Posts by venue: Exhibitions

Better than JMW Turner? Thomas Girtin’s ‘Morpeth Bridge’ watercolour

Art   Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Laing Art Gallery   Local History
Posted by administrator on October 24, 2012     Permalink     Comments (3)

Was Girtin a better watercolourist than JMW Turner? Turner himself seemed to say so – after his friend’s early death, Turner remarked, If Tom Girtin had lived, I should have starved. He was exaggerating wildly, of course, but Turner’s words… Read more

‘The Lamentation’: A Winning Formula

Art   Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Hatton Gallery
Posted by administrator on October 22, 2012     Permalink     Comments (1)

Sometimes if you find a winning formula, there seems little point in changing it. This could be said for certain painting compositions, some of which have been used by artists for hundreds of years. Michelangelo’s Pieta, for example, was so popular… Read more

JMW Turner’s ‘Dunstanburgh Castle’: poetry, imagination and reality

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Posted by administrator on October 15, 2012     Permalink     Comments (5)

Not so long ago, I went out to Dunstanburgh, near Alnwick, to see how much of the landscape I could recognise in our watercolour by JMW Turner. Turner was only 22 when he visited in 1797, as part of a… Read more

Divine Bodies: Old Masters given New Meanings

Art   Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Hatton Gallery   Laing Art Gallery   Shipley Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on October 2, 2012     Permalink     Comments (2)

   As the leaves turn brown and the nights draw in, summer 2013 may seem a lifetime away. In gallery terms, however, only a couple of exhibitions separate September gloom from summer sunshine. Arranging an exhibition, I am learning, involves… Read more

Divine company!

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Posted by administrator on August 21, 2012     Permalink     Comments (2)

I’ve been busy working on the conservation of some of the old masters from the Hatton gallery for their new exhibition. some of the paintings are really old and really dirty. This painting is by de Wit and was painted… Read more