Exhibition opens at 14:00 on the 12.10.25 | Continues until 24.12.25
Plas Glyn y Weddw is delighted to present, ‘The Space Between…’, a major exhibition of new work by Deanne Doddington Mizen. Building on research that began six years ago with her solo show Five Miles from Home this exhibition represents a significant evolution in her practice.
In Five Miles from Home, the artist worked with natural pigments hand-foraged and processed from the land within walking distance of her home in Bethesda. With The Space Between… she moves beyond painting into scent, sound, touch and sculpture, creating an immersive, sensorial experience that invites conversation about the power of the unseen.
The exhibition explores the journey between extremes: right and wrong, belonging and loss, grief and joy. Life is often lived in this liminal ground - hazy and indistinct, yet full of possibility. It is in these spaces of compromise and contradiction that change, progress and renewal most often take root.
At the heart of Doddington Mizen’s practice is an exploration of time, place and our fragile relationship with the natural world. She contrasts ‘human time’ with the slow endurance of stone, the rhythms of insects, or the growth of trees, asking: what does belonging and ownership mean when viewed across decades or millennia? Her work also reflects on the complexity of human nature - our contradictions, our destructive tendencies and yet, our capacity for tenderness, resilience and reinvention.
The north Wales landscape where she lives embodies this duality. It appears wild and untouched, with forests, rivers and mountains, yet it is also deeply industrial - shaped and scarred by centuries of farming, forestry and quarrying. Doddington Mizen responds to this layered history through the use of natural materials such as wool, slate waste and pine resin, by-products of these industries. Often considered low-value or discarded, here these materials lead the artwork, carrying the weight of the land’s story while opening new creative possibilities.
Working with locally sourced, natural materials has demanded a slower creation process, one attuned to the rhythms of the seasons. This deliberate pace allows space to reflect on permanence, value and the essence of art itself: is it held in intention, in the path we take, or in the work that remains?
Deanne Doddington Mizen is an award-winning figurative sculptor and painter based in Bethesda, north Wales. Since completing her Fine Art degree in 2006, Deanne has worked as a professional artist for over eighteen years. Her work is held in private collections across the UK and internationally, and she exhibits both nationally and abroad.
Further details:
- Deanne Doddington Mizen received a Create Award from Arts Council of Wales
- Supported by Bangor Bio-Composites and Welsh Slate
- Artist public talk and workshop, 11am-3pm, Saturday 8 November. Other events and presentations throughout the exhibition. For further information go to www.oriel.org.uk