Beryl Robinson: Monday 8th September – Thursday 2nd October 2025
An exhibition of painting and poetry, exploring the fear and depths of despair felt when the pandemic hit.
Beryl painted every day in lockdown expressing her subconscious thoughts about loss, death and grief.
Over 170 paintings were completed in this time. A compulsion to paint daily, where figures appeared through
mark making and painterly strokes on her canvas.
Eric Lombers: Monday 20th October – Thursday 18th December 2025
An exhibition of original 1930s London Underground and Advertisement Posters by Eric Lombers in partnership with Tom Eckersley. Eric taught at Bradford College of Art for 38 years.
He studied Commercial Art at Salford School of Art, Royal Technical College, where he won the Heywood Medal 1932-33. In 1933, he entered the Royal Society of Arts Competition for Industrial Design, judged by Tom Purvis, a leading poster artist, where he won Prize Money of £21.
At Salford, he teamed up with fellow student Tom Eckersley who shared the same passion for poster design, and the two formed the successful
partnership of Eckersley Lombers.
In 1934 they moved to the West End of London and took a studio in Ebury Street. Harold Rhodes, Head of the Salford School of Art,
Royal Technical College, made an introduction for them to see Frank Pick, Chief Executive of London Transport, who commissioned artwork for
London Transport. They were hired to design posters for the underground train carriages and stations, advertising attractions and events around
the city. It is believed that their first poster for London Transport was ‘The Zoo by Floodlight ‘ in 1935. Other commissions followed, including
posters for Shell Mex/BP, Austin Reed and the General Post Office, as well as illustrations for various newspapers and journals.
In 1939, Rhodes, now Principal of the Bradford College of Art appointed Eric Lombers as an Art and Design tutor, specialising in Typography and Lettering, where he taught for over 38 years.
Today Eckersley Lombers’ work can be found in collections at the London Transport Museum, the V&A and the Imperial War Museum.
His granddaughters have been passed down a portfolio of these posters and some artworks from Lombers’ private practice.
It is with the greatest pleasure that they would like to share these in this significant gallery
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