ARTS AND ANTIQUES
AROUND THE GALLERIES
FOUR SHIRES ART AND MUSEUMS
NAINI ART EXHIBITION Three Hares Gallery, Cowper and Newton Museum, Market Place, Olney MK46 4AJ, until 26th July, Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10.30am-4.30pm (above)
the past two centuries, from theatres and cinemas to concerts and dances.
NEW HORIZONS Sarah Wiseman Gallery, South Parade, Summertown OX2 7JL, until 27th July (above) In an exhibition of contemporary landscape, artists explore rugged and mist shrouded hillsides, far flung expanses of wilderness, and gentler pastures found closer to home. Each of these contemporary painters is drawn to the landscape in differing ways, exploring light, texture and atmosphere through paint and gestural mark making. Much of the work is about the artists’ emotional response to a particular location, rather than painting a likeness, allowing the viewer room to imagine and explore. ‘The gallery is located in Oxford, a city famously surrounded by rolling countryside, as well as having large expanses of green within the city itself, so living with nature and landscape is very much part of local life’ explains gallery director Sarah Wiseman. ‘We wanted this exhibition to reflect this, but also focus on contemporary artistic responses to landscape.’ Artists included within this exhibition are James Fotheringhame, Peter Kettle, Elaine Jones, Jane Skingley and Zoë Taylor. www.wisegal.com
DISCOVER DAHL’S ARCHIVES The Roald Dahl Museum, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, 13th July, 12pm, 2pm and 3pm (above) This is your chance to peek inside the archives! Take a close up look at Roald Dahl’s letters and manuscripts, find out some secrets about your favourite Roald Dahl books, and get the chance to ask all your burning Roald Dahl questions to the experts! www.roalddahl.com
AN ENTERTAINMENT
Objects on display include beautiful ballgowns from the 1800s to the 1950s, Victorian playbills and film of the 24 hour jive marathon of 1960. This will also be the first chance to see the museum’s newly acquired Arbiter Elegantiarum medal, an enamelled badge of office worn by Leamington’s answer to Beau Nash. Visitors can find out about the town’s historic venues and how they evolved over time, as ballrooms were transformed into music halls and theatres became cinemas.
Painting has always been a passion for Naini, as she embarks on her journey of capturing the essence of life through everything she paints. What began with traditional brushes evolved into her utilizing only her bare hands, and since then the occasional palette knife, water colours, charcoal, pen and ink, ink wash, and pastels. “Painting takes me to a space of unspeakable serenity,” says Naini. “The more I painted with my bare hands, the more it just felt…right. I hope my guests will adore my work as much as I adored creating it.” www.cowperandnewton museum.org.uk
There are plenty of activities in the gallery to keep young visitors busy during the school holidays. These include the chance to create a puppet and tell your own stories in our toy theatre.
Leamington Art Gallery and Museum, Royal Leamington Spa, Until 8th September (right) This family friendly exhibition showcases the many entertainments on offer over the past two centuries, from theatres and cinemas to concerts and dances. Since the town’s development as a Regency spa resort, Leamington has enjoyed a lively nightlife. This exhibition showcases the many entertainments on offer over
DEBORAH HOPSONWOLPE: POTS AND PRINTS Bucks County Museum, Aylesbury, 13th July – 14th September (above) Deborah Hopson-Wolpe has been involved with art and artists for all of her life. She grew up in a creative household in South Kensington with her
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