Ancient Landscapes exhibition Part Two
The second part of the Ancient Landscapes/Pastoral Visions exhibition opens at Bath & North East Somerset’s Victoria Art Gallery on 13 September and runs until 19 October.
This two-part exploration of the romantic response to the British landscape continues with the Brotherhood of Ruralists, founded at Wellow near Bath in 1975 by Peter Blake.
In 1975 a group of artists gathered for a dinner party in the old disused railway station at Wellow that had been the home of pop artist Peter Blake since 1969. The artists were Graham and Anne Arnold, Graham and Annie Ovenden, Peter Blake and his then wife Jann Haworth, and David Inshaw.
They were attempting to replace the rat race and commercialisation of London with the calm of a rural idyll, styling themselves partly on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848-1853).
Calling themselves the Brotherhood of Ruralists, they advocated a ‘less complicated life-style’, invoked Victorian values and painted pictures that extended the English pastoral tradition established by Samuel Palmer and William Blake.
Calling themselves the Brotherhood of Ruralists, they advocated a ‘less complicated life-style’, invoked Victorian values and painted pictures that extended the English pastoral tradition established by Samuel Palmer and William Blake.
Ancient Landscapes Part Two focuses on the Brotherhood of Ruralists, with over 40 oil paintings by on loan from major private collections. Not to be missed, this is the first major survey of work by the founding members of the group in 27 years.
The Victoria Art Gallery is open from Tuesday – Saturday 10am-5pm, Sundays from 1.30-5pm. The gallery is closed Mondays. For more information on this exhibition and the gallery visit www.victoriagal.org.uk.
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