Wed 16 Apr: Charlbury Art Society
John Bennett
The St Ives Artists
Art Historian John Bennett will give an illustrated talk on this highly creative and influential group of artists. His talk will focus on the "modern" period of the colony - circa 1920-1960.
Memorial Hall 7.30
All welcome, non members £5 on the door
St Ives became an important mecca where significant breakthroughs in abstraction were made throughout the 1940s to the 1960s.
Artists in the St Ives School include Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, Naum Gabo, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Sir Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Bryan Wynter, Patrick Heron, Paul Feiler and Bernard Leach.
