Artists celebrate landscape
which is source of inspiration

Sculptures and paintings from Beverley Art Gallery’s permanent collection, include a piece in Portland stone by Peter Brown, who is based at Calf House Studios at Bishop Burton, in East Yorkshire, entitled Birth of an Angel, and landscapes by celebrated Beverley 20th century artist Fred Elwell, whose travels took him to Switzerland, France and Corsica.

Two artists, who died recently, have work on show – Margaret Parker, who was born in the South Yorkshire mining village of Deepcar, and who settled in East Yorkshire in the 1960s, and Islington-born James Neal, one-time Yorkshire Post art critic, who was born in Islington in 1918 and made his home in Hull.

Curator of collections Gerardine Mulcahy assembled the artworks to celebrate the restoration of a 19th century painting by JS Burgarth, found “in tatters” in the stores. It is now on display – probably for the first time in the gallery’s 100-year history. “It is probably North European, probably German, we really don’t know much about him at all,” she said. “We discovered it in the store, the canvas was completely torn. We would very much like to know more about Burgarth – even if someone can just identify the scene.”