{"id":934881,"date":"2026-05-03T11:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934881\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:31:27","slug":"coventry-artist-gets-posthumous-exhibition-in-the-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934881\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry artist gets posthumous exhibition &#8211; in the pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A much-loved painter who taught in Coventry for more than 30 years is being remembered in an exhibition celebrating his life, that also offers a chance to reunite some of his subjects with their portraits. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon Gee, originally from Walsall, died in March and &#8220;didn&#8217;t want a service, as such&#8221;, said friend Mark James, &#8220;but he was always up for a party&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The show &#8211; which will raise money for the Myton Hospices charity &#8211; will run for a month at pub Twisted Barrel Brewery in Coventry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of his paintings were of people he did not know, &#8220;or had collared in a pub somewhere&#8221;, James said. &#8220;He would never exhibit in an art gallery, always a pub.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A much-loved painter who taught in Coventry for more than 30 years is being remembered in an exhibition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-934881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116510424249336089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}