https://www.creativehertfordshire.com/listings/news/?archive=1&user=10707&view=rss Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/20-20-vision-exhibition-200-years-of-art-history-in-bushey/ This exhibition at Bushey Museum and Art Gallery will mark the beginning of a new decade, and plays on the phrase '20/20 vision', in as much as the focus will be on items in the Museum’s art collection from 1820’s, 1920’... Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-celebration-of-the-reign-of-queen-elizabeth-ii/ The Queen has ruled for longer than any other Monarch in British history through many political changes. She has always been a powerful supporter of charities and voluntary organisations and Bushey Museum is proud to cel... Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/museum-s-reopening-visit-from-oliver-dowden-mp-and-others/ To mark the Museum's reopening to the public, Hertsmere MP Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and Laurence Brass, newly elected Hertfordshire County Councillor, visited to see the art display... Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-exhibition-artworks-funded-by-friends/ Friends' Contribution: Artworks donated with funds raised by the Friends of Bushey Museum Council Chamber From 22nd January – 11th June 2022 One of the many valuable roles of the Friends is help raise funds purchase... Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery-s-artist-of-the-month/ The Bushey Museum and Art Gallery tells the story of Bushey's unique artistic history relating to Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA and his world-renowned Art School, and others that followed. We regularly show art from the Col... Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/artists-ethel-gabain/ In May we commemorate VE Day 75, so we thought Ethel Gabain is a good choice: during World War Two, she was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) to produce lithographs of various subjects throughout... Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery-s-virtual-tours-of-the-galleries/ While the Museum is closed, you can still visit some of our Exhibitions - but virtually! We have Virtual Tours of the current 'Recent Arrivals – Additions to the Bushey Museum's Collection' exhibition, as well as Virtual... Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-s-living-artist-of-the-month-dougie-chowns/ We are featuring Dougie as our first ‘Living Artist of the Month’. He was born in Watford and spent many years visiting the Bushey studios of Lucy Kemp-Welch and Marguerite Frobisher. He was recently in touch with the Mu... Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-photographic-competition-winners/ And we can now announce the Winners of the 2020 Competition! The Winner of the ‘Bushey’ class is 'Horses at Rest' by Nick Edgeworth (attached). The Winner of the ‘Artists and Craft workers’ class is 'Metal Worker – Marr... Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/artist-of-the-month-rowland-wheelwright/ Rowland Wheelwright was a painter and illustrator who studied at the Herkomer School of Art in Bushey from 1891-93, and where he became acquainted with Lucy Kemp-Welch. Using a diffuse pastel palette, he depicted equestr... Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-s-living-artist-of-the-month-graham-boyd/ Now living in Chipperfield, he worked at the Meadow Studios, Bushey in the 1950s. He exhibited his paintings at the Museum several times: The Long Haul (2004), Bushey Artists and Meadow Studios (2006/7) and Visual Metap... Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-stained-glass-window-competition/ During Summer, the Museum had 2 competitions: the Stained Glass Window competition, and the Scarecrow (or Rocket) Writing competition. We are pleased to announce the Winners along with the Highly Commended entries. Cli... Sun, 21 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-heath-pottery-collection-at-bushey-museum/ The Museum has a significant collection of Bushey Heath Pottery items from the 1920's. William De Morgan was a celebrated London-based designer and potter of lustre-ware, polychrome pottery items. In the 1920s there was ... Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-s-artist-of-the-month-myrtle-broome/ Myrtle Broome studied art in Bushey with Hubert von Herkomer’s cousin, Bertha Herkomer in the early 1900's. She studied Egyptology in London and then had a fascinating career in Egypt as an artist and epigrapher. She als... Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/artist-of-the-month-algernon-talmage/ He was born at Fifield, Oxfordshire in 1871, and in 1892 joined the Herkomer's Art School in Bushey. Around 2 years later he moved to St. Ives, Cornwall and became part of St. Ives School. He was an Impressionist, primar... Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-reopens-on-20-may/ We are glad to say that we plan to reopen the Museum on Thursday, 20th May. This is in line with the government's roadmap. Visitors will still be required to wear a face covering in the Museum, observe social distancing ... Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/display-of-linen-testers/ Some people collect the oddest things: Bushey Museum is currently displaying a collection of thread counters, also known as linen testers. Over many years Christopher Jordan has collected these items. Their purpose is in... Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/bushey-museum-s-the-lady-in-white-acquisition/ The Museum is delighted to announce the acquisition of this unique Herkomer painting. Almost all of Herkomer's portraits were of men, but in 1885 he produced this portrait of Miss Katherine Grant which is known as 'The L... Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/bushey-museum-and-art-gallery/artist-of-the-month-ernest-borough-johnson-1867-194/ Ernest Borough Johnson was a painter in oils, watercolours, tempera and pastel of portraits, figure subjects and landscapes. He was also an important lithographer, etcher and charcoal draughtsman, and was distinguished a...