Tag Archives: Open air painting

JMW Turner : The Thames Near Walton Bridges, 1805

Art   Exhibitions   Laing Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on May 12, 2014     Permalink     Comments (1)

Fresh, vivid, spontaneous – this is one of Turner’s most attractive oil sketches, I think. He’s responding to the visual sensations of this spot on the River Thames – the colours and shapes of the landscape, and the light flooding… Read more

John Constable : Hampstead Heath with the House Called ‘The Salt Box’, about 1819

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Posted by administrator on April 11, 2014     Permalink     Leave a comment

A bright patch of colour – a man wearing a red waistcoat – pulls our eyes out to the far right of this picture, ensuring that we don’t miss the full width of this airy panorama. It shows the view… Read more

Take a look behind the scenes as a new exhibition goes up

Art   Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Laing Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on December 18, 2012     Permalink     Comments (4)

Ana, the museum service’s picture conservator, is making the last cleaning touches to a painting for the new exhibition of pictures from the Laing’s collection. She’s using moistened cotton wool wound around a special cleaning stick – a painstaking job. The… Read more