> Jean Sturgis: Places: 26 November – 3 December 2011 AT Conway Street, London
JEAN STURGIS
PLACES
Jean Sturgis is a painter and etcher of great sensitivity and perception.
Born and brought up in the valley of the River Kent in Cumbria, she has always retained a love for the landscape of the Lake District. She now divides her time between London and Cumbira.
She studied at Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art in the 1950s – winning the Etching Prize while at the Slade, and receiving an Italian Government Scholarship to travel and work in Italy during 1955/6.
Now in her eighties, and having brought up a family of five children, she has continued to paint and to exhibit throughout her life. A keen gardener herself, she has also contributed acclaimed plant drawings to several gardening books – including The Anxious Gardener by Roszika Parker and The London Gardener by Elspeth Thompson.
Places, though, are what she loves to depict: ‘Landscape; buildings in the setting, whether urban or rural; trees and flowers in their surroundings: these have always been the stimuli for my work. I like to work directly from the subject.’
This exhibition – her second at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery - brings together works from across her career – oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, etchings – celebrating some of the places that have meant most to her. There are images of the Lake District, Venice, Rome, London, Tuscany, the South of France, Istanbul and the Cotswolds.
PLACES
Jean Sturgis is a painter and etcher of great sensitivity and perception.
Born and brought up in the valley of the River Kent in Cumbria, she has always retained a love for the landscape of the Lake District. She now divides her time between London and Cumbira.
She studied at Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art in the 1950s – winning the Etching Prize while at the Slade, and receiving an Italian Government Scholarship to travel and work in Italy during 1955/6.
Now in her eighties, and having brought up a family of five children, she has continued to paint and to exhibit throughout her life. A keen gardener herself, she has also contributed acclaimed plant drawings to several gardening books – including The Anxious Gardener by Roszika Parker and The London Gardener by Elspeth Thompson.
Places, though, are what she loves to depict: ‘Landscape; buildings in the setting, whether urban or rural; trees and flowers in their surroundings: these have always been the stimuli for my work. I like to work directly from the subject.’
This exhibition – her second at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery - brings together works from across her career – oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, etchings – celebrating some of the places that have meant most to her. There are images of the Lake District, Venice, Rome, London, Tuscany, the South of France, Istanbul and the Cotswolds.
2a Conway Street, Fitzroy Square,
London W1T 6BA, UK
London W1T 6BA, UK
Monday 10-6pm
Tuesday 10-6pm
Wednesday 10-6pm
Thursday 10-6pm
Friday 10-6pm
Saturday 10-6pm
Sunday Closed.
Tuesday 10-6pm
Wednesday 10-6pm
Thursday 10-6pm
Friday 10-6pm
Saturday 10-6pm
Sunday Closed.