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opening times February
Open 15–21 Feb 10am-5pm
opening times 22–26 will be posted here
Admission free. Donations welcome.
GIFT VOUCHERS
We have £10, £25, £50, £100. Shades of green and very pretty.
Urbis, National Football Museum, Homes of Football
Just to say we hope and expect Homes of Football to be involved with the National Football Museum move from Preston to Urbis, Manchester. The gallery at Ambleside is Stuart Clarke’s and stays here.
See you there as well as here!
http://www.popmusicfestival.co.uk/
http://www.popmusicfestival.co.uk/
my new site is up and mooing. Don’t wander too far away from this football field mind.
We don't do January sales but...
Pictures are available as limited edition gi-clee prints or crystal archive / cibachrome prints.
GiClee dye-based prints are produced in-house at Ambleside by Clarke printed on board to image-size 13×11 inches at £45 + £5 post
or 25×22 inches (FOUR TIMES THE SIZE) at £95 + £15 post.
Each comes in a signed and titled window-mount.
We can frame either size at twice the given prices in the three quality frames we offer (grand totals would be £95 / £200 + £25 post in either case). The wooden frames are light brown, dark brown, almost black.
All pictures are landscape-shaped.
As we don’t do Sales, WE MIGHT ACCEPT OFFERS ON PRINTS DURING JANUARY. We offer reductions on 2 or more purchases. PAYMENT BY CARD, PAYPAL, BANK TRANSFER email/over the phone 015394 34440.
Promised Land exhibition Rheged
“Somewhere Across A Promised Land” by Stuart Roy Clarke, debuts at Cumbria’s most-visited tourist attraction, Rheged, until March 1st 2010. Opening hours are daily 9–5, closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day. Admission Free.
Clarke’s large-scale photographs, along with Stina Elin Johansson’s graphics, focus on England’s green and pleasant land and the trial and tribulations of living there – one section is entitled ‘The Rains Came’.
The prints are hand printed Giclee prints on Ilford galerie Paper and are available in the frame-styles and sizes as displayed at £350 each.
1 “Water on Planet Earth That Maketh…” ULLSWATER year 2006 (cat no 20017)
2 “A Chance Taken” APPLEBY HORSE-FAIR year 2008 (cat no 12415)
3 “Longest Day is Underway” SWINSIDE year 2009 (cat no 12628)
4 “Cow To Water” MAULDS MEABURN year 2006 (cat no 10607)
5 “Red-Gated Home House Stormy Sky” THIEFSIDE year 2009 (cat no 12639)
6 “Fan Asleep in England’s Green” BRIDGEND year 2006 (cat no 7942)
7 “Imagined By The Waterfall” NUNNERY WALKS year 2008 (cat no 12643)
8 “Caravan Park (Flush Toilet & Showers)” DENT year 2008 (cat no 13274)
9 “Scary Witch in The Dusk Road Home” THE STRUGGLE year 2009 (cat no 12629)
10 “Would-Be Queen of…” WORKINGTON year 2009 (cat 12573)
11 “Young Lady Anne Clifford’s Ghost’s Portrait” BROUGHAM CASTLE year 2008 (cat no 12552)
12 “Hair Wild & Nose Held” KIRKBY LONSDALE year 2009 (cat no 12577)
13 “Tebay Heart Operating Team” TEBAY year 2007 (cat no 12194)
14 “Heart in Winter” TEBAY year 2009 (cat no 12557)
15 “Trees Bent in The Wind” HUMPHREY HEAD year 2006 (cat no 10663)
16 “The Viaduct Walk” MOSEDALE year 2008 (cat no 12462)
17 “Before The Castle As it Was” LOWTHER year 2008 (cat no 12471)
18 “Green Green Grass of My Home” BRIDGEND year 2006 (cat no 10638)
19 “The Tree Shimmering in the Early Summer Breeze” BLAZE FELL year 2007 (cat no 10999)
20 “Chink In The Walled Garden” NORD VUE, BLAZE FELL year 2007 (cat no 10991)
YOU visit us at Ambleside year long
“Awesome collection” Hewey Bay, Queensland, Australia, 18 Oct 09
“Truly fantastic exhibition of football in its most purest form. A true pleasure and a priviledge”. Pam, 20 Oct
“Not interested in football at all, but still recognised the skill and artistry in this exhibition – great!” Philippa, Hull. 6 Aug 09.
“Amazing!! One of the best and moving exhibitions of art that we have seen”. Belinda & Dennis, Lichfield. 4 Aug 09
Ceramic Coasters
ORDER ONLY
We have quality ceramic coasters in the spirit of The Homes of Football, marking our 20th anniversary, redesigned in the styles of old programmes and posters mostly from 1950’s, 60’s,70’s. The boxed 4 x coaster sets are £29 (+ £5p&p).
Email coasters@homesoffootball.co.uk or ring us at the gallery 015394 34440 – there is no on-line shopping purchase facility.
The sets are drawn from a cross-section of clubs in Great Britain : Arsenal , Aston Villa, Barnet, Barnsley, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol City, Bristol Rovers, Burnley, Cardiff City, Carlisle United, Celtic, Chelmsford City, Chelsea, Colchester United, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Dundee United, England v Scotland at Wembley Home Internationals, Everton, Fulham, Huddersfield Town, Hull City, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Lincoln City, Liverpool, Luton Town, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Northampton Town, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Oxford United, Plymouth Argyle, Portsmouth, Preston North End, Queen Of The South, Queens Park Rangers, Rangers, Reading, Scotland v England, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Shrewsbury Town, Southend United, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, Watford, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United, Wolverhampton, Worcester City, Workington. Plus The World Cup.
Each set of 4 coasters is a quality gift, which is at once unique whether for the mantelpiece or under a boiling hot cup of tea!
Three New Clarke Books for 2010
A trilogy of books! (you wait for a bus then 3 arrive!) I hope they ‘take you there’...
“Scenes From A British Summer Country Pop music Festival” is out Spring/Summer 2010
“Somewhere Across A Promised Land” (“Cumbria Surrounded”) is out Spring/Summer…
“The Cradle of The Game” – next football book – is out… wait for it… Spring/Summer.
A TRILOGY! Three separate stand-alone hardback books in colour with commentary by Clarke.
Smaller bendy-back edit versions for students will also be available.
World Cup Germany 2006
To see some initial Stuart Clarke World Cup Germany’06 pictures, click here.
“German Summer Recalled” will be released in hardback on May 1st 2010.
That makes 4 hardback books in 1 year? Mental or what?
