We are very proud that The Lots Road Group, together with public support, have raised £250 for the Oxfam Mother Appeal – and which the government will double to £500!
This total of £250 came from a combination of a percentage book sales at the exhibition plus postcard sales and other donations. Many thanks for to everyone who came along and gave such generous support.
If you would like to find out more about where your money is going and what it will do, please visit the Oxfam Mother Appeal.
The Lots Road Group’s Motherhood exhibition has now moved to The Child and Family Practice in Islington from Monday 31st March 2014 to Monday 14th April 2014.
The Child and Family Practice
8 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AA
Monday to Friday, 9.00 am – 8.00 pm
Sat and Sun 9.30am – 5.00 pm
Closest tube: Goodge Street
Motherhood book: Price £16.69+p&p from http://blur.by/1n0HsKF
The Lots Road Group Motherhood Exhibition
Kensington and Chelsea Today featured the The Lots Road Group, an association of portrait painters in Chelsea, with their free exhibition on ‘Motherhood’ at the Chelsea Library from Thursday 20 March until Mother’s Day, Sunday 30 March.
“The exhibition celebrates mothers, grandmothers and mothers-in-law featuring 16 portraits by a group of figurative artists who met while studying portraiture at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea, which is one of the few art colleges in Britain to focus on portraiture, figurative painting and sculpture.”
Artist Stella Tooth
Artist Stella Tooth joined the occasional series on motherhood and creativity on www.storyofmum.com, sharing how her art links to her experience of mothering, and talks about her upcoming group exhibition “Motherhood”.
The exhibition by the Lots Road Group takes place at the Chelsea Library, Kings Road, SW3 from Thursday, 20 March until Mother’s Day (30 March).
The exhibition is accompanied by a book which contains all the portraits featured in the exhibition which are executed in a variety of media from oils, acrylics and pastels to print. Some were completed from life, others after death from studies and photographs. The book will be sold at the exhibition in aid of Oxfam’s Mothers Appeal.
The exhibition and the book also provide “a fascinating insight into the craft of portrait painting: from the artist who set aside her oils for speedier pastels to portray her mother with life-long back problems, to another who describes the quick work required to capture the likeness of a mother-in-law, suffering from Alzheimer’s, who would ‘forget’ her presence, to another who listened to the music she used to share with her mother to help her complete the portrait begun before her death. ”
The Heatherley School of Fine Art’s Principal Emeritus, John Walton RA, writes about the portrait he painted of his own mother in the foreword to the book.
The Lots Road Group was established to “facilitate camaraderie and provide a platform for exhibiting and maintaining professional networks. In 2014 they have come together to create this tribute to motherhood.”
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