Paula Rego and other things

The Yorskhire Post covers the Paula Rego exhibition at the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate. We already informed some days ago about this new exhibition that includes some of the litographs of her Jane Eyre series.

Picture credits: Power in etchings: A visitor to the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate checks out an exhibition showcasing the work of Portuguese-born Paula Rego. Picture: Bruce Rollinson

Nearly 200 etchings, aqua-tints and lithographs from the 1950s through to her recent Jane Eyre series can be seen at the Mercer Art Gallery in Swan Road, Harrogate. Curator of Art for Harrogate Council Jane Sellars said: "For many painters, etching and lithography are merely an adjunct to their art. Rego is unique in that her graphic works are original in theme as well as execution and manage to carry the same disturbing and subversive power as her paintings." (...)

In 2001-02 she worked at the Curwen Studio, Cambridge, on a group of 25 lithographs based on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
Ms Sellars added: "Jane Eyre is above all a Gothic tale, larger than life, full of cruelties as well as the triumph of love, of repressed sexuality, of torment. It is mad for the imagination of Paula Rego and her manipulation of the story is masterly." The exhibition runs until January 14. The Mercer is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, and on Sundays 2pm to 5pm. Admission is free. (Brian Dooks)

The Trinidad and Tobago Express carries an article about the joys of reading. And the Brontës are one of the few examples provided:

And of course, reading gives us a chance to watch the artist at work, as he paints words to create moving images in our minds' eyes. We revel in the poetry, not only of the words themselves, but the poetry in motion that is the world he presents. We marvel at the ability to weave words of time and space and action and emotions together. The Bronte sisters showed real mastery of this. (Bunny Rambhajan)

Finally we would like to end this post highlighting this comment by Pipsqueak:

Ilam hall just north of the town of Ashbourne in Derbyshire was used for the set of Lowood School and on a routine visit to take photographs of the Hall, I wandered onto the set. Panoramic images of filming in progress can be seen at this web.

We have been unable to open the pictures, but we are not posting now from our usual base of operations, so maybe it's some local problem.

Categories: In the News, Art-Exhibitions, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV