Retrospective Art Exhibition

30th August to 21st September

Retrospective Art Exhibition

Preview: Friday 30th August 6-8pm

Wildwood Art Gallery in Horrabridge is holding a unique exhibition celebrating a lifetime’s work by the Westcountry artist, Richard Slater (Royal Institute). This retrospective exhibition presents a diverse collection, with unseen paintings from the 1950s and 1960s and a number of works exhibited formerly by the Royal Institute in London. Richard Slater was born in London in 1927 and attended Hornsey School of Art. Throughout his career he has excelled in depicting the English landscape in all its richness, resulting in a well-crafted, poetic and often allegorical style which places him at the centre of the British Neo–romantic movement. In the 1950s his work was exhibited with the World Touring Exhibition of the Arts Council, and at the Royal Academy. In 1999 he was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and is now an honorary member of the Royal Institute, as well as a member of the St Ives Society of Artists. His paintings are in the permanent art collections of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter and of the BBC; they are both an enduring joy and an investment for the future.