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Charlotte Mayer Exhibition Video
The Garden Gallery's Summer Exhibition opens on 15 May with an opportunity to 'Meet the Artist' and talk about their work as you enjoy a glass of wine. Those who will be present (most of them giving demonstrations) include Adam Buick, Frederic Chavarin ARBS, Martin Cook, Sioban Coppinger FRBS, Sally Fawkes, Elizabeth Herkstroter, Richard Jackson, Thomas Kenrick, Alison Lochhead, Nicolas Moreton ARBS, Rosie Musgrave ARBS, Suzanne Redstone ARBS, Will Spankie, Roger Stephens and Johannes von Stumm PRBS,
The Garden Gallery will be exhibiting at the Society of Garden Designers' Annual Conference in London on Saturday 17 April. See www.sgd.org.uk for more information.
The Garden Gallery exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show in May 2009. Sculptures by Peter Eugene Ball (see image), Sally Fawkes, Elizabeth Herkstroter, Jonathan Loxley (see image), Charlotte Mayer FRBS, Will Spankie, Roger Stephens and Johannes von Stumm FRBS were on show, together with pots by Penelope Batley and Wendy Hoare. Belladonna by Jonathan Loxley (Carrara marble) above. Photo: Esther Gumn LRPS, www.egphotography.co.uk Vita by Peter Eugene Ball (bronze) left
Johannes von Stumm FRBS has been appointed President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
The Garden Gallery helped Peter Eugene Ball to secure an exhibition of his work in the Morning Chapel in Salisbury Cathedral during September and October 2008. Peter's serene religious sculptures are well known in churches and cathedrals throughout the country. He exhibited 36 religious and secular works which were for sale. Contact The Garden Gallery if you are interested in buying a sculpture by Peter Eugene Ball. Below is a selection of images of sculptures by Peter Eugene Ball from the exhibition in Salisbury Cathedral. They are - Virgin and Child, Holy Mother and Child (detail), Madonna and Child (detail), Travels on a Donkey, Waiting for Godot, Old Soldier, Ship of Fools, Fools in a Jar and Eloise and Abelard.
A cast glass sculpture by Sally Fawkes and Richard Jackson, Sublime Transmission, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum for its contemporary glass collection, with the support of Dan Klein Associates. The Garden Gallery has secured a commission for Richard Jackson and Sally Fawkes to make a monumental solid glass sculpture for a private garden. The sculpture will be cast, carved and hand polished and will stand six feet tall. Smaller examples of Richard's and Sally's work can be seen in the 'Abstract Sculpture in Glass' gallery.
The Garden Gallery has published a book of beautiful black and white photographs of sculpture and other artworks, taken in the garden by John Garfield, photographer and retired neurosurgeon. Some forty artists are represented in the book which will raise awareness of how successfully art can harmonise with gardens, each helping to enhance the other. All profits from the book will be used to commission Tracey Sheppard FGE to engrave a glass panel for Jack's Place, a new development for teenagers at Naomi House, the children's hospice near Winchester. Naomi House provides palliative care, including respite, terminal and bereavement care and support for children with life-limiting conditions and their families from central southern England. If you would like to buy a copy of the book (£10 + £5 p & p) please contact The Garden Gallery. Tracey Sheppard is now working on her design for the panel which should be installed in the autumn. Tracey is very generously donating her fee to the project but top-up funding is needed if the full extent of Tracey's vision is to be realised. Please contact The Garden Gallery or Jane Tabor at Naomi House (01962 843513) if you would like to contribute.
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THE THORNFLOWER, Charlotte Mayer's bronze sculpture which grew out of her reflections on her grandmother's death in Treblinka and "man's inhumanity to man" at other times, is in the Morning Chapel at Salisbury Cathedral until spring 2010, a period which includes Remembrance-tide and Holocaust Memorial Day. The first cast of the sculpture was shown at The Garden Gallery in 2006 and Charlotte's wish that it should find a home in an interfaith, peace and reconciliation context was realised when a generous donor enabled it to be placed in St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, Bishopsgate, in the City of London. For more information about The Thornflower see Charlotte Mayer's page under 'Artists', or ask The Garden Gallery for a pamphlet. Seven further sculptures by Charlotte, including two ones, Luna and Solar (below), accompanied The Thornflower in Salisbury Cathedral for the first few weeks of its stay in Salisbury. Please contact The Garden Gallery if you are interested in buying a sculpture by Charlotte Mayer.
