CHRIS HOLLEY expressive visual artist and arts communicator
Music of the Spheres I (after composer Rued Langgaard) detail 36x24in (91x61cm)
January: Legacy exhibition at South Hill Park, Bracknell and a rare outing for large scale Scherzo I and III
UPDATE
Rhapsody exhibition, now well underway at Guildford Institute (GI), features fellow artist/tutor Songul Yilmaz's landscapes and my abstract music paintings, the colours flowing 'mellifluously' around the space! Show ends Mon 16 March so do check it out.
UNPACKING ART illustrated art talks: we next turn a spotlight on 19th century muses in WOMEN IN ART I: The Muse www.guildford-institute.org.uk/event/unpacking-art-women-in-art-i-the-muse-gi-26-073/ , 2-4 pm Tuesday 14 July and, for your 7-10 year olds on half term, Thurs 28 May: TIGER, TIGER www.guildford-institute.org.uk/events/list/page/8/?hide_subsequent_recurrences=1
MARCH STOP PRESS: a) Illustrated art talk Those Rebellious Rossetti Romantics to Suffolk U3A group. b) Performance-painting live music for University of East London music students @ Signals East Festival, Thurs 26 March.
So much great art to see, so here's a few of my favourite exhibitions:
outside London: Naum Gabo: Spatial Impressions at The Lightbox, Woking, ends 12 April, illuminating 1950s woodblocks from this leading Constructivist and sculptor www.thelightbox.org.uk/whats-on/naum-gabo-spatial-impressions
- The Picture Comes First, The Royal Academy release your inner child with works by rebel artist Rose Wylie, ends 19 April. Children love it! www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/rose-wylie?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23386059985&gbraid=0AAAAADnw8
- The Long Now: the Saatchi at 40, at Saatchi Gallery. GO! Defies description. Refreshing and fabulous, a total treat for the imagination on four floors. Ends 26 April. GO... www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/the-long-now-saatchi-gallery-at-40
- Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery: focus on Lucian Freud's drawings on paper, ends 4 May www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2026/lucian-freud-drawing-into-painting
- The Barber in London at the Courtauld: do catch this one - highlights on loan from the Henry Barber Trust, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham University (during refurb) show ends 28 June. Rossetti, Whistler, Toulouse-Lautrec, Franz Hals key works plus other surprise gems... courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh-the-barber-in-london-highlights-from-a-remarkable-collection/
