Nature in Art
On average each year we hold ten special exhibitions in the main museum galleries and others in our Wallsworth Centre (education centre). These are in addition to the regular changes we make to our regular displays.
Click here for the 2007 programme
The 2008 programme
To see what is coming up. click here. (860kb) or here (no pictures 36kb)
Our current special exhibitions are:
July 1st -
GREEN WOMEN
An exhibition by the Brunel Broderers, a well-
July 29th -
CHASING THE WIND
A diverse exhibition that gives us the opportunity to look beyond the life and beauty of the terrestrial and to look to the sky. Our selection is deliberately diverse in style and media and just hints at the life, colours, forms, moods, vistas and light seen in the sky, one of nature’s most spectacular canvases. The predominant wildlife represented is birds, perhaps inevitably, but take the opportunity to also enjoy the interpretations of sky, clouds and even scenes beyond our usual field of view.
Artists as diverse as Peter Lanyon, Sir Peter Scott, Michael Ayrton, Drew Whitmore and Terence Lambert.
PLUS
August 5th -
Original work by Julie Askew from her recently published book A Voyage Round the
World in Paintings. Meet Julie all week with her pictures and at a book launch event
August 9th 2pm-
