Exhibition of Paintings at Bingham Library

From now until the end of February I have an exhibition of recent paintings at Bingham Library. Opening hours are: Mondays 9 – 1 ; Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 9 -7 ; Wednesdays 9 -12 ; Saturdays 9 – 4 ; Sundays closed.

Bingham Library is situated in Eaton Place, off the Market Place, and there is free car parking nearby (access via Newgate Street).

The works on display are unframed oil paintings. They are mostly townscapes, with locations in West Bridgford, Nottingham, and London. Details are as follows:

Autumnal North London    £80

Inspired by a visit to York Way in Islington

 

Browne’s and Bellamy’s    £100

The location is Cyril Road in West Bridgford. The title refers to former nearby residents

 

By the Park    £80

Imaginary West Bridgford. A hybrid of Holme and Albert Roads

 

Hickling    £80

The Grantham Canal basin

 

Hopperesque at Hoylake    £80

The breezy north west corner of the Wirral

 

Midland, bound for Cricklewood    £100

The title is from Sir John Betjeman’s “Parliament Hill Fields” (1945). An imaginary version of Lismore Circus, an area now demolished and rebuilt

 

Notting Hill night    £100

Ledbury Road, as it might have been before gentrification

 

Place de Dublin    £150

This strange road junction in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, the “Europe” quarter behind the Gare St Lazare, was also the subject of a famous 1877 painting by Gustave Caillebotte

 

Road near the Park    £100

Based on Edward Road in West Bridgford

 

Ryde Pier    £80

The pedestrian pier at Ryde, Isle of Wight

 

Summer Shadows    £150

Holland Park Avenue in west London

 

The Old School    £100

The path in front of Musters Road Infants’ School in West Bridgford. A Christmas Party is about to end, and a steam train on the adjacent Midland Railway has just passed. Otherwise, “Nothing has changed it’s still the same”.

 

The Test Match    £150

An optimistic view of a much loved pub in Gordon Road, West Bridgford

 

Weekday Cross Junction    £150

A Nottingham location, where the Great Central Railway entered the tunnel leading northwards into the Victoria Station. A spot now almost unidentifiable beneath concrete and trams