Tower and Town, June 2019

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Arts Review

This month, I have divided my review into two parts, mainly because when this issue is published, the White Horse Gallery would have had two exhibitions.

Alongside her duties as HM Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire, Sarah Rose Troughton is a keen artist, and has painted as a hobby for many years. She attended informal classes with the late figurative artist Neil Forster, whose palette of colours she continues to use to this day.

Sarah Rose Troughton

This humble, self-deprecating, delightful exhibition was indeed one of the most successful shows to date at White Horse Gallery. To quote her close friend, renowned artist, Maggi Hambling (who Sarah describes as her ‘muse and mentor’), the paintings ‘combine power and delicacy, her lively brush responds afresh each time and we share her journey of discovery…’ Working in different mediums, watercolour and gouache, ink or oil, Here and There is about places and people – the landscapes we see, (emphasis on Wiltshire and Scotland), the food we eat, the people we meet, the changing seasons, colours in the everyday, the familiarity of home, and the anticipation of being away.

Particular stand-out pieces were her studies of the human form, and a selection of delicious seafood paintings with freshly sliced lemons, giving a real sense of summer bursting with Mediterranean colour.

Every year, the gallery holds its Annual Open Art Exhibition. This year, we received one hundred and thirty five entries, all of varying subjects and styles. This is a chance for anybody wanting to enter a piece of artwork into a public exhibition, providing it is for sale. The Annual Open Art Exhibition attracts many artists and visitors every year. It provides a wonderful opportunity for amateur artists to have their work on show, and for visitors to the bookshop and to Marlborough to see what’s on offer.

Penny Cope

Dennis Price

Jennie Slater

Ian Macdonald

Viv Lucas

Sarah Rose Troughton Here & There was at The White Horse Gallery between 17th April – 4th May 2019.

Annual Open Art Exhibition is at The White Horse Gallery between 9th May – 1st June 2019.

Gabriella Venus