John Craxton exhibition fantastic. Have seen some in books etc but close up the colours and techniques really come to life.
Tom Oakley
A beautiful place to visit. It's a lovely space with some interesting pieces in its permanent collection and the exhibitions on until April are really worth seeing. The Jake Grewal is a small ish collection of work by a young artist and the John Craxton is a major (posthumous) retrospective of a painter who deserves to be recognised. I found it thoroughly moving. I also really liked a small exhibition in which local refugees had written their responses to printed works. Well worth the journey to Chichester to spend a few hours looking round.
Into Beauty
I came here to specifically eat at the restaurant, which is gorgeous. Inside or outside it's a lovely space to be with your best friend and have a good old gossip, whilst drinking excellent wine and eating delish food. We meant to follow this with a visit to the actual gallery, but never got there as we were made so welcome in the courtyard part of the restaurant. Next time I will drag my reluctant friend around the excellent gallery as I've been there before and loved it, but my friend is a little impatient with such things! Staff all lovely and helpful.
Louise Brew
One of the best art galleries and experiences in a long time. Would recommend going on a weekday when not too busy, take your time. Many of the paintings feels they have different meanings for different people. Ensure to give you plenty of time. What I also really liked was the seating areas, where you could sit down and enjoy. A lot of interesting information about artists as well. Recommended
Jonathan Gosling
Lovely intimate space for an exhibition, with a side-gallery showing selected work by local artists in response to the main show. One room dedicated to a revolving academy-style hanging of paintings from the permanent collection includes some surprises. I loved a smallParing of open woodland by Keith Vaughan - grateful to have seen it. The main (temporary) exhibition (Gwen John) was well supported by on-line written and spoken notes by the curator. Impressed by two war-time pictures of a brown tea-pot …. The tenuousness of even that sparse comfort.
Dan Jones
I went to the Pallant House Gallery cafe as it is open late on Thursdays during the summer. They had musician Glenn Palmer playing guitar in the garden which was very nice, his music was great and playing was very professional, it made for great ambience while relaxing with a pot of tea.We also took a look in the bookshop, which I would highly recommend if you are interested in art. There were also some other interesting books in the shop, like first editions and signed books.We didn't get the opportunity to look around the gallery fully but will definitely want to return to do this. I would highly recommend checking the gallery, bookshop and cafe out if you are visiting Chichester, it is very central and easy to get to...
Nata b
It was worth visiting Chichester and this gallery was its highlight. I went to see Gwen Jones' exhibition and loved how it displayed community art projects inspired by this artist. Fantastic to see how art interacts with people. I was inspired too and went home thinking how I can use what I have seen in my day to day life and small projects. It was also a female empowering exhibition in my view
Thomas Traddles
The Gwen John exhibition is terrific but ruined by the hopeless audio tour. The narrator dwells too much on how tough it was for women at this time and uses ‘kinda’ endlessly whilst rambling on . Hard to navigate and too long. I gave up and just read the info cards.
Hamish & Vivienne Pringle
We’re ‘Friends’, have visited Pallant House Gallery many times, and always enjoyed the experience. The quality of exhibitions has been variable but the one that ended yesterday was excellent. ‘Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water’. Sat 12 November 2022 - Sun 23 April 2023. We went to see it twice and if you missed the show I suggest buying a copy of the catalogue which is also very good and will become a collector’s item.
Peter Collier
Pallant House is one of my favourite galleries. They have a very good permanent collection of British art and put on interesting temporary exhibitions. The restaurant is a good place to eat.
We’re ‘Friends’, have visited Pallant House Gallery many times, and always enjoyed the experience. The quality of exhibitions has been variable but the one that ended yesterday was excellent. ‘Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water’. Sat 12 November 2022 - Sun 23 April 2023. We went to see it twice and if you missed the show I suggest buying a copy of the catalogue which is also very good and will become a collector’s item.
Lina Talbot
This gallery caters for everyone - and everything. For art connoisseurs and those who last looked at an artwork back at school, for adults and kids and oldies. Great supporting staff with helpful advice about the building and the artworks. Informative notices about the content of each room in the exhibition - in this case "Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water" - so that you can relate to what was happening in the art community in the war years or whenever. Plenty of space to linger in front of a painting, and the welcoming café in the garden below with its amazing tree cover - itself a work of landscape art.
Melissa MacGowan
Interesting mix of Artwork here in a nice building. Shame restaurant part so popular as we couldn't get a table to eat there and had to eat in foyer where they'd run out of several dishes, another time!
Douglas Rankine
Went to see painting and photo and sculpture exhibition about Sussex and its history. Wide variety of styles and artists, some famous...£12.50 entrance fee, well worth it! Nice afternoon out. Nice cafe, and plenty of restaurants around. Lovely Chichester architecture too
Rowena Begley
Although I have been to Chichester many times I have never been to the Pallant House Gallery. Well what a mistake . I saw an exhibition called Sussex Landscape and it was excellent, paintings by various artists over the years. Thoroughly recommend it also there are other rooms to explore. As you might have gathered I will definitely be going again.
John Craxton exhibition fantastic. Have seen some in books etc but close up the colours and techniques really come to life.
A beautiful place to visit. It's a lovely space with some interesting pieces in its permanent collection and the exhibitions on until April are really worth seeing. The Jake Grewal is a small ish collection of work by a young artist and the John Craxton is a major (posthumous) retrospective of a painter who deserves to be recognised. I found it thoroughly moving. I also really liked a small exhibition in which local refugees had written their responses to printed works. Well worth the journey to Chichester to spend a few hours looking round.
I came here to specifically eat at the restaurant, which is gorgeous. Inside or outside it's a lovely space to be with your best friend and have a good old gossip, whilst drinking excellent wine and eating delish food. We meant to follow this with a visit to the actual gallery, but never got there as we were made so welcome in the courtyard part of the restaurant. Next time I will drag my reluctant friend around the excellent gallery as I've been there before and loved it, but my friend is a little impatient with such things! Staff all lovely and helpful.
One of the best art galleries and experiences in a long time. Would recommend going on a weekday when not too busy, take your time. Many of the paintings feels they have different meanings for different people. Ensure to give you plenty of time. What I also really liked was the seating areas, where you could sit down and enjoy. A lot of interesting information about artists as well. Recommended
Lovely intimate space for an exhibition, with a side-gallery showing selected work by local artists in response to the main show. One room dedicated to a revolving academy-style hanging of paintings from the permanent collection includes some surprises. I loved a smallParing of open woodland by Keith Vaughan - grateful to have seen it. The main (temporary) exhibition (Gwen John) was well supported by on-line written and spoken notes by the curator. Impressed by two war-time pictures of a brown tea-pot …. The tenuousness of even that sparse comfort.
I went to the Pallant House Gallery cafe as it is open late on Thursdays during the summer. They had musician Glenn Palmer playing guitar in the garden which was very nice, his music was great and playing was very professional, it made for great ambience while relaxing with a pot of tea.We also took a look in the bookshop, which I would highly recommend if you are interested in art. There were also some other interesting books in the shop, like first editions and signed books.We didn't get the opportunity to look around the gallery fully but will definitely want to return to do this. I would highly recommend checking the gallery, bookshop and cafe out if you are visiting Chichester, it is very central and easy to get to...
It was worth visiting Chichester and this gallery was its highlight. I went to see Gwen Jones' exhibition and loved how it displayed community art projects inspired by this artist. Fantastic to see how art interacts with people. I was inspired too and went home thinking how I can use what I have seen in my day to day life and small projects. It was also a female empowering exhibition in my view
The Gwen John exhibition is terrific but ruined by the hopeless audio tour. The narrator dwells too much on how tough it was for women at this time and uses ‘kinda’ endlessly whilst rambling on . Hard to navigate and too long. I gave up and just read the info cards.
We’re ‘Friends’, have visited Pallant House Gallery many times, and always enjoyed the experience. The quality of exhibitions has been variable but the one that ended yesterday was excellent. ‘Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water’. Sat 12 November 2022 - Sun 23 April 2023. We went to see it twice and if you missed the show I suggest buying a copy of the catalogue which is also very good and will become a collector’s item.
Pallant House is one of my favourite galleries. They have a very good permanent collection of British art and put on interesting temporary exhibitions. The restaurant is a good place to eat.
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We’re ‘Friends’, have visited Pallant House Gallery many times, and always enjoyed the experience. The quality of exhibitions has been variable but the one that ended yesterday was excellent. ‘Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water’. Sat 12 November 2022 - Sun 23 April 2023. We went to see it twice and if you missed the show I suggest buying a copy of the catalogue which is also very good and will become a collector’s item.
This gallery caters for everyone - and everything. For art connoisseurs and those who last looked at an artwork back at school, for adults and kids and oldies. Great supporting staff with helpful advice about the building and the artworks. Informative notices about the content of each room in the exhibition - in this case "Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water" - so that you can relate to what was happening in the art community in the war years or whenever. Plenty of space to linger in front of a painting, and the welcoming café in the garden below with its amazing tree cover - itself a work of landscape art.
Interesting mix of Artwork here in a nice building. Shame restaurant part so popular as we couldn't get a table to eat there and had to eat in foyer where they'd run out of several dishes, another time!
Went to see painting and photo and sculpture exhibition about Sussex and its history. Wide variety of styles and artists, some famous...£12.50 entrance fee, well worth it! Nice afternoon out. Nice cafe, and plenty of restaurants around. Lovely Chichester architecture too
Although I have been to Chichester many times I have never been to the Pallant House Gallery. Well what a mistake . I saw an exhibition called Sussex Landscape and it was excellent, paintings by various artists over the years. Thoroughly recommend it also there are other rooms to explore. As you might have gathered I will definitely be going again.