Exhibitions/News
February 2 to April 2, 2025
Botanical artist Sally Pinhey, will be exhibiting in a flower exhibition at the Slade Centre in Gillingham from 2nd February for two months. Her work, which is precise but joyful, will contrast with the looser decorative paintings also showing. Besides colourful summer flowers, some of her paintings will be the original watercolours for the illustrations in her books, notably, a definitive work on Plums, and her latest, which is Plants for Soil regeneration, an Illustrated Guide. Prints and books will also be available. When you hear the word 'flower' what do you think of? Perhaps it's the scent of jasmine twined around a pergola at dusk? Or the sweet perfume from a bouquet of pale pink roses? Perhaps it's the colour of those pink roses, so reminiscent of the inside of a shell. Or maybe it's the glorious yellow of a field full of buttercups. Artists and makers have always been fascinated by flowers and have expressed that fascination in many different ways. Think of Van Gogh and his sunflowers, Monet and poppy fields, or the stylised daisies of William Morris. Sally's response to the flower is to show its beauty in detail and study it closely to learn how it survives, reproduces, and like all living things, alters its own environment in the process.
March 25 to April 5, 2025
Brian Steventon, President Birmingham Easel Club (above), Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, 4 Brook Street, Birmingham B3 1SA.
March 28, 2025
Sarah Pye (above) solo exhibition, The Frame Gallery, Odiham, Hampshire.
Until March 29, 2025
Austen Pinkerton (above), The Golden Bough Gallery, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire.
April and May 2025
Jill Barthorpe (above) exhibition, Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, USA.
Until April 5, 2025
Austen Pinkerton (above), Oriel Q Gallery, Narberth, Pembrokeshire.
May 17, 2025
Roberta Mason, Summer Exhibition 2025, Listen to the Quiet, Rachel Bebb Contemporary.
May 18 to 25, 2025
Sally Pinhey's painting of Hen gymro wheat (above) will be one of the paintings on show at the Botanical Artists World Wide exhibition at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, Birmingham. Sally does not usually paint competitively, but as the subject this year of heritage crops is so much hers, she jumped through all the hoops to meet the criteria. Her life-size painting shows the genetic variety in a single crop together with the full length of the straw. Special events will also be held to celebrate the Worldwide Day of Botanical Art on May 18. Sally's other painting of buckwheat and hover fly will be showing on a rolling online exhibition. She is delighted to contribute to the vital purpose of botanical art in supporting scientific information.
