Local Art  
 
 
Local Art Exhibitions
• St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery Lymington
The 14th Annual St. Barbe Open Exhibition
15 June – 20 July
The St. Barbe Open provides a showcase for the best of the region’s paintings, prints and drawings. Work is selected by a panel of professional artists and although the content is always varied, each year’s show takes on a unique character. This is a selling exhibition.
Under the Greenwood 18th - mid 20th century

27 July to 5 October
The exhibition examines how well known artists ranging from John Constable and Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland have been inspired by our great trees.
Under the Greenwood - Contemporary Art
12 October to 23 November
The exhibition will look at how trees figure in the works of 33 present day artists.
• Russell-Cotes Bournemouth
Inspired by Japan; mosaics, textiles & paper
1 April - 15 September 2013
Inspired by Japan: mosaics, textiles and paper’ by renowned artists Cleo Mussi and Matthew Harris. Their work shares a common language that involves the construction of whole images from pieces and fragments of cloth, paper and reclaimed ceramic. This selling exhibition features work inspired by their recent trip to Japan.
• Southampton City Art Gallery
Manet Portrait on Tour
13 June to 22 July
Following an eight-month campaign, Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum succeeded in raising the funds to buy Edouard Manet’s Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus (1868). Southampton City Art Gallery is proud to be part of a tour of the portrait to museums and galleries around the UK.
 
Local Artists
Click here to see a selection of local artists living within a 15 mile radius of Lymington.
Paul Critchley
John Bird
Melvyn Gates
Stephen Lees
Stewart Mechem
Jane Pitt-Pitts
 
Local Art Groups
  Lymington Arts Group
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Lymington
 
  Lymington Palette Club
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Lymington
 
  New Forest Art Society
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Lyndhurst
 
  The Woolanders
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Burley
 
  Christchurch Arts Guild
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Christchurch
 
  Isle of Wight Arts
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Isle of Wight
 
 
 
  Featured artwork  
   
  Manet Portrait on Tour
13 June to 22 July
Venue: Southampton City Art Gallery
Picture: Detail of Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus (1868), by Edouard Manet
 
  Following an eight-month campaign, Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum succeeded in raising the funds to buy Edouard Manet’s Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus (1868). Southampton City Art Gallery is proud to be part of a tour of the portrait to museums and galleries around the UK.  
     
   
   
     
   
     
   
     
 
 
 
 
The main Art Galleries in the area
The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum web
Russell-Cotes Road, Bournemouth BH1 3AA
See all of their 904 paintings
Housed in a beautiful Victorian villa on the cliff top over-looking Bournemouth beach.
The rooms inside are full of Victorian splendour housing an interesting collection of paintings, ceramics, sculptures and furniture.
 
Southampton City Art Gallery web
Commercial Rd, Southampton SO14 7LP
See all of their 1082 paintings
The gallery has a collection of over 3,500 works of art, spanning six centuries from the Renaissance to the present day. The Gallery is internationally renowned for its collection of contemporary works by British artists.
 
Paintings held by local museums
New Forest Museum See their paintings
Solent Sky Aviation Museum See their paintings
St Barbe Museum See their paintings
Kingston Lacy See their paintings
Poole Museum See their paintings
Red House Museum See their paintings
 
Art Galleries (shops)
Robert Perera Fine Art web
19 St. Thomas St, Lymington SO41 9NB
Robert Perera Fine Art has over two hundred pictures on display in the gallery, with paintings ranging from £50-£50,000. Subjects including marine, landscape and wildlife paintings in oil and watercolour and also traditional original prints in etching and woodblock.
 
Stephen Lees web
2 Quay Street, Lymington SO41 3AS
Stephen paintings are abstract, brightly coloured and uncomplicated. He uses acrylic paints and applies them using a palette knife and just like French artists he actually works in his shop.
 
Carlsens Fine Art web
8 St. Thomas St, Lymington SO41 9NA
The owner Dimitris Carlsen displays 21 local artists in the shop, the most famous being top equine artist Rosemary Sarah Welch. There are many local pictures with scenes from the New Forest and the Solent.
 
Coastal Gallery web
4 Southampton Rd, Lymington SO41 9GG
In addition to changing exhibitions, Coastal Gallery features an exciting collection of contemporary paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics. Many of the pieces are inspired by the coast and the forest, created by artists, crafts people and designers who live and work in the local area.
 
Beaulieu Fine Arts web
High Street, Beaulieu, SO42 7YA
The five gallery rooms house work from contemporary artists with the displays constantly changing as new art arrives. Framing is done on the premises and advice is on hand to help choose from the wide selection of frame mouldings and mountboard.
 
Lyndhurst Gallery web
68 High Street, Lyndhurst SO43 7BJ
Lyndhurst Gallery opened in summer 2010 and offers a selection of contemporary original paintings and limited editions by established British artists. Prices range from £100 to around £3000.