Galleries - July 2024

If you wish to see more of the Artist’s work visit Chappel Galleries, 15 Colchester Road, Chappel, Essex CO6 2DE T. 01206 240326 E: info@chappelgalleries.co.uk www.chappelgalleries.co.uk - see complement of works “the defence line at Chappel Viaduct represents the survival, in a single grouping, of the whole spectrum of defensive structures deployed along the `stop lines'. Examples of all four major pillbox types deployed along the `stop lines' are represented and there is also excellent survival of the complementary defence mechanisms of anti-tank cubes and anti-tank cylinders, as well as two spigot mortar gun emplacements. Of the individual elements of the defence line, several represent exceptional survivals: the FW3/28 artillery pillbox is the last of its type to survive on the Eastern Command Line”. The 175th anniversary of this exceptional structure presents an opportunity to celebrate its place in history. 15th June - 18th August 2024 OPEN WEDNESDAYS ANDWEEKENDS 10.00 - 17. 0 Artist’s Statement I first came to Chappel in January 1986. I’d abandoned my career as an industrial designer to ‘take up the brush’ and to supplement my income worked three days a week on a manpower services commission scheme at the East Anglian Railway Museum. I slept on site in a sleeping car. At the Thatchers Arms, Mount Bures I was fed by the landlady, Corrie. Unbeknown to me, my wife to be, Edna Battye had started Chappel Galleries. In the rooms above, she took lodgers and it was not until late that summer I moved in. It was there I first saw the Viaduct stretched before my eyes that I instantly began to think about painting all it’s arches. It took more than 30 years before my vision was realised. Władysław Mirecki, April 2024 Collections include: Jiangsu Province Art Museum, People’s Republic of China - Jiangsu Province Department of Culture, People’s Republic of China - Chelmsford Museums, Essex - Ipswich Borough Council Museums and Galleries, Suffolk - Colchester and Ipswich Museums (on behalf of Colchester - Borough Council) - Beecroft Art Gallery/Southend on Sea Museum, Essex - Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - National Railway Museum, York - Prizes include: 2nd and 3rd prizes Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London - 1st prize Lynn Painter-Stainers, Mall Galleries, London