Music and art has been my theme this month, which brings me to George Underwood and his current exhibition at The Fosse Gallery at Stow on the Wold. Underwood is one of those interesting characters who grew up in sixties Britain. Born in 1947 he went to school in Bromley with the likes of David…
The Herbert Gallery, Coventry: 2 Tone – Lives and Legacies. A celebration of Coventry’s multicultural ska music
Coventry and it’s old medieval centre is hauntingly beautiful. When I recently visited, there was a Reconciliation event in the old ruins of St Michael’s Cathedral comprising young trees and recorded experiences played through loudspeakers. The old gothic church was bombed in a firestorm on 14th November 1940. Instead of a hatred for the perpetrators…
June Painting of the Month: Pictures at an Exhibition.
Modest Mussorgsky was one of the leading lights of Russian art and culture as the nineteenth century closed. His collection of suites for the piano, Pictures at an Exhibition, introduces my theme for June. The companionship between music and the visual arts has become stronger and stronger over the centuries until the two media are…
Samson Kambalu and The New Liberia at Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford is one of those locations that thrive on celebrating freedom in whatever form it comes. So it is appropriate that it is my first public gallery visit since lockdown and vaccination. I have treated my self to the works of Samson Kambalu and his new solo exhibition, New Liberia. The works are…
More on Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
Salisbury Cathedral was the focus of my previous post. However, it did introduce one of Constable’s great paintings which has a history and symbolism worth its own spotlight. John Constable had just lost his wife, Maria, and was encouraged to produce this large scale painting by his friend and patron, Archdeacon John Fisher. Constable had…
White Box Art Channel 