The Gallery at Windsor hosted guests at its annual Finissage, the final viewing of the 2025 exhibition Left Hand, Right Hand: Christopher Le Brun & Charlotte Verity. The cocktail reception also included poetry written and read by student writers who participate in workshops offered by the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation.
The exhibition had been curated by Robin Vousden and marked the first U.S. showing of the married British artists’ works together. The couple’s lives have run parallel since they met at London’s Slade School of Fine Art in 1974 and later married. And, while their artistic styles are distinctive, their works complemented one another perfectly in this exhibit.
The students, ages 7 to 17, had spent several hours in the gallery earlier in the year, observing the pairing of abstracts and nature paintings that themselves are poetic in nature. Letting the colors and composition guide their words, they each wrote poems about pieces in the exhibition that spoke to them personally…