{"id":2151,"date":"2018-01-05T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2018-06-03T10:43:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T09:43:32","slug":"preston-open-exhibition-at-the-harris-dec-to-jan-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/2018\/01\/preston-open-exhibition-at-the-harris-dec-to-jan-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Preston Open Exhibition at the Harris Dec to Jan 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Preston Open Exhibition for local artists is held at the Harris Art Gallery during December and finishes on the 21st January 2018.\u00a0 This year’s has a wide selection of creations, some tableaux based on the gallery’s own collection plus a range of paint, photo, sculpture, pottery and more.<\/p>\n

Here are 11 selected for one reason or other and with random comments:<\/p>\n

If the artists want their name mentioned or to explain the work please let us know.<\/p>\n

A pleasing representation of the painting in the Harris ‘Why War?’ by Charles Spencelayh.\u00a0\"Preston<\/p>\n

Pea green boats and owls, what’s not to like. Wish you were here: \"Preston<\/p>\n

An imposing multi-layered quite large work with ivy leaves on the hat:\"Preston<\/p>\n

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Well done for this mosaic of vivid colour and flowing fragment shapes, a volcanic eruption perhaps:\"Preston<\/p>\n

A tableau of the painting ‘Pauline in the Yellow Dress’ which has been in the Harris since the 1940s, she’s an old gal with a sophisticated air:\"Preston<\/p>\n

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A fullsome piece of meadowland flower bringing bright summer into our dark winter:\"Preston<\/p>\n

These are good. The wooden ones have a haunted feel of garden decay, but good decay.
\n\"Preston<\/p>\n

Good colour and old city feel.\u00a0 Edinburgh Old Town perhaps except for the flag.
\n\"Preston<\/p>\n

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This seems like all the elements of the world from our beginning as reptiles in the sea to a bed of cash with cars and elephants representing man and nature feeding off this bottle of fuel but then it might not be.\u00a0 An interesting piece:\"Preston<\/p>\n

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This is good as well, the wiring is different, don’t label is the message, an autism piece:\"Preston<\/p>\n

Peaceful reflection on the Lancaster Canal, enjoyed for the reflections.\u00a0 There’s another reflection piece of a well known garden that’s nicely done as well:\"Preston<\/p>\n

Big maps always drive the imagination, and well drawn on each continent.\u00a0 Is this our planet with hunger, war and greed reaching to a world of complacency and conceit or is that too much? Heaven, life and hell maybe.\"Preston<\/p>\n

Well done to the artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Preston Open Exhibition for local artists is held at the Harris Art Gallery during December and finishes on the 21st January 2018.\u00a0 This year’s has a wide selection of creations, some tableaux based on the gallery’s own collection plus a range of paint, photo, sculpture, pottery and more. Here are 11 selected for one … Continue reading “Preston Open Exhibition at the Harris Dec to Jan 18”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,46,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-harris-museum-and-art-gallery","category-madeinpreston","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPtnz-yH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}