The Society of Equestrian Art brings it’s Annual Exhibition, ‘The Horse in Art’ to the Garden Rooms, Tennants, Harmby.
Exhibition runs from October 10 th to 29 th
A unique opportunity for art lovers and equestrian enthusiasts to celebrate the beauty of horses through art. Jane Braithwaite SEA, Chair of the Society talks to the Yorkshire Post about the exhibition.
The Society of Equestrian Artists’ Annual ‘Horse in Art Exhibition’ will be hosted for the month of October at The Garden Rooms at Tennants, Leyburn, showcasing the works of some of the UKs most renowned equestrian artists. The exhibition will feature a broad spectrum of styles, from classical to contemporary, in a variety of mediums, from oils, watercolour and pastels to bronze sculptures.
Exhibition runs from October 10 th to 29 th
A unique opportunity for art lovers and equestrian enthusiasts to celebrate the beauty of horses through art. Jane Braithwaite SEA, Chair of the Society talks to the Yorkshire Post about the exhibition.
The Society of Equestrian Artists’ Annual ‘Horse in Art Exhibition’ will be hosted for the month of October at The Garden Rooms at Tennants, Leyburn, showcasing the works of some of the UKs most renowned equestrian artists. The exhibition will feature a broad spectrum of styles, from classical to contemporary, in a variety of mediums, from oils, watercolour and pastels to bronze sculptures.
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00:00 Hello and welcome to the Society for Equestrian Artists Horse in Art annual exhibition here at Tenants.
00:07 I'm the current chair of the Society and I live locally in Coverdale.
00:12 It gives me great pleasure to bring this exhibition up here to Yorkshire.
00:16 I'm a Yorkshire lass born and bred and we've never, actually the Society has never had an exhibition up here before.
00:23 Normally we're down at the Mall Galleries or Christie's in London or Newmarket Palace House
00:28 so it's a real joy for me to bring it up here.
00:31 We have 40 plus artists on display here, the work of 40 plus artists.
00:36 This is my work. We have sculptures.
00:39 Our private view was on Monday evening and we had a really good attendance.
00:44 Lots of awards were given out and I think most people went away very happy.
00:49 A little bit of background about the Society.
00:52 We were formed 44 years ago by John Morris and a group of notable artists including Sir Terence Cuneo
00:59 who was famous for his train paintings in particular, Tom Coates, Norman Hode and Neil Cawthorn
01:07 who many people will recognise his name from his equestrian paintings.
01:13 The emphasis has always been on study of equestrian art and promotion of equestrian excellence in painting.
01:24 This particular painting I did the studies for actually at a workshop that we held up here in Midlam.
01:32 It's actually a Mark Johnston string coming up the road to the Lower Moor Gallops.
01:38 I took photographs and I made sketches and we actually then went up to Carlton Village Hall
01:46 to do a two day workshop with an abstract artist named Leslie Humphrey who'd come over from America.
01:54 We learned her abstraction techniques and it was very interesting and great fun.
01:59 This donkey picture is by honorary member Glynis Mills.
02:03 It's called Second String and it's from a series of paintings she did called Delusions of Grandeur.
02:09 As you can see the donkeys are tethered on the beach waiting to give the rides to the children no doubt
02:14 but they're sort of looking over their shoulder wishing they were galloping with the race horses in training.
02:20 I have a feeling that some of them think well I could do that if I needed to.
02:25 In this particular painting I drew my inspiration from simply driving along the road you can see in the painting.
02:33 I live very close by and these horses happen to be up in the field at rest and I just thought what a lovely peaceful scene.
02:41 I took a few photographs, did a few sketches.
02:45 I actually did arrange the horses myself.
02:48 I used my own artistic license because they were obviously lying in a different position.
02:55 I just love the coverdale and the peacefulness of the scene and the slightly stormy sky.
03:02 These horses are actually trained with Jed O'Keefe.
03:06 This is the work of Amy Goodman.
03:09 She's a full member of the Society.
03:12 She's very well known for doing the War Horse Memorial.
03:16 I believe she's recently just done statues of Mick Jagger and Keith Richard down in Dartford.
03:23 This sculpture features a horse during the Piaf.
03:26 It's by a new member to our Society, Zoe Carmichael.
03:30 It's a bronze.
03:32 It truly is a beautiful sculpture.
03:35 Everything is correct as far as I can see when I have a reasonable eye.
03:40 We're very pleased to have it on display here.
03:44 The exhibition is on until 28 October.
03:47 It's free to enter.
03:50 Here at Tenants there's a wonderful cafe, bistro, gift shop and so on so you can make a day of it.
03:56 Of course you've got Midlam a couple of miles away.
03:59 You can have a look at the horses training on the gallops if you arrive early enough.
04:02 So there's a lot to go out.