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Exhibition Symposium: Lucy Kemp-Welch and the Art of Painting Animals

February 27, 2023

Join us for a whole day event for our exhibition In Her Own Voice: The Art of Lucy Kemp-Welch. This event will feature highlights talks and discussion from curator David Boyd Haycock and other Art Historians and Fine Art experts.  Find out more about Kemp-Welch’s life and how she excelled in her field in spite […]

Siam: Through the lens of John Thomson Exhibition

February 27, 2023

In the mid-19th century, John Thomson arrived in Siam with a fairly new invention of those days: photography. The Scot would set up his camera in exquisite parts of Bangkok and take pictures. This exhibition will display rare and unseen images by one of the first photographers works from the Far East. Some of the […]

In Her Own Voice: The Art of Lucy Kemp-Welch

December 21, 2022

1 April – 1 October 2023 Lucy Kemp-Welch is one of Britain’s foremost equestrian painters in the tradition of British impressionism. She was an expert horsewoman with an innate understanding and love of her equine subjects, especially working horses. From the late 1890s to the mid-1920s she was one of the country’s best-known female artists. […]