A few shots from the opening of the Open, 2nd August 2019… running at Williamson Art Gallery until 15th September.
Wirral Society of Arts 9th Open
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Wirral Society of Arts – Open Exhibition
Williamson Art Gallery will host Wirral Society of Arts 9th Open Exhibition between 3rd August & 15th September 2019. Two pieces of mine will be involved here: ‘Fields at Brimstage’ and ‘The North Lodge Thornton Hough’.
Williamson Open Art 2018
If you are able to get along to the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead, you will be able to catch the annual Open Art & Photography Exhibition 2018. It’s a strong showing all round and I’m very pleased to be amongst the exhibitors this year with two pieces.
The exhibition is open Wednesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm and runs until 6th May. More details here: https://williamsonartgallery.org/portfolio/williamson-open-2018/
Cottages at Port Sunlight, Oil on Board, 2017
New projects, old boats…
It has been a great start to the New Year as I’m embarking on a new commission to create a piece of Wirral history.
Newspaper clipping advertising the Ferry between Liverpool and Eastham, 1816.
This year is the bicentenary of the first steamer that ran on the River Mersey between Liverpool and Eastham on Wirral, The Princess Charlotte. Sketches and lithographs of the boat featured in 19th Century newspapers and literature but it has never been properly depicted in colour before. To create the painting I’ll be working off these old prints, along with sketches I made at Eastham in 2012 / 13. Having spent many hours absorbing the landscape and river, I’m really excited by the prospect of depicting a stretch of the Mersey coastline I really love!
The painting will go on display for the first time at the Wirral History & Heritage Fair at Birkenhead Town Hall on Saturday 12th March. Check back in a month to see the finished work, and if you can make it down on the 12th – see you there. Stuart
Bridge Cottage, Port Sunlight
Throughout August and early September I will be in residence and have work available for sale at Bridge Cottage in Port Sunlight. The cottage has been opened as part of a pilot project run by Port Sunlight Museum, and will be open at selected times throughout the week, with free entry.
The Cottage was formally home (for a brief period in the 1890s) to the founder of Port Sunlight, William Hesketh Lever, and as well as an architecturally beautiful house on the outside, it still retains some of its original sumptuousness inside. Hopefully an inspiring place to work… please see Port Sunlight Museum’s dedicated Facebook page for more details of opening times;
https://www.facebook.com/bridgecottagepilot
Bridge Cottage, Port Sunlight
Port Sunlight postcards!
The postcards on display, Port Sunlight Museum
Postcards of my Port Sunlight paintings are now available in the gift shop at Port Sunlight Museum! There are 10 to choose from, priced at a very reasonable 85p. Port Sunlight Museum is situated at the heart of Port Sunlight Village, a stones throw from the world famous Lady Lever Art Gallery.