We Love Events
07 March 2006
Picture perfect
Those looking to get in touch with their inner muse should sign up for drawing classes at Beverley Knowles Fine Art, 88 Bevington Road, Notting Hill. Open to professional artists and complete amateurs alike, Beverley holds classes every Tuesday and Thursday evenings in her super-stylish gallery. Tuesday evening is drawing from a life model, tutored by Jonathan Turner and on Thursdays Jane McAdam Freud teaches portraiture. The classes are relaxed events, an opportunity to unwind after work with a glass of wine, meet new people and learn a new skill or hone existing talents. For more information contact Will on 07881 822877 or 020 8969 0800 or email will@beverleyknowles.com.
24 January 2006
Dan Flavin at the Hayward
One of the most innovative figures in 20th-century art, Flavin used fluorescent light as his medium, adapting mass-produced, commercially-available materials into works of profound intensity and astounding beauty. Moving beyond the traditional realms of painting and sculpture, he became a key exponent of minimalism in the early 1960s, alongside artists such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt. Flavin’s works, complex geometric forms in a series of dazzling colours, transform the dramatic spaces of the Hayward Gallery, itself an icon of 1960s design.Including works spanning his career, from his early ‘icons’ and ‘monuments’ to corner pieces, corridors, barriers and large-scale installations, the exhibition is based around 60 light works. The exhibition runs from the 19th Jan-2nd April 2006.
14 June 2005
Polar Bear Migration
Travel to the remote western coast of Canada for an incredible wildlife experience. In the autumn, the tundra surrounding the town of Churchill becomes a stopover for more than one thousand polar bears on their annual migration, making the town the ‘Polar Bear Capital of the World’. For just one month each year, from mid-October to mid-November, the bears congregate, waiting for the ice to form so that they can move out into the frozen bay where they will spend the winter hunting seals. For those few short weeks, there is no other place on Earth where polar bears can be seen in such concentrations and at such close range.