You might want to stop right here with Winifred Nicholson’s exceptional breezy flower painting. This exhibition has so many gorgeous interpretations of flowers it is hard to stop anywhere. Here is an exhibition to savour - even pictures by Henri Rousseau and Louise Bourgeois hang modestly next to names unknown. Here is The Cambridge Critique selection of some stunning pieces that can’t be missed - either here online or in person.

This warm family scene is an almost favourite. A child writing in one corner and a superb ex tempore shaggy vase of homely flowers casually present among the household setting The blooms are only just trimmed the mess of life all around them.

Yes this is the languid beautiful chap who lounges in his famous jumper inside the Kettles Yard house. Any artist simply must turn to flowers at one time or another. Upstairs in the Kettles yard library you can read Christopher’s funny youthful memoirs fresh on the page - he hopes to get in with Picasso and join the beau mode of Paris. His destiny was sadder that those dreams , but here he is with flowers and here we are looking at them

Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1915 Fritillaria

Charles Rennie Mackintosh ‘ celebrity lies in more expansive work of architecture and design - and flaming buildings in Glasgow. Here is a simpler than simple talented work , fragile but resilient.

Of Japanese origin this piece was created especially for the exhibition. The Photographer is Thomas Merle and it appears courtesy of the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

Cedric Morris - More Irises and Tulips 1935

Who would not adore this harum sacrum tangle of beauty. Accomplished in execution and exuberant in style . It is a lovely picture.

Her is Lubaina Himid in original mode taking a place among a century of flower painters. Like it or not, it is an homage to the genre in her own remarkable way. As an artist who often.referencers work of the past, this unique interpretion of the long centuries old skill of flower painting.is stand- out exceptional.

Anna Freeman Bentley Arrangement 111 2025

All our selections are derived from the intense scrutiny Kettles Yard put into theirs. The Community conversations they conducted would surely throw up this one as a favourite.

A well known artist splurges magnificently within the guidelines of the genre. A real favourite of ours

Finally for us, a splendid arresting study of crazy dying flowers , colours amazing. So lovely

Here ends our tour. The exhibtion is brilliant but be warned £14.95 is the top entrance fee for the House - there are free passes for 25 and under . We at the Cambridge Critique suggest the free entry should really include Cambridge residents, many of whom will just adore such a wonderfully accessible show.- and inside Kettle yard too.

It is on until September 6th

Apr 29 HANDPICKED-PAINTING FLOWERS KETTLES YARD

Apr 30 WAR OF THE WORLDS AT THE ARTS THEATRE

Apr 27 EAST ANGLIA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA at WEST ROAD CONCERT HALL

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