August: Friends' Trip to Rabley

 The Friends last visited Rabley 7 years ago, and was very much looking forward to making a return trip, however, best laid plans etc. It turned out I caught Covid last week and couldn't make the trip after all, Meryl Ainslie kindly suggested that everyone went anyway without me which worked out very well, although of course I missed out on what looks to have been a lovely afternoon out. So thank you to all who provided photos. Looking at the website, I can see that the Summer Exhibition at Rabley Gallery is showing new works by Sara Lee, one of the 'artists in focus' along with other artists mentioned below

Here are a couple of photos showing the lovely, light and airy gallery space at Rabley

and here is Meryl talking with Sara Lee woodcuts behind her

More Sara Lee woodcuts below:

and here:

Emma Stibbon RA, whose work can be seen below in the next two photos

This one above might be 'El Chorro Gorge' a woodcut

On the left, the picture is called 'Blast' and on the right 'White House' in Icelandic, both are made by intaglio printing.

I think the next photo is showing woodcut printing:

and this one below shows Sarah Gillespie's Moth, this is, I think a mezzotint as bought recently by the V & A and Pallant House Gallery, if you click on the link you can see a lot more

I'm going to end this series of photographs kindly taken by visitors to Rabley last week with these lovely photos taken from the outside of the building showing the beautiful setting in the Marlborough Downs

There's something really lovely about the views

And this one of the outside of the gallery

So thank you once again for hosting the Friends Meryl, and for the great photos those who sent them to me