{"id":397081,"date":"2026-04-25T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397081\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:54:08","slug":"sheila-fells-artwork-returns-to-public-after-65-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397081\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila Fell&#8217;s artwork returns to public after 65 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A beloved artwork by a renowned landscape artist has returned to public display after more than 60 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheila Fell&#8217;s Pathway to a Farm, painted by the Cumbrian artist in 1959, was acquired by its sole owners in 1961, who displayed it in their Cockermouth home until recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting did not move far from its home of 65 years and was acquired by the town&#8217;s Castlegate House Gallery, with the painting now on public display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Art expert at the gallery Steve Swallow said: &#8220;It is one of the best works by Sheila Fell and certainly the most significant painting by her that we have handled in the last 15 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beloved artwork by a renowned landscape artist has returned to public display after more than 60 years.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397082,"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":["post-397081","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-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397081","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=397081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}