Visit to Walkers Gallery Liverpool
This was my first visit to The Walkers Art Gallery and what a treat it was! This gallery houses one of the most important and renowned painting collections in the UK and is the largest outside London. The collection includes European Renaissance paintings, masterpieces by Rubens, Rembrandt, Turner and Stubbs, Pre-Raphaelite artworks by Rossetti and Millais, Impressionist works by Monet and Degas and contemporary works by Hockney and Wylie.
Sheila Fell: Cumberland on Canvas
Sheila Fell RA FRSA (1931 – 1979) was one of Cumbria’s and, indeed, the 20th century’s most significant artists. Championed by Lowry, her expressionist landscapes showed her native Cumberland beyond the pastoral and picturesque. Though she lived her adult life in London, it was her birthplace that served as inspiration throughout her career.
Sheila Fell: Cumberland on Canvas will be the first major retrospective of Fell’s work in over thirty years. This exhibition brings together 100 works from private and public collections across the country from the likes of Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy, and those much closer to home, Abbot Hall and The Nelson Thomlinson School. It has been curated by Eleanor and Andrew Bradley, who have compiled a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of Fell’s work, set to be published in spring 2025
A Horizon full of Art
As a result, fellow artist and GNW management team member Annie Stride and Stuart Fraser organised a jolly Gallery Northwest day out to the Manchester Art Fair in November 2024.
After a refreshingly pain free train journey from Carlisle, and a short walk from Oxford Road station we arrived at the magnificent venue at Manchester Central. First impression was wow, this is a very big arts fair! and a feast for the eyes of any lover of the Arts. With around 1000 stalls and booths and over 500 artists and galleries represented we really were confronted by a “horizon stuffed full of art across all genres”
In Praise of Cornish
Norman is without a doubt the most well know mining artist of the 20th century. For over 50 years his gritty, amusing and documentary images depicting the tough working life of miners and their families. The careful observations of day to day events in and around his Spennymoor home have fascinated his viewers, myself included.
Finding those little gems
It all begins with an idea.Hi, Stuart Fraser here, one of GNW directors. I nipped across to the Laing Gallery in Newcastle yesterday to visit the Turner Exhibition on display until September 7th.
Turner is one of my big influencers and an artist I have studied in some depth both professionally with a painting school and on my own. Great exhibition, well worth seeing the Fighting Temeraire and about 20 other of the great mans work in the flesh.