{"product_id":"when-the-lark-rises-jim-norris","title":"When The Lark Rises - Jim Norris","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne hundred years ago impressionist painter, Herbert Ivan Babbage (1875-1916) of Whanganui, New Zealand and St Ives, Cornwall was laid to rest in a cemetery in Cardiff, Wales.  The Sarjeant Gallery holds ten of this prolific artist’s works and has mounted an exhibition in his memory. Among the works Bateaux des Pommes, or Apple Barges on the Seine, was one of the Gallery’s foundation paintings, bequeathed to the Gallery before the building in Queen’s Park was completed in 1919.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJim Norris, recently retired and a hobby artist himself, discovered Mr Babbage in 1999 through a larger exhibition of his works at the Sarjeant, entitled Brushes with Light. Mr Norris has recently published a booklet about the artist to celebrate the centenary of the artist’s death. “I’ve always been a fan of impressionist paintings and Babbage is as good as most of them I think. I couldn’t believe that I had never heard of a painter like that who came from Whanganui so I started taking more notice of him.  As his paintings came up at New Zealand auctions I would take an interest in them and buy them if I could.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarjeant Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67481646006430,"sku":"22568","price":20.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0099\/8729\/3248\/files\/Jim_Norris_Where_The_Lark_Rises_sq.jpg?v=1791079610","url":"https:\/\/shop.sarjeant.org.nz\/products\/when-the-lark-rises-jim-norris","provider":"Te Whare O Rehua Sarjeant Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}