhibiting together in a ‘loosely’ themed exhibition was a great creative challenge. Giving many of the group the impetuous to create something different and new from the work on display at their own Gallery.

In this exhibition they will have work from 11 artists and makers each inspired in their own way by the countryside and coast they reside near. AG Creatives felt that ‘one cannot avoid being influenced by the beauty of the Sussex and Hampshire downland and coast’. Each piece of art in the exhibition has come about with influence of the theme from the Downs to the Dunes, whether indirectly or purposely.