Bromley Art Society Bringing Artists Together since 1947

Not one to be inspired to visit the mainstream exhibitions I paid my first visit to the RA Summer Exhibition in July. Overall impression was that you needed to do something weird and whacky to attract the selectors eye. This impression has been endorsed further by looking at Not the Summer Exhibition which indeed has more of what you would expect to see at an art exhibition. You can view this one on-line.

Yes there were some that were very clever, others that made your eyes jump, but none that would have enticed me to buy but then the friend I was with did purchase an etching. Copies of etchings, etc., were selling well.What caught my eye: Blutbld etching by Farah Syed, A Child is Born by Mary Cossey, this one had universal appeal and, much to my surprise, I was to see more of her work at Horniman’s just a couple of weeks later. Beans from Tanzania - oil on anel, by Margaret Foreman, Winter Hedge, thread, by Ann Ward, 2 by Leonard Rosoman RA, Storm from the Kitchen Window, pen,ink and crayon, Rams by Thicket, chalk and pastel by Diana Armfield RA, A View, oil on MDF, by Hannah Birkett, Leaf by Anne Kyyro Quinn, wool felt, Lost in Translation by Chuya Ikeda, mixed media, and the postcard colleges by David Mach RA, which were really
stunning and very clever.

Would I go again? Maybe.

Ann Holdway