My attention has been drawn to a lovely -looking show in distant Herefordshire. The Monnow Valley Arts Centre has a show of the collection of Nicolas and Frances McDowall. It consists of lots of super works by a range of good artists. The collectors clearly have a good [Read More…]
Edmond Brock at Mount Stewart
On our annual visit to Northern Ireland we visited Mount Stewart, as usual, and saw the largely invisible reconstruction that has taken place (as recorded in 6 programmes on UTV.) Everything spick and span, but not too modern-looking. A peculiar form of reinstatement of some imaginary period chosen [Read More…]
Kenneth Rowntree. A Centenary Exhibition
I have a plan to get to distant Chichester to wonderful Pallant House right at the end of the current Rowntree exhibition. There are some rare Chekhov plays showing at the Festival Theatre and my wife and I are going to combine the two cultural experiences. In the [Read More…]
Musee de l’Annonciade in St Tropez
Visited this small art gallery in a disused church very close to the centre of St Tropez.It has an interesting little collection of works by such as Signac,Vlaminck,Maillol and so on.It opened in the mid 1950s. I saw my first work by Roger de la Fresnaye. Watson owned [Read More…]
Villa Noailles
I have just returned from visiting the Villa Noailles in Hyeres. It is a fascinating reminder of the extraordinary lives of the great French patrons, Viscount and Viscountess de Noailles. One tends to hear more about Marie-Laure de Noailles than about her husband,Charles, but in fact they were [Read More…]