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Watts Gallery
Down Lane, Compton
Guildford, Surrey
GU3 1DQ, United Kingdom

Telephone: 01483 810235
Fax: 01483 810285

Email: info@wattsgallery.org.uk



Watts Gallery is a registered Charity

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14th May 2012

Watts Gallery Pottery and Kiln

Joyce our Apprentice Potter has just sent me a picture of the inside of the Watts Gallery kiln. This is about as close as I'm allowed to get to it as Joyce is the only one skilled enough to load, unload and fire the pottery made...
30th April 2012

Helen Jarvis, Watts Gallery Artist in Residence, talks about her recent experimentation with colours in painting

'Much of my work employs a quite specific faded yellowy colour as it conveys a feel of weathering or wear and tear without being too heavy or drab. I'm trying to find something else that...
19th April 2012

The Surrey Youth Support Service Session - April 2012

  'The Surrey Youth Support Service participants enjoyed sharing skills for their final Bronze Arts Awards session today. The skills they successfully shared with invited guests...
26th March 2012

Chandler School Visit to Watts Gallery

Thanks to Chandler School pupils for being so creative - their pottery sculpture angels are really beautiful and waiting to go into the Watts Gallery kiln!  
12th July 2011

Loseley Fields Primary School Peace Garden

I attended the opening of the Peace Garden at Loseley Fields Primary School this morning. There was a very moving assembly where children sang and spoke about what the garden meant to them and how they were...
12th May 2011

Fun in the Foyle Art for All Learning Studio

I had great fun trying out the new shimpo pottery wheel in the Foyle Art for All Learning Studio, as did some some younger visitors during the Friends weekend!
16th March 2011

Woking Mind visit to Watts Chapel

  Woking Mind recently visited the Watts Chapel as part of the SEWS Mental Health Project. The project has involved visiting several museums and galleries, taking photographs. One of the participants has also been uploading...
15th March 2011

Pottery workshop at the Great Studio

Rosie and Georgie who take part in the Big Issues project led a skills sharing session at Watts’s Great studio today, as part of their Bronze Arts Awards qualification. Myself along with some staff from Surrey Youth Justice...
2nd December 2010

The Snowy Road Home

  With the snow here in Compton, the landscape looks beautiful and incredibly inspiring. It makes me think about the effect that the landscape had on Watts and all the scenes he painted of the Surrey landscape (albeit mainly in the summer, where...
8th November 2010

The Big Issues Exhibition

The Big Issues exhibition opened today in the foyer of the KPMG offices, London. The private view was a busy event, with over ten art works selling on the opening night. Carole Souter, Chief Executive of the Heritage Lottery Fund, opened the...