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New Art Gallery
Just Now

Every large city needs a purpose built Art Gallery which is not just a display space for the local art and crafts.
Peterborough has a small gallery called the Arthouse, which is warm and welcoming, and a gallery section in the museum nearby, but now the City is to have a purpose designed gallery joined on to its new Concert Hall, above the busy 'Gaston' restaurant in Broadway.
The opening exhibition features the famous and talented but also some less well-known, but equally exciting, painters and sculptors. The Gallery aims to be one of the best provincial galleries around, and to attract those interested in educating the young to appreciate the art that surrounds them, as well as drawing serious students to its doors.
Anthony Green lives in Cambridgeshire and is a keen supporter of the serious aims of the gallery. To this end, he is exhibiting his work along with two RA members.
Fred Eve, my husband has shown and sold works in the RA and is one of the painters who is supporting the show.
Here are some details about his life and work:-
Born in Essex in 1947, he studied art at Southend Technical College and then at Birmingham - Margaret Street.
He moved to painting abstracts, as did most students of the late 60's, and the manipulation of colour to 'bend' the surface of a painting has been a recurrent theme, founded in landscape. He has worked on a long series of black and white pictures in the past, as in his Cresswell Crags series shown at the Harley Gallery in 1997, but has returned to colourful, almost expressionistic abstracts reflecting his deep love of the Provencal and Australian landscapes and bright, strong hues.
The Gallery is open to casual visitors during normal working hours but is not officially set up yet and the opening is on April 5th. 2001. As well as being an exciting project for Peterborough and the Arts, it is very exciting for Fred to be part of such a new and needed project.