It is heartening to hear that some galleries are hoping to open their doors again soon, and Nicola Slattery has informed me that the Fosse Gallery in Stow-on-the-Wold have announced that they hope to be re-opening in June. Nicola has a couple of her paintings in their mixed show opening July 5th – 29th August, which is called:
‘The Jewel in the Town – the Ruby Years, the Fosse Gallery at 40!’The exhibition also includes work by Richard Sorrell
Nicola will have her own exhibition in that gallery called “Stories Without Words” opening in October:
RBA members Melissa Scott-Miller, Peter Brown and Tom Coates, who are also members of the Royal Portrait Society [RP], have some works in the RP online exhibition at the Mall Galleries:
The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours [RI] also have their online exhibition at the Mall, and it includes works by RBA members Chris Myers and Peter Weaver, who are both also members of the RI:
Many of our RBA artists have their work in the Mall Galleries’ online …
Figurative Art Fair
https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/figurative-art-fair
Other RBA artists included in the Figurative Art Fair are:
David Brammeld, Peter Brown, Cheryl Culver, Fred Cuming, James Horton, Henry Jabbour, Jill Leman, Martin Leman, Chris Myers, David Sawyer, Melissa Scott-Miller, Richard Sorrell, Sarah Spackman, Jacqueline Taber, and Robert E Wells
Jacqueline Taber informs us that The Geedon Gallery in Colchester, Essex CO5 7DN will be open from 15th June – 1st September, showing works from the Small Paintings Group. They include works by RBA artists:
Anne Heat, Christopher Miers, Cinzia Bonada, Joyce Cairns, Judith Gardner, Ken Howard, Peter Kelly, William Packer, Barbara Richardson, Jacqueline Rizvi, Richard Sorrell and Nick Tidnam
RBA’s first ‘Virtual Exhibition’ – “As they were and will be again” is still on the Royal Over-Seas League’s website:
http://www.rosl.org.uk/rbaonline
and also on the RBA website:
https://old.royalsocietyofbritishartists.org.uk/rosl-at-home-with-the-rba/
Featured artists include Richard P Cook, Callum Stannard, Sarah Spackman, David Sprakes, Mick Davies, Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, David Sawyer, Nicola Slattery, Annie Boisseau, Steven Outram, Anthony Yates, Melissa Scott-Miller, Guy Portelli, Carole Griffin, and Henry Jabbour
Members Terry Watts and Cheryl Culver have work in the ‘The Landscape Collection at M1 Fine Art. https://m1fineart.com/exhibitions/32-the-landscape-collection-a-virtual-art-exhibition-bringing-the-great-outdoors-to-you/works/
THE LANDSCAPE COLLECTION | A VIRTUAL ART EXHIBITION
BRINGING THE GREAT OUTDOORS TO YOU
3 – 15 JUNE 2020
Cheryl Culver has six pastel paintings in a pastel exhibition at The Gallery Holt called ‘Drawing from the Heart’
An exhibition held from the 7 August to 15 September 2020 at The Gallery, Holt.
We are always delighted to report news from our past “RISING STARS” and we are pleased to see these works in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ online show:
Owain has been especially featured and interviewed in the Cass Art blog, “Art in Isolation”. The full article can be found here:
https://www.cassart.co.uk/blog/art-in-isolation-owain-hunt.htm?sc_src=email_7429758&sc_lid=353170384&sc_uid=hOx4jBBEkZ&sc_llid=41022&sc_eh=346a333a62ea56b71&utm_
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Habib Hajallie has shown his works with the RBA and has now had three of his works selected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours online show:
And Alex J Wood has once again written to inform us of some exciting news: He tells us that he has received an Arts Council Grant. His latest bronze sculpture “Scylla and Charybdis” develops an ongoing series of his works drawing inspiration from Greek myths and during the lockdown he has also been working on a film for a film festival. His work “The Kraken!” is included in the online RI exhibition at the Mall Galleries:
