http://www.painters-online.co.uk April 2021 11p Jill Leman working on
painting ideas for this year’s RWS
spring exhibition at the Bankside
Gallery, London from mid-MarchPlans are afoot as we go to press for the Bankside Gallery’s annual RWS Spring Exhibition,
which will, hopefully, open mid-March. Members have been busily preparing work to
submit to the exhibition – including the president, Jill Leman, who shares a taster of her
work with us here (above). Jill paints in watercolour and acrylic, working from her studio
in north London. Keep a look out on the Royal Watercolour Society’s website for updated
information at http://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.ukRWS Springtime
David Hockney in Normandy
Spring Cannot be Cancelled is a new publication based on correspondence
between David Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford. The book is lavishly
illustrated with the artist’s drawings and paintings made during lockdown from his
home in Normandy (see the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London from
March 21 to August 22), as well as works by other artists, such as van Gogh, Monet,
Bruegel and others. The book reveals Hockney’s fascination for northern France
and the themes of light, colour, space, perception, water and trees. ‘We have lost
touch with nature,’ he writes, ‘rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it.’
Spring Cannot Be Cancelled by David Hockney and Martin Gayford is published
on March 25 by Thames & Hudson, £25.