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This year sees a new format for exhibitions at the Back o’ the Shop Art Cafe in Terrington. After 4 years of predominantly solo artists shows the gallery are starting a programme of thematic curated group shows which begin this March with the botanically inspired show Bloom. At a rather apt time of year after a hard, cold winter Bloom brings an early start to spring and the colour of the new season. With artists working in a variety of media to explore these organic floral forms the show moves from the disciplined classical botanical illustration to vibrant contemporary stained glass and delicate leaf forms captured in silver clay. Not many people know that Richard Spruce, one of the Greatest Victorian Botanical explorers is buried here in Terrington, born near Ganthorpe in 1817. At the age of 16 he drew up a neatly written list of all the plants he had found around Ganthorpe – arranged alphabetically and containing 403 species, this is something that I engaged with at a slightly earlier age obsessively drawing, listing and pressing the flowers I found down the local lanes, not quite to the same success as my interest was somewhat more fleeting. Spruce went on to spend 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to the mouth and was one of the first Europeans’ to visit the places from which he collected his specimens. After his years of exploration he returned to the area and spent the last 17 years of his life in the nearby village of Coneysthorpe
This exhibition, as well as being a shameless revelation in the beautiful world of the botanical is a nod to the work of perhaps our most notable local residents.
The show runs from March the 3rd – 26th May, open Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 4pm.
Ian, Shelley and Paul
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