The Art Gallery

The Art Gallery on the top floor of the Granary building is a vibrant new space featuring changing exhibitions throughout the year.

Weston Junior Open & Park Life Exhibition

Over the last couple of months we have recieved over twenty entries for the first ever Weston Junior Open competition. Now hanging in the Granary Art Gallery are works from talented youngsters from across the region.

This latest exhibition, which will run alongside the Open, is dedicated to the story of Weston's 1,000 acres of Parkland. For more information please click here.
 

Portrait of Horace Walpole by William Hogarth 

A rare portrait of Horace Walpole by the celebrated eighteenth century painter William Hogarth is now on display in the gallery. 

Horace Walpole was best known as a collector, author of the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto and builder of the flamboyant gothic villa Strawberry Hill. 

Hogarth is probably best known for his engravings, 'A Harlot's Progress and 'A Rake's Progress' in the 1730's. His portrait of Horace Walpole, aged 10, is on loan, from a private collection for the next six months. 

Read more about Horace Walpole and Hogarth in our blog 
 

The Falls at Schaffhausen - JMW Turner

We are delighted that a painting of the Falls at Schaffhausen in Switzerland has been loaned to the Granary Art Gallery from a private collection.

This stunning painting by the artist often dubbed the father of English landscape painting and a forerunner of the French Impressionist movement, JWM Turner has gone on display for the first time since 1967 and will be with us until August.
 

Royal Visitor - Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

A rare portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is on display in the art gallery which is on loan from a private collection.  The picture shows Her Royal Highness at the age of 40, in an exotically embroidered dress, with ruff and headdress holding a carnation in one hand and a cameo in the other.

Read more about our Royal guest in our blog 
 

The Golden Gift

A rare work of art, given by Britain’s richest man to the Victorian owners of Weston Park has returned home after undergoing urgent conservation work following the award of a grant by the Pilgrim Trust. The miniature bureau ivory bookcase was a gift from Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster to Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford and his wife the Hon. Selina Weld-Forester on the occasion of their Golden Wedding anniversary in 1894.

Made in the late eighteenth century at Vizagapatam in India, the piece is entirely veneered in ivory and had developed cracks and lost adhesion to the carcass. Conservation of the piece has been at the top of the Weston Park Foundation’s conservation priority list for some time and thanks to the Pilgrim Trust’s grant it was sent to Richard Higgins Conservation Ltd in Shropshire, who has restored it to its former glory. 

Read more about the Golden Gift and it's story in our blog.

The Golden Gift is now on display in the Granary Art Gallery.
 

2010 Exhibitions

The following artists will be displaying their works in 2010: Weston Park Junior Open (August), Kay Boyce (September), Peter Beckett (October), Alistair Tucker (November), Robyn Geddes (January 2011). December's artist is to be confirmed.

Open Daily

11am-4pm

Free Admission