Tate Britain is showing an Exhibition on renown sculptor artist Barbara Hepworth from 24th June to 25th October, 2015.
Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1903 and died in a fire at home in St Ives, Cornwall in 1975. She had lived there for more than 30 years and become a leading figure in the colony of artists who lived and worked in St Ives. Her work has become associated with the landscape and sea of Cornwall and is now held in many museums around the world. Her home and studio is now the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Scuplture Garden. It is well worth visiting.
This exhibition explores her rise to international fame and collaboration with the painter Ben Nicholson. They became lovers first and later married when she divorced her first husband, the sculptor John Skeaping. The exhibition includes early pieces of carving by Hepworth and other peers. One of my favourites was two doves carved from stone. The doves and the stone each complemented the other. You also see photos of Hepworth and Nicholson together in their home studio. Pieces you see in the photos are on exhibit in the show. The show closes with a room set-up as the Reitveld Pavillion at the Kroller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands.
To see more permanent works on display in the UK, visit The Hepworth Wakefield, an art gallery set up in Barbara Hepworth's home town.
The Tate Britain exhibition is a real pleasure to visit and the works on display are exceptional.
Visitmuseums.com, art exhibitions contributing writer, David Onslow
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