Don't eat the Pomegranate? | 1-18 May 2024

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Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Art Gallery | Buckhurst Lane, Sevenoaks, TN13 1LQ

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We were celebrating the signs of Spring, the natural world reawakening after winter. Throughout the globe there are seasonal changes which guide us through time. These changes are a great inspiration for artists and many myths, legends and tales explain the eternal cycles of Nature's death and rebirth.

One such myth is the story of Persephone and Hades, represented in Michael Hempstead’s paintings which were the theme of his talk on Saturday 11th May. The significance of the pomegranate is that by eating six pomegranate seeds Persephone was destined to spend 6 months with Hades in the Underworld and 6 months in the Upper Earth so her father divided the year into 2 parts: Dark Winter and Radiant Summer.
We posed the question “Don’t eat the Pomegranate?” to invite you to consider how would you feel without these contrasts?

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The exhibition was accompanied by a series of talks, demonstrations and workshops.

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Featured artists: ​Victoria Atkinson • Rosalind Barker • Nicholas Cheeseman • Joanna Ciechanowska • Louisa Crispin • Veronica van Eijk • Marek Emczek Olszewski • Leila Godden • Alexandra Harley • Michael Hempstead • Richard Heys • Maria Kaleta • Solange Keschmann • Malgorzata Lapsa- Malawska • Owen Legg • Rod McIntosh • Alex McIntyre • Peter Murry • Bettina Reiber • Bina Shah • Helen Twigge-Molecey • Sally Ward • Adam Zoltowski

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