Galleries - August 2018

16 GALLERIES AUGUST 2018 A 4 2 A 3 6 1 A 4 6 A 3 8 A 4 6 A 3 4 A 4 9 A 4 4 2 A4 65 A 4 1 0 3 A 4 7 A 4 1 A38 A516 M 5 M 6 M 4 0 M 5 0 M54 M42 M6 Shropshire Herefordshire Wor stershire ce Warwic dshire St ffa or SHIPSTON ON STOUR BANBURY LEAMINGTON SPA DA WARWICK HENLEY IN ARDEN BROADWAY WINCHCOMBE HEREFORD BISHOPS FROME LEOMINSTER LUDLOW MUCH WENLOCK BRIDGNORTH WOLVERHAMPTON KIDDERMINSTER WALSALL WORCESTER TEWKESBURY SHREWSBURY BURTON UPON TRE TELFORD KINGSWINFORD ASTON NORTH CLAINES STOURBRIDGE CASTLE DONINGTON KINETON LICHFIELD OSWESTRY WELSHPOOL BIRMINGHAM COVENTRY DERBY LEICE S d a b c b MAP 7 ENGLAND MIDLANDS HEREFORDSHIRE a OLD CHAPEL GALLERY East Street, Pembridge, Herefords HR6 9HB An eclectic collection of the best of British fine art and craft. daily 11–5, Sun 11–4, Tue by appt t 01544 388842 oldchapelgallery@googlemail.com t @chapelgallery f OldChapelGallery www.oldchapelgallery.co.uk SHROPSHIRE b TWENTY TWENTY GALLERY 3-4High Street, Much Wenlock, Shrops TF13 6AA Gerald Dewsbury. Aug25–Sep 15. Tue–Sat 10–5 t 01952 727952 TWENTY TWENTY GALLERY 4Quality Square, Ludlow, Shrops SY8 1AR MalcomAshman, Andrew Lansley, Bridget Macdonald and James Campbell. Aug4–Sep 1. Tue–Sat 10.30–4.30 t 01584 875363 sales@twenty-twenty.co.uk I twentytwentygallery t @2020Gallery www.twenty-twenty.co.uk c WENLOCK FINE ART 3 The Square, Much Wenlock, Shrops TF13 6LX 20th and 21st Century British Paintings. Mon–Sat 10–5 or by appt t 01952 728232 www.wenlockfineart.co.uk WARWICKSHIRE d LEAMINGTON SPA ART GALLERY & MUSEUM The Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwicks CV32 4AA Are You In This? Leamington Spa in the Great War. Until Nov 11. An exhibition markingthe centenary of the end of the First World War. Tue–Sun 10–4, Mon clo except BHols t 01926 742700 prooms@warwickdc.gov.uk t @LeamSpaArtGall f Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms John Bellany’s dramatic life was inseparable from his art. Up until his liver transplant in 1988 he lived out the role of the Expressionist painter to the full. A new exhibition ‘The Wild Days’ at O pen Eye Gallery focuses on the final stage of this highly personal saga, which nearly brought about total self- annihilation. Bellany’s ‘wild days’ paintings of the 1980s were at the time regarded as the demented outpourings of a chronic alcoholic. Now however, we can be more objective, and see that Bellany’s painting of that decade was a logical and inevitable development of all that preceded it. Whereas symbolism predominated in the earlier work, the painter, in Calvinistic iconoclastic fury, set out to destroy pictorial imagery and allow the true and authentic spirit of painting to express itself through raw colour and violent gesture. Bill Hare THUMB nail John Bellany ‘Only An Emu Passing By’ Jennifer McRae ‘Male Plumage’ Thackeray Gallery (see listing on map 17)