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Greenwich Cottage…Be-Dashing-Upon-Tweed by way of the grassy Massey River Path, The Shepard Rose Gardens, along the Secretive Massey River and, past the Bramhall Labyrinth, Temple Stables, the Abandoned Temple Lodge, and Misty Medicinal Physic Gardens; then through The Golden Gates, past The Nature Spirits of Eldritch Forest and Eldritch Forest, across The Village Green and The Rams Horn Secret Tea Garden, to meet the Lizard Lovers at TAJ ART Teas.
From The Rams Horn Secret Tea Garden by Trace Fryer
  1. Greenwich Cottage

    The cottage

  2. Be-Dashing-Upon-Tweed

    The town

  3. Massey River Path

    The grassy path

  4. Secretive Massey River

    The dry river bed that carries secrets

  5. The Shepard Rose Garden

    The rose garden

  6. Bramhall Labyrinth (go to this part of the garden walk)

    An ancient burial ground where ceremonies happen and weddings

  7. Temple Stables (go to this part of the garden walk)

    An old church that inhabits the animals and magic

  8. Abandoned Temple Lodge

    The shed

  9. Misty Medicinal Physic Gardens

    The medicinal plants of Juniper Chestwick

  10. Eldritch Forest (go to this part of the garden walk)

    The nature spirits live here

  11. The Village Green (go to this part of the garden walk)

    Gathering for events and music

  12. The Rams Horn Secret Tea Garden (go to this part of the garden walk)

    Tea-Easy tea garden

  13. TAJ ART Teas (go to this part of the garden walk)

    Local tea apothecary that carries tea, books, art, music and antiques

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The Studio Gallery

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Welcome to our fine art exhibitions, past and present. TAJ ART INC is an art and music studio and gallery for the work of Trace and John Fryer, alongside other artists featured in past shows. A portion of proceeds from your acquisitions supports animal charities. Trace and John are available for production work and studio visits by appointment, with private events throughout the year.

Current exhibitions & the Studio Gallery story

Dates will be announced for resident artist and musician shows, with guest artists and musicians joining special private events. Visit Seasonal Shows or join the Garden Gazette for announcements.

Our carefully curated selection includes a variety of landscapes, ranging from abstracts to detailed studies, each providing a distinct viewpoint on our environment. Come and admire the talent and creativity of local artists as they share their interpretations of nature's beauty. Our events present a wonderful opportunity to connect with art and the splendor of nature in an elegant atmosphere.

Trace's art exhibitions celebrate her drawings and paintings of enchanting animals that share similar qualities of the loving, adventurous nature and playful antics to that of empathic humans. Depicted in her art are her engaging narratives that she is so often inspired by her personal magical experiences with animals in the midwest and southwest countryside as a child. John draws upon a graphic approach of manipulating photos and pictures. He envisions the mundane images he sees in daily life and to change them into a more ethereal, celestial and dream like and surreal visual experience.

The art of Trace Fryer

Trace’s drawings and paintings celebrate enchanting animals that share the loving, adventurous nature and playful antics of empathic humans. Her stories are often inspired by her own magical experiences with animals in the Midwest and Southwest countryside as a child. Her influences are Art Nouveau, Victorian motifs and Romanticism.

The art of John Fryer

John takes a graphic approach, working with photographs and pictures. He takes the everyday images he sees and turns them into something more ethereal, celestial, dreamlike and surreal.

Curiosities

The gallery also keeps curiosities for homes and gardens: antiques, art prints, books, and tea room and garden things.

Exhibitions, then and now

  • Current exhibition dates to be announced.
  • 2017: Mending Structures: Latin American Women in Art, part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, led by the Getty.
  • The USC Pacific Asia Museum exhibition for the Pakistan Arts Council.

A visit to the gallery

Pieces are viewed by appointment. We carry no cash on site.

We aren’t taking artist submissions.

Blue-green succulent photograph with a dark rounded border.
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Spare dark lines arch across a softly coloured abstract painting.
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Silhouettes of running animals against a red and turquoise painted ground.
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Three vertical abstract panels in red, gold and green.
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A dark folded organic sculpture on a pale wall.
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A square assemblage of wood slices with a golden spiral pattern.
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Turquoise, pink and yellow shapes arranged in an abstract composition.
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A sweeping landscape painting beneath a luminous yellow sky.
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Interlocking puzzle forms meet radiating pale sculptural branches.
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Colourful silhouettes of animals, trees and figures on a yellow ground.
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A large green bird among yellow flowers in a softly painted landscape.
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A small blue and gold abstract painting mounted on a pale gallery wall.
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A blue, violet and gold abstract landscape painting on a gallery wall.
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A golden figure and a running animal within a textured abstract painting.
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Pink flowers and red gestural lines overlap a dark circular form.
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A rounded sculptural vessel with carved floral patterns.
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A dark expressive figure rendered in ink on a pale ground.
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A small ceramic cup with white oval motifs on a wooden table.
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A dark cat curls and tumbles in an expressive ink painting.
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A landscape painting with broad clouds above dark green fields.
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“Standing on the bare ground, —my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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