An exhibition featuring work by
Maggie Hambling & Ro Robertson
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| Wolterton Hall |
Summer in North Norfolk is the time for top end art exhibitions. This year a new place Wolterton Hall has opened up as an art and culture venue from June through to December. Its a beautifully restored Palladian inspired late picturesque building and landscaped grounds, heavily restored after a fire in the late 1950's.Its now a wedding and holiday venue, with dining evenings, special events and workshops, To which they can now add Art Exhibitions.
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| One of the Nightwaves paintings |
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This inaugural exhibition features the work of Maggie Hambling and Ro Robertson, brought together for the first time. The Portrait Room, stripped bare of its paneling, now displays a sequence of small studies entitled Nightwaves painted on an indigo blue background. Each capturing the raging changeable emotional sea in all its force and furious variety. Broken by a larger painting, sea influenced, in a scrabble and dribble of paint, with an dream portrait of Hambling's partner in bed emerging from it Collectively these smaller paintings form a band around the room. These have a strong, almost protective impact, with the feel of snap shots or stills from an animation, circling around the portrait and you in the room. Emphasising just how much this sense for the sea is as an archetype, that is constantly returned to in her work, as though through this alone can paint really speak for her. This room is a celebration of her partner Tory who died last year.
The central room features two striking Hambling paintings- Summer Wave Breaking 11- Wall of Water XXX1 hung above the fire places. And two delicately executed paintings in gouache on paper by Robertson. In the centre of the room an captivating three dimensional metal sculpture called The Swell by Ro Robetson, carries associations with surf boards and sailing yachts splattered with paint. This is in conversation with the similarly expressive paint strokes of the Hamblings on the walls. Both artist's work use the sea abstractly as a channel for a swell of feeling. Set in elegant juxtaposition with the refined setting of a classically paneled room with a crystal chandelier.
This is a very fine opening exhibition, which is free, there is no entrance fee. You just have to book online in advance to say you are coming. One hopes to see further developments over the coming years.
CARROT REVIEW - 6/8
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