Evolver - May and June 2021

13 VISUAL ARTS Please check venue opening times and access before travelling ‘FLORAL FEAST’ 18 May - 12 June Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster, TA19 0AN. Tuesday - Friday 9.30am - 4pm, Saturday 9.30am - 3pm. 01460 54973 / themeetinghouse.org.uk . “Banquet installation. Celebrate exhibitions reopening in a confectionery of colour. Watercolour artist Susan Thomson’s gorgeous birds and flowers are set around sculptor Liz Watt’s table laid with exotic porcelain pieces.” LEONARD GREEN: ‘IN SEARCH OF NORTHERN SOUL’ 18 May - 19 June ACE Arts, Market Place, SOMERTON, TA11 7NB. Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. 01458 273008 / acearts.co.uk . “Energetic movement in the dances related to Northern Soul music provide the energy for these paintings. Powerful, dynamic compositions overlaid with gestural drawing.” EMMA HOUSLEY: ‘CONSTELLATIONS’ 18 May - 19 June ACE Arts, Market Place, SOMERTON, TA11 7NB. Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. 01458 273008 / acearts.co.uk . “Vivid abstract works layered with colour and drama, describing how we experience powerful memories and sensations. These paintings, always striving for balance, reflect a desire to make sense of how we relate to the physical world and to each other.” SUSAN DERGES ‘THE OBSERVER AND THE OBSERVED’ (1992) Gelatin silver print, copyright Susan Derges LANDSCAPE PORTRAIT: NOW AND THEN “ Landscape Portrait: Now and Then explores the links between landscape painting and portraiture at Hestercombe since the eighteenth century, juxtaposing this history with contemporary works from the past sixty years. Set to open 17 May 2021, with online previews in April, the show brings works by Andy Warhol, Derek Jarman, Claudette Johnson, Susan Derges, Leon Kossoff, Patrick Caulfield, Gilbert and George and Balraj Khanna to Somerset for the first time.” 17 May - 25 July: Hestercombe Gallery, Hestercombe Gardens, CHEDDON FITZPAINE, Taunton, TA2 8LG. Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 3pm. £13.30 / £6.65 (includes entry to gardens). 01823 413923 / hestercombe.com . Ilminster Arts Centre at the Meeting House EAST STREET, ILMINSTER, SOMERSET TA19 0AN themeetinghouse.org.uk • 01460 54973 Call for Entries 18 May - 12 June Tuesday - Friday 9.30am - 4pm, Saturday 9.30am - 3pm On the final day the exhibition will close at 1pm

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