Exhibition poster for Bob's 2005 exhibition at Worthing museum. Poster design by Stratford Design.

Worthing Museum and Art Gallery

Photos from the 2005 exhibition are now in the Gallery

Photographs taken during Bob's exhibition at the Worthing Museum and Art Gallery in October 2005 are now in the Gallery pages of this website. The exhibition, called '1996' featured 24 paintings from that year. The following is taken from the exhibition poster.

"1996 was a very productive year for me. What made it special was that I concentrated, more or less, on one work for the whole time. I started working, intending it to be a ninety-six colour composition and a comment on totality. It became possible because a friend bought ninety six tubes of acrylic paint for me, giving me, for the first time, a complete palette.

At the time I lived in a spacious room in a large run-down house in Downview Road. The room had a large bay window facing west and a small window to the south. It was on the first floor and the light was very good. As I had very little furniture, mainly a home made bed and a settee, I had plenty of wall and floor space to paint on.

I bought a piece of linen six feet wide and ten feet high and started. I did four versions as I went along –Three others 5 '6 " x 4 ', 16" x 12" and the last 32" x 24" The largest work, on the free-hanging linen, I painted on the floor, the others on the wall or on my lap".

The exhibition ran from 01 October to 26 November 2005 with a private viewing on Friday 30th September. It will have brought back a few memories for Bob as it was at this gallery that Robert Meaton first exhibited as Bob Brighton in 1987.