Tuesday 26 June 2012

Watts Gallery

I visited the beautiful, if a little wet, Watts Gallery just outside Guildford last week. Set in the rolling green Surrey countryside, this gallery is the realised dream of artist G.F. Watts and his wife Mary Seton Watts.

Watts' career spanned a generation,he constantly redefined and recreated his work, seeking new methods and styles of expression and representation. Mary on the other hand epitomised the arts and crafts movement making it her mission to teach local people the art of terracotta sculpting to create a beautiful chapel just down the road from the gallery.

A shrine to the work of Watts, but so much more than that too, the gallery is a hidden gem; pot plants in teapots?! If that doesn't make for an excellent day out, I don't know what does!

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