Galleries - May 2012

MAPS 7 ENGLAND MIDLANDS 19. GALLERIES MAY 12 SHROPSHIRE a TWENTY TWENTY GALLERY 3-4 High Street, Much Wenlock, Shropshire TF13 6AA Contemporary Art and Craft. Angela Harding: New paintings and prints. May 5–26. Plus Stephanie Cunningham, Sarah Perry, Eleanor Bolton, Michelle Oh and many more. Mon–Sat 10–5 info@twenty-twenty.co.uk www.twenty-twenty.co.uk t 01952 727952 a WENLOCK FINE ART 3 The Square, Much Wenlock, Shropshire TF13 6LX Late Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Paintings. Wed–Sat 10–5 or by appt t 01952 728232 WARWICKSHIRE b COMPTON VERNEY Warwickshire, CV35 9HZ Into the Light: French and British Painting from A A 3 6 1 A 3 8 A 4 6 A 3 4 A 4 9 A 4 4 2 A 4 1 0 3 A 4 7 A 4 1 A38 A516 M 5 M 6 M M 4 0 M 1 0 M54 M42 M6 Shropshire Herefordshire dshire Staffor Warwickshire Wor stershire ce SHIPSTON ON STOUR BANBURY LEAMINGTON SPA DAVENTRY WARWICK HENLEY IN ARDEN BROADWAY WINCHCOMBE HEREFORD BISHOPS FROME LEOMINSTER LUDLOW MUCH WENLOCK BRIDGNORTH WOLVERHAMPTON KIDDERMINSTER WALSALL WORCESTER TEWKESBURY WHITCHURCH SHREWSBURY BURTON UPON TRENT TELFORD ORD KINGSWINFORD HOCKLEY NORTH CLAINES STOURBRIDGE LOU CASTLE DONINGTON KINETON BIRMINGHAM COVENTRY DERBY a e d c b Impressionism to the early 1920s. Mar 31–June 10. Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations. Mar 31–Jun 10. www.comptonverney.org.uk t 01926 645500 c THE GALLERY UPSTAIRS, TORQUIL 81 High Street, Henley-in-Arden, Warks B95 5AT ‘An English Summer’. May 29–Jun 23. *ad A group exhibition of work by over forty artists in the gallery and gardens: paintings, ceramics and sculpture. Tue–Sat 10–5.30, Sun & BHols 11–4 www.thegalleryupstairstorquil.co.uk t 01564 792174 d LEAMINGTON SPA ART GALLERY & MUSEUM The Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Leamington Spa CV32 4AA New Art for a New Age: Optimism in Post-War British Abstraction. May 3–Jul 1. Curated by History of Art students from the University of Warwick. Abstract painting and sculpture from around 1960, by artists from London and St Ives including Flanagan, Frost, Hepworth, Heron, Paolozzi, Riley and others. 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/royalpumprooms t 01926 742700 WORCESTERSHIRE e GREENSTAGE GALLERY Hop Pocket, Bishops Frome, Worcester WR6 5BT Contemporary paintings and sculpture in a welcoming Gallery showing a diverse range of original and affordable work. *own art Chris Howells, Rob Ritchie, April Young and Steve Johnston. May 12–Jun 17. Exhibiting at The Affordable Art Fair , Bristol, May 18–20, Stand E1. Tue–Sat 10.30–5.30, Sun 11–5 & BHols info@greenstagegallery.co.uk www.greenstagegallery.co.uk t 01885 490839 Jo March ‘Great Fursnewth’ Walking the network of remote off-road tracks that criss-cross the steep, rolling fields and pastures around her home in north-east Cornwall over the last 30 years, Jo March has built up a deep internal memory-bank of feeling and association. When they are further fed through the filter of her literary heroes – Clare, Thomas, Jeffreys and de la Mare among others – they make for a rich and subtle imaginative visual language. At first sight almost bucolic and nostalgic in feeling, a closer look reveals a landscape immortalised by the imagination, a sacred place that change and destruction can never alter. They are, moreover, intensely human landscapes in the way that they trace and record the evidence of human lives and usage – “the forgotten marks of former generations become poignant and compelling points of reference and threads in my paintings” as she puts it. A real original at work here. ( Clerkenwell Fine Art, Map 24) Nicholas Usherwood THUMB nails