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The King's Consort in Concert at The Fine Art Society
A concert of music by Henry Purcell given by The King's Consort will take place at The Fine Art Society on Monday 14 May at 6.45pm. Tickets for this event are £45 and available to buy from the gallery.
To view the invitation and find out more about buying tickets, please see below.
Emily Young at Avebury Manor
The garden at Avebury Manor, Wiltshire provides a wonderful setting for a major exhibition of contemporary sculpture and craft by leading artists including Emily Young.
The exhibition will run from 5 May - 10 June 2012. For more information please follow the link below:
www.nationaltrust.org/avebury
David Gentleman's watercolours and drawings for his latest book, 'London, You're Beautiful', for sale at The Fine Art Society from 4-25 May
David Gentleman's distinctive prints and watercolours are familiar to us from a lifetime's work that has included Penguin Classics, stamps, political posters, the National Trust logo and the platform-length wood engravings at Charing Cross tube station. He is best known as an artist with a profound sense of place, and he has spent the last year immersed in his home city, capturing its changeable skies, its hidden places and restless people from Rainham Marshes to Hampstead Heath. These illustrations, for a new book published on 3 May by Penguin, bear witness to David passion for and curiosity about London.
Penguin Books will be launching 'London You're Beautiful: An Artist's Year' by David Gentleman at The Fine Art Society, and copies of the book, as well as the original watercolours and drawings, will be available to buy from the gallery from 4-25 May.
Obituary: Leonard Rosoman RA
Leonard Rosoman, who has died aged 98, was the last of the official artists of the Second World War and later won acclaim as an illustrator, painter and teacher.
Rosoman is well known for his large-scale works which include painting murals for the 1951 Festival Britain, for the Royal Academy of Arts restaurant at Burlington House (1986) and a ceiling of scenes from the lives of St Augustine, Thomas Becket and Archbishop Matthew Parker for the Archbishop of Canterbury's private chapel in Lambeth Palace (1988). As a portraitist he won the £10,000 Ondaatje portrait prize with a picture of Andrew McIntosh Patrick at The Fine Art Society, painted when McIntosh Patrick was Managing Director.
Leonard Rosoman has had a long relationship with The Fine Art Society, and has been exhibiting here for 36 years. To read a full account of Rosoman's life and career, please follow the link to The Guardian's obituary below:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/feb/29/leonard-rosoman
Emily Young in Berkeley Square: Six Stone Heads keep watch
Six gigantic stone heads by Emily Young FRBS will stand and keep watch over Mayfair's Berkeley Square from 7 February-29 April. With some measuring two metres tall, and weighing as much as four tonnes, they represent the largest and most complex project of Young's career to date.
In addition, a group of Young's sculptures are on show in the The Fine Art Society's Contemporary gallery at 148 New Bond Street. This group, alongside the Heads in Berkeley Square, show the sheer diversity of Young's production - her different approaches to sculpting, and her fascination with the seemingly limitless variety in the stones she works with.
www.itv.com/london/new-berkley-square-art37963/
The Fine Art Society at the London Art Fair
The Fine Art Society are exhibiting at the London Art Fair, Islington from 18-22 January. The selection includes painting by Ivon Hitchens, Paul Nash, F.C.B.Cadell, Anne Redpath and Talbert McLean, and sculpture by Geoffrey Clarke and Emily Young.
A monumental sculpture by Emily Young, Heraclitus, is previewing at the fair in advance of her forthcoming installation in Berkeley Square, 'The Metaphysics of Stone', which opens on the 7 February.
The Edwardians reviewed in The Times
William Packer reviews The Edwardians and other December exhibitions at The Fine Art Society in The Times, Saturday 10 December 2011.