glover weekend — handmark celebrations
Every March, art enthusiasts flock to Evandale to celebrate colonial landscape painter John Glover. Once again, Handmark is at the forefront of Glover Prize celebrations. In the past fifteen years, Handmark has curated a landscape exhibition to coincide with the Glover Prize, firstly at our Gallery in Evandale and latterly, working with Lydia Nettlefold at the Clarendon Arms. This year is extra special. Acclaimed artist, John Lendis, will be unveiling a solo show of new paintings.
To celebrate the exhibition opening, a dinner with fabulous local produce – and live jazz – will be held at the hotel.
Lydia Nettlefold always puts together a special menu to celebrate our exhibitions and John Lendis, whom she recently visited in the Cotswolds is one of her favourite Handmark artists.
Meanwhile, Handmark painters, Luke Wagner and Peter Gouldthorpe have been selected as finalists in the 2026 Glover Prize. It’s the 8th time for both of them: “My painting, After a Hard Winter, depicts the last of the winter snow high on an alpine Plateau,” Peter tells us. “I was trekking one day and stumbled across this scene. It just stuck with me.”
Handmark’s John Lendis Exhibition opens on Thursday March 5 at the Clarendon Arms Hotel in Evandale from 5pm and runs until April 13. Please call the Clarendon Arms on 6391 8181 to book your place for the opening night dinner.