dorset art trails 2013

A weekend trAil linking Art with food, lAndscApes

And other experiences

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5 to 7 April 2013

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Welcome to Dorset. This is an invitation to explore art, design and making in a rural context. This is your chance to interweave the experiences on offer with other aspects of Dorset’s cultural and geographical landscape. It is also for local people to strengthen their enjoyment of where they live, in perhaps some unexpected ways.

There is a Core Trail that has been curated by Dorset Visual Arts and we have invited our members to join in as Fringe events by opening their studios. Consequently some activities are free and some ticketed, with limited availability for unique opportunities. They are led by people with renowned imagination and talent who will inspire you and engage you, and where food is concerned nourish you with that too.

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DVA is a Membership Organisation of artists, designers and makers, probably best known for the biennial, open studios event, Dorset Art Weeks.

If you are interested in joining as an artist please contact [email protected]

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DVA is a registered charity - No: 1113249

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1 Food & Still Life Photography Master Class with Robert Golden International Photographer, Filmmaker, Writer

This master class will help one to think about what food still life is. Robert will discuss its history and share stories and images from his long and distinguished experience. He will demonstrate lighting as well as helping participants to understand tonal range, pre-visualisation, creating equivalents between thoughts, feelings and one’s photographs. Crucially, to understand ‘presence’ in photographs. You may bring a photo of your own to discuss. BIOGRAPHY Robert Golden began his career as a photojournalist in the USA and England. He became a celebrated food photographer and has directed over 900 commercials, winning numerous prestigious international awards. He has written and filmed 26 documentaries and illustrated over 30 cookery books. He is passionate about the politics of food.BOOKING ESSENTIAL - minimum numbers apply. Tickets: £95 - including refreshments, bookings: [email protected] hosted by Lesley Waters Cookery School, Abbot’s Hill Farm, Closworth Road, Halstock, Dorset BA22 9SYt. 01305 853100 - part time office, leave a message w. www.robertgoldenpictures.com / www.theatreimages.org7 miles south of Yeovil, 2 miles off the A37 on the Halstock to Closworth Road. Full directions available on the Lesley Waters website: www.lesleywaters.com

Beaminster / Halstock

SPECIAL EVENT - Friday 5th April 10am - 4pm (see pg 7 for other event)

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2 Lesley Waters Cookery School Cookery Demonstrations

The Lesley Waters Cookery School is an intimate and quirky venue set in the heart of West Dorset. Lesley will be opening the doors to welcome you at four open sessions during the weekend. Enjoy a demonstration highlighting Lesley’s passion for gutsy, rustic but straight from the heart cooking. Have a look around the school, meet Lesley and sample all of the recipes that she demonstrates. We will also feature a display of art and design by some of Dorset’s leading artists and makers. These are all ticketed events - places are likely to sell out quickly.BOOKING ESSENTIAL - limited places. Tickets: £20Abbot’s Hill Farm, Closworth Road, Halstock, Dorset BA22 9SYt. 0844 800 4633 w. www.lesleywaters.com7 miles south of Yeovil, 2 miles off the A37 on the Halstock to Closworth Road. Full directions available on the website.

SPECIAL EVENT - Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April Timed Events: 11am & 3pm



3 Jacqueline Milton Pattern Design & TextilesJacqueline is a surface pattern designer and textile artist specialising in the home interiors market. On display will be a selection of her textiles ranging from hand-felted wall art to printed fabrics for the home. Come and feel inspired! Wombrook House, The Square, Halstock, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 9RZt. 01935 891198 e. [email protected] w. www.jacquelinemilton.co.ukEnter village from Yeovil direction, turn right by the small green (direction church). Wombrook House is on the right.

Saturday 6th April 10am - 5pm & Sunday 7th April 10am - 4pmB One small step into studio. A Please park on lane in front of house.

Yeovil / Beaminster

4 Stephen & Rita Yates Paintings & Lino Prints

Emerging artists both working locally in Beaminster. The art works are inspired by the local landscape and natural forms around this area of outstanding natural beauty. ‘Works full of movement; feeling of freedom/explosion but also order...a sense of things working together but also to burst out, being constrained, constricted...a fantastic blending, juxtaposition of images.’ The Red Lion Hotel, 14 The Square, Beaminster, Dorset DT8 3AXt. Venue 01308 862364 m. 07720 892944 e. [email protected] w. www.arti2.co.uk Monday 1st April - Sunday 7th April Noon - Midnight



5 FARRSFarrs is the inspirational, historic home of John and Jenny Makepeace. John is an internationally acclaimed designer and furniture maker. The house contains examples of their work alongside other contemporary art. They have created distinctly different areas of the garden which have featured in the National Garden Scheme. This is a special opportunity to visit. Saturday 6th April 10.30am - last entry 3.30pm Entry £5 - in aid of Dorset Visual Arts Charity

Pop Up Film & Brunch Event with filmmaker Robert Golden A uniquely different event. Hosted by John and Jenny, join Robert Golden to watch two films from his series entitled ‘Savouring’. Each celebrates an endangered farming tradition practiced in Europe and the community that has sustained it. The films are an appetising treat for the eye and the heart. Robert said, ‘people need to be free to live a life defined by their traditions rather than be forced to conform to what others would impose for the needs of the market, politics or profits.’ Very topical! After the films, everyone will adjourn to the kitchen to discuss and SHARE IN MAKING A HEARTY BRUNCH; the recipe will be prompted by one of the films. A guest chef will guide you. Booking Essential - advise of dietary constraints when booking. Tickets: £27.50 per head - drinks included. 16 places only. Event suitable for 16+. Booking email: [email protected] Farrs, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster, Dorset DT8 3NBt. 01305 853100 - part time office, leave a message w. www.robertgoldenpictures.com / www.theatreimages.orgSouthern Edge of Beaminster - on B3163.Sunday 7th April 11am - around 3.30pm



6 Oliver Strong Sculpture in the Cider OrchardVisually exciting large metal sculptures and topiary of wildlife and contemporary forms by award winning international artist. Dorset Nectar artisan ciders, organic apple juice, vinegars and eggs available for tasting and sale. Strong Orchard, Pineapple Lane, Waytown, Bridport, Dorset DT6 5HZt. 01308 488382 m. 07515 806546 e. [email protected] w. www.oliverstrongsculptures.com From Bridport go North on the B3066. Turn left at Watford Lane towards Pymore - over the River Brit and take 1st right. Proceed 2 miles to Waytown. Turn 1st lane on left, gate 300m on left. Monday 1st April - Sunday 7th April, 10am - 6pmB Good. A Yes.

Bridport

7 Gerry Dudgeon Paintings on CanvasSemi-abstract paintings on canvas exploring the structure and geology of Dorset’s landscape, and the colour of Morocco’s mud-built architecture. Graphite drawings and watercolours, prints and small paintings on paper of Morocco. Idyllic rural setting. Excellent Half Moon pub in nearby Melplash. Hincknowle Studio, Walnut Farm, Melplash, Dorset DT6 3UG m. 07857 629444 e. [email protected] w. www.gerrydudgeon.comLeaving Bridport, follow A3066 north from Gore Cross for 1½ miles. Turn right signposted West Milton/Powerstock. After ½ mile take left track signposted Walnut Farm.

Monday 1st April - Sunday 7th April, every day 10am - 5pmB Ground floor studio with excellent access. A Ample free parking in surrounding meadow.


8 David Risk Kennard Wood Engravings, Paintings, Woodcuts

‘Our relationship with the earth has to be at the centre of our existence. If we forget how to relate to the earth and what the earth provides, it will be destroyed. The earth is the very essence of our survival; we mustn’t lose touch with it.’ Merriott House, Powerstock, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3SZt. 01308 485529 m. 07976 104811 e. [email protected] w. www.riskkennard.co.uk3 miles from Bridport. Powerstock village. Merriott house is first house on left in Powerstock from the Bridport direction. Beside stream. Park opposite house.29th - 31st March & 5th - 7th April 2 - 6pmB Pebbles. One step.


9 Jill Kennington Courtauld PhotographerBlack and white photographs. A love of landscapes then two decades in front of the lens gave me insight, instinct and sensitivity for portraits of people of all ages - including familiar names from the sixties and seventies. Many portraits have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery and other international collections. Whetley Farm, Powerstock, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3TGt. 01308 485723 e. [email protected] at the bottom of the valley between the very good Three Horseshoes Inn at Powerstock and the ramparts of Eggardon Hill.Open Studio Friday 5th & Saturday 6th April 10am - 4pm & Sunday 7th 1pm - 4pm - Free Sunday 7th April 11am - 12noon SPECIAL EVENT Jill in Conversation - explore her portfolio and stories over coffee. Tickets: £5 in support of DVA, 15 places max, booking recommended. Bookings email: [email protected]



Bridport / Lyme Regis

11 Clare Trenchard Bronze Sculptures & Charcoal Drawings

Horses, eagles and wolves are among the animals that interest Clare. ‘It is the essence of the thing I am trying to capture. The power, magnificence and grace of the moving form.’ Lower Abbott’s Wootton, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport, Dorset DT6 6NLt. 01297 560477 m. 07876 242979 e. [email protected] w. www.claretrenchard.com Studio & Sculpture Garden open 6th & 7th April 10am - 6pm or by appointment.Signposted from the A35 West of Bridport at Morecombelake (2miles) and The Bottle Inn on the B3165 (1.5miles) Very easy access, off road parking right outside studio.

B Very easy access. A Parking off road oustide studio.

10 Howard Flanagan DrawingLocated on Hardown Hill, overlooking National Trust land towards the sea. Original works of art using a mix of Pen, Ink and Pencil, to produce fantastic pictures of Dorset and the surrounding area. Original works start from £50 to £300.Bullenside, Sun Lane, Morcombelake, Bridport, Dorset DT6 6DLt. 01297 489979 m. 07722 919190 e. [email protected] signs from A35. Enter through the middle door, up 1 small step. 4th & 5th April 10am - 5pm. 6th April 10am - 4pmB One small step. A Parking at the top of the drive.


12 Hugh Dunford Wood Collinos, Wallpapers, Ceramics

Open Studio: Tuesday 2nd - Friday 5th April 2pm - 6pm & Saturday 6th April 10am - 4pmFascinating Georgian house and studio with strong links to the arts and crafts movement. Hugh Dunford Wood is a keen cook, painter and designer. He makes wallpaper, portraits, bread, jams and feijoada, and celebrates his life with the slogan Death to the Drab.

Printmaking Course ‘Death to the Drab’ - Larder Labels and other Linocuts Time: 10am - 4pm Booking essential: via Hugh.Tickets: £50 including all materials and refreshments - not lunch.Course description: The elder bushes and hedgerows are coming into bud, but what are rows of cordials, pickles and jams in your larder without decorative labels?This workshop with Hugh is your chance to design and make your own labels. By very simple means of lino cut, potato cut and scraperboard you have the opportunity to make your mark on the preserves you make.You could also bring a recipe to decorate, or make your own wrapping paper, invitations, letterheads and other home stationery. No special equipment or skill is needed, just an enthusiasm for play and experimentation. All you learn here can be taken home and developed on your own kitchen table.Little Place, Silver Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset DT7 3HRt. 01297 442121 m. 07932 677540 e. [email protected] w. www.dunfordwood.co.ukHugh Dunford Wood also offers great B&B - £95 double room per night.



SPECIAL EVENT - Sunday 7th April


13 St Michael’s Studios 21 Artists, Designers & Makers

Enjoy a weekend of Open Studios with the work of twenty-one award-winning artists, designers and makers at St Michael’s Studios. Started in 1999, the studios have helped establish Bridport as one of the most exciting artistic communities in the West Country. Works on show include landscape, figurative and abstract painting, sign writing, hat making, digital, glass and textile arts. We’re also open over Easter Weekend and the August Bank Holiday weekend. Art & Vintage Quarter, St. Michael’s Trading Estate, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3RRt. 01308 424582 m. 07983 465789 e. [email protected] w. www.stmichaelsstudios.com From town centre, turn off South Street, down Gundry Lane, turn right, first left. Building with square tower. First studios through door to right of Vintage Cornucopia.

5th - 7th April 10am - 5pm - FREE

14 Bridport Arts CentrePiers Rawson - photography celebrating processions and fairs in Spain, France and the UK. Arising from his fascination with cultural landscapes of all kinds, Piers documents the intimate, human face and evocative details behind a range of fairs and festivals. The exhibition focuses on the Semana Santa Easter processions in Seville, with further images around non-religious celebrations in France and the UK. Bridport Arts Centre, Allsop Gallery, 9 South Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3NRt. 01308 424204 w. www.bridport-arts.com6th April - 4th MayPreview: Friday 5th April 6pm - 8pmArtist’s Talk: 27th April 2pm - FREE

Bridport


15 Sladers Yard Art, Feast, Talk & Music

6.30pm: Doors Open - Art Landmarks New paintings by Paul Jones with furniture by Petter Southall.7.00pm: Talk Paul Jones and Petter Southall talk about the roots and techniques of their work in an engaging discussion with the audience.8.00pm: Feast Seafood and Vegetarian buffet supper. Special seafood and vegetarian kebabs cooked on the griddle with lots of interesting salads.9.00pm: Music Europa String Choir Cathy Stevens - 6-string viloectra & Udo Dzieranowski - NST guitar.3 albums - toured much of the globe - unique music influenced by classical, Celtic & Eastern-European folk, progressive rock & minimalism. Well-known for improvisation in response to art and its environment.Tickets: £25 - drinks not included. Booking recommended via Sladers Yard. Gallery / Cafe open all weekend 10am - 5pmWest Bay, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 4ELt. 01308 459511 e. [email protected] w. www.sladersyard.co.ukWest Bay is 1m from A35 Crown Inn roundabout, Bridport. The gates to Sladers Yard are 150m from the mini-roundabout - and public car park - on right just after George Street.


SPECIAL ART TRAIL LAUNCH EVENT 5TH APRIL - FROM 6.30PM



16 Marzia Colonna Sculpture, Collage, Drawing, Prints

Explore her studio, gallery space and, weather permitting, examine works sited in her garden. Among her public works in the UK are: ‘The Kite Flyer’ in Winchester, ‘Christ’ in Salisbury Cathedral, and ‘St. Aldhelm’ in Sherborne Abbey.Nethergrove House, Winters Lane, Portesham, Dorset DT3 4ESt. 01305 871810 e. [email protected] w. www.marziacolonna.comIn village centre, take road opposite church, signposted Upwey. Nethergrove is 150yds on left. Follow car parking signs.

Saturday 6th April: Marzia in conversation 10.30am - 12.30pm. Tickets £5 in support of DVA - includes coffee . For bookings email: [email protected] Open Studio: 1.30pm - 5.30pm - FREESunday 7th April Open Studio: 10.30am - 4pm - FREE

Portesham / Cerne Abbas / Plush

17 Barbara Fulford-Dobson Painting & Sculpture

Barbara is an accomplished and versatile artist who has studied at fine art academies throughout Europe. She works mainly in oil, watercolour and bronzecast sculpture. Her art reflects an interesting and well travelled life. She works in a charming waterside studio.Cerne Abbey, Cerne Abbas, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 7JQt. 01300 341284 t. Studio 01300 341000 e. [email protected] of Abbey Street in Cerne Abbas, by the duck pond. Abbey street is at junction by the Royal Oak pub.

Friday 5th - Sunday 7th April 11am - 6pmB Disabled access, flat path and shallow step. A Parking at venue.



18 PlushArt Art, Feast, Talk & Poetry

PlushArt includes an occasional exhibition programme in the home of Dot and John Browning, a fascinating balance of renovation and modernist intervention. Artists show throughout the house and garden - artwork created through the eyes, the lens and hand sculpted.Friday 5th, Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 10am - 4pm Frances Hatch: paintings and collage - the artist, the weather, the coast. Jill Kennington Courtauld: photography - trees, landscape and mono celebrity portraits. Mike Chapman: stone: ‘the sound of it, the smell when it’s cut’ - figures and objects. Jonathan Garrett: ceramics - garden punctuation - ‘knitting pieces into planting’. Curator: Dot Browning.Saturday 6th April 7pm - 11pm Supper, Art & Poetry ‘A Movable Feast’ - informal, intimate supper party in the midst of the artwork with poet Elisabeth Bletsoe responding to the artists’ suite of paintings, photography and sculpture, sparking dialogue between guests and artists to enrich the feast. Booking Essential - via PlushArt. Tickets: £25 from March 2nd Exhibition continues until 14th April: 12noon - 5pmMillers Barn, Plush, Dorset DT2 7RJt. 01300 348280 w. www.plushart.co.ukFrom Piddletrenthide, up hill signposted to Plush; at Brace of Pheasants follow round to the right. Millers Barn is on left half way up hill. Entrance just beyond curved, zinc roof visible above the wall. If you get to the Church, turn back and fork right into Millers Barn at the Plush village sign. Disabled parking at Millers Barn; or at Jock’s Paddock opposite Brace of Pheasants - walk right towards Manor Gates then up private lane to house.


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19 Minterne House Guided Tour

Saturday 6th April - 11am Minterne House has been the home of the Churchill’s and Digby’s family for the last 350 years and now the seat of the 12th Lord Digby. It was rebuilt in 1905 by Leonard Stokes after the previous house was destroyed by dry rot. Minterne nestles in 1,300 acres of beautiful Dorset Countryside and is described by Simon Jenkins in his book ‘England’s 1,000 Best Houses’, as a ‘Corner of Paradise’. The house contains many interesting paintings and mementos of its past residents, including the very special Churchill Tapestries and artefacts from HMS Trafalgar.The tour will be followed by lunch in the dining room. The two course lunch includes a glass of wine and soft drinks. Attendees may then tour the gardens. Tickets: £40 per head. Booking Essential - due to the exclusivity of access to Minterne and for insurance purposes, full contact details have to be provided at the time of booking. All bookings for this event via Dorset Visual Arts.Minterne Magna, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 7AUt. 01305 853100 - part time office, leave a message e. [email protected] House sits in the hamlet of Minterne Magna, on the A352, 2 miles north of Cerne Abbas, 7 miles south of Sherborne.

Minterne Magna


SPECIAL EVENT - GUIDED TOUR OF HOUSE & COLLECTIONIncludes 2 course lunch and access to Gardens. Guide: Lord Digby


20 Louise Lobban at Minterne House

Saturday 6th April 10am- 4pm Explore the magic of pin-hole photography using the renowned gardens and external architecture of Minterne House as stimulus.Artist photographer, Louise Lobban will show you how to make a pin-hole camera, how to use it and how to develop the images you take. Everyone taking part will leave with examples of their work. Some will be scanned and up-loaded to a website. This is a magical process....and you will have an introduction from the head gardener too.Louise Lobban is a Dorset-based artist who uses handmade pinhole cameras to record the everyday world around her. The resulting photographic images illuminate dimensions sometimes obscured by familiarity.Tickets: £50 per head. Includes all materials and refreshments and access to gardens. Bring packed lunch. Booking Essential - minimum numbers will applyMinterne Magna, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 7AUt. 01305 853100 - part time office, leave a message e. [email protected] House sits in the hamlet of Minterne Magna, on the A352, 2 miles north of Cerne Abbas, 7 miles south of Sherborne. Use Gardens entrance.


SPECIAL EVENT - PIN HOLE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP



21 Old School Gallery YetminsterWe are a mixed media gallery and cafe set in an old school room, built with a legacy left by Robert Boyle (of Boyle’s Law). We have regular exhibitions, quality gifts and a permanent selection of artists’ works.Boyles Old School, High Street, Yetminster, Dorset DT9 6LFt. 01935 872761 m. 07932 174401 e. [email protected] w. www.yetminstergallery.co.uk Into Yetminster from Ryme Intrinsica and A37 we are at the top of the High Street on the left.

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Yetminster / Sherborne

22 Carolyn Brettell PainterI paint large bright contemporary landscapes in acrylic, my colours being inspired by my childhood in Africa and Greece. There will be a range of originals, prints and greetings cards for sale in my home.4 Huish Farm Cottage, Clifton Maybank, Near Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6REt. 01935 410462 m. 07931 828824 e. [email protected] w. www.carolynbrettell.co.ukSherborne to Bradford Abbas along Bradford road, after 2 miles take left fork, over bridge, right at triangle (Stoford), first house on left.5th April 1pm - 5pm & 6th - 7th April 10am - 5pmB 3 deep steps. A Yes.

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