‘I am delighted to pay tribute to the stimulating role played by the Methodist Collection at a crucial stage in my life, helping me realise just how much I relished the challenge of writing about art.’

Richard Cork, art critic for the New Statesman

Not everyone knows that Greenbelt’s new partners The Methodist Church owns a collection of art described as ‘the best denominational collection of modern art outside the Vatican’. We are therefore delighted to present an exhibition of highlights from the Collection – full title, The Methodist Church Collection of Modern and Contemporary Christian Art – which includes such leading artists of the last 100 years, as Norman Adams, Elizabeth Frink, Patrick Heron, Georges Rouault and Graham Sutherland. 

Not only that, but we will be showing several of the newest acquisitions to the collection including works by Craigie Aitchison, Maggi Hambling, Susie Hamilton, Clive Hicks-Jenkins and Peter Howson.

The newest acquisition, Christ Writes in the Dust by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, comes direct to Greenbelt from the artist’s major retrospective exhibition at the National Library of Wales. The artist, described by Robert Macdonald as ‘one of the most powerful figurative painters in Wales’, will open the Greenbelt exhibition on Friday evening.

A guide to the collection will be available at the Festival, price £5.

We are especially grateful to the Gibbs Family Trust and the trustees of the Collection for their support for this project.

Venue : Golden Miller, Those 3 Rooms

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Friday : Open 6pm – 9pm

Saturday : Open 10am – 8pm ( closed between 12 & 2pm )

2pm RE-COLLECTION
A short (30-min) service of meditation, designed to give you a chance to view the pictures, take a breath, and collect your thoughts. We will focus on a selected number of images in the exhibition, and use them as a springboard for personal reflection, before heading back into the Greenbelt melee.

Sunday : Open 12pm – 8pm

Monday : Open 10am – last entry 4pm

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ARTISTS INCLUDE

Norman Adams

Craigie Aitchison

Edward Burra

Mark Cazalet

Eularia Clarke

Michael Edmonds

Elisabeth Frink

Maggi Hambling

Susie Hamilton

Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Ghislaine Howard

Peter Howson

Francis Hoyland

Nicholas Mynheer 

John Muafangejo

John Reilly

Ceri Richards

William Roberts

Georges Rouault

Jyoti Sahi

Euryl Stephens

Graham Sutherland

Sadao Watanabe

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