An English Idyll: Paintings & Prints by Leslie Moffat Ward

This exhibition of paintings and prints by Leslie Moffat Ward (1888-1978) reveals a vanished England of bustling wharfs, ramshackle buildings and tranquil countryside. Ward spent most of his life in Bournemouth, where he studied and then taught art. He was a leading member of the Bournemouth Arts Club and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) and exhibited at the Royal Academy. Ward travelled widely but returned again and again to the area around Poole and Bournemouth for his subject matter. This exhibition will feature many rarely seen works on loan from private collections as well as paintings and prints from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum. Ward was working from the 1910s to the 1950s and captured a disappearing world. This will be a treat for devotees of fine prints and lovers of the English landscape.