Galleries - June 2011

DERBYSHIRE a TREGONING CONTEMPORARY Friar Gate Studios, Ford Street, Derby DE1 1EE Midlands’ premier contemporary gallery. Painting and sculpture from nationally and internationally acclaimed artists including Macara, Ibbeson, Preston, Hedderly, Louise Plant and Jon Braley. *own art By appt only info@tregoningfineart.com www.tregoningfineart.com t 01332 258353 LEICESTERSHIRE b LEICESTER SOCIETY OF ARTISTS New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester LE1 7EA LSA 126th Annual Exhibition. May 21–Jul 3. Supported by Brewin Dolphin. Over 170 paintings, sculptures, prints, mixed media by members of Leicester Society of Artists. Mon–Sat 10–4, Sun 11–5 www.leicestersocietyofartists.com t 0116 225 4900 17. GALLERIES JUNE 11 3 6 1 A 3 8 A 4 6 A 3 4 A 4 9 A 4 4 2 5 A 4 1 0 3 A 4 2 2 A 6 A 4 A 4 7 A 4 1 A38 A516 M 5 M 6 M 4 5 M 4 0 M 1 M 1 M54 M42 M6 SHIPSTON ON STOUR BANBURY TOWCESTER LEAMINGTON SPA DAVENTRY NORTHAMPTON WARWICK HENLEY IN ARDEN KETTERING MARKET HARBOROUGH BROADWAY WINCHCOMBE HEREFORD BISHOPS FROME LEOMINSTER NY LUDLOW MUCH WENLOCK BRIDGNORTH WOLVERHAMPTON KIDDERMINSTER WALSALL MILT KEYNES WORCESTER TEWKESBURY WHITCHURCH SHREWSBURY BURTON UPON TRENT TELFORD WALFORD KINGSWINFORD HOCKLEY NORTH CLAINES STOURBRIDGE LOUGHBOROUGH BIRMINGHAM COVENTRY DERBY LEICESTER a e g d f c b MAP 7 ENGLAND MIDLANDS SHROPSHIRE c TWENTY TWENTY GALLERY 3-4 HighStreet, MuchWenlock Shropshire TF13 6AA Betsy Smith: New Paintings. Jun 4–25. Mon–Sat 10–5 info@twenty-twenty.co.uk www.twenty-twenty.co.uk t 01952 727952 c WENLOCK FINE ART 3 The Square, Much Wenlock Shropshire TF13 6LX Late 19th, 20th and 21st Century British Paintings. Wed–Sat 10–5 or appt t 01952 728232 WARWICKSHIRE d COMPTON VERNEY Warwickshire, CV35 9HZ Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson. Mar 26–Jun 5. Wool work: a sailor’s art. Mar 26–Jun 5. What the folk say. Mar 26–Dec 11. Stanley Spencer and the English Garden. Jun 25–Oct 2. ‘Capability’ Brown and the landscapes of Middle England. Jun 25–Oct 2. www.comptonverney.org.uk t 01926 645500 e LEAMINGTON SPA ART GALLERY & MUSEUM The Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade Leamington Spa CV32 4AA OPEN 2011. Apr 21–Jun 12. Features West Midlands based artists. All works are for sale. Lord Leicester’s Warwickshire. Jun 25–Sep 18. This exhibition focuses on Robert Dudley (1532–1588), Earl of Leicester. Tue/Wed, Fri/Sat 10.30–5 Thur 1.30–8, Sun 11–4, Mon closed (except BHols), admn free prooms@warwickdc.gov.uk www.warwickdc.gov.uk/wdc/royal pumprooms t 01926 742700 WORCESTERSHIRE f BEVERE GALLERY Bevere Lane, Worcester, WR3 7RQ Featured maker in June – Kenneth Spooner, Pots and Paintings. Plus, constantly changing displays of studio ceramics and original artwork. Garden Sculpture Show open with work by 16 makers. Refreshments from Bevere Café. Tue–Sun 10.30–5 (closed Mon) enquiries@beveregallery.com www.beveregallery.com t 01905 754484 g GREENSTAGE GALLERY Hop Pocket Craft Centre, Bishops Frome, Worcester WR6 5BT Exhibiting a diverse mix of original quality contemporary work by emerging & established artists. Please ask about commissions or spreading payments over 10 months. *own art Alison Macgregor Grimley, Doug Eaton & Stella Hidden. Jun 18–Jul 17. Mon–Sat 10.30–5.30, Sun 11–5 info@greenstagegallery.co.uk www.greenstagegallery.co.uk t 01885 490839 Trained at the Royal College by Peter Blake and David Tindle in the early 70s, Mike Holcroft has been on an interesting artistic journey since then that would seem to have gone out via late Pop and Abstract Expressionism and a period in Pembrokeshire and come back, via a visual immersion in painting the observed truths of plants and flowers, to his Northern routes – running a gallery with his wife, the Water Street , in Todmorden. Dynamic, luminous, richly coloured meditations on natural history seen as, he puts it, with the inner eye. NU THUMB nails Mike Holcroft ‘Baby’s Breath’