TIL Autumn Half Term

A SHORT WALK IN THE SOLU
KHUMBU BY JAMES HAWKINS
RhueArt gallery are presenting an
exhibition by James Hawkins at
La Galleria from Monday 29 October to
Sunday 3 November to raise money for
The Little Sherpa foundation. Renowned
Landscape painter James Hawkins and
his wife Flick have recently been on an
amazing trip in the Solu Khumbu region
of Himalayas with Tengboche Trekking.
Tengboche Trekking is unique
partnership set up by Tashi Lama, a
Buddhist monk from the Tengboche
Monastery and James Lamb from
Scotland. Profits from this partnership
are donated to The Little Sherpa
Foundation which was originally
established to support families affected
by climbing incidents in Mount Everest
National Park in Nepal. However, the
recent devastating earthquakes changed
that, so the charity now helps anyone in
the region in need. Some of the
proceeds from this exhibition will be
donated to The Little Sherpa Foundation.
A graduate of the Ruskin School of
Drawing in Oxford and Wimbledon,
James Hawkins is one of the best
contemporary landscape painters in
Scotland. He has been working at Rhue
near Ullapool in the far North West for
nearly 40 years now. His unique style of
painting has developed steadily during
this time to a point where he straddles
abstraction and figuration with dextrous
ability. His rich and luscious paint
surfaces are edible at times, brutally
indigestible at others. Every square inch
of canvas is packed with frenetic
gestures.
An abstract realist who invests his
work with limitless energy which seems
to bounce back off the multi coloured
canvas; he is the man who has come
closest to the impossible task of
capturing the essence of a landscape
that is like trying to paint the colours of
the wind.
RhueArt Gallery, just North of
Ullapool, is set in magnificent scenery
on the shores of Lochbroom looking out
over the Summer Isles. Originally
opened in 1980 it features the studio
and gallery of James Hawkins, Recently
a beautiful display space has been
added showing changing exhibitions by
National and International Artists; all of
whose work is influenced by the natural
environment. The catalogue and prices
are available on request from
www.jameshawkinsart.co.uk/texts/nepal
EDWARD BURNE-JONES AT
TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain has on display the largest
Edward Burne-Jones retrospective to be
held in the UK for a generation. Renowned
for otherworldly depictions of beauty
inspired by myth, legend and the Bible,
Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) was a
pioneer of the symbolist movement and the
only Pre-Raphaelite to achieve world-wide
recognition in his lifetime. This ambitious
and wide-ranging exhibition brings
together over 150 works in different media
including painting, stained glass and
tapestry, reasserting him as one of the most
influential British artists of the 19th century.
Edward Burne-Jones charts his rise
from an outsider of British art to one of
the great artists of the European fin de
siècle. Burne-Jones rejected Victorian
industrial ideals, offering an enchanted
parallel universe inhabited by beautiful
and melancholy beings. The exhibition
brings together all the major works from
across his four-decade career.
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