Alex Prowse as a member of The Pastel Society has been invited to exhibit at the prestigious Southampton City Art Gallery in the first quarter of 2008. This major exhibition will showcase the work of some of the most respected pastel painters currently working.
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Southampton
City Art Gallery
Pastels Today
11 January
– 30 March 2008, Galleries 7 and 8
We are delighted to invite members of the Pastel Society to
exhibit in this unique selling exhibition. The Pastel
Society is recognised as foremost in its field, showing the
work of leading contemporary artists, with a diversity of
style and subject matter from the purely imaginative to the
representational, in any combination of dry media including
oil pastel. Founded in 1898, the Society boasts many
illustrious past members and exhibitors, Frank Brangwyn RA,
Walter Sickert, Whistler, Degas, Dame Laura Knight RA,
Ernest Shepard, and more recently, Gillian Ayres, Tom
Phillips RA and Paula Rego. There are over fifty members in
the society, all professional artists living and working in
the UK.
The artworks on display cover a wide spectrum of subjects;
portraits, still life, landscapes, and architectural views,
all of which are available to buy. Please contact the
Gallery shop on 023 8083 2705 for a sales list.
Visitor information
Useful
visitor information which includes, directions to
Southampton, Christmas opening times, parking and much
more.
Charges:
Free
entrance to the gallery
Contact
Details:
Address: Southampton City Art
Gallery, Civic Centre, Commercial Road, Southampton,
Hampshire,
Postcode: SO14 7LP
Telephone: 023 8083 2277
Email: art.gallery@southampton.gov.uk
Fax: 023 8083 2153
Details
of service:
How to find
us:
By
foot: The
gallery is housed within the Civic Centre, on Commercial
Road. There is a large round fountain on the forecourt and
the entrance faces Watts Park. Ascend the stairs in front
of you inside the entrance foyer.
By
car: Follow
signs to the City Centre from the M3/ A33 from the north,
A3024 and A33 from the west, and M27/ A335 from the east.
The nearest multi-storey car parks are West Park, Grosvenor
Square, the Marlands and West Quay.
Opening
times: Mondays CLOSED
Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm
Sundays 1 - 4pm
http://www.southampton.gov.uk/leisure/arts/sotonartgallery/visitorinfo.asp