{"id":256133,"date":"2026-01-25T00:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/256133\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:21:09","slug":"robin-wheeldon-oil-paintings-capture-rural-life-in-lincolnshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/256133\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Wheeldon oil paintings capture rural life in Lincolnshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An exhibition of oil paintings depicting rural life in Lincolnshire has gone on display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The paintings, by Robin Wheeldon who grew up in Heighington near Lincoln, capture the county&#8217;s agricultural and industrial heritage, and are on show at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Visitor experience manager Steve Dunk said: &#8220;He captures the Lincolnshire landscape and the communities who work it so poignantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The exhibition, titled called Beneath Big Skies, is open until Sunday 31 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Wheeldon was born in 1945 and grew up next to a working farm in Heighington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His formative years watching work on the farm shaped a lifelong love of the Lincolnshire landscape which is reflected in his work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The paintings study the landscape and show the evolution of the harvest, from horse-drawn binder to the steam-powered thresher and combine harvester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Dunk said: &#8220;These stories of land, labour and legacy complement the incredible artefacts we have on display perfectly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exhibition of oil paintings depicting rural life in Lincolnshire has gone on display. The paintings, by Robin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-256133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}