Oriel CRiC Gallery

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    New Year Show 2020 Paintings by Louella Gwillim

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    2019 Christmas exhibition

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    Autumn 2019 featuring Tony Tribe and Tim Rossiter

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    Spring Exhibition 2020

The gallery has an active social media presence and regularly posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

To support, exhibit and promote original and inspiring contemporary art and craft, the gallery presents a changing programme of 6 exhibitions per year by local and visiting artists and designer makers. 

In keeping with its aim of promoting, celebrating and encouraging participation in the visual arts, the gallery has initiated an art trail of open studios and galleries which runs annually during the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. (25 - 27 May 2024)  During this weekend the annual Open Art exhibition promises to offer excitement, variety and great quality.


Other things to do...

 

Craig Cerrig Gleisiad Nature Reserve

A dramatic reserve just north of Storey Arms on the A470 in the heart of the Brecon Beacons

 

Llanthony Priory

Romantic ruins, painted by JMW Turner amongst many others, in a breathtaking site – well worth the trip

 

Borough Theatre, Abergavenny

Theatre in the centre of Abergavenny

 

Walking in the Brecon Beacons

A small team of engaging, enthusiastic and experienced walkers providing guides and walks around a variety of locations within the Brecon Beacons.

 

Baker Street Cinema, Abergavenny

New Two Screen Cinema, offering all the latest movies in comfortable surroundings on big, bright screens with Superb Dolby Digital Sound

 

Coed y Cerrig Nature Reserve

The woodlands at Coed y Cerrig are very interesting, rich in its diversity of wildflowers and lower plants that need very different habitat types

 

Craig y Cilau Nature Reserve

A nature reserve on the doorstep of Crickhowell on Llangattock Mountain

 

Blaenavon Ironworks

The World Heritage Site of Blaenavon, just a short drive from Crickhowell, was at the centre of many developments during the Industrial Revolution. The ironworks here, built in 1788, is one of the best preserved in the world

 

Cwmyoy Church

The leaning church of the Black Mountains – even the tower leans more than the leaning tower of Pisa!

 

Fedw Wood, Cwmdu

A small mixed woodland not far outside Cwmdu village

 

Oriel CRiC Gallery

The Oriel CRiC Gallery upstairs in the Crickhowell Resource and Information Centre is a beautiful space which showcases creative excellence at its best

 

Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal

The canal passes just a mile from Crickhowell, skirting the edge of Llangattock village on the opposite side of the River Usk. The canal is one of the most picturesque of the UK’s leisure waterways, flowing peacefully through stunning scenery and close to nature