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Paintings by Simon Hatchard-Parr
Overview
Private View
Gallery
Opening Dates & Hours

Simon Hatchard Parr is a North London-based artist fascinated with questioning the connections we feel to the natural environment and others.

The exhibition is inspired by these thoughts: A botanist looking at a meadow perhaps views it as a living organism; a farmer in his wellies might ponder the yield if he sowed it with flax. As a painter my thoughts aren’t thoughts at all but active reactions to energies, shapes, colours and tones located at one part of the colour spectrum or another.

How far do I go to see and know all there is about the meadow?  I am aware in that moment that, out of the cataclysmic detonations of ancient stars some billions of years ago, the elements formed which would one day become this meadow on a tiny planet in a future slowly forming star system.

Painting is about such revelation; a desire to say something about my awareness, sentience and living, so others might see in their own way what I see there. 

If I can bring into the present the fullness of my knowing, I’m aware that in the sub stream there hums, like a conspiratorial whisper, a great mystery. It passes among the leaves and the wind that rustles them.  It is there in the glistening eye of a heron on its way home, reflecting in the wet curve of its eyeball the presence of the life force that sustains it.  Can I find a connection to that great mystery, and help others to share in it?

To learn more about Simon and his work, please visit his website.

Private View

Please join Simon Hatchard Parr at the Private View of the exhibition on Wednesday, 14 August from 7:30pm to 9:30pm.

It is free to attend, and everyone is welcome.

Gallery
Big Snowy Tree
Egret for Gerry
Constables Pines for Gerry
Egret 2 for Gerry
Kenwood for Gerry
Heron Moon
Mixed Bathing Pond
Standing Water, Winter
Bluebell
Hampstead Bathing Pond
Opening Dates & Hours

Pulse of the Heath will be on display in the Upper Gallery during gallery opening times from Wednesday 14 August - Monday 9 September. 

The gallery is generally open:

  • Monday - Tuesday : 12pm to 4pm
  • Wednesday : 11am to 3pm
  • Thursday - Sunday : 12pm to 4pm

Please note that the gallery hours may change or the gallery may close at short notice due to private events. To avoid disappointment, please check our most up-to-date opening hours by clicking here or calling us on 020 8348 8716 the day before your visit.