CORK STREET gallery owner David Messum is running his annual summer exhibition of outdoor sculpture at his Lord’s Wood studio on Marlow Common, Buckinghamshire, on June 11–12, and by appointment thereafter (01628 486565; www.messums.com). Featured artists include Laurence Edward, Bridget McCrum, Giles Rayner, Guy Taplin, Dominic Welch and Neil Wilkin. Mr and Mrs Messum bought Lord’s Wood, in a dilapidated state, in 1974, from the psychoanalyst James Strachey and his wife, Alix, whose mother, Mary Florence, had established an artists’ colony there—their friend, Francis Partridge, described it as ‘the last outpost of Old Bloomsbury’
This month is the height of outdoor sculpture exhibitions. Others to visit include ‘On Form’, the biennial exhibition of works in stone at Asthall Manor, Burford, Gloucestershire (June 12–July 10, 01993 824319; www.onformsculpture.co.uk) and the Moncrief-Bray…
