Botanical art show celebrates Exbury gallery’s renovation! Opening to the public Wednesday June 28th 2006 - The marvellous venue is also licensed for civil weddings as well....
Beautiful paintings for beautiful people......Nicholas De Rothschild (Left) and Crystal Jenkins (Far Left) of Buchannan's Marquees with 'that' smile!
A stunning exhibition of botanical paintings by a 90-year old artist celebrates the redevelopment of Exbury’s Five Arrows Gallery which is also licensed now for civil wedding ceremonies.
The Gallery, in Exbury Gardens, already established as one of Hampshire’s foremost exhibition spaces, is now licensed for civil weddings and other ceremonies. With a newly-built courtyard and an attached kitchen, it becomes a perfect venue for medium-sized receptions.
Tuesday’s opening reception of the exhibition of prints and watercolours by Elizabeth Cameron, who has exhibited world-wide and won Royal Horticultural Society gold and silver medals for her work, will be the first such gathering.
“With the addition of a kitchen and the enclosed courtyard to the Gallery, we can now offer a charming self-contained space for receptions of all sorts,” said Nicholas de Rothschild, whose family owns the 200 acre Gardens on the banks of the Beaulieu River in the New Forest. “We are licensed for civil weddings which means that the ceremony and the reception can be held together in the loveliest of settings.”
“We’ve been looking forward to the Elizabeth Cameron exhibition. She’s an artist of the first quality with an international reputation. This show of her work is a wonderful way to celebrate the redevelopment of the Five Arrows Gallery,” he said.
Elizabeth Cameron, born in 1915, learnt to paint from her governess but received more formal training at The Slade before exhibiting at the Royal Academy and Royal Scottish Academy in 1939. War, children and running a business occupied her until she took up her brush again in the early 1970s, immediately receiving recognition for the quality of her botanical work inspired by great Scottish gardens.
The exhibition opens on Wednesday June 28.
