Salts Mill's 1853 Gallery sells a wide range of artists' supplies and art books - including some covetable photography books. This wonderful, stone-flagged space, in the West Mill, also displays many examples of David Hockney's art work and several books about his work are available to buy. Bradford-born Hockney was a friend of Jonathan Silver, the entrepreneur who saved the redundant textile mill from dereliction in 1987.
The picture below of sunflowers was a painting Hockney sent to Jonathan when his friend was ill with cancer. Silver very sadly died - much too young - in 1997. Thankfully, however, his family have continued to manage and develop Salts Mill, to the benefit of the entire village of Saltaire.
As well as the pieces in the 1853 Gallery, upstairs there is a permanent exhibition of Hockney's 'The Arrival of Spring' iPad paintings, first displayed at the RA in London in 2012. See HERE.
There are such wonderful spaces in the mill!
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ReplyDeleteIts a wonderful space for art and books. Well done to Jonathan Silver, sad his life was cut short.
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