Saturday 30th March – Tuesday 30th April
You are warmly invited to join Lawrie and ourselves for an opening drinks reception from 5pm Saturday 30th April
Doone Valley Gallery are delighted to present an exhibition of paintings by Lawrie Baldwyn.
Born in London in 1942, Lawrie Baldwyn is a British artist currently residing on the edge of Exmoor National Park and in Mortagua, Portugal.
Lawrie’s artistic journey began at the Ealing School of Art, where he studied from 1958 to 1963. Lawrie’s first exhibitions were at the Artists International Association in 1961 and 1962 at their Lisle Street venue in Soho, London. Also in 1962 Lawrie was included in Young Contemporaries at the RBA Galleries, an important exhibition that promoted the best young talents in contemporary British painting. The exhibition, largely run by students, was traditionally a spontaneous and somewhat chaotic event, often lacking in funding and organization. Nevertheless, it managed to attract considerable attention. The 1962 exhibition, served as an early platform for British Pop Art. Amongst the fellow exhibitors were Peter Blake, David Hockney, Frank Bowling, Derek Boshier, Patrick Procktor and R. B. Kitaj. The review of the exhibition in The Times observed, ‘if this year’s brilliant “Young Contemporaries” exhibition is anything to go by, British art is in for a healthy, lively period. The exhibition (particularly the far room) fairly bubbles with bright ideas and visual excitement, which is more important than the fact that some of the talent may prove to be a flash in the pan. Derivative influences abound, but that, too, is irrelevant; one does not ask an apprentice artist to spring fully armed from the head of Zeus but only to be discerning in his choice of exemplars and intelligent in his use of them. Intelligence of this kind is noticeable throughout the exhibition, and it is interesting to see in what directions it is currently aimed’.
