- Venue
- Wingfield Barns
- Starts
- Tuesday, September 13, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, October 2, 2011
- Address
- Wingfield Barns Wingfield, Eye Suffolk IP21 5RA
- Location
- East England
A fascinating show from a recently formed group of former students of the Royal Academy Schools. The wide range of work – from traditional to contemporary abstract – reflects a group of artists who trained across a time span of 50 years. The strong printmaking traditions of the schools are reflected in the finely detailed work of MJ Mott, Paul Hawdon, Ivy Smith and Rory McShane and the discipline of academic drawing and observation in the works of Linda Adcock, Michael Checketts, Kay Edwards and the renowned bird painter David Ord Kerr. There is a response to the coastal and marsh environments in the work of Stephen Reeves, Chris Glanville, William Garfit, in the mystical figures in landscape of Julia Heseltine and Jerry White and in the recycled constructions of Tony Laws. There are the influences of 60’s pop culture in the work of multimedia artist and writer Zacron, Doug Kemp and Ron Sims and landscape photorealism in the paintings of Rosemary Elliott and Mark Bennett. More abstract responses to the environment are explored by Claudia Boese, Robin Warnes and Lucy Bell. Finally Mary Millar Watt, who studied at the Schools in 1947 (when it opened again after the war) shows watercolour portraits, still productive after a life long career as a professional portrait painter.
