En Plein Air and People’s Art

Touchstones

5 More Image(s) In Gallery

Exhibitions that have been running throughout spring and summer at Touchstones will end this week, we sent our reporter/photographer to take a look before it was too late!

En Plein Air

During the 1880's a number of British artists began to take inspiration from artistic trends in France from painting the natural, rural environment often living and working in artists' colonies. A key part of this trend was the practice of painting en plein air or out-of-doors.
The Gallery’s permanent collection is particularly strong in artists, sometimes referred to as ‘British Impressionists’, which exemplified this movement. Paintings by Edward Stott, Frederick W Jackson, Dorothea Sharp, Laura Knight, Harold Knight, George Clausen, Henry Herbert La Thangue and others are on display.

People’s Art 2009
The popular annual open exhibition for new and established artists living or working in the Borough of Rochdale, showing work by amateur and professional artists alike.

The ‘Art Paddock’ returned to the galleries with lots of hands-on activities for aspiring artists of all ages.

Winds of Change
Inspired by flying one of Rik Stack’s kites on Crosby Beach and other cultural sites in and around Liverpool.

All four galleries exhibitions are well worth a visit, but this reporter was particularly impressed with the breadth of talent across the borough evidenced by 'People's Art 2009' - go take a look for yourself before the exhibitions end on 6 September.