The Arborealists at Twenty Twenty Gallery, Ludlow

The Arborealists TWENTY TWENTY GALLERY LUDLOW

Oaks at Whitcliffe Common oil on canvas 20” x 24” Michael Johnson

Front cover: Ancient Oak. Oil on canvas 36” x 48” Michael Johnson

The Arborealists FEATURED ARTISTS:

Sarah Harding, Tim Craven, Melissa Scott-Miller, Michael Johnson, Fiona McIntyre, Blaze Cyan, Simon Dorrell, Karen Bowers, Jo March and Celia de Serra

14 July to 28 July 2018

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4 Quality Square Ludlow SY8 1AR 01584 875363

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Blasted Tree, Harnhill oil on linen 80 x 90cm Fiona McIntyre

Ludlow Castle

casein on canvas 71 x 76cm Tim Craven

Croft Castle I

etching on zinc 25 x 20cm Blaze Cyan

Croft Castle II etching on zinc 25 x 20cm Blaze Cyan

An Alder in the Watermeadows, Letchmoor mixed media 10”x 7” Simon Dorrell

An Alder on the Riverbank, Hughes Field mixed media 10”x 7” Simon Dorrell

Fragmented Pink Hill watercolour on paper 164 x 41cm Karen Bowers

Geese at Upton acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm Jo March

The River

charcoal on paper 52 x 76cm Celia de Serra

Plane Trees in Bloomsbury oil on canvas 50 x 70cm Melissa Scott-Miller

Apple Blossom

Egg tempera on pigment coated paper 20.5 x 25cm Sarah Harding

THE ARBOREALISTS

The Arborealists were founded in 2013 by Tim Craven following the critically acclaimed exhibition, Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree, staged at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, in the heart of the New Forest.

The group is a loose association of 60 professional artists, some of international reputation, who share the rich and versatile subject of the tree. The aim of the group is to exhibit together and promote members’ work and their subject.

There is no subscription and there are no rules.

The principle dynamic of the group is diversity of art practice that encompasses a wide range of philosophy, media, style, scale and technique.

The Arborealists have achieved a national profile and are based all over southern England including the Welsh borders, East Anglia and London and from every county from Kent to Cornwall, with outposts in Wales, Yorkshire, the Midlands, Ireland, France and Italy.

Described by The Telegraph as spellbinding, The Arborealists’ inaugural exhibition was staged at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, in 2014, and this was followed by popular exhibitions attracting national press coverage at Mottisfont Abbey NT, Lymington, Gloucester, Westonbirt Arboretum, and London. In 2017 the group also exhibited overseas for the first time, in Poitiers, France.

The Arborealists are inclusive and invite local, guest tree artists to show with them wherever they exhibit if possible. A lively programme of exhibitions and projects is planned for the future and to date include Monmouth, Frome, St Ives, Exmoor and Dartmoor, Loudun, France, and The National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

Many of the group’s members share a passion for the ecology of trees and their significance in the conservation of our fragile, natural environment.

In 2016, George Peterken OBE, forester, ecologist and author, invited The Arborealists to interpret Lady Park Wood from an artist’s perspective - the group’s first site specific project that includes a short film and 2 exhibitions at Monmouth Museum

The Arborealists FEATURED ARTISTS:

Sarah Harding, Tim Craven, Melissa Scott-Miller, Michael Johnson, Fiona McIntyre, Blaze Cyan, Simon Dorrell, Karen Bowers, Jo March and Celia de Serra

14 July to 28 July 2018

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Leaf Stream. Oil on linen 96 x 5102cm Fiona McIntyre

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