Mayor celebrates lost art
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- 12.22am, 14 September 2007
The Mayor of Hertsmere, Councillor Martin Saunders, opened the Kemp-Welch gallery at Bushey Museum this week, after paintings of national importance by the local artist Lucy Kemp-Welch had been in storage for over 20 years.
The Mayor of Hertsmere and Sir John Kemp-Welch of the Lucy Kemp-Welch Memorial Trust with one of the paintings
The Kemp-Welch gallery is dedicated to the paintings of Lucy Kemp-Welch who died in 1958. The collection mainly consists of watercolours and oil paintings of horses.