Marine Life - Art and Conservation
The titular founder of the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, was a prominent British artist as well as outspoken conservationist, and said: “Bringing conservation and environmental issues to the forefront of people’s minds in this busy, commercial world has always been a monumental task and one that I, through my art, have strived to achieve”. You may be familiar with his inaugural fund raising success, in which he auctioned off his piece Tiger Fire (1973) and raised £127,000 for Project Tiger - a wildlife conservation project launched by India’s first and only female Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, in April 1973.
Women's History Month: Women in Art - Part 2
In the groundbreaking article Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin in 1971, the view that women had been systematically erased from art history was explored, calling out the institutional barriers historically faced by women in the Western tradition. It echoed the civil-rights advances that were taking place at the time, and is considered required ‘feminist art history’ and ‘feminist art theory’ reading.
Meet the Artist - Bev Horsley
Bev continues to regularly attends portrait painting days at the English Bridge Workshop in Shrewsbury and, in June last year, she even presented comedian and Taskmaster frontman, Greg Davies, with a portrait which she had painted of the star when he unveiled the new facilities at Edstaston village hall (for which she is committee chair) following a major community project.