Charleston House – Art Trip

Last week the Art department, along with PGCE students Roshan and Jasmine, took Year 10 Art pupils on a trip to Charleston House in Firle. 

It was a fabulous day out, beginning with a tour of the iconic house which was famously home to the radical Bloomsbury Group for over a period of 40 years. This was followed by viewing the two exhibitions; a solo show by contemporary Japanese artist Izumi Kato, whose work is a blending of the ancient and the futuristic, and takes the form of painted rock sculptures and paintings of eels biting bottoms.

The other show was ‘Inventing Post-Impressionism’- depending on your humour, a slightly less amusing group show,  however it did include a beautiful still life of apples by Paul Cézanne which was famously once left in a hedge outside Charleston.

The pupils then picnicked in the sun-soaked gardens and had the afternoon to work independently, drawing and painting en plein air by the lake and the pond. The weather was gorgeous, everyone was in good spirits, and the pupils were all very well behaved and some were described as ‘charming!’

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