Resurgam at the Parsonage

A new exhibition opens today, March 8, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum: Resurgam by Bob Littleford. This is the press release:

Resurgam, an exhibition of watercolour paintings by artist Bob Littleford, will be on display at the Brontë Parsonage Museum from Saturday 8 March until 19 April 2008.
Bob Littleford has presented the Brontė Society with one of the paintings from his collection. The picture will be on show as part of the exhibition which opens on Saturday.
Bob Littleford is a self-taught artist who was born in Oldham in 1945 and worked riveting door handles and as a dustman before becoming a full-time artist in the 1970s. He began producing paintings inspired by the Brontës after hearing Bernard Herrmann’s opera adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and Resurgam is an exhibition of new work based on his response to Brontë poems. Each painting in the exhibition takes inspiration from the title or a line from a Brontë poem.
Jenna Holmes, Arts Officer at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, said:
“We are very grateful to Bob Littleford for donating this painting to our collection. The aim of the contemporary arts programme is to commission new responses to the Brontës and so it is fantastic to have a record of Bob’s work in the archive”.
The exhibition takes place as part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s contemporary arts programme. It is free on admission to the museum and the paintings will be for sale.
Following his first solo exhibition at Salford City Art Gallery, Bob Littleford has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions. He has shown at the Royal Academy, was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1986 and is a member of the British Watercolour Society.
The exhibition, running until April 19, is free on admission to the museum. Open 11am-5pm, phone 01535 642323. (Jenna Holmes)

Above: I flew as in a dream and Last Lines.

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Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontë Parsonage Museum