Rookwood Art & Print

Rookwood Art & Print Art Gallery and Fine Art Printing company based in Pembrokeshire, specialising in landscape and wildlife art.

I would like to introduce you to the amazing artworks of Steven Roe which include colourful renditions of cherished part...
11/09/2026

I would like to introduce you to the amazing artworks of Steven Roe which include colourful renditions of cherished parts of our coast and wonderful graphics of creatures that he studied with great observation and rendered with great skill. Steve died in 2020 but we were lucky to know him and help him with printing prior to this. He was a generous man, offering his help with things, despite being very unwell. And this generosity is continued by his wife Pippa who is donating all proceeds from sales of Steve’s prints to the Paul Sartori Foundation, a Pembrokeshire hospice-at-home charity that supported him so well in his final weeks. . We have already contributed £107 through Steve’s sales. We have eleven beautiful works of Steve’s to enjoy and possibly purchase through Steve’s page:
https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/rookwood/artist/pippa-allen

Steven Roe was born in Sheffield in 1957. He studied at Bath Academy of Art in the mid-1970s and went on to work as a graphic designer. In the last decade of his life, Steven returned to drawing and painting, working carefully in his home studio to create detailed and deeply observed landscape and studies of the natural world. Among one of the most popular is his painting of a winter storm arriving in Porthgain from the west. After a fishing trip with a friend, he entered what his wife affectionately called his “fish period”, producing a small but beautiful collection of studies of mackerel and lobster. Although this body of work is modest in scale, the popularity of reproductions of Steven’s art has shown just how it resonates with people.

Steve’s wife Pippa sent beautiful and evocative descriptions to accompany each of Steve’s works (which you can read on his page):

“Steve’s pictures often began with close observation: a walk, a fishing trip, a creature seen in the garden, or a photograph taken before the moment disappeared. He also relished a technical challenge. These notes give a little of the story behind each work, including what caught his eye and what he was trying to capture"


Paul Sartori Foundation

We are very fortunate to have two renowned artists living in Solva, one who brings us startling colourful artworks inspi...
30/08/2026

We are very fortunate to have two renowned artists living in Solva, one who brings us startling colourful artworks inspired from his earlier life in Cuba! Raul Speek adds an extra dimension to Solva life and shares all his talents willingly this includes music and dance! He is very well connected in the art world and his tropical colours add life to our Welsh land and culture-scape. Raul's wife, Heather Bennett, is a highly regarded artist with her camera and has produced a number of lovely books with Raul. Heather has a wonderful eye for colours and compositions which together with her technical skills produces fantastic photographs. They are a great partnership and do a lot for the artist and general community around us here. We are so glad to be able to include them in our book 'Natural Light' and help them with printing their art.

The best way to see Raul and Heather's works is to visit their fabulous gallery in Lower Solva but an easy way is also to buy our book 'Natural Light' which features their favoured works.

https://rookwoodstudios.com/product/natural-light/

Raul and Heather are also showing work with the Fishguard Art Society at their summer exhibition until 9 September at Tregwynt Manor near Fishguard; and Raul has a wonderful show on at the Riverside Gallery in Haverford West until 10 September and at Stackpole until 1 September. Look out for Raul at Oriel y Parc in November and opportunities to paint colourful symbolic fish with him!

So lots of great ways to see and enjoy their work!

Visitors and art fans, late summer may not always be good beach weather but it is a great time for visiting galleries (1...
28/08/2026

Visitors and art fans, late summer may not always be good beach weather but it is a great time for visiting galleries (15 August to 5/6 September)! Some of our artists and friends are participating in this year's North Pembs Open Studios: Philippa Mitchell in Hook, Sarah Jane Brown at Brawdy, Mandy Fish and Nicola Schoenenberger in St Davids, Maggie Brown near Letterston, and many others. Look out for their flags and pop in! Fishguard Art Society have their summer exhibition over the same period at Tregwynt Manor. Raul Speek has a show on at Riverside VC Gallery in Haverfordwest 'My Pilgrimage from Cuba to London and Pembrokeshire'..

For July, lovely new works for the database by Philippa Mitchell and a stunning Still Life by Sara Crisp sent to me by J...
31/07/2026

For July, lovely new works for the database by Philippa Mitchell and a stunning Still Life by Sara Crisp sent to me by Jam..
Find all as prints on our Discover page...
https://rookwoodstudios.com

new sign up for the summer..
21/07/2026

new sign up for the summer..

We have been very busy behind the scenes at Rookwood and are very pleased to announce this beautiful new book we have ju...
21/07/2026

We have been very busy behind the scenes at Rookwood and are very pleased to announce this beautiful new book we have just published through Ingram Sparc. It is an art book condensing all our favourite works available as prints by our artists at Rookwood Art and Print. And we have some distinguished new artists joining us this summer who we will introduce over the coming days..

We are making the book available at cost only £8 as it is a great way for art fans to find their favourite artworks. To have our best artworks collected in print is a thing of beauty in itself to anyone interested in the natural and cultural heritage of West Wales. You will find dedicated QR codes on each artists page in the book to lead you to their dedicated webpage to explore their other artworks and place orders for prints. You can read more and order the book at this link: https://rookwoodstudios.com/product/natural-light/

Or, please pop in at the gallery to see us and collect a copy.

At the same time we needed to revamp our website and we have a fab new discovery page developed with new software from Artwork Archive - https://rookwoodstudios.com
Artwork Archive are a software development company dedicated to showing and managing artworks for artists and galleries around the globe. So they have provided us with a wonderful immersive and responsive interface for viewing and inquiring about artworks.

Hoping you get a chance to visit the gallery or website this summer to see what is going on..

Pembrokeshire does seem to be a magnet for many artists and most refer to the quality of light here as being a major fac...
29/04/2026

Pembrokeshire does seem to be a magnet for many artists and most refer to the quality of light here as being a major factor in this. There does seem to be more light bouncing around off the sea and the sky. The beautiful sunsets are renowned.

I was aware of some wonderful art emanating from Pembrokeshire and as children we were admirers of the landscape paintings that Mum and Dad acquired over the years in our home in Cardiff, many of these being by Donald McIntyre who stayed at Llanunwas while working on field trips.

But there was one little print that caught my eye and, learning about art, this work struck me as something special. It was a scene from Morfa Common looking West towards Ramsey. It was not treated in any usual way, the colours were not those we would normally see here but it worked, it totally captured the wild magic of the Pembrokeshire coast and its mood.

Over the years I have seen more works by Peter Daniels and become a total fan. Peter clearly understood the importance of tone. I think he is one of the best at capturing light especially that rich evening or morning light. And once you get these values right you can play with the colours. Peter’s colour use is fabulous, and his experimenting with paint and surface, painting tools (anything to hand apparently) and print technologies provides works that are fascinating.

After a successful career in advertising and printing, Peter relocated to Pembrokeshire in the 1980s with his family and they settled in Nine Wells where he opened the Pink House Gallery.

I was very sad not to meet him personally but it is a great pleasure for me to know his family now and help them with print reproductions of his work. His daughter Rhiannon who lives in Solva has done an amazing job collating digital images of his works which we are now able to work from.

I find it particularly interesting to see works of landscapes and features close to our home at Llanunwas which Peter studied so intensely too. I got the impression he looked so hard! In his words:

‘There’s always something I’m trying to see that I can’t capture – it’s a constant journey, like chasing the Holy Grail – like Blake’s universe in a grain of sand

and from a write-up in the Western Telegraph:

‘The intensity of Peters work lets the landscape speak for itself. He does not look for what is pretty…but produces shapes, forms and colours of immense power…Constant in every picture is the sense of magic and timelessness of land that has remained the same for thousands of years’

Since working for the Forte restaurant chain Peter clearly enjoyed working on very large works and became internationally known for the power of his shapes, forms and colours. This culminated in a commission in 1994 to cover 1600 square feet of wall space in Wyastone Concert Hall for Nimbus Records, a sound recording studio in Monmouthshire. Apparently Peter was greatly inspired to create the visuals to help the audience listen.

He was not able to complete the massive paintings as intended, Peter was diagnosed with inoperable spinal cancer which prevented him from painting as he wished. In his enterprising way Peter, unthwarted, turned to the technology of printing to enlarge the paintings that he could still manage. His devoted wife Elizabeth and a printer friend of theirs, together with the Trustees of Nimbus Records completed the full commission for Peter whom we lost in 1998. The magnificent paintings were unveiled during a celebratory concert with the English Symphony Orchestra in May 2003. This amazing story is told in a moving interview with Elizabeth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CAqiFU2C64

if you love colour you are going to love thesethree new stunning paintings by our St Davids artist, Grahame Hurd-Woodsho...
10/04/2026

if you love colour you are going to love these
three new stunning paintings by our St Davids artist, Grahame Hurd-Wood
showing two favourite beach views and a lovely homestead garden in Portugal
We are printing the larger beach view paintings on a new paper Hahnemuhle Photorag Bright White 310gsm
which does justice to the fantastic colours..

Barry Woodman has a knack for finding some of the most picturesque parts of Pembrokeshire and portraying these with his ...
08/04/2026

Barry Woodman has a knack for finding some of the most picturesque parts of Pembrokeshire and portraying these with his accomplished watercolours.. all available as high quality prints from us

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Rookwood Studios, Llanunwas, Solva
Haverfordwest
SA626UJ

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Monday 1pm - 5pm
Tuesday 1pm - 5pm
Wednesday 1pm - 5pm
Thursday 1pm - 5pm
Friday 1pm - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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