Galleries - September 2011

MAP 17 ENGLAND THAMES VALLEY, BUCKS & HERTS A 3 4 A 6 A 6 0 0 A 5 A 4 1 8 A 4 1 A 4 0 A 3 0 8 A 4 1 3 0 M 1 M 2 5 M 2 5 M 4 0 WALLINGFORD PANGBOURNE READING ASCOT WINDSOR MAIDENHEAD AYLESBURY HARROW UXBRIDGE RICKMANSWORTH WA HE HEMEL HEMPSTEAD LINSLADE WOBURN KEYNES HIGH WYCOMBE MARLOW SLOUGH ETON ST AL ST LUTON LETCHW THAME - HENLEY-ON MES THA H-ON-THAMES GREAT MISSENDEN AMERSHAM NORTHWOOD WATERPERRY COOKHAM OXFORD e g d f their variety and exuberance; paintings include the Yorkshire garden of Scampston, designed by Piet Oudolf to evolve into a magnificent late show of seed heads, as well as Burton Agnes, Grey’s Court, Great Dixter and many other public and private floral gems. Tue–Sat 10–5 or by appt, closed 1.15–2.15 www.bohungallery.co.uk t/f 01491 576228 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE d BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Church Street, Aylesbury, Bucks HP20 2QP Contact the gallery for exhibition details. Tue–Sat 10–5, admn free www.buckscc.gov.uk/museum t 01296 331441 BERKSHIRE e THE CONTEMPORARY FINE ART GALLERY ETON 31 High Street, Eton, Berks SL4 6AX Scottish Contemporary artists & Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture. Invitations/catalogues on request. Please view our new website. Trisha Hardwick. Sep 24–Oct 8. 7 Days a Week 9–5 mail@cfag.co.uk www.cfag.co.uk t 01753 854315 (day) 01753 830731 (eve) f STANLEY SPENCER GALLERY High Street, Cookham, Berks SL6 9SJ Spencer’s War: The Art of Shipbuilding on the Clyde. Apr 1–Jan 15. An Official War Artist in both World Wars, this exhibition features his ‘Shipbuilding on the Clyde’ series, one of the most remarkable artistic records of the Second World War. Daily 10.30–5.30 (Apr 1–Oct 31) Thur–Sun 11–4.30 (Nov 3–Jan 15) Except Christmas Day www.stanleyspencer.org.uk t 01628 471885 (info & group bookings) MIDDLESEX g BELDAM GALLERY Brunel University (Wilfred Brown Building), Kingston Lane, Uxbridge West London UB8 3PH Closing for major renovation, to re-open in summer 2012. artscentre@brunel.ac.uk www.brunel.ac.uk/beldamgallery t 01895 266074 f 01895 269735 W A R G R A V E R O A H A R T S T R E A D I N G R W H I T E HENLEY-ON-THAMES a c b OXFORDSHIRE a ASKEW ART 1 Duke Street, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1UR Specialising in Modern British Art with a particular emphasis on the post-war period. Tue–Sat 10–5 or by appt info@askewart.co.uk www.askewart.co.uk t 01491 412480 b BARRY KEENE GALLERY 12 Thameside, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1BH Period & Contemporary Fine Art. Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, Etchings, Prints. Recent Sculpture in Bronze and Stone. Master Frame Maker, Picture Conservation, Cleaning and Restoration. Specialising in Fine Art since 1963. Tue–Sat 9.30–5.30 enquiries@barrykeenegallery.co.uk www.barrykeenegallery.co.uk t 01491 577119 c BOHUN GALLERY 15 Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1AB Louis Turpin: Floral Landmarks – a personal journey through Britain. Sep 13–Oct 1. A celebration of British gardens and borders in all 31. GALLERIES SEPTEMBER 11 Your Loving Friend, Stanley: the Great War correspondence between Stanley Spencer and Desmond Chute, edited and with essays by Paul Gough. 143 pages, 42 bw ills, Sansom & Co pbk, £12.95 This gem of a book transcribes the31 letters theartist wroteto Desmond Chute, a young aesthete, whom Spencer befriended as a 24-year old orderly in a Bristol military hospital. Chuteintroduced Spencer to St Augustine’s Confessions, which transfigured the latter’s understanding of the hospital’s ‘medial grime’. There aremany moving passages such as when Spencer, in the Macedonian theatre of war, talks about, how in his art, ‘I shall be ableto show God in thebare “real” things, in a limber wagon in ravines, in fowling mule lines.’ Spencer’s wartime reminiscences of his nativeCookham havea hallucinatory vividness. Philip Vann BOOK review