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  • FABER & FABER: 90 years of excellence in cover design

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    Founded in 1929, Faber and Faber has built a reputation as one of London's most important literary publishing houses, partly due to the firm's insistence on good design and illustration.  This lecture traces its history through its illustrations, covers and designs, employing celebrated artists.  Toby Faber is the grandson of the firm's founder, so the […]

  • Pierre Bonnard: The Old Master of Modern Art?

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

      From his radical youth in the vibrant world of avant-garde 1890s Paris, to his death in rural Southern France in 1947, Pierre Bonnard moved from modern and urban subjects to the limited and domestic. Despite the glorious, atmospheric colour and shimmering decorative effect of his paintings, Bonnard was often dismissed by the avant-garde during […]

  • The Making of Landscape Photographs – An Extraordinary Double Act Between the Eye and the Brain

    The Tithe Barn The Tithe Barn, Hinton St. Mary, Dorset, United Kingdom

    Beyond Monkton Deverill by Charlie Waite This event has been postponed due to coronavirus. We are attempting to reschedule for May 2021. You are invited to an Evening Celebration Our Evening Celebration this year is on Wednesday 27th May at 6.45pm (doors open at 6.15pm).We have a local - yet world famous - lecturer, landscape […]

  • The World in a Grain of Sand: William Blake

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    William Blake by Thomas Phillips   The Tygers of Wrath are wiser than the Horses of Instruction William Blake: Poet, Painter and Philosopher; Rebel, Radical, and Revolutionary. Called a man without a mask by his friends, Blake was always less ahead of his time than outside it, creating his own mythology to tell the truths […]

  • The Scottish Colourists

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

      The work of S.J. Peploe and J.D. Fergusson was seen in Edinburgh and London in the decade leading up to World War 1, but Hunter and Cadell were less well known. All were bold pioneers in the field of rich colour and exuberant brushwork. The strong light and bright colour they discovered in France […]

  • The Cultral Heritage of the Huguenots

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    The Huguenots came to England in huge numbers in the late 17th century bringing a wide variety of skills - as silk weavers, silversmiths, clock makers, opticians, bankers, gilders, ironworkers, horticulturists etc. Names such as Paul de Lamerie, Samuel Courtauld and Jean Tijou spring to mind. In virtually all areas, they were innovators and more […]

  • A Design Evolution: Jewellery and Metalwork 1850-1940

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

      An overview of the work of this dynamic period of design, featuring key historicist, neo-Gothic, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Modern jewelry and metalwork, beautifully-illustrated with works from the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection. Lecturer: Helen Ritchie MA(Cantab) Curator, Modern Applied Arts, The Fitzwilliam Museum. Helen Ritchie is responsible for researching, interpreting and curating the […]

  • The Age of Jazz

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    Image by jokoPix from Pixabay One hundred years ago a group of American musicians docked in London, bringing with them for the very first time one of the twentieth century’s most important musical genres: jazz, a fascinating blend of rigorous structure, free-wheeling creativity, close-knit ensemble work and improvisation. Drawing on his practical experience both as […]

  • Moorish Architecture – the legacy of a vanished kingdom

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    The Alhambra of Grenada, the Great Mosque of Cordoba and the Alcazar of Seville are the three most impressive monuments to the architectural creativity of the Moors in Spain, but there are many other examples worthy of mention too.  The classical origins that influenced the Moorish style are less well-known, but fascinating to explore, as […]

  • Repton and the Picturesque

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    The Picturesque was the final phase of the English Landscape Movement. Capability Brown’s serpentine curves, smooth lawns and clumps of trees were now considered insipid and dull by a generation with an enthusiasm for untamed nature and rugged wildness The aim was always to engender a pleasurable frisson of fear. Repton knew that this was […]