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LEN WYATT EXHIBITION

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Leonard Wyatt 1922-2008 Exhibition of paintings by Ilford artist Leonard Wyatt 1922 -2008 On the third floorof the former Harrison Gibson Store High Road Ilford from April 2008

ARTS, REFLECTION and SELF AWARENESS DAY: 25th OCTOBER 2008

‘JOURNEY’ ARTS, REFLECTION and SELF AWARENESS DAY -A TIME TO EXPLORE ONE’S CREATIVITY FOR GROWTH IN RELATIONSHIP WITH SELF AND OTHERS WITH SHIRLEY KELLY Ma (INTEGRATIVE ARTS PSYCHOTHERAPIST) ORGANISED BY: ‘The Free Painters and Sculptors Society’ (an Arts Educational Society, set up in 1965 promoting the Arts in the UK. Charity no: 246199. Please note for this event no previous art experience is necessary.) VENUE: The Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, 2, WARWICK AVE, BEAUCHAMP LODGE, LITTLE VENICE, LONDON W2 6NE. DATE: Saturday 25th OCTOBER 2008 TIME: 10.30am -5.00pm (registration from 10am) FEE: £20 (includes art materials tea/coffee/biscuits (lunch should be brought, or bought at the canal cafĂ©) PLEASE BOOK BY: 15th July 2008 with a non refundable deposit of £10 made out to: ‘The Free Painters and Sculptors Society’. Send a cheque or Postal Order with your name and address on the back to: FPS Outreach Officer , 35 Seaton Gardens, Ruislip, Middlesex, HA4 0BA. Bookin

REVIEW of EXHIBITION of Ellen Graubart's work at the The Millinery Works Gallery.

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By Phillip Worth (FPS President) 'Loss': Ellen Graubart Geometry has exerted a powerful influence on many artists and schools of art throughout history. ‘The Golden Section’, although not geometrical in the visual sense, is a mathematical concept and has probably been at work on artists’ compositional awareness since ancient times. In the modern era the visual impact of geometry has been more explicit. With his concern for the inner structures of things in the visible world Cezanne wrote of ‘treating nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, all in perspective’ – Fernand Leger could be said to have been even more ‘up front’ with cylinders, spheres and cones; his were not part of the structure – they were the structure! (his nudes are possibly an acquired taste). The facets into which the Cubists fragmented their pictures were of simple geometric shapes, no matter how complex the finished structures, and, of course, geometric abstraction has taken this approach t

An exhibition of work by Pat Clarke

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ALL THAT GLISTERS An exhibition of work by Pat Clarke 'The Green Man' 12 April-17 May 2008 Drinks reception Fri. 18th April 6-8pm Rope Store Gallery Quay Arts Sea Street Newport Harbour Isle of Wight PO30 5BD Tel (01983) 822490 Email info@quayarts.org Open Mon-Sat 9,30am-5pm & Thu until 8pm Free Entry Island artist Pat Clarke combines illumination, illustration, fantasy and abstract imagery to create paintings which are colourful peepholes into other worlds