It’s the biggest event of the year for members of the Bath Society of Artists whose members and their family and friends packed into the Victoria Art Gallery tonight on Friday for this year’s annual […]
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Extraordinary women.
Bath’s many bronze plaques – above imposing Georgian doorways – bear witness to the many distinguished people who have visited – or lived – in this city. However, few of them commemorate celebrated women with […]
You’ve been framed
When you acquire a family archive – full of artistic gems – and find the majority are unframed – it pays to have friends. On display now at Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery – through […]
It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
I suppose – be it a traditional portrait or landscape painting framed on the gallery wall – all realistic visual art is an illusion. Be it faces or places, it’s our brains who merge paint […]
Bath art gallery links with Picasso
It couldn’t be better timing for Bath art gallery owner David Simon that his latest Bartlett Street offering coincides with a major exhibition of portraiture by Pablo Picasso at London’s National Portrait Gallery. David features […]
Major coup for Bath museum
I cannot do this particular artist justice in reproducing some of the amazing contemporary ink paintings that are now on show at Bath’s Museum of East Asian Art – just across the road from the […]
‘Place’ mates!
‘There’s a place for us, Somewhere a place for us,’ sings Tony to Maria in the movie version of West Side Story and l am sure – if you stop and think about it – […]
Gangsters & Gunslingers: America’s outlaw heroes.
Many of us l think would agree that most of our knowledge relating to those gun carrying cowboys of the American Wild West and the ruthless gangsters of both Prohibition and then the Depression years […]
