Started yesterday and running until next Sunday, is this year’s Exhibition of Landscape Paintings of the Isle of Wight.
It’s the 22nd year for this exhibition at the Ventnor Winter Gardens and has once again been organised by former coastal manager, Robin McInnes.
There are about 160 paintings (drawings, watercolours, oils, acrylics) mostly by Island artists, and a supplementary exhibition of some 150 aquatints, watercolours, engravings, lithographs and maps from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
The exhibits are nearly all for sale and entry will only cost you £1 (which includes full catalogue list).
Also available are copies of Robin’s splendid latest deluxe edition in gold-blocked leather binding (224 pages, and over 100 pages of prints in full colour): Art, Architecture and the Island Landscape.
Well worth the visit down to the Winter Gardens, you never know you might be inspired to put paintbrush to paper yourself. Exhibition open between 9.30am and 6pm. [IOW Landscape painting by Thomas Rowlandson – not in exhibition]
