A Walk in the Woods - A Celebration of Trees in British Art
Image credit: George Price Boyce (1826 – 1897) At Binsey
near Oxford, 1862, watercolour on paper.
30th September 2017 - 25th February 2018
Wixamtree Gallery, Free Entry
This autumn, The Higgins Bedford pays homage to the tree with a new exhibition celebrating the role of trees and woodland in British landscape painting. Drawn from the world-famous Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Collection, some forty watercolours, drawings and prints from the past two centuries will be on show and will include works by John Constable, John Sell Cotman, Edward Lear, Samuel Palmer, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland and Lucian Freud. The show will highlight the importance and enduring popularity of trees in art, and explore various themes which have evolved in artists’ depictions of nature: magical and dreaming trees, trees in the countryside, the pleasures of woods and the lure of the exotic.
The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with Christiana Payne, Professor of History of Art at Oxford Brookes University.