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NewsNEXT SHOW - JOHN THOMPSON COMMEMORATIVE EXHIBITION - 22nd MARCH- added 14/2/12 Our next show will be the eagerly anticpated John Thompson Commemorative exhibition. John sadly died in July last year but he left behind a wonderful body of work. The exhibition will feature examples of his famous Group Series paintings but there will also be a selection of early works, still lifes, Nudes, portraits and Landscapes. The preview evening will be on Thursday 22nd March and a 68 page catalogue will accompany the exhibition. WINTER SHOW - added 14/2/12 Our winter show is now in full swing and paintings are selling fast, over 80 sold to date. The show features a wide selection of work by some of our favourite artists at prices to suit all pockets. Keep an eye on our website as new works are being added on a regular basis. LASTING IMPRESSIONS SHOW IS A RECORD BREAKER - added 21/11/11
The Lasting Impressions show officially ended on Saturday and many of our clients called in to collect their purchases. It has been a phenomenal exhibition, over 2000 people visited the show and we sold 32 Valettes and 41 Liam Spencers. We achieved a world record of £50,000 for a Valette oil and it also has been Liam Spencer’s most successful show ever. We are still holding some of Liam’s work in the gallery and I am confident we will sell quite a few more in the next few weeks. We are now going into a mixed Winter Show, which will feature some great paintings. Keep an eye on the website as new works will be added regularly. OPENING NIGHT VIDEOS - added 1/11/11 Videos of the opening night of the Lasting Impressions show opening night along with an interview with Cecilia Lyon. We've also added a link to Bill's interview on BBC Radio Manchester on 31st October. LASTING IMPRESSIONS SHOW OPENING NIGHT - added 21/10/11 The gallery was absolutely packed for the opening of the Adolphe Valette/Liam Spencer show on Thursday 20th October.
Over 400 people attended during the evening and we got through a record number of canapes (over 2000!) and bottles of Champagne (over 100). Liam was very happy with the bottles of real ale we got in for him from Dunham Massey Brewery. BBC North West Tonight filmed the show before the opening and did interviews with Liam and Bill. The feature will be shown next week on the six o'clock news. We also filmed an interview with Cecilia Lyon during the evening. Cecilia wrote the best selling book on Adolphe Valette and curated the current Valette Retrospective exhibition at the Lowry Centre. We'll put it on our You Tube channel when it's edited. By the end of the evening we had sold 29 of the Valette paintings, a near sell out and 29 of Liam's works. We also achieved a world record price for Valette's Manchester Ship Canal and Warehouses. The exhibition is on until 19th November, so if you haven't seen it please come along to the gallery. This is the largest selling exhibition of Valettes work for decades and Liams paintings complement the Valettes beautifully.
RARE DOUBLE SIDED VALETTE DRAWING - ADDED 19/10/11
We have just acquired an early Valette charcoal drawing of a male nude. It was in an old battered frame with a Tib Lane Gallery label on the back. The drawing was signed by Valette in the bottom right hand corner. When we took the drawing out of the frame we found another fantastic drawing of the back. LIAM SPENCER VIDEO - added 11/10/11 We recently filemed Liam Spencer in his studio in Rossendale. The 5 minute film can now be viewed on our You Tube Channel (click on the You Tube icon on our home page) and on our Facebook site. ADOLPHE VALETTE/LIAM SPENCER LASTING IMPRESSIONS - added 8/10/11 The catalogues were mailed out yesterday and all the works are now on our website. We are already getiing a great response. Please contact the gallery if you woulkd like to receive a catalogue. NEXT SHOW - ADOLPHE VALETTE AND LIAM SPENCER - added 16/9/11 Our next show features two greats of northern art, Adolphe Valette and Liam Spencer. Adolphe Valette was a French impressionist painter who came over to England in 1904. Between 1906 and 1920 he taught art at Manchester Municipal School of Art. His most famous pupil was L.S. Lowry who paid tribute to Valette on a number of occassions. Valette is being honoured with a major retrospective exhibition of his work at The Lowry Centre Salford which opens on 15th October. Liam Spencer is one most important artists working in the north today. He came to prominence in 2000 when his exhibition at the Lowry Centre was a major success. In the last 10 years he has had regular sell out shows and has built up a loyal following amongst collectors. We are excited to be showing his work at Clark Art. He has produced an excellent selection of classic paintings for the show. See Facebook for photos of Liam when he visted the gallery on Thursday 15th September. The exhibition opens on Thursday 20th October and runs until 19th November. Please contact the gallery if you are not on the mailing list and would like to receive the exhibition catalogue. ADOLPHE VALETTE - added 14/9/11 We are looking to buy paintings by Adolphe Valette, please contact the gallery if you have any works for sale. PETER BROOK/REG GARDNER OPENING NIGHT - added 9/9/11 Thank you to the 300+ people who came to the opening of the show. It was a fantastic night, at the end of a hectic evening we had sold 49 Reg Gardners and 13 Peter Brooks. Reg spent all evening signing catalogues and the backs of his paintings. The artists Colin Jellicoe and Liam Spencer were also present. - Liam will be exhibiting with us next month.. Have a look on our Facebook site for photographs of the night and check out the Reg Gardner video on Facebook and our You Tube channel.
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