The Waterfront Gallery in Milford Haven is delighted to present its New Year exhibition ‘The Space Between’ by father and daughter artists David and Cassia Gomersall.

The exhibition at the Gallery, which is located at Discovery Quay, launches on Saturday, January 17, between 2 to 4pm, with all welcome to attend. It will then be open Wednesday to Saturday from 10.30am to 4pm until February 14.

Since 2005, David’s artistic inspiration has come from the bays around Marloes peninsula: Marloes Sands, Albion, Musselwick and St Brides. Work starts with the visual stimulation of the sea and rock interactions and lots of quick sketches. Away from the coast, his work moves to abstraction and discovery within the chosen materials: wood, stone, paint and dye. Much of this creation is a memory of water movement around, over and through rock.

Whilst these pieces have evolved organically into the unknown, they finish with a strong echo of the starting place and a sense of familiarity.

The continuous movement of the sea against the rocks washes away the weaker material forming fissures, caverns and causing landslides and rocks that the sea goes on to shape. These shattered stones themselves bore holes into rock and the water flows relentlessly to shape them. David’s carving and sanding of wood and stone, the movement of his pencil and batik wax - all echo the sea’s wonderful movement.

After studying 3-Dimensional Design, then an MA in Environmental Design & Architectural Design at the Royal College of Art, David worked for various architects in London.

He set up his own practice there in 1991 but projects since 1995 have primarily been in Pembrokeshire and Shropshire/Powys.

Architectural projects and the many concept paintings David made over 30 years for International Architect, the late Zaha Hadid, are all about spatial relationships, flow and movement.

Cassia is predominantly a textile-based artist selling up-cycled clothing created by using a range of techniques including fabric manipulation, silk screen printing and natural dyeing. Her work often incorporates recycled, scavenged or foraged elements.

Rusty objects found on beaches and coastal spots around Pembrokeshire have been used to create textural, rust-dyed pieces - mimicking the sea spray and salt water corrosion of metal.

The ink pieces are mostly abstract studies encapsulating sea meeting cliff/water meeting mountain.

Together, David and Cassia’s works capture movement, erosion and the constant shaping of land and sea – a deep, tactile conversation between nature and materials.