Film exhibition of Artist in Residency work at Winterbourne House & Gardens

Back in May I finished my Artist in Residency at Winterbourne House & Gardens but was unable to hold an exhibition of all the work I’d completed due to the pandemic. Life is moving on and although Winterbourne is now open again, it has been reorganised and any possible exhibition still looks a long way off.
So I have set up the work at home and filmed it. It’s part exhibition of works (paintings, print, textiles and embroidery) and part artists talk where I tell you some stories behind the paintings or processes I have used.
I hope you might have a watch – it’s on YouTube here and it’s completely free to view.
I have updated my website to show all the work and a lot of the products I had made which were destined for sale in the shop during the run of my exhibition, if you fancy taking a look www.claireleggett.co.uk

The Tutors Exhibition at macbirmingham is in it’s last week closing on Sun 9 Jun. It been beautifully curated and also shows the very diverse range of creative talents that we Artist Tutors bring to our roles working at macbirmingham. It’s inspiring I tell ya! Catch the last week if you can x

Coach House Gallery, Winterbourne Botanical Gardens

This week I hung an exhibition of my work at the Coach House Gallery which is at Winterbourne Botanical Gardens, Birmingham.

Winterbourne is part of the Birmingham University campus.

It’s an Edwardian Arts and Crafts house built for the family of John Nettlefold in 1903.

Photo credit: http://www.winterbourne.org.uk

It’s last owner bequeathed it to the University where it became the Botanical Gardens in 1944.

It’s one of those magical places that has held onto the history of the past and simultaneously successfully embraced the future.

And my colourful work has ushered Spring in a little earlier than Mother Nature (it’s trying to snow today)

Exhibition hanging takes patience and stamina (good step-ladder muscles!)

One of the most fun things to do was fill the glass exhibition case.

I have laid out sketchbooks, pattern design swatches, an old paint palette, some tubes of paint, brushes, pencils and design work that shows how I use my original paintings digitally.

It was fun to set the scene.

And now I’m happily heading off to a restful weekend – there’s a G & T with my name on it!

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Exhibition is up until 12th March

Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12kG08wxatk

This is looking very exciting… happy weekend x