Brook Gallery Exhibition & Talk

The illustrations of John Buckland Wright
- the art of creating beautifully illustrated books

Thursday 15th September, 6.30pm
Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton

An online catalogue will be published in August with further details of the event and how to reserve a place.

The exhibition will open in September 2011 (date to be advised)

Link: www.brookgallery.co.uk

Professor Christopher Buckland Wright will talk about the work of his late father, John Buckland Wright (1897 – 1954), celebrated artist, engraver and illustrator who was distinguished by his very fine and sensitive use of line and beautiful, imaginative illustrations.

There will be an important retrospective exhibition of his work at the Brook Gallery to coincide with the Literary Festival.

The exhibition and talk will cover illustrations the artist made during the 1930s for the Dutch publishers, the Halcyon Press, and Folemprise, and images from the books he illustrated for the Golden Cockerel Press from 1936 into the 1950s.

Works created for his magnum opus, Keat’s Endymion, will also be featured alongside engravings for his own ‘JBW Editions’, and illustrations produced for the Folio Society.

During the 1930s, John Buckland-Wright was co-director of the experimental print studio ‘Atelier 17’ in Paris run by Stanley Hayter.

After the Second World War, he taught at the Camberwell and Slade schools of art.