WEST OX ARTS GALLERY
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  • EXHIBITIONS
    • How to Exhibit at the Gallery
    • Kelmscott - A New Epoch 6 - 29 October 2022
    • Artweeks 2022: 30 April - 5 June
    • New Work: 18 June - 16 July 22
    • Celebrating Creative Work
    • A Love of The Land
    • Gallery Layout
    • Exhibiting FAQ's
  • ABOUT
    • GIFT SHOP
    • WOA YESTERDAY AND TODAY
  • Our Artists
  • Membership
    • Becoming a member
  • Newsletter
  • CONTACT US
    • Can you help?
    • Friends and Links
  • Workshops and Events
    • Previous Workshops & Events

FONTANA SHELTER ARTISTIC PRODUCTIONS ​

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“Fontana Shelter” carries on with the artistic activity of the Italian painter Luigi Fontana.  Born in 1916 in Piacenza , the son of a decorator and  nephew of a paintress who gave him an artistic education, at first he became a portraitist and his work  was marked by a great vitality and  rich tempera colours, taste and elegance.  After he gave himself entirely over to the landscape. To Fontana, landscape and indeed the whole nature was a keen microcosm of man’s soul. He was  particularly impressed by some majestic monuments of Italian cities he visited and which he painted several times (pyrography on wood).


Fontana Shelter was recently created in his loving memory in order to publish his collections of prints and photographs and is supported by the cultural blog Downton  Gazette (concerning whatever can be referred to Downton Abbey) of which it shares the brave motto :” You can change your life if you want to”( Mr Bates to Gwen, series 1).


Fontana ‘s historical period was marked by Spanish flu, a war and economic crisis as ours is ruined by a pandemic and a war. So we must try to build a better and kinder world through art because “Beauty is truth  ,truth is Beauty “(J. Keats ).

Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Downton-Gazette

Website: https://downtongazette.altervista.org/​
Email: downtongazette@gmail.com

11.30 - 4.30 pm
Tuesdays to Saturdays
2 - 4 pm on Sundays
Closed on mondays
the gallery
Market Square,Bampton
oxfordshire,OX18 2JH
Tel: 01993 850137
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West Ox Arts welcomes all ages and abilities

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