{"id":250300,"date":"2026-01-25T00:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250300\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:06:11","slug":"robin-wheeldon-oil-paintings-capture-rural-life-in-lincolnshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250300\/","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":250301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-250300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}