I hope you will be able to join us on
Saturday 25th April, 11.15am (for about an hour & a half)
at The Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea.
as we continue our research into the ‘long decade’ of 1950s Britain, from the end of World War II to Pop Art.
This month we’ll journey to St Ives and to Sussex to meet artists Peter Lanyon and Ivon Hitchens who, among others, experimented at the boundary of Romanticism and Abstraction in ways that redefined British landscape painting.
Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) Dark Distance [1959; Rye Art Gallery; artuk.org]
There’ll be plenty to see & discuss as always!
Tickets are £10 (cash) on the door and include coffee & a biscuit at The Jazz Centre afterwards.
Looking forward to seeing you!
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Notes:
If you have the chance, do look at https://www.borlase-smart.co.uk/ where, towards the bottom of the page you’ll see a YouTube link to Another World (1948) | BFI National Archive, a 30 minute film depicting Cornish life and artists in 1948.
There’s an upcoming Pallant House Gallery exhibition (30th May – 1st November): “British Landscapes – A Sense of Place” [see: here] with a catalogue by Simon Martin to be published alongside.
Books:
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