Special ‘Places’ For Local Artists In Nash and Gill Exhibition

THREE Thame professional artists and printmakers are currently exhibiting their work in support of a nationally acclaimed exhibition about the lives and work of two of Buckinghamshire?s most renowned artists, John Nash and Eric Gill.
Christine Tacq, Heather Hunter and Sue Napier and three other Buckinghamshire artists were invited to make an artist?s book to go into the Buckinghamshire County Museum?s exhibition, currently on show at the museum in Aylesbury, called Clear Skies and Storm clouds: visions of Buckinghamshire between the Wars.

Their book is the result of three months of collaborative work throughout the duration of the exhibition, exploring how artists share experiences and work together, as Eric Gill?s community did at Piggotts, near High Wycombe, during the 1920s and 30s.
Christine and her fellow artists were chosen because they had worked in groups before, and because they spent time exploring their own creative ?places?, they named their book just that.

Also considered in the exhibition, Clear skies and storm clouds (on until June 2), is the work of Nash and Gill?s contemporaries, Claire Leighton, John?s brother Paul Nash and Gill?s close friend, David Jones.

The exhibition is one of the museum?s most visited exhibitions ever.

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Photo: The Cornfield by John Nash, set in Chalfont Common in Buckinghamshire. This bucolic scene, completed in 1918, was his first painting that didn’t depict war