Paul Gadenne is a Canterbury-based artist who works principally in watercolour and acrylic. He is a Chartered Designer with a background in commercial Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design. His own practice, Paul Gadenne Associates, worked successfully throughout the Eighties in Canterbury and London. Paul has been a Design Lecturer at Hastings College of Art and currently teaches Graphics and Design at St Edmund’s School Canterbury.
His work features a wide range of subjects but most tend to have an element of narrative and the everyday and can be seen at local Art Society Exhibitions and Open Art Shows throughout the year.

2009 - Selected for The Royal Watercolour Society 21st Century Art Exhibition, Bankside Gallery.

2010 - Solo Exhibition at Gallery 2, Whitstable.

...... ...- Short-listed for The Cork Street Open Art Exhibition.

....... ..- Short-listed for The National Open Art Exhibition.

2011 - Two Paintings selected for The Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition, Bankside Gallery.

2011 - Selected for The Cork Street Open Art Exhibition.

2012 - Selected for the Macmillan Art Show.

2012 - Selected for The Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition, Bankside Gallery.

2012 - Page Turner Award - Turner Contemporary, Margate.

2012 - Short-listed for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

enquiries@gadenne.co.uk

Events for 2011/12

18th February – 10th March 2011- Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Hopton Street, London. (next to the Tate Modern)

1st July - 3rd July 2011 - Barfrestone Open Art Exhibition, Barfrestone, Kent.

16th July - 24th July 2011- SLATE, Society of Local Art Teachers and Exhibitors, St Peter's Church, Sandwich. Kent.

4th August - 12th August 2011 - The Cork Street Open Art Exhibition. 27-28 Cork Street, London.

27th October - 29th October 2011- Canterbury Society of Art, Art Fair. Methodist Hall, Canterbury

9th November - 20th November 2011 - Folkestone Art Society, Autumn Exhibition. The Grand Hotel, The Leas, Folkestone

16th February - 29th February 2012 - Macmillan Art Show, Georges House Gallery, 8 High Street, Folkestone.

24th February - 14th March 2012 -Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Hopton Street, London. (next to the Tate Modern)

21st and 22nd April 2012 - Page Turner Exhibition, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent.

12th May - 27th May 2012 - Folkestone Art Society, Spring Exhibition. The Grand Hotel, The Leas, Folkestone

6th June - 12th June 2012 - East Kent Art Society Exhibition. Somerset Maugham Gallery, The Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre, Whitstable, Kent.

13th June - 26th June 2012 - Canterbury Society of Art Summer Exhibition. Somerset Maugham Gallery, The Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre, Whitstable, Kent.

26th July - 28th July 2012 - Four Square - Paul Gadenne, John Snow, Brian Webb, Roy Wilkinson. St. Peter's Methodist Hall, St Peter's St, Canterbury.

Selected artwork is now on permanent display at The Bourne Gallery, Bekesbourne.

Call in to see what's available and have a great snack and a coffee next door at Mama Feelgood's Cafe.

The Bourne Gallery, Picture Framers & Frame Makers, Chalkpit Farm Rural Shopping, School Lane, Bekesbourne, Nr. Canterbury, Kent, CT4 5EU. tel: 01227 831011