Martin Tinney

Established in 1989, Martin Tinney is a private commercial art gallery in a central Cardiff townhouse location. They have gained themselves a good reputation for showing some of the best known Welsh and Wales-​based artists across their three floors of exhibition space.
Artists who have been exhibited in the space include Harry Holland, Sally Moore, Gwilym Prichard, Shani Rhys James, Kevin Sinnott, Evelyn Williams, Gwen John, Augustus John, Ceri Richards, David Jones, Sir Cedric Morris, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Josef Herman, Peter Prendergast and Sir Kyffin Williams. The emphasis is on quality portraiture and landscape by leading names, and, as a commercial gallery you will not see the innovation of the newer artist-​led gallery spaces such as TactileBosch, G39 and Swansea’s Elysium Gallery. Less exciting, in my eyes then, certainly, but still worth a regular visit.
There are monthly solo exhibitions in the main gallery, and a constantly changing exhibition of paintings, prints and sculpture on the other two gallery floors. The gallery also have an archive of work in their store, which may be viewed on request.
Bonus Points? An Arts Council of Wales interest-​free credit scheme is available for purchase of work by living artists.

This is one of Wales’s leading private, commercial art galleries, housed in a 19^th century extended townhouse and specialising mainly in showcasing well known Welsh artists or Wales-​based artists, both past and contemporary.
The exhibition space is split across three levels, with a purpose built extension, and holds monthly solo exhibition in the Main Gallery alongside a changing temporary exhibition of art work across the remaining two floors — incorporating paintings, sculptures and prints.
The gallery is currently holding its Summer Exhibition, then from 12 August there’s an exhibition of new paintings by Sigrid Muller, running until 4 September. The website offers full details of what’s coming up, but generally you can expect to see works by highly respected and well-​established Welsh artists such as Gwilym Prichard, Shani Rhys James and Kevin Sinnott, as well as some of the best works by the younger generation of Wales’s artists. Alongside these contemporary works, the gallery features work by past, 20^th century leading Welsh artists such as Sir Cedric Morris, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Gwen John, Augustus John, Ceri Richards, David Jones, Josef Herman, Peter Prendergast and Sir Kyffin Williams.
It’s a lovely, light exhibition space, and well worth a regular visit if you love discovering art both old and new.