Feature: THE BIG PICTURE - Regent’s Canal and Camden Town Tube station in The Millinery Works’ third annual summer exhibition of Modern and Contemporary British Art.
Published: 08 July 2010
CONTEMPORARY paintings of the Regent’s Canal and Camden Town Tube station feature in The Millinery Works’ third annual summer exhibition of Modern and Contemporary British Art.
Important charcoal drawings by the late abstract artist William Scott and a very early (1913) British Modernist gouache by Phelan Gibb are also on show at the Islington gallery as part of the exhibition, which runs until August 28.
In total 69 works featuring 31 artists are on show, having been selected from private collections or from the artists themselves.
The Millinery Works, which also specialises in furniture and effects from the British Arts and Crafts Movement, opened in Southgate Road, near Essex Road, in 1996, its owners having previously traded in Camden Passage for 26 years.
The gallery holds up to 10 exhibitions a year, specialising in local and British artists, glass makers, sculptors, ceramicists and furniture designers. Its summer shows have gained a reputation for good quality works by known artists at affordable prices.
London artists on display in this year’s summer show include James Mackinnon – who has two pictures including a splendid oil on board of the Regent’s Canal at Broadway Market, East London (pictured) – and Eric Rimmington who has three images on show including an oil entitled Shirley & Tracy in Camden Town Underground.
An oil on canvas painting entitled An Islington Garden by local artist Frank Stanton is in the exhibition, as are works by Graham Sutherland and Alfred Munnings PRA and Edward Wolfe RA.
• Visit www.millineryworks.co.uk for a full list of artists on display.
The Millinery Works Gallery, 87 Southgate Road, Islington, N1. 020 7359 2019.
Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 12-5pm