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Visual Arts News Chappel Galleries Group Exhibition
Creative Coverage Winter Exhibition Happy and evocative
Chappel Galleries, here in the heart of East Anglia for 35 years, is
paintings of people from
currently running an exciting Group Exhibition of 49 paintings of
the past by John
varying media from nine gallery artists with international
Atkinson from Burston,
reputations. Artists include Trevor Burgess, an early exhibitor at
Diss feature in the
Chappel Galleries since 1992, Mediterranean scenes by London-
Creative Coverage Winter
based artist Jamie Boyd, the son of leading Australian artist Arthur
Exhibition, which runs
Boyd and Mary Griffiths, whose small striking portraits challenge
online until December
the viewer. The
31st. John works mainly in oils. After doing careful drawings of
exhibition
his subjects, he works quickly, layering colours on top of one
boasts a
another to create depth in his paintings. His work consists of
hugely vibrant,
portraiture, still life and landscapes and his paintings have an
turquoise
individual, period feeling to them. The exhibition also features
canvas by
paintings by Norwich-based Heather Tamplin. Heather makes
London artist
contemporary paintings on canvas in oil, acrylic and mixed
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media, with realistic areas contrasting and creating tension with
“The Azure Archipelago” – showing boats floating out to a distant
areas of looser brushstrokes, drips, splats, runs and graphic
horizon on a five and a half foot canvas. The stunning exhibition
elements. This virtual exhibition can be enjoyed in the comfort
continues to December 31st.
of your home.
www.chappelgalleries.co.uk
www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artsist-news/virtual-exhibition
Rhythm and Geometry at The Sainsbury Centre Drawn from the Sainsbury Centre collection, Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951, celebrates the abstract and constructed art made and exhibited in Britain since 1951. The free exhibition includes work from the beginning of the 1950s to the present-day, comprising c.120 objects across sculpture, reliefs, mobiles, painting, drawing and printmaking. Opening with a selection of significant reliefs – a pivotal art form in Britain in 1951 – the exhibition goes on to look at the transition into abstraction that occurred at this time. Artists include Robert Adams, Yaacov Agam, Rana Begum, Anthony Caro, Lygia Clark, Natalie Dower, Adrian Heath, Anthony Hill, Michael Kidner,
Fritton, Mary Webb, 1971, Painting, Oil on canvas, Sainsbury Centre Collection © Mary Webb
Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, François Morellet, Victor Pasmore, Jean Spencer, Takis, Mary Webb, Victor Vasarely, Gillian Wise and Li Yuan-Chia. The exhibition marks a significant bequest to the Sainsbury Centre from Joyce and Michael Morris. Following an extensive conservation project, many of these important works will be exhibited in public for the first time in decades. sainsburycentre.ac.uk
