Image: Archer: felt collage 35x35cms. C. Sue Pearl 2020. All rights reserved.
For their next exhibition at Highgate Gallery, ‘The Northern Line’, East Finchley Open Artists are creating images that relate to a Northern Line station of their choice. Each work will respond to the chosen station’s name, and artists have already selected a wide range of stations for inspiration including Colliers Wood, Oval, Angel and High Barnet.
Expect some interesting interpretations and commentary. The exhibition will comprise an exciting variety of wall-hung work including paintings, pastels, prints ceramics, glass, textiles and automata.
All artists have prepared new works especially for the exhibition. Among them Pat Marvell has created an exciting glass piece titled ‘White Hot Embers in Colliers Wood’ which was originally the site of charcoal-making kilns. Laura Fishman has made an abstract acrylic painting, ‘Golders Green, Green to Gold’, exploring the richness of greens and yellows mingling with swirls of red which hint at the richness of the foliage of the nearby Golders Green Park. Meanwhile Cathy Burkinshaw has chosen Woodside Park as one of her inspirations. She has many fond memories of the station: “It was so pretty when we first moved to Woodside Park, surrounded by trees with a really large tree in the forecourt.” How times have changed.
Founded in 2004, East Finchley Open Artists is a group of artists and craftspeople – including painters, printers, photographers, ceramicists, glass makers, jewellers, sculptors, textile artists and basket makers – ranging from those who are starting out in their creative careers to well-established professional artists and lecturers.
Every summer the EFOA hosts Open House weekends, as well as other public events throughout the year.
For information about upcoming events and activities, membership, and to sign up for the monthly e-newsletter, see: www.eastfinchleyopen.org.uk
Exhibition continues until 25 November. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Image: Archer: felt collage 35x35cms. C. Sue Pearl 2020. All rights reserved.
For their next exhibition at Highgate Gallery, ‘The Northern Line’, East Finchley Open Artists are creating images that relate to a Northern Line station of their choice. Each work will respond to the chosen station’s name, and artists have already selected a wide range of stations for inspiration including Colliers Wood, Oval, Angel and High Barnet.
Expect some interesting interpretations and commentary. The exhibition will comprise an exciting variety of wall-hung work including paintings, pastels, prints ceramics, glass, textiles and automata.
All artists have prepared new works especially for the exhibition. Among them Pat Marvell has created an exciting glass piece titled ‘White Hot Embers in Colliers Wood’ which was originally the site of charcoal-making kilns. Laura Fishman has made an abstract acrylic painting, ‘Golders Green, Green to Gold’, exploring the richness of greens and yellows mingling with swirls of red which hint at the richness of the foliage of the nearby Golders Green Park. Meanwhile Cathy Burkinshaw has chosen Woodside Park as one of her inspirations. She has many fond memories of the station: “It was so pretty when we first moved to Woodside Park, surrounded by trees with a really large tree in the forecourt.” How times have changed.
Founded in 2004, East Finchley Open Artists is a group of artists and craftspeople – including painters, printers, photographers, ceramicists, glass makers, jewellers, sculptors, textile artists and basket makers – ranging from those who are starting out in their creative careers to well-established professional artists and lecturers.
Every summer the EFOA hosts Open House weekends, as well as other public events throughout the year.
For information about upcoming events and activities, membership, and to sign up for the monthly e-newsletter, see: www.eastfinchleyopen.org.uk
Exhibition continues until 25 November. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale.
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To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon. Exhibition continues until 17 March.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale.
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To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon. Exhibition continues until 17 March.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016).
Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.