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HENLEY FESTIVAL 2011
Penny has been invited by Stewart Collins Artistic Director of the Henley Festival to exhibit at this years festival in July. She will be showing her work in a beautiful gallery space along side the wonderfully talented sculpter Andrew Thomas http://www.3dsculptor.com/ora.html for the duration of the festival between 6th -11th of July.
Details here www.henley-festival.co.uk
PETWORTH FESTIVAL 2011
Penny and Andrew have also been invited to exhibit together at Petworth Festival 2011 and have been given the exhibition room at Petworth House to showcase their work.
Details here www.petworthfestival.org.uk
The artist at the centre of the controversy surrounding the Trinity Hospice paintings says the Trustees have shown "amazing vision" and should be congratulated.
Trustees have been criticized for spending £50,000 on six paintings rather than the charity's running costs.
Penny meets HRH The Duke of Edinburgh at St. Luke's Hospital for the Clergy in London where she has donated two of her large oil paintings. One is the study of the Resurrection painting which is hanging permanently in Blackburn Cathedral and this will be hung on the newly refurbished chapel wall. The other, a ballet painting, will greet patients in the reception area.
Finchampstead artist Penny Warden's life-size paintings of Christ's crucifixion adorn the walls of Blackburn Cathedral. She tells us how she's infused her Divine Art with motion and energy.
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1st April 2006
Two of the most powerful politicians in the Western world followed a spiritual journey through Blackburn Cathedral, to pray for peace before radical images of death and resurrection.
David Ward writes:
Divine inspiration: Cathedral displays contemporary art for Easter.
Penny's painting of the resurrection in Blackburn Cathedral.
"Football and fine art rarely go together, but Blackburn Rovers FC has sponsored one of a series of portraits of the anguished Christ installed in Blackburn Cathedral, Lancashire, in time for Easter.
Radical Christ Paintings for Blackburn Cathedral
Radical life-size oil paintings of Jesus Christ are to go on permanent display in Blackburn Cathedral. The 15 abstract studies are planned as visual aids to faith and as a national tourist attraction.
Dean of Blackburn Cathedral at the launch of the Stations of the Cross 19th March 2005
"Blackburn’s new ‘Stations of the North’: Blackburn Cathedral has acquired 15 life-size oil-paintings of Jesus by the Berkshire artist Penny Warden. They form a series of Stations of the Cross entitled The Journey.
