The Independent features Stanley Lewis

The Independent art section (or TheIndyArts to twitterers!) have featured Stanley Lewis and the exhibition which opens on Saturday in today's paper and now online at http://ind.pn/bp7m0T.

Take a look, they've put a fab sneak preview of the show on their In Pictures image player too. KP

Stanley Lewis in The Telegraph

Interest in the story of Stanley Lewis, who's first major exhibition opens on Saturday (12 June) less than a year after his death at 103 years of age, has reached the national press, with The Telegraph featuring an article on the Welsh artist in today's art section. We're hoping this will start the ball rolling and have high hopes for this fascinating show, with Lewis's large mural works looking stunning in a modern gallery space for the first time.

To read the article click on the image, left, or on the long link below.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/7809355/Stanley-Lewis-the-artist-who-found-fame-at-101.html

World of Interiors Article

The May issue of The World of Interiors has a fantastic six page spread on Stanley Lewis's work and home in advance of the forthcoming retrospective of this little-known artist's work at Bedford Gallery.

Interviewed shortly before his death last year at the age of 103, the article shows a fascinating glimpse of an artist who was friends with Dylan Thomas and Augustus John, and who was highly respected by his peers before he left the art scene behind to become principal of Carmathan School of Art. The photographs of Lewis' work crammed into his daughter's Yorkshire home will give you a real taste of the exhibiton to come that will also display work from the Cecil Higgins Collection by Lewis’ tutors and contemporaries, including William Rothenstein, Augustus John and Stanley Spencer. KP

The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his Contemporaries is on display at Bedford Gallery, Castle Lane Bedford, Saturday 12th June – Sunday 5th September 2010

Press

Here are a list of articles in the national press that cover the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Collections and the opening of Bedford Gallery.

Peyton Skipworth has written an article that appears on page 20 of the Royal Academy Magazine, browsable online

Click on the image to the left to read Martin Gayford's article about Bawden in the Telegraph of Saturday 26th September.

Articles appeared in The New Statesman, May 2009 and

Culture 24, April 2009 about the Cecil Higgins collection when the Treasures exhibiton opened in April.

The Tate website still features information on the colelction from the Treasures show that featured at Tate Britain from 15th September 2008 until 15th February 2009.