Nature in Art is a museum and art gallery at
Wallsworth Hall,
Twigworth
Twigworth is a small village near Gloucester in the Borough of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. The population of Twigworth Parish was 340 people in mid-2014 in 170 households. A planning application for 725 new homes in the parish of Twig ...
,
Gloucester
Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ...
,
England
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, dedicated exclusively to art inspired by nature in all forms, styles and media.
The museum has twice been specially commended in the National Heritage Museum of the Year Awards.
Trust
The gallery is operated by the Nature in Art Trust,
a registered charity (No: 1000553
)
set up in 1982
as the "Society for Wildlife Art of the Nations".
The trust purchased Wallsworth Hall in 1987.
The Trust's patron is
Princess Alexandra.
Its President, until her death in January 2010, was Lady
Philippa Scott
Felicity Philippa, Lady Scott ( Talbot-Ponsonby; 22 November 1918 – 5 January 2010) was a British wildlife conservationist.
Personal life
Born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Scott later moved to England, and worked in the code school at Bletc ...
,
who had succeeded her husband Sir
Peter Scott
Sir Peter Markham Scott, (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in ...
in that role.
Its Vice-Presidents
are Dr.
Heather Angel,
Lord Barber of Tewkesbury, Dr.
David Bellamy
David James Bellamy (18 January 1933 – 11 December 2019) was an English botanist, television presenter, author and environmental campaigner.
Early and personal life
Bellamy was born in London to parents Winifred May (née Green) and Thoma ...
, Sonja Fuchs OBE,
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach,
David Gower
David Ivon Gower (born 1 April 1957) is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer who was captain of the England cricket team during the 1980s. Described as one of the most stylish left-handed batsmen of his era, Gower played 117 Te ...
OBE, David Lank CM, Professor Sir
Ghillean Prance
Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance (born 13 July 1937) is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting the ...
, Dr.
Shirley Sherwood
Shirley Angela Sherwood (née Cross, born 1 July 1933) is a British writer, botanist and philanthropist.
Early life
She was born Shirley Cross. Sherwood was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford. She took a bachelor's degree in botany and a D ...
, and Judge David Turner, QC.
Exhibits
![Sculpture Garden at Wallsworth Hall - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Sculpture_Garden_at_Wallsworth_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1294120.jpg)
Among its permanent collection are works by notable nature artists including
Eric Ennion
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization).
The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...
,
George Edward Lodge
George Edward Lodge FZS, (3 December 1860 – 5 February 1954)Savory ''op. cit.'' was a British illustrator of birds and an authority on falconry.
Early life
George Edward Lodge was born at Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire. His father, Samuel Lodg ...
,
David Shepherd,
Archibald Thorburn
Archibald Thorburn FZS (31 May 1860, Lasswade, Midlothian – 9 October 1935, Hascombe, Surrey) was a Scottish artist who specialised in wildlife, painting mostly in watercolour. He regularly visited Scotland to sketch birds in the wild, his f ...
and
Charles Tunnicliffe
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA (1 December 1901 – 7 February 1979) was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. He spent most of his working life on the Isle of Anglesey. He is popularly ...
; as well as more general artists such as
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
.
The gallery holds regular exhibitions of loaned works; subjects of those dedicated to the work of a single artist have included
Joy Adamson
Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson ( Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, ''Born Free'', describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. ''Born Free'' was printed in several langua ...
, Peter Scott and David Shepherd. Other visiting exhibitions have included the annual
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is an annual international wildlife photography competition staged by the Natural History Museum in London, England. There is an exhibition of the winning and commended images each year at the museum, which later ...
.
References
Further reading
* Nature in Art, (2008) "A Brief history of Wallsworth Hall". Gloucester:Nature in Art
External links
*
Selected artworks from the collection, via The Art Fund
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Art museums and galleries in Gloucestershire
Museums in Gloucester
Organizations established in 1982
Charities based in Gloucestershire
1982 establishments in England
Art museums established in 1982