News from the Art Centre, November 2024.

 

‘Suffolk’s Impressionist Painter,’ featuring a selection of fine works by Thomas Churchyard is open Saturday 16th to 30th November. The show includes several well- known paintings from previous Exhibitions over the last 60 years. The majority of the works have been consigned by a relation of Churchyard’s family.

The pictures have been skilfully cleaned and framed, with all works illustrated in the Catalogue. Most works are for sale, although we have included several recorded loaned works to further display the artist’s skills.

We are open from Saturday 16th November for two weeks until the end of November, from Tuesday to Saturday 11-4 pm.

We will extend the Exhibition into December, when we will be open Thursday, Friday and Saturday so please check opening times if planning a visit in December by phoning 07960 274139.

Norwich Castle Museum is currently showing ‘JMW Turner and changing visions of landscape’ until 23rd February 2025, featuring Turner and English Landscape artists. We are pleased to have loaned our large Philip Wilson Steer ‘Hide and Seek’ which was such a hit in the recent Christchurch Mansion Exhibition ‘Landscape Rebels’.

The National Gallery’s ‘Discover Constable and the Haywain’ exhibition features Constable’s major work on the 200th Anniversary of its showing at the Paris Salon, where it had such an effect on French artists. At the National Gallery it is shown alongside Gainsborough and John Crome in a wide-ranging Exhibition, so East Anglian Art is very much in favour nationally. Tate Britain do not currently have their Thomas Churchyard works on show but they may feature during the 250th Anniversary of Constable in 2026.

Before Christmas we will be marketing a group of reasonably priced drawings and watercolours all collected by Harold Day, with a library of interesting books, many on local history. These will be listed on our website but please request an email bulletin.

In the Spring of 2025, a George Thomas Rope Exhibition will be staged as this year’s drawings were very popular and this time we hope in addition to display oil sketches.

Due to the increased postage and environmental costs we are using email, through Mailchimp, to circulate announcements to most addresses on our lists. Please confirm your email address by sending the word ‘Invitations’ to john@eatac.co.uk. Thank you, if you are able to carry this out now, we will add your details and promise you will be
kept informed and not deluged! We also post printed Invitations on request for the mantlepiece!

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Thomas Churchyard ‘Suffolk’s Impressionist Painter’ catalogue

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