LANDSCAPE and river painter Nick Andrew is working on four panoramic seasonal drawings, a commission for Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, to be installed in the new critical care unit, which is due to be opened next year. On Friday 4th September, Nick, whose studio is at Bull Mill, Crockerton, near Warminster, will be showing work…
THE Dorset Monochrome Collective has its second exhibition in the community room at Dorchester’s Borough Gardens, from 14th to 20th September. Founded in 2018 by Alison Webber, the collective consists of a group of friends who share a passion for monochrome photography, whether that is digital or film. Members include the distinguished portrait and landscape…
DORSET Museum & Art Gallery is launching a fundraising campaign to enhance and expand its forthcoming Mary Anning – Fossil Hunter exhibition, which will run from 30th January to 2nd May 2027, celebrating the life and legacy of the pioneering palaeontologist 180 years after her death. This landmark exhibition, which will have a programme of…
BEYOND Horizons, at Stoberry Park Gardens, overlooking Wells Cathedral, coinciding with this year’s Somerset Art Weeks and running from 5th September to 4th October, is the first of what is planned to be an annual open air sculpture exhibition, a month-long event bringing together more than 70 sculptors from across Somerset, UK and beyond. Described…
A collective of artists who originally got together in 2021 with a touring exhibition across the south west are reconvening in August with an exhibition reviewing their five year journey and beginning another in Bath and Bruton, on until 27th September. Travelling to eight locations over the summer of 2021, Inch by IN:CH took work…
THE August exhibition at Durlston Country Park’s Fine Foundation Gallery, is Interaction of Light, paintings and limited edition prints by the acclaimed watercolourist Cathy Veale. The exhibition runs until Sunday 23rd August and the gallery is open from 10.30am to 4.30pm. Cathy specialises in large seascapes with a distinctive style that is rich in luminosity…
SOME years ago, the campaigning environmental charity Common Ground published a booklet exploring the idea of souvenirs and the difference between trinkets and geegaws – nylon tartan, plastic scallop shells – mass-produced on the other side of the world, and locally produced crafts that carried a connection to their place. If you are in Devon…
BRIDPORT is celebrating the raucous, chaotic, energetic, musical blast that was punk and the infectious, joyful sounds of reggae with an exhibition at the arts centre featuring photographs by Adrian Boot, and a couple of punk rebooted gigs on 21st August, in collaboration with Clocktower Records. The two-band gigs feature Nasty Fishmonger, a folk-punk fivesome…
The Dorset-based monochrome collective of photographers has an exhibition in the Borough Gardens rooms in Dorchester in September, following the success of last year’s inaugural show of black and white images by artists and photographers including the distinguished portrait and still life painter Michael Taylor.
FROME celebrates the 25th anniversary of its multi-arts festival this year – and the festival opens on 3rd July, just two days after the funeral of Martin Bax, the actor, former town and district councillor and mayor, who became one of Frome’s most loved and valued citizens. A former actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Martin…