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One of Britain’s leading still-life painters Val Archer has collaborated with the great Italian food expert Anna del Conte to produce a unique food travelogue through six of Italy’s lesser-known regions. The book is a visual feast of Italian produce, with recipes and food history celebrating the very best regional and seasonal specialities at the heart of Italy’s Slow Food Movement.
Our selling exhibition will feature over 100 of Val Archer’s stunning oil paintings and watercolours from this appetising book. With their intense colours and painstaking detail they explore and evoke the passion, joy and love that Italian food inspires.
For a number of years Val created the pictures for the food pages of the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph newspapers. She also illustrated Nigel Slater’s early books and has regularly created paintings for magazines such as BBC Good Food.
A lavish celebration of Italy’s regional culinary treasures and the Slow Food Movement. The Slow Food Movement began in Italy in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how it tastes.
Months of exploring the independent farmers and producers of Puglia, Le Marche, Piedmont, the Veneto, Liguria and Sardinia have revealed to Val and Anna a rich culinary history that is often overlooked in the wider appreciation of Italian food. Val’s paintings bring vibrantly to life delicacies such as wedding cake cheese, wild beetroot, white truffles, and Crivelli peaches, providing a visual study of these ancient cuisines to complement del Conte’s fascinating text.
Gallery opening hours: 10am - 5.30pm, Monday - Saturday
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