Gallery trips Archives - Shropshire Art Society https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/category/gallery-trips/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:06:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/shropshire-art-society-icon-150x150.png Gallery trips Archives - Shropshire Art Society https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/category/gallery-trips/ 32 32 Our great Gallery Weekend, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 2023 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/our-great-gallery-weekend-newcastle-upon-tyne-2023/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:24:36 +0000 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/?p=12077 A group of 25 intrepid SAS explorers headed north on a Longmynd Travel coach from Shrewsbury on Friday 24th March, to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, for our 3-day Gallery Weekend.  The hotel was great, with very comfortable accommodation and excellent service from a dedicated staff. Arriving at 2pm gave us the afternoon to explore, and a lovely sunny day …

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]]> Oxford, Ashmolean, Pissarro 2022 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/oxford-ashmolean-pissarro-2022/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:14:02 +0000 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/?p=11609 On a sunny Saturday in mid-March, 38 Shropshire Art Society members and their guests arrived bright and early at the Abbey car park to board an executive coach run by the incomparable Longmynd Coaches, for a trip to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.  Arriving at 10.30 am, just in time for coffee, many made their …

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]]> The return… to Liverpool, for Sickert and Freud https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/the-return-to-liverpool-sickert-freud/ Fri, 05 Nov 2021 19:49:48 +0000 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/?p=11474 It felt very good to be meeting up in the Abbey Car Park once again on Saturday 30th October, after such a long pandemic-enforced break, to board our Longmynd Travel coach to Liverpool. 38 of us, masked up for the safety of all, travelled together. In our sights were two excellent exhibitions: Walter Sickert: A …

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]]> London 2020 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/london-2020/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:23:33 +0000 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/?p=4736 Over the weekend of the sixth to ninth of March, some thirty of our members enjoyed our annual Gallery Weekend, on this occasion to London. We were safely delivered to the Mercure Bloomsbury Hotel on the Friday lunchtime by our coach, and swiftly set about making the most of our time in the capital. At …

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]]> One January day, two Wirral galleries https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/one-january-day-two-wirral-galleries/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 01:09:09 +0000 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/?p=4678 The day trip to the Wirral, to the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum in Birkenhead and the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight was voted another success, a visit to two very different galleries. The Williamson Art Gallery – like many others – is showing the effects of changed financial circumstances, in contrast to …

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]]> Inspirational Coventry, Autumn 2019 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/inspirational-coventry-autumn-2019/ Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:46:43 +0000 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/?p=4631 Coventry’s Herbert Art Gallery and Cathedral are next door to each other, giving us more than enough to fill the autumn galleries day trip without going farther afield (unless you wanted to). Like most city galleries, The Herbert has an art collection which is a reflection of purchases over many years which combine local interests …

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]]> Wolverhampton and Worcester Art Galleries Trip: 8th June https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/wolverhampton-and-worcester-art-galleries-trip-8th-june/ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:50:48 +0000 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/?p=3685 Setting off in a downpour for our summer galleries day trip made us glad we weren’t heading for the coast this year. Both cities’ galleries were new for most if not all of the group, and both were simply a treat. Wolverhampton Art Gallery had 4 galleries plus their vast staircase given over to long-term …

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]]> Our Annual Gallery Weekend 2019: Bristol and so much more! https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/bristol-gallery-weekend-2019/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 03:13:09 +0000 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/?p=3625 With the weather seemingly set fair for the whole weekend, some 35 members and friends boarded the Longmynd coach for our Annual Gallery Weekend, to be based this year in the very comfortable and centrally situated Mercure Holland House Hotel in Bristol. Much of Friday was spent in Gloucester, exploring the restored area around The …

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]]> Birmingham in January, a success! https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/birmingham-in-january-a-success/ Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:53:30 +0000 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/?p=3593 On Saturday 19th January around 35 of us visited Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and The Barber Institute of Fine Arts to view temporary exhibitions which had been well reviewed as well as the permanent collections. ‘Women Power Protest’ marked 100 years since the first women were given the vote in this country, showing a …

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]]> Our Inspirational Gallery Day Trip to Manchester, 2018 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/our-inspirational-gallery-day-trip-to-manchester-2018/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:19:33 +0000 https://www.shropshireartsociety.org.uk/?p=3522 Our latest Gallery Day Trip by coach was to Manchester on Saturday 20th October. Thank you to Jennifer and Jillian Wallace for their hard work in organising the trip for us. Here’s a short report from them, and some pictures, to give you a flavour of the day, thanks to Jennifer, Anne Linton, Michael White …

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