Art Exhibition at Theatr Gwaun – Exhibition runs 20th May to 30th June 2025

HEATHER BENNETT
www.heatherbennett.co.uk
The Old Chapel, Main Street
Solva, SA6Z 6UU

EXHIBITIONS and BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Born in Southed and educated in Middlesex and Cambridge Heather has followed a wandering and satisfying career path but has always spent time with her photography and writing. She started photography with her father at the age of 11 and has never forgotten that first precious magic of an image appearing through the drifting chemicals of the darkroom. Pursuing a dual career in photography and psychotherapy she finds they balance one another well. Heather has exhibited widely and is currently involved in creating two exhibitions -‘Pembrokeshire Promise’ and Hiraeth for 2025/ She has travelled extensively with husband Raul Speek: images from this form a major body of work and is the subject of one of her books Travels with my Camera’ which followed her first book ‘Pembrokeshire Promise’. She makes hand made books and is currently completing her novel ‘Chapel Cat’

Raul and Heather moved to Pembrokeshire in 1995: it is home to both of them physically and in their hearts. Heather often wrote for Pembrokeshire Life, which sadly no longer exists, because she wanted people from outside the county to come to love it as she does. .She likes to write regularly for the Society Magazine.believing it to be important in building an art community here.

1995/2023 – Owns and runs Raul Speek Gallery and Lavender Café in Solva, Pembrokeshire
2025 – May Theatr Gwaun ‘Pembrokeshire Promise’
– October Oriel v Parc ‘Hiraeth ‘
2024 – Shadow Self III Oriel y Parc with Philip Clarke
– Oriel y Parc, St Davids with FAS 19 April to 2nd June
-Tregwynt Mansion, Castle Morris Summer Show 3rd to 27 August (awarded join
– first prize for image ‘Reflections’
2023 – FAS Exhibition Picton Castle April/May
– FAS Exhibition Tregwynt Mansion August
– St David’s Cathedral, Rectory Gallery September Retrospective
– Writing/designing book with Philip Clarke ‘Shadow Self’
– Completing book ‘A Cuban Diary’ amalgamation of three trips to Cuba
2022 – FAS Summer Show Tregwynt Mansion
– Shadow Self: A Duality of Being with Philip Clarke Oriel y Parc
– Picton Castle mixed exhibition with FAS