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Island Life - August/September 2010

British Art Exhibition Local artist wins
Sat 28 August to Tues 31 August 2010
Opens 2pm - 8pm

Following on from their successful exhibitions of Paintings by
Cavendish Morton RI, ROI, John McLagan and James Bullin
will be holding an exhibition of British Art, which will include
many Isle of Wight views by Island artists and others.
Not only will the exhibition feature further works by
Cavendish, but also paintings by Kate Bland, John Caldwell
Brown RSW, Mark Grzegorczyk, Leon Morrocco ARSA, RGI,
Peter Spens, Martin Swan RSMA and ceramics by Andrew
Dowden.
There will also be a number of Victorian & 20c works,
including 30 drawings by Scottish Colourist John Duncan
Ferguson, a ‘4 masted barque taking on a pilot by the Nab
Tower’ by Frank Henry Mason, ‘sailing craft in Cowes’ by
Edward Duncan and ‘late evening on the beach at Bembridge’
by George J Knox.
Norcott House, 68 Foreland Road, Bembridge, Isle of Wight
PO35 5UA.
For enquiries, telephone John McLagan 07970 778088 or
James Bullin 07977 567401. Paintings: Above - Fishing Boats,
Gourdon, Scotland' by Leon Morrocco - Below: Grey Solent 1'
by Mark Grzegorczyk

prestigious award

Judy Barton-Hoare won the Rowney Daler award for her
painting and was presented with her prize of £500 of
painting materials and an award certificate by Her Royal
Highness Princess Michael of Kent at the prestigious Mall
Gallery opposite Buckingham Palace.
Judy remarked when giving her presentation speech that
she had been the Patron of the Society of Women Artists for
so long that she feared she might end up looking like one
of the characters in her award winning painting "Siblings in
Wedding Hats"

Isle of Wight Railway
Restoration reaches The
National Lottery Awards
2010 final
The Isle of Wight Railway Restoration project is a finalist in
the Best Heritage Project category of The National Lottery
Awards 2010.
The Awards are the annual search to find the UK’s favourite
Lottery-funded projects, and the Isle of Wight Railway
Restoration has to beat just two other finalists to win the
title of the UK’s Best Heritage Project. All the projects in
the running
have already
received
Lottery
funding and
the Awards
celebrate how
they have put
that money to
good use.

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