Where: The John Davies Gallery, Fosseway Business Park, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 9NQ

When: Saturday, July 7, to Saturday, August 4

A group of fine artists known as The Arborealists are staging a month-long exhibition in the Cotswolds of tree studies and landscapes.

The Arborealists grew out of the exhibition 'Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree from Constable to Kurt Jackson' which was held in the St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington in 2013.

This significant show was staged in two parts, the first focussing on artists from the past, the second focussing on the contemporary.

The exhibition was celebrated in a superb publication of the same title produced by Sansom & Co. It contains highly informative essays by scholars of both the tree in history and art historians alike.

Tim Craven, curator of Southampton City Art Gallery (2002-08) stood down to concentrate on his own painting and founded The Arborealists in 2013 with strong support from other noted artists such as Philippa Beale and Dr Angela Summerfield.

A second publication, 'The Arborealists - The Art of the Tree' was also published by Sansom & Co to accompany the exhibition of the same name, again staged at the St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.

Featuring some 35 artists, this loose group has now grown to 60 members. It has been labelled one of the most significant artist's groups to have been formed in Britain in the 21st Century.

This exhibition, 'The Arborealists and Other Painters' features 21 members of the group plus a further seven top artists introduced to the group by the John Davies Gallery in Moreton-in-Marsh.

Most artists are showing more than one work each, resulting in a magnificent and diverse collection well in excess of 75 works celebrating the tree in the British landscape.

Gallery director John Davies said "These are paintings to truly contemplate. They are works of art that can slow us down.

"Each artist has given their all mentally and technically to achieving these fine exhibits. I hope that this will be one of the most absorbing exhibitions that we have ever staged at the gallery."

Paintings range in size from small and below £1,000 to very large and in excess of £20,000.

Some of the artists will be present at a private view on Saturday, July 7, from 11am-5pm and Sunday, July 8, from 11am-3pm, to which everyone is welcome. Fizz and Canapes from 12noon-2.30pm

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