FREE PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS

Lauderdale House has established itself as a favourite venue for FPS group exhibitions for a dozen years or so now. It is a 16th century structure, redeveloped and extended in recent times and situated in the elegant acreage of Waterlow Park, laid out at the end of the 19th century for the benefit of local “gardenless residents”. One assumes that the house was, from the beginning, a willing captive of this spacious green environment! The interior has, of course, been modernized and adapted to the many uses to which it is now put, but the development has been tasteful, leaving enough of the original fabric still visible to preserve a period feel overall. As with the best venues the exhibition area in Lauderdale House provides a congenial backdrop for artwork of all styles and themes and, indeed, seems to bring them together in happy harmony – a curator’s dream! All of this would suggest that this is the ideal context for an FPS group show. Over the past twenty years of the reviewer’s ex...

ArtWords: FPS artists present work inspired by books Foyles Gallery, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB Nearest tube: Leicester Square Monday 9th- Sunday 22nd February 2009 Private View: Monday 9th February 6.30pm-8.30pm (including prize draw for a voucher to spend £200 on art) Open: Monday-Saturday 9.30am-5.30pm; Sunday 11am -6pm Submitting Artwork Cost of submission: £10 per artwork. This is to cover the cost of hiring Foyles.. Please send images of work you would like to submit, to this email address, by Sunday 1st February. If you prefer, you can send images by post to: Grace Kimble, 1 Mead Villas, Roxeth Hill, Harrow HA2 0JY Include the following details: 1. Your name 2. The title of your work (s) 3. Medium 4. Dimensions 5. Price 6. Book which inspired the work (if possible) This is so that we can make the list in good time. In addition, we may be short on space so we may need to limit the number of works hung by each person Art will be issued with security tags by Foyle...

Caryl Bradford: Still Lives & Landscapes by Janet Scott January 26-31st in Chelsea Library, Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, SW3, Caryl Bradford Janet Scott Caryl Bradford Janet Scott February 3rd-21st at Duncan Campbell Gallery, 15 Thackeray Street, W8 (South of Kensington Court, opposite the Royal Garden Hotel), with Private View Tuesday 3rd February from 5.30-8.30 pm. to which all are invited. Best wishes from Janet.

CORRECTION These artworks were originally disaplayed as being by Diana Hulme but they are by William Fricker. SPANA want to put a couple or one picture by William Fricker into Foyles. The size is about 50 cm x 120 cm nframed. ARTWORK 1 ARTWORK 2 ARTWORK 3 ARTWORK 4

Pictures by Penelope Mac Ewen

A History of Free painters and Sculptors by Roy Rasmussen is posted at http://fpshistory.blogspot.com/