Wessington

Previous Visits Photos etc.

Woodhorn Museum 2022
The visit to Woodhorn museum has was Friday 8th April 2022 at 11.00 am.

There is a café there and the tours: Pitman Painters at 12.00 and one about photography at 1.00.

The concessionary cost was £6 per head but that gives you entry for a year.

The current exhibition is "A portrait of Northumberland".
Visitors could vote for the painting they liked best.

Susan Irving 24/2/22

June 2021
We met at Biddick Art Centre at 10.30 am to see the exhibition exploring Islamic art, women and creativity. Featuring contemporary drawings and Arabic calligraphy.

16/4/21 Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
Presented by Peter Barnett
Notes:
Link to Don McClean song and lyrics:
Click Vincent or use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd0APVnDIbE

The Battle of the Somme exhibition 19 August 2016

Bowes Museum Shoes Exhibition 15 July 2016
The Shoe exhibition at the Bowes Museum which we saw on Friday was amazing. It proved that footwear could indeed be Art as well as Engineering historic sad dangerous and thought provoking. It was a super day out. Thank you Sandy so much. I was so wrapped up in the shoes that I forgot to see the Silver Swan at 2pm. Obviously another trip is called for.
Elaine Davidson, 19th July

Norman Cornish Exhibition 11 March 2016
Spennymoor Art Gallery has opened a permanent Norman Cornish exhibition. The gallery is housed in the Town Hall and has a small but interesting collection of paintings. There are also prints and paintings for sale.

Ray Lonsdale's Studio
I went with the Art Appreciation Group to see the sculptor, Ray Lonsdale (of 'Tommy' fame!)
We all thoroughly enjoyed our visit. Ray is a wonderfully self effacing, down-to-earth guy and made us feel very welcome!

The sculpture that you see in the group photo is still to be sold and hopefully a local council will buy it, so lots more people can admire the intricacy of his work! The close-up photo shows you want I mean!
Joan Molloy

Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The weather for our visit on 14 August was poor; in fact it rained all day as you can see from the photos. Nevertheless I think that we all got something positive from the visit and the restaurant/café was first class!

Alan's Studio

Woodhorn
On Friday 15th May the group visited Woodhorn Colliery. As well as The Brick Planet exhibition there was also an exhibition of paintings by Norman Cornish, an artist who was part of the Spennymoor Settlement of pitman painters.

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