Gift Membership for Discover the Great Painters We are now offering Gift Membership for the Discover the Great Painters art talks at £50 per series of 10 talks. The recipient's named membership certificate and card come in a specially designed gift folder featuring details of some of the paintings from the chosen series set within an elaborate frame. Please contact Imogen by phone (01728 621126) or email (imogenlock@sheeranlock.com) specifying the name of recipient and membership of which series of art talks you would like to give. Payment may be made by cheque or cash only. The first series of art talks by John Sheeran covers the Early Renaissance and starts with Giotto on 9 October.
Last Updated: 20/08/2008 12:05:43
 | Web User Website of the FortnightThis glowing review by JJ O'Donoghue has been published in the September 2008 issue of Web User, the UK's best-selling internet magazine, available in print at newsagents, by subscription, or digitally at http://www.webuser.co.uk/. Web User is published by IPC Media,
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JJ, who awards our site five stars (the maximum), writes:
'Every so often we come across a really wonderful website in our Best New Websites section; and the Sheeran Lock Art Gallery's online home is a shining example. Not only does it offer an eclectic range of excellent art, but the site's high-resolution images mean you can zoom in on artwork to reveal close-up detail, such as brush strokes. Best of all, however, is the use of media, particularly video. Gallery curator, John Sheeran, a former curator of London's Dulwich Picture Gallery, has created a series of illuminating films of UK artists that are a pleasure and an education to watch. All the artwork is available to purchase from the website, but even if you never buy anything, you'll be a wiser and happier person for just dropping by.'
Last Updated: 14/08/2008 13:30:39
 | The Great Painters : From Giotto to PicassoArt Talks by John Sheeran Covering 700 Years of Western Art
Have you ever wanted to understand, appreciate and enjoy art more? Would you like to find out what exactly makes Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Michelangelo's Last Judgement such great masterpieces? Would you like to explore the great questions of life through the eyes of Rembrandt and Van Gogh? Well here is your opportunity!
Sheeran Lock is organising a fascinating programme of 80 illustrated art talks in Framlingham, Suffolk, UK called Discover the Great Painters: From Giotto to Picasso. This ambitious project covers 700 years of Western art and will take over two years to complete. Each talk considers in depth the life and work of one artist. The first series of 10 talks covers The Early Renaissance and features wonderful painters such as Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli and Van Eyck. For further information, please click here.
Last Updated: 01/08/2008 09:37:57
 | Malcolm Whittaker: Sutton Hoo Ship BurialNew Series for Sheeran Lock Inspired by Ancient Burial Site in Suffolk, England
During 2008, Malcom Whittaker is working on a new series of pictures inspired by the Sutton Hoo ship burial site in Suffolk, England and the Sutton Hoo treasures in the British Museum, London. When completed, these new artworks will be sold exclusively by the Sheeran Lock online art gallery. The artist comments: 'The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the UK. It is full of mystery as it is not known for certain who was buried in the ship. I am also fascinated by the location of the site, the archaeological work that has gone on there and the identification and cataloguing of the many artefacts discovered. The quality of craftsmanship is also astonishing.' Malcolm Whittaker has produced numerous works relating to ancient sites around the UK, but this is the first time that he has considered Sutton Hoo. Sheeran Lock is makng a film about Malcolm Whittaker's work on the Sutton Hoo series, including his research, visits, and his making of the artworks in his studio.
Please click on 'Artists' on our Menu to visit the Malcolm Whittaker Artist Page, where you can view collections of his artworks for sale and watch films about his art.
Last Updated: 30/05/2008 11:31:22
 | Sue Lawty: Drawing in StoneLeading UK Mixed Media Artist to Create New Works for Sheeran Lock
We are delighted to announce that the artist Sue Lawty has agreed to create a new series of her stone drawings especially for the Sheeran Lock online art gallery. She will be working on them during 2008 and we will be producing a film chronicling their production. Anyone who saw Sue Lawty's remarkable solo exhibition 'Concealed-Discovered-Revealed' in 2005 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, will know what a sensitive interpreter of natural materials she is. Her four-piece mixed media installation 'Line Lead Stone Shadow' (see photo) is currently representing the UK in the international exhibition 'Cloth and Culture Now', which is on show at the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, until 1 June 2008. The exhibiton will then transfer to the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester in autumn 2008, after which it will tour internationally. Sue Lawty hopes to start working on this new series of stone drawings when she returns from her current lecture tour of Australia. She comments: 'I have known Sheeran Lock since 1991, when they included my work in their very first exhibition. I have recently been developing ideas for the new work and can't wait to get started.'
Last Updated: 30/05/2008 11:30:00
 | Phillip Butah: Young, Gifted & BlackWe are organisng an exhibition by the London-based artist Phillip Butah called 'Young, Gifted & Black: Portraits of Success' which sheds a positive light on young black achievement today. We first met Phillip in 1998 when he was a 16 year-old teenager from the East End of London wanting to pursue his dream of becoming a professional artist. We have been mentoring him ever since. The exhibition will feature portraits of 12 young men and women across a broad spectrum of contemporary British life, including entertainment, sport, business and politics. Phillip has started his first portrait subject - the musician and actor Ashley Walters (see photo)
The exhibition will help to counteract the often negative image of young black people in Britain by celebrating inspirational young men and women who have pursued and achieved their personal goal in life through self-determination and hard work. The exhibition of 60 pictures will be shown at a prestigious London venue in late 2009. It will include a triple portrait of each sitter, showing their head from front, left and right, along with sketches and photographs of the portrait sessions taking place. Many of the portraits will be for sale in the exhibition, as well as on the Sheeran Lock Art Gallery website. If you would like further information about this project, please contact us.
Last Updated: 23/05/2008 09:42:06
 | Creek Men: New Work by Laurence EdwardsAldeburgh Festival Exhibition, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
13-29 June 2008
We have been helping the sculptor Laurence Edwards with Creek Men - a fascinating exhibition which chronicles the year-long creative process behind the making and siting of three monumental bronze figures. The figures, which can be seen during the Aldeburgh Festival in the reed beds in front of Snape Maltings, were inspired by the ancient woodland, marshes and Saxon history of the coastal landscape between Aldeburgh and Sutton Hoo. The exhibition includes photography and film of the sculptures being modelled in clay, impregnated with organic matter from the landscape, and cast in bronze by Edwards at his Butley Creek studio and foundry. It also follows their remarkable journey on a raft by sea and river to Snape and their siting on the tidal mudflats. Notes, sketches and small bronze studies reveal Edwards’ deep interest in the natural, historical and cultural identity of the area. A selection of these studies, or maquettes, is currently available on this site in a collection entitled Earthed.
Last Updated: 03/04/2008 10:01:02
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