To accompany the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, join photographer Helen Mugridge ARPS on a month long adventure in the South Atlantic. Her journey begins in Ushuaia in Southern Argentina and then covers South Georgia and finally the Antarctic Peninsula, and the stunning wildlife that she encountered along the way.
This talk will take place online via Zoom.
An inspiring selection of work by members of the Gloucestershire Society for Botanical Illustration. Some exhibitors have won The Royal Horticultural Society’s Gold, Silver Gilt and Silver Medals both in the Grenfell (for art pictures) and Lindley (for scientific illustration) categories. GSBI was awarded the Finnis Scott Foundation Botanical Art Award in 2020.
Join Director, Simon Trapnell as he introduces some of the new additions to the collection and fascinating loans that Nature in Art has acquired during the Pandemic. An inspiring selection embracing new and old, traditional and cutting edge, international and local and all, in their own way, telling us something, not just about the arts and the creators skill, but nature in all its diversity.
This talk will take place online via Zoom.
A retrospective exhibition of work by David Burnham Smith who died in 2019. His instantly recognisable ceramics display humour, beauty and creativity. Trained as a draughtsman, David turned to ceramic restoration and then, later, applied that attention to detail to his own work inspired by history, nature, spirituality and the rich heritage of the ceramic world.
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In the summer of 2021, the Cotswold National Landscape launched the Glorious Cotswold Grasslands (GCG) Art Competition, calling for artworks from young artists. This exhibition displays the inspiring artworks submitted.
The GCG is an ambitious long term project aiming to restore the largest network of flower-rich Jurassic limestone habitat in the UK! Over the last three years the project has collected and sown wildflower seeds across the Cotswolds, resulting in the restoration of more than 200 hectares of limestone grassland – double its original target. Every hectare restored helps to reverse the decline of this unique and precious habitat, and helps wildlife thrive.
The display features the creative responses of young artists, aged 11-19, to the GCG project. The artworks are inspiring depictions of meadow scenes, wildflowers and climate-aware messaging, in a range of styles and media.
Alongside the display of artworks by the young artists there will be further events and activities to take part in. The winners of the competition will also be participating in an exciting and exclusive workshop for them, with model maker and character designer Jim Parkyn creating an amazing wildflower scene!
When visiting, why not also check on progress of the wildflowers sown in our own nature garden with the help of Harvey Sherwood, GCG Project Officer.
Come and meet people associated with the project and plant some wildflower seeds in our garden on Saturday April 9th.
In celebration of The Queen’s Green Canopy project, Regeneration is a new exhibition to help promote tree planting: a vital strand of the environmental crisis recovery strategy. Trees are the lungs of the planet and this exhibition showcases a diverse range of approach, style media, and scale – and interpretation of this uplifting and positive subject.
Trees provide a wonderfully versatile subject for artists, not only in terms of the rich variety of form, texture and colour they provide, whether individually or collectively, but also through the wealth of association – myth, folklore, religious and symbolic significance, that they have come to embody over many centuries. In Britain, trees as a subject have inspired artists from Gainsborough and Constable through to the Pre-Raphaelites, the Neo-Romantics and the Ruralists. Piet Mondrian and Victor Pasmore used the tree as a device to turn abstract and Paul Nash famously stated that he loved and worshipped trees and believed they were people.
The Arborealists were founded in 2013 by artist and curator Tim Craven following the seminal exhibition Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree, staged at St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington, in the heart of the New Forest. The Arborealists are a loose association of some 50 professional artists of diverse art practice who share the subject of the tree. Although united by their subject, the artists employ a diverse range of working practices: scale, medium, philosophy, style and technique. The results are by turn dramatic and contemplative, expressive, abstracted, hyperreal and surreal and they demonstrate that trees still have a deep relevance in contemporary art and retain their power to move us as a vital element in our landscape
The group is far flung with members from Wales and the borders to East Anglia and London and every southern county from Kent to Cornwall. The group enjoys a national profile and have already staged 26 exhibitions to critical acclaim in the UK, France and Gibraltar with many more planned for the future, including site-specific projects. The Arborealists have forged successful partnerships with National Park Authorities, Areas of Outstanding National Beauty and The Woodland Trust and The National Trust.
Image: ‘Amongst the Trees, Bluebell Wood, Perivale’ by David Wiseman, acrylic on canvas.
Mini Craft Market in the Education Centre Atrium
Saturday 30th April & Sunday 1st May
10am – 5pm
Free entry to the market
Stallsholders:
- Jackie Cox (silk painting, stained glass pics, jewellery)
- Maz (nature artist)
- Hazel Locke (crochet items and quilling)
- Sue and Tony Chandler (wood work, pebble pictures)
- Irene Crawshaw (hand made bags, textiles)
Image: ‘Pink Orchids’ Silk Scarf by Jackie Cox
This illustrated talk will consider the origins of the British School of Art and how the tree became an important early motif and subject, much loved by Thomas Gainsborough. It will explore the tree’s deployment by the Romantic Movement of Turner and Constable of the early 19th century, the Pre-Raphaelite landscape painters and the pastoral etchers of the 1920s, the Neo-Romantics of World War 2 influenced by Picasso and the Modern Movement, and the Brotherhood of Ruralists of the 1970s who returned to romanticism in reaction against the excesses of Modernism. All employed the tree in different guises and for different ends including portraiture. It will close with the rollercoaster story of The Arborealists, founded in 2014, a loose association of some 50 artists of diverse art practice who share the rich and versatile subject of the tree.
Doors open 6.45pm to view Regeneration exhibition and meet some of the artists. 7.30pm finger buffet, followed by talk. Tickets £8
This talk will take place in person at Nature in Art, Wallsworth Hall.
Image: © Lesley Sight
The always highly anticipated annual selling exhibition of The Wildlife Art Society International. Over 350 works by members in a wide variety of styles and media. The Society provides an active focus for wildlife artists, painters, sculptors and photographers whether they are professional, amateur or leisure artists. See artists at work every day.
The Wildlife Art Society International (TWASI), whose exhibition is on show May 28th – June 5th, have chosen the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) as their beneficiary this year, a brave and influential charity at the cutting edge of conservation.
Nature in Art has also had a long association with EIA, most particularly with artist Gary Hodges who has supported EIA through his work for decades. February saw the dawning of another Year of the Tiger, so it is especially appropriate that we hear about EIA’s outstanding work investigating and campaigning for the protection of tigers and other big cats in the wild. In 2018, Debbie was presented with the Dr Rimington Award by HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, in recognition of her exceptional commitment to the conservation of wild tigers. www.eia-international.org
This talk will take place online via Zoom.
Image: Bengal tiger © Elliott Neep
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