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Through the Looking Glass
Exhibition
Micro-Macro
26 Mar 2016 – 30 Apr 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 09:30 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 09:30 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 09:30 – 17:00
- Friday
- 09:30 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road
- London
England - BR3 3BX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The bus stop directly outside the main entrance is Bethlem Royal Hospital, with buses 356, 119 or 198 stopping there.
- Eden Park Station (30 mins from London Bridge) followed by a 15 min walk or 5 min bus ride (356 bus towards Shirley). East Croydon Station (15 mins from London Victoria), followed by roughly a 30 min bus ride (119 bus towards Bromley or 198 towards Shrublands).
Artworks ranging from large-scale canvases to intimate ink drawings. Pat’s work intuitively explores her interests in both the grandeur and the minutia of the natural world.
About
An exhibition of artworks ranging from large-scale canvases to intimate ink drawings. Pat’s work intuitively explores her interests in both the grandeur and the minutia of the natural world. Her canvases express her love of nature and are frequently balanced with undertones of environmental concerns that hang over our planet and natural resources.
“All the world’s a pattern, break it and be crowned or crucified” – Pat Mear.
While working and residing at Dartington Hall as a Warden of the Devon Centre for Further Education, inspired by the creative opportunities and the teachers who came for short residential courses, she decided to go to Croydon College of Art as a mature student.
“I specialised in Fine Art Painting at Croydon College of Art. It was an amazing change towards getting in touch with my real self again – helped too by the Maudsley Hospital after a difficult time in my life. My early work still reflected my conditioning with its hard-edged lithographs and copious notes, so I set myself tasks of seeking an inner truthfulness with intuitive writing, intuitive drawing and finally intuitive painting with some extremely large 5 foot canvases which have never been seen publicly, until now with the encouragement of Bethlem Gallery.”
