Neville Palmer and Tom Thompson

Tom Thompson’s ceramic and wood sculptures, defined by light and touch, will stand in some contrast against Neville Palmer’s thousands of small coloured squares produced within the digital environment and under glass. Complementing the forthcoming exhibition at The Wisbech Gallery will be some of Tom’s work as a potter and from Neville some earlier paintings from a series with acrylics.

Tom Thompson

My work is influenced by the man made environment, social and cultural norms, diversity, gender, religion, politics and ethnicity. I like to play with shape, space and texture to create abstract and unusual human and industrial forms of substance. The industrial relates to my own past, indeed our own personal and societal past. It is a silent narrative of my journey from making my first thumb pot until now. 

Neville Palmer

The paintings and prints displayed in this exhibition are part of a larger body of my work with a square motif that now spans five decades. Having its origin in 1976, and with the greater portion of its early development taking place using oil pastels, its formation continued through a series of paintings with acrylics (from 1986 until 2008). A refinement of line and surface was one immediate outcome, and later, when my making process transferred to the digital environment, so these things took on a further clarification. There then transpired a multiplication of different sizes of squares and subsequently their individual shading, which brings us to the present time. 

Exhibition Launch: SATURDAY 16 May
Exhibition open Wed-Sat 10am-4pm
20th  May to  13th June 2026

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THE WISBECH GALLERY
10A-14 SOUTH BRINK
WISBECH
PE131JQ