THE NEW YORK WINTER SHOW IN SPRING
New venue, New timing, New experience …………… New Beginnings.
Everything is coming together, Spring and the New York Winter Show are now nearly upon us, and the clocks will move forwards, signaling the start of British Summer Time, on Sunday 27th March.
Collaboration with JGM Gallery
If you have visited or passed our gallery recently, you will have noticed a vibrant and expressive artwork hanging in our display window. The work is by Maggie Porter and forms part of the new Exhibition of Aboriginal Art being presented by our neighbours JGM Gallery.
"Smoothing the Path of Love..."
Nowadays young ladies may not be thrilled to receive an iron, a sewing or washing machine from their boyfriend or fiancée as part of the courtship ritual leading up to marriage, but in the Scandinavian folk art tradition they were treasured gifts to be proudly owned and displayed.
"LOVED UP"
Love tokens and wedding gifts form a significant role in the tradition of European Folk Art. Hearts and other motifs are often found on hand made and individually decorated artefacts that were created as gifts in the courtship ritual.
New Dates, New Venue Announced For The New York Winter Show 2022
America’s venerable, long established Art and Antiques Show, postponed by the consequences of Covid, from its historic January showing in the Park Avenue Armoury, will now be running from 1st - 10th April, with the Opening Night Preview on Thursday 31st.
“ART POPULAIRE” LOVE TOKEN
A very rare example of French “Art Populaire” pottery from Provence, decorated with stylised “Cigales” or Cicadas. These insects are the traditional symbolic motif of the Provence region in the South of France and are considered good luck charms.
"Beyond The Mainland" | Recent Works by Tom Hickman
Tom Hickman lives and works alone in a croft on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He has no mobile phone, television, tablet or wifi.
"at home"
For our 2021 Bada Week Exhibition we thought it would be interesting to loosely draw on this resource and explore a few various different naive and primitive house-form motifs, architectural models, depictions of buildings and homes that we have discovered in multiple media and some of the ways that they have been incorporated into the narrative of British and European Folk Art.
Winter Catalogue 2021..."Collecting, it's just a thing"
The pieces are as fresh and exciting as they were when we originally sourced them and several of them will be included in our forthcoming Winter Catalogue #60, alongside pieces from different collections and other recent acquisitions.
"Love Token" by Cecilia Charlton
Our 10th Contemporary Collaboration installation is now on view in our Battersea Gallery window, showcasing the work of the talented artist Cecilia Charlton.
Two Stylised Shorebird Decoys
There is something uniquely individual about vintage decoy birds, particularly the more diminutive slender shorebirds with their alert tilted heads, folded wings and elegant sinuous necks.
