Welcome to the November 2018 edition of the Jack Russell Gallery Newsletter. Jack Russell MBE 30th ANNIVERSARY!I still can't believe it's 30 years this year since my first ever professional exhibition. To celebrate, Chris Beetles Gallery in the centre of London held a 3-week exhibition of cricket paintings, including many of my latest works. Thanks to Chris's team and everyone who came to view, it was a great success. Jeffrey Archer introduced Lord McLaurin who opened the exhibition with some fascinating stories which I still deny! Even though they are true. It was quite ironic that we had my old hat on display, locked in a cabinet for safety. Not so much to stop it being stolen but it's in such a bad state that we had to stop people catching anything from it on “Health & Safety” grounds! We all had a good laugh on the opening evening as it was the hat that Lord McLaurin banned at the end of my England career! ![]() I have to put on record that Chris Beetles and his team have treated me absolutely first class. I know from experience and from other artists that that is not always the case with galleries. So a big thank you Chris. Top man! Chris exhibits a wide variety of work so please check out his gallery at www.chrisbeetles.com. I have to say I also fell in love with the work of Albert Goodwin, and I'm not really a watercolour man. Amazing! During the exhibition I caught up with my old Captain, Mike Atherton who did us proud with a nice piece in The Times on 9th August. Also thank you to Huw Turbervill and James Coyne of The Cricketer Magazine for a lovely piece in their August issue thecricketer.com. ![]() A LORD'S SUMMERThe exhibition showed my latest Lord's painting, A Lord's Summer, which we are launching with this newsletter as a new limited edition giclee of just 100. Because of the likely demand we will have to sell them on a first come first serve basis and will be available from 7th December - price £250 plus £15 p&p. But I'm happy to say that all of you newsletter subscribers are the first to know and are available to you now. To reserve your giclee before the release date please email me jack@jackrussell.co.uk The first person to do so will get “Number One” from the edition. ![]() CARRICKFERGUS CC In August I had a delightful trip to Carrickfergus Cricket Club near Belfast to paint a picture for the club to mark their 150th Anniversary. Thank you Michael Boyd in America for commissioning the painting and a big thank you to Robin Stewart from Robinsons Shoes who looked after me brilliantly during my stay. I even picked up a much needed new pair of shoes! ![]() ![]()
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