Louisa Fennell, Wood Street, Wakefield, n.d.

Louisa Fennell, Wood Street, Wakefield, n.d.Louisa Fennell was an English painter, born in the Wakefield area of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1847. She is best known for her watercolours of local scenes which serve not only as a valuable record of buildings now demolished, such as the Six Chimneys, but are also an important socio historical document of the way people lived at the turn of the century. These topographical views are a natural continuation of her childhood fascination with the

abstract painter

Clare Leighton

It fits me perfectly

‘I found the most intense pleasure in this new adventure in material – and revelled in the lightness of poise and delicacy of forms which seemed nearer to the flight of birds and their form in flight rather than to more gravity-bound rocks and humans’

Anthony Earnshaw

Babs Pease was the winner of last year’s Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair Prize

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Art in schools and the act of nurturing creativity in young people can really support many journeys in life that don’t end up being straight forward and I hope that The Source can be a positive part of that

Fiona Hall

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life at The Hepworth Wakefield

Dimensions: 46 x 74 cm

set up by Tuula Nicholson