03/10/2026
The Autumn Gathering
Studio Cennen’s second exhibition at The Mansion, Aberglasney Gardens
28th October – 6th November
Open daily from 10am
Open Evening — Saturday 31st October, 5–8pm
With Coaltown Coffee serving delicious warming drinks, and free entry to the gardens.
We return for a second show at the mansion at Aberglasney at an auspicious time, at the twilight of the year when the harvest of the land, allotments and kitchen gardens have mostly been gathered in. The organic Walled Kitchen Garden here led by Hattie Kerrs has been ablaze with the rich colours of Autumn flowers and produce, with the Crab Apple arch dripping with colourful gourds and the rich burgundy w**e tones of Amaranth setting off the eye popping yellow of the Sunflowers. The sunny, warm days of this season contrast with the slight chill of the evenings.
And this is where we straddle the light and dark, the day and night - the Celts had two seasons - Beltain /Summer and Samhain / Winter - but this is the blurring time, the nuanced time of the evening before we dip into full darkness, the liminal space where later societies believed the veil between the real world and the spirit world was at its thinnest…when some cultures would lay an extra space at the table for their lost loved ones and others would light large fires to deter the evils spirits away.
