EXHIBITIONS 2024
INSTINCT OF HOPE
Fine Foundation Gallery at Durlston Country Park, National Nature Reserve. BH19 2JL
25 May – 9 June.
Dorset Art Weeks is organising a new exhibition as part of this year’s event in the stunning clifftop setting of the Fine Foundation Gallery at Durlston Country Park, National Nature Reserve from 25 May – 9 June.
Artists are exhibiting work which encapsulates notions of wellbeing, repair, rewilding as well as access to nature. I will be highlighting the importance of protecting our footpaths, holloways and ancient tracks.
DORSET ART WEEKS
OPEN STUDIO VENUE 240
25 MAY - 9 JUNE 2024
Works about my moments of connection with nature when walking ancient tracks and footpaths in all lights and weather.
X = CLOSED
ABBOTSBURY ARTS Sunday 9th June
A pioneer Festival of Landscape Painting in the English Landscape.
This is more than an exhibition it is an opportunity to see unique Artists making active and spontaneous responses to Landscape and Nature through observation and abstraction
12 noon – 5pm Open Gardens Fete, with a variety of
Invited Artists.
Craft stalls, plant sales, food and drink.
At The Manor House, The Old Gatehouse,
Abbey House,
Abbey Farm Flowers, Bee Nice Blooms.
Followed by an Evening Reception
4.30 – 7pm,
in the Grand Barn, votes for art works, sealed bids,
judging, and music.
WALFORD MILL CRAFTS
3rd - 28th July
Knobcrook Road, off Stone Lane,
Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 1NL
STOURPAINE COLLECTIVE
mixed exhibition
D U S K
SHAFTESBURY ARTS CENTRE
13 Bell St, Shaftesbury SP7 8AR
4th - 10th September 10.00 - 4.00
A collaborative exhibition with poet Catherine Simmonds
Dusk’s Triolet for Thomas Hardy by Catherine Simmonds
Just this loved meadow moving
as evening falls and grasses shake
to the soft wind’s rolling.
Just this loved meadow moving
in the blue-glass gloaming
to a peace that wakes
just this loved meadow moving
as evening falls and grasses shake.
As all the threads of day are falling
and the tinted west is given away
and here or there the owl is calling
as all the threads of day are falling
and all the hours have spent their toiling
and colours seem to blend and fray
- as all the threads of day are falling
and the tinted west is given away.