Greeting Card Set #2: Threshing by Veronica Burleigh
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Five images taken from a c.1930 painting of rural industry - each set of five contains one of each image and is blank inside.
The oil on canvas scene reflects the socialist realist style, likely painted in Sussex in earlier life when steam threshing was common. Born in 1909, Veronica was the daughter of Brighton artists Averill & Charles Burleigh. Studying at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1927-30 under artist (and surgeon) Henry Tonks, she moved to Blackstone near Henfield in 1970. Frequently visiting South Africa, she also made annual trips to Rhodesia, holding twenty-three showcases there.
Exhibitions of Burleigh’s work were also held at the New English Art Club; Royal Academy; Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; Society of Women Artists; Sussex Women’s Art Club and with the Sussex Painters. Veronica died in 1999 and is buried at St. Peter's, Woodmancote, her gravestone stating ‘Sussex Artist’.
Produced by the Friends of Henfield Museum, 2023, to which all proceeds go to support the museum and local heritage projects in the community.
Recycled paper (FSC/PEFC), Woodland Carbon Code accredited, Woodland Trust carbon offset.
The oil on canvas scene reflects the socialist realist style, likely painted in Sussex in earlier life when steam threshing was common. Born in 1909, Veronica was the daughter of Brighton artists Averill & Charles Burleigh. Studying at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1927-30 under artist (and surgeon) Henry Tonks, she moved to Blackstone near Henfield in 1970. Frequently visiting South Africa, she also made annual trips to Rhodesia, holding twenty-three showcases there.
Exhibitions of Burleigh’s work were also held at the New English Art Club; Royal Academy; Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; Society of Women Artists; Sussex Women’s Art Club and with the Sussex Painters. Veronica died in 1999 and is buried at St. Peter's, Woodmancote, her gravestone stating ‘Sussex Artist’.
Produced by the Friends of Henfield Museum, 2023, to which all proceeds go to support the museum and local heritage projects in the community.
Recycled paper (FSC/PEFC), Woodland Carbon Code accredited, Woodland Trust carbon offset.