\n The mayor of Bewdley, Councillor Nicole Harper, opened the exhibition in Bewdley Museum on Friday (October 3) with several guests in attendance including Robert Plant.\n<\/p>\n
\n The exhibition, which is part of Bewdley Festival, features the works of artists Colin Simmonds and Peter Shread.\n<\/p>\n
\n The different\u00a0methods of working\u00a0make\u00a0for an interesting and challenging exhibition with Colin’s free-flowing oils contrasting with Peter’s sharp lino cuts.\n<\/p>\n
\n Colin and Peter are both members of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.\n<\/p>\n
\n Colin Simmonds trained at Moseley School of Art and Birmingham College of Art in the 1950s.\n<\/p>\n
\n His early works were fairly abstract, but he then went through a phase of naturalistic paintings inspired by the Wyre Forest.\n<\/p>\n
\n His recent work shows a more expressive approach and a more varied subject matter.\n<\/p>\n
\n He has always enjoyed working with oil paint and the freedom it gives to picture making.\n<\/p>\n
\n Work has been exhibited at the John Moores Exhibition, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the London Pastel Society and the Europe Salon in Brussels.\n<\/p>\n
\n Peter Shread was born in Birmingham in 1940 and trained at Moseley School of Art\u00a0and the Birmingham College of Art. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n He then taught in Dudley until taking early retirement in 1993.\n<\/p>\n
\n The woodcuts and linocuts in the exhibition are relief prints.\n<\/p>\n
\n They are made by drawing the design on a block of lino or wood and then cutting away the background with a knife and gouges.\n<\/p>\n
\n The finished block is then inked with a roller and printed in a press to make a colour print, a separate block is cut for each new colour.\n<\/p>\n
\n These are printed in sequence, one colour\u00a0over another until the image is complete.\n<\/p>\n
\n By adding a transparent medium to the ink, it is possible to overlay two colours to provide a third.\n<\/p>\n
\n In the works, Peter tries to combine the decorative and topographical aspects of the landscape subjects.\n<\/p>\n
\n Welcoming the private view guests to the exhibition, photographer Colin Hill stressed the importance of supporting the visual arts.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “In the three towns of Kidderminster, Stourport and Bewdley, this gallery in the museum is the only public gallery where artists may\u00a0display their works.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The\u00a0exhibition is part of Bewdley Festival which takes place over ten days starting on Friday (October 10).\n<\/p>\n
\n The team are bringing together an exciting and varied range of performers, artists, experts and comedians for the 37th edition of the festival.\n<\/p>\n
\n Opening the Festival on Friday (October 10) is the young blues guitarist, Toby Lee, hailed as \u201cone of the best guitarists in Britain\u201d who has\u00a0performed\u00a0alongside Jools Holland.\n<\/p>\n
\n Other guests include Coronation Street star Mikey North, top comedian Ria Lina, author Jonathan Coe, The Urban Folk Quartet and many more.\n<\/p>\n
\n The art exhibition is open daily from 10am to 4pm until Sunday (October 26).\n<\/p>\n
\n The artists\u00a0will be in residence Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the exhibition and will be happy to discuss their working practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mayor of Bewdley, Councillor Nicole Harper, opened the exhibition in Bewdley Museum on Friday (October 3) with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-195651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}