Jan302010

Silent Auction in support of The Picture-Palace Campaign

The Bigger Picture will be holding an online silent auction for “Big Yellow Field” – an original painting by Bigger Picture artist Angelique Hartigan.

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Big Yellow Field is a quintessential English countryside scene looking across a field of corn at the height of one of our warmer summers. In the distance a little white house sits on the edge of a dark magical wood. The painting is Oil and Acrylic on Canvas and measures 39″ x 39″.

Big Yellow Field is currently on display at The Bigger Picture Gallery at 93 Church Road, Crystal Palace.

Click here to go to the Bigger Picture’s website for more information on the auction.

Silent Auction in support of The Picture-Palace Campaign
Dec172009

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Bromley Council reject Crystal Palace cinema conversion plans

Jerry Green

CONTROVERSIAL plans to turn a former cinema in Crystal Palace into a church have been rejected by a Bromley council planning committee – on the chairman’s casting vote.

Kingsway International Christian Centre had wanted to turn the former cinema and bingo hall in Church Road into a church after buying the building from Gala bingo hall. The move has sparked a massive groundswell of public opposition from residents and traders – the vast majority of whom want the building turned back into a cinema.

But the future of the building could now be uncertain after a letter from KICC’s agents for the application stated that if planning permission was not forthcoming the building would just be allowed to fall into disrepair. Read More »

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