Talk on Gainsborough

The ICON Paintings Group
Invite you to a talk given by

Viola Pemberton-Pigott
"Gainsborough as Magician"

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Doors open at 6pm talk begins at 6.30pm prompt
at a *new* venue

    Freemasons's Hall
    60 Great Queen Street
    London WC2B 5AZ

Close to both Covent Garden and Holborn Tube Stations

Doors open at 6pm

Tickets: ICON members:  UKP10, non- members: UKP15

Please register by sending your name and stating if you are an ICON
member Your name must be on the security list no later than

Friday, 12 November 2010
Free wine and cheese inc. in price of ticket

RSVP

    Clare Finn
    +44 20 7937 1895
    finnclare<-at->aol<.>com or

The most beautiful of Gainsborough's paintings give the impression
of extreme spontaneity, yet often when examined under magnification,
an apparently serendipitous passage of paint shows that Gainsborough
has contrived the effects by careful calculation.  This talk
illustrates some of these effects from paintings that the speaker
knows well.

Viola Pemberton-Pigott trained and worked for Herbert Lank.  From
1974 she worked freelance, increasingly for the Royal Collection as
well as other institutions. In 1981 she joined the Royal Collection
and set up a new Paintings Conservation Studio.   Now 'retired', she
continues to work freelance.


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