Compton Verney What's on March - June 2011

March - June 2011

What’s on Art / Exhibitions / Events / Talks / Parkland / Walks / Wildlife Family friendly / CafÊ / Architecture / Shop

Welcome to

Compton Verney !

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Annual pass

to enjoy the views and unlimited access to the café.

Enjoy unlimited access to our collections and grounds for 1 year^

Child £5, Adult £10, Family £27

• Receive a loyalty card for use in our café and coffee bar This pass is fantastic value • Take advantage of all the particularly for families who can new family friendly features keep coming back to enjoy our new in the grounds after school playground, willow tunnels and or at weekends children’s activities inside and out.

Adults can explore our new works • Take part in our family activities of art in the grounds, extra seats during school holidays

2010 Membership prices held!

Compton Verney is an awardwinning art gallery and an independent charity. We do not receive any regular state funding and rely on additional support to put on exhibitions, events and activities, with admission charges only covering 9% of our costs.

You can help by paying Gift Aid admission, so we can reclaim the tax you have paid on this price.

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Flexible pricing

Entry to Compton Verney now starts at £4.40.

With this ticket you can enjoy the grounds, and our six permanent collections as well as our café and shop.

For an additional £6.60 you can enjoy our exhibitions too.

For groups of 15+ call 01926 645 516.

See inside back page for further details.

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Become a Supporter: £200 All the Member benefits PLUS • Behind the scenes tours at other UK galleries • 6 guest tickets • Private view invitations • Priority booking Become a Member: Individual £24, • Special newsletter joint £44, family £50 Become a Patron: £800 • Unlimited entry for 1 year^ All the Supporter benefits PLUS (including exhibitions) • Exclusive events • Café table reservations and • Overseas gallery visits special offers • Priority parking • Members’ e-bulletin • Discounted event tickets ^ during our open season Enjoy unlimited access to our collections, grounds and exhibitions for 1 year^.

Equivalent to seeing three exhibitions for the price of two.

Plus a host of other benefits:

s r ice A ll p de a inclu if t A id G 10 % nation do Collections & Grounds

Collections & Grounds Annual Pass^

Collections, Grounds & Exhibitions (Peak rate)*

Collections, Grounds & Exhibitions (Off peak)

Collections, Grounds & Exhibitions Membership^

Adult

£4.40

£10.00

£13.20

£11.00

£24.00

Concession**

£3.60

£10.00

£10.50

£8.80

£24.00

Family

£10.00

£27.00

£26.00 £22.00

£50.00

Joint

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£18.00

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£44.00

Child (5-15yrs)

£2.00

£5.00

£2.00

£2.00

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Child Under 5

Free

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Free

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The Gift Aid price is a donation to Compton Verney on which we may be able to claim Gift Aid.

Supporter

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£200.00

*Peak rate: 25/6/11 – 2/10/11 **Students, over 60’s and unwaged ^During our open season

Patron

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£800.00

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Café

Weddings

Our award-winning, waiter serviced, licensed café offers a menu of seasonal and local specialities which is refreshed throughout the year. Check our website to see what’s currently being served. Children are very welcome – we offer smaller portions, lunch boxes, highchairs, and organic baby food. During school holidays, the Coffee Bar is open and offers drinks, sandwiches, soups and light bites.

Let us make your wedding special. Stage your day in and around our magnificent 18th century mansion. Our dedicated co-ordinator will work alongside you to create a bespoke package that will make your day one to remember.

• Fully licensed for wedding ceremonies • Wedding breakfasts and receptions • Award-winning caterers Members can reserve a table in the • Stunning back-drop for photographs café and receive special offers.

Shop Enjoy the art of shopping when you visit Compton Verney.

Take time out to browse in our shop and find the perfect gift for friends, the latest exhibition catalogue, artists’ materials to get you started, or a postcard of your favourite work of art. You can now shop from home at www.comptonverneyshop.org.uk All purchases help to support Compton Verney, registered charity no. 1032478.

Group visits Whether you are looking for a simple unguided visit or an in-depth tour of the collections or exhibitions, we have something to offer groups of all interests.

Pre-booked adult groups of 15+ receive discounted admission, a free introductory talk and special offers in the café.

Please call 01926 645516 to book or find out more.

Stay in touch Hire Looking for an inspiring venue to hold a meeting, training session or staff away-day?

Need a magnificent setting for a photo shoot or fashion show?

Want a drinks reception like no other to impress your clients?

Celebrating a special occasion?

Call us on 01926 645521 or email hire@comptonverney.org.uk

If you’d like to receive monthly updates and exclusive offers from us, then sign up for our e-bulletin. Be the first to hear about new exhibitions, events and café menus. Visit www.comptonverney.org.uk or call 01926 645500.

You can also subscribe to our families, groups and learning editions to get the news and offers relevant to you.

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26th March – 11th December

A Season of Folk Art Exhibition

Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson 26 March – 5 June The work of legendary naïve artist Alfred Wallis reflects both the Cornish port of St Ives and a particularly exciting moment in British art history, following Wallis’s ‘discovery’ in 1928 by established artists Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood. This exhibition explores Wallis’ unique vision and his influence on Nicholson’s work, focusing on paintings and drawings by the two artists dating from the late 1920s to the 1940s. Major loans from public collections will be shown alongside rarely seen works from private collections and Compton Verney’s own important Wallis painting Schooner Approaching Harbour c1930.

Included in collections, grounds and exhibition admission.

Alfred Wallis, Schooner Approaching Harbour about 1930 (detail). Oil on metal. © Compton Verney.

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Collection intervention

What the folk say 26 March – 11 December 2011 will also see Compton Verney’s British Folk Art collection appearing in unexpected places around our collections and the building as a whole. Through artist Paul Ryan, we have invited 20 artists and curators to choose one Folk Art work to be repositioned and taken out of its usual context.

For more information see page 6.

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Exhibition talks and tours Special tour: Wallis and Nicholson

Talk: Flags and frigates The art of the mariner

Sat 9 April, 1.30pm & 3.30pm

Sat 14 May, 2pm

Sebastiano Barassi is Curator of Collections at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, home to one of the largest collections of Wallis’s work. Join him for an exploration of the connections between Wallis’s and Nicholson’s artistic vision.

Hear Bridget Crowley, co-curator of the exhibition Wool work: A sailor’s art, talk about the history and techniques of the works on display.

Tickets £15, Concs £12.50, Members £7.50.

Includes collections, grounds and exhibition admission.

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Exhibition

Wool work: A sailor’s art 26 March – 5 June Explore the links between sailors, art and craft through the history of the embroidered wool pictures made by sailors in the 19th century.

Starting with items in Compton Verney’s own Folk Art collection, the exhibition will reveal how sailors used ship portraits, flags and great individual expression to produce remarkable personal tributes to the ships on which they sailed and to their own maritime histories.

Included in collections, grounds and exhibition admission.

Unknown Nelson Wool and canvas c. 1850 © Compton Verney

Daily exhibition tours

Teachers’ exhibition tour

12 noon from Sat 2 April

Mon 4 April, 4.30pm – 6pm

A 45-minute talk and tour focusing on the current exhibition. Places are limited so please book on arrival.

An opportunity for school teachers and FE tutors to have an exclusive guided tour of the Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson exhibition, to find out about our related learning programme and to book a visit.

Tour included in collections, grounds and exhibition admission.

For more exhibition related activities see pages 8, 9, 10 and 11.

Places are free but please book on 01926 645560.

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Diverse and illuminating

Collections Collection intervention

What the folk say 26 March – 11 December

Rediscover Folk Art in unexpected places

Compton Verney’s British Folk Art collection will be appearing in unexpected places around our collections and the building.

Through artist Paul Ryan, we have invited artists and curators to take one Folk Art work out of its usual context. The artists include Sir Peter Blake, Faye Claridge, Simon Costin, Jeremy Deller, Susan Hiller and Mike Nelson.

PLUS!

A display of objects that you have submitted as your very own Folk Art in our British Folk Art galleries.

What the folks say is a New Ways of Curating project, supported by

Maker unknown Carved figurehead Wood c. 1850 © Compton Verney Trapani Mirror Gilt- copper mounted coral and mother-of-pearl frame c. 1680 © Compton Verney

Collection tours*

My favourite object*

Daily 2.30pm

Daily 12 noon (7 – 24 June only)

A 30-minute tour of one of our collections.

A 15-minute talk in which a member of the Compton Verney team picks out their favourite item from the collections.

Tuesday: The Golden Age of Neapolitan art – Naples Wednesday: Saints and sinners – the art of Northern Europe Thursday: The great and good – British Portraits Friday: The art of ancestors – Chinese Saturday: Marx Lambert collection (26 March – 4 June) Saturday: Grounds 45-minute tour (11 June – 1 Oct) Sunday: For the people by the people – British Folk Art

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Audio described tour* Sat: 23 April and 21 May 2.30pm

A 30-minute audio described talk, led by a trained interpreter, focusing on a selection of artworks from our collections.

Aimed at visually impaired people, but all are welcome. *Included in collections and grounds admission – sign up on arrival.

Diary Date

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Event title

26 – 5 June

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Exhibition opens: Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson

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26 – 5 June

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Exhibition opens: Wool work: A sailor’s art

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26 – 11 Dec

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Collection intervention: What the folk say

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12pm

Daily exhibition tours begin

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11am

Mother’s day special offer

A 45-minute tour of the What the folk say collection interventions.

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4.30pm

Teachers’ tour Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson

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Included in collections and grounds admission – sign up on arrival.

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1.30pm & 3.30pm

Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson Special tour

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13 – 2 May

11am

Get cracking! Easter trail

Talk: The Folk Art debate

14 and 28

7.45pm

Bat nights

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Sat 11 June, 2pm

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2.30pm

Audio described tour

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24 and 25

11am

Easter egg making

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1

11am

Literary Festival

2

11am

Boating Bank Holiday Monday

Tickets £15, Concs £12.50, Members £7.50.

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3pm

Understanding art lecture: Blood and bronze

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10am

Workshop: Essential landscape

Includes collections, grounds and exhibition admission.

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2pm

Talk: Flags and frigates

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2.30pm

Talk about art course starts

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2.30pm

Audio described tour

30 – 3 June

11am

May half term activities start

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3pm

Understanding art lecture: Art and Charles I

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11am

Last day of May half term activities

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10am

Pick up a Paintbrush course starts

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Last day of Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson and Wool work: A sailor’s art

7 – 10 July

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Display opens: Children’s art

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2pm

Talk: The Folk Art debate

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10am

Pick up a Pencil course starts

18 and 19

11am

Den making

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11am

Father’s day special offer

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New exhibitions open: Stanley Spencer and the English garden and ‘Capability’ Brown and the landscapes of Middle England

3pm

Understanding art lecture: Oxford Baroque architecture and Compton Verney

March

What the folk say tour Thurs, 2pm 31 March, 14 & 28 April, 12 & 26 May, 9 & 23 June

Join artist and What the folk say originator, Paul Ryan, to debate and hear about historical as well as contemporary perspectives on Folk Art.

Why not try reading...

Want find o to u more t ?

Compton Verney handbook £12.95

Historical Guide to the House, Grounds and Owners - £4.99 Available from our shop or online: www.comptonverneyshop.org.uk All purchases help support Compton Verney.

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July 1

Exhibition tours ..................................... Daily 12 noon from Sat 2 April Collection tours and What the folk say tours ........ See page 6 for details

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What’s new for 2011

New in the grounds Art Marcia Farquhar’s The Horse is a Noble Animal takes the form of a giant rocking horse that has found its way out of the playroom and into the landscape. Marcia will lead a performance from the horse in the summer.

The grounds will also be the site for Jem Finer’s Spiegelei, situated near the bridge and lake. Finer’s immersive, perspectivealtering work projects a 360 degree, upside-down vision of the grounds by way of a three-way camera obscura.

Included in collections and grounds admission.

Both works were curatorially developed with Parabola as part of Tatton Park Biennial 2010.

Marcia Farquhar, The Horse is a Noble Animal. Laminated and varnished marine plywood, 490 x 365 cm.

Commissioned for Tatton Park Biennial. Photo: Thierry Bal

Families in the grounds Children’s playground

Nature’s art box

Ice house

Climb, swing and explore in our new playground, hidden away in the Christmas tree plantation.

Get creative with natural materials found under the trees – make faces from fir cones, sculptures from stones and portraits from pebbles.

Look inside our newly-restored ice house, which continues to provide a roost for several species of bat.

Compton Verney’s Learning Originally Centre Butler’s cottage, and original coach-house, brewhouse built c.1760 – 70 by Robert Adam.

Key to the

Private Dwellings Originally the stable-block designed

by James Gibbs, 1736.

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North Park

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Watercress

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Life lines (1–5)

Make sure you pick up a grounds plan from the ticket lodge to ensure that you enjoy all of our new family friendly activities.

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Icehouse Coppice

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Main Entrance

Children of all ages will love to explore and hide in the new tunnels in the ice house coppice.

All activities included in collections and grounds admission.

Children under 12 years must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

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South Lawn

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Willow tunnels

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Enjoy the great outdoors Den-maker in residence

More picnic areas

From June, artist den-maker in residence Laura Ellen Bacon will create unique dens in response to Compton Verney’s landscape using traditional willow-weaving.

You are welcome to picnic in our listed parkland. This year, we have carefully positioned more picnic tables and benches so you can enjoy the views, paths and hidden corners.

Please help us protect the landscape by refraining from using BBQs in the grounds.

Eating alfresco Don’t forget the café has outdoor seating on the west terrace. Members can reserve tables.

Laura Ellen Bacon Archway into woodland, 2007, Derbyshire.

Unmissable grounds events Bat nights

Den-making

Thurs 14 and 28 April, 7.45pm

Sat 18 and Sun 19 June

Join Warwickshire Bat Group in search of bats. Discover the secret lives of these fascinating creatures and watch them fly in the parkland at Compton Verney.

Children are welcome.

Join artist den-maker in residence Laura Ellen Bacon and help her create dens in the woods from willow and other coppice materials.

Tickets £7.50, concs £5.

Please book in advance and wear appropriate outdoor clothing.

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Great value

for family visits

See page 2 for details

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Have fun learning together

For families What the folk say trail Sat 26 March – Sun 11 December

A new family trail linked to the What the folk say collection intervention.

Wallis and Nicholson trail Sat 26 March – Sun 5 June

Pick up one of our new family trails which will guide you through the Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson exhibition.

Mother’s Day Sun 3 April

Spec ia O f fe l r!

Mothers and grandmothers are admitted free when they come with the family.

Get cracking! Easter trail Wed 13 April – Mon 2 May

Crack our code and search for signs and symbols in our collection with our Easter egg hunt!

Easter egg making Sun 24 and Mon 25 April

Once you’ve cracked the Easter code, drop in and decorate your own Easter egg.

Stratford Literary Festival at Compton Verney Sun 1 May, 11am – 5pm

A fabulous day packed full of activities, including author events, theatre performances, workshops and illustrators, book-making, entertainers, music and story-telling.

Meet the best-selling author Philip Ardagh, learn to draw with Jackie Morris, hear the wonderful stories of Roald Dahl and much, much more.

Refreshments, lunches, teas and ice creams are available, or bring a picnic.

Special ticket prices apply for this day only. These tickets entitle access to all performances, the grounds and collections.

To book tickets for this event visit www.civichall.co.uk or call 01789 207100.

Boating Bank Holiday Monday Mon 2 May

Drop in and build your own model boat with simple materials. Lugger, schooner, brig… which one will you make?

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Great value for after school and weekend visits See page 2 for details

Activities accredited by

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Family friendly Compton Verney is now even more family friendly. Whenever you visit there will always be something for you to do.

All of the galleries and most of the parkland are accessible with a buggy, or there are buggy parking spaces and hipseats to borrow if you prefer.

Our activity backpacks and all family activities are included in the collections and grounds admission unless stated otherwise.

All children under 12 years must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

May half term activities Mon 30 May – Fri 3 June

Make do and paint Can you squeeze a seascape onto a matchbox or paint a boat on a box lid? Drop in and paint seascapes onto found materials.

Children’s display

Summerspace

Tues 7 June – Sun 10 July

Tues 26 July – Sun 4 Sept, 12 noon – 4pm

Come and see a selection of artwork made by local school children inspired by their visits to Compton Verney.

Father’s Day

Drop-in activities for families linked to the landscape.

Spec ia O f fe l r!

Stories and rhymes

Sun 19 June

Come along and meet our puppets Connie and Verne and take part in our seathemed storytelling for under 5s.

Fathers and grandfathers are admitted free when they come with the family.

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Learn more about art

Talks, courses and works Understanding art series

Blood and bronze:

Back

by p o p ula d e ma n r d!

Human sacrifice in the Shang dynasty Fri 6 May, 3pm

Dr Roderick Campbell, University of Oxford

The ritual bronze vessels of the late Shang dynasty (c.1250-1050 BC) are justly famous for their beauty and technological achievement.

Less well known is the fact that they were part of rituals that frequently involved human sacrifice. Dr Campbell, the recently-appointed Sir Peter Moores Fellow in Chinese Archaeology at Oxford University, looks closely at this fascinating if bonechilling aspect of ancient Chinese bronzes.

Early Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221BC) Ritual vessel Lei between 600-500 BC. Bronze

Top: After a bust by Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680) King Charles I, c.1675 Painted lead.

Right: Samuel Cooper (1608-72) Oliver Cromwell, 1657 Watercolour on vellum.

Adult courses and workshops All tickets include collections, grounds and exhibitions admission, and all materials are provided.

Workshop: Essential landscape

Course: Talk about art

Sun 8 May, 10am – 4pm

To book call 01926 645500.

Work with artist Mary Riley and explore the influence naïve artist Alfred Wallis had on Ben Nicholson’s landscape paintings.

Take inspiration from Compton Verney’s landscape and create your own painted response.

Fri 20, 27 May, 3, 10 June, 2.30pm – 4pm

Participants will need to bring a packed lunch or reserve a table for lunch in the café at 12 noon by calling 01926 645511. Please book your place on the workshop first.

Suitable for intermediate and advanced students.

Tickets: £60

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This course returns to look at art through beginners’ eyes.

Let us guide you through art historical concepts reflected in our exhibition and collections.

End with an informal discussion, coffee/tea and choice of cake.

Tickets: £55 (for a 4 week course)

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Art and Charles 1:

Oxford

Baroque architecture and Compton Verney

From Van Dyck to Edge Hill

Fri 1 July, 3pm Dr Steven Parissien, Compton Verney

Fri 3 June, 3pm

Dr Parissien explores how the flamboyant, ambitious, English Baroque architecture of the early 18th century – the architecture of the new colleges of Oxford University and of Blenheim Palace – found its expression in the new great house at Compton Verney after 1711.

Dr Steven Parissien, Compton Verney

Dr Parissien examines how King Charles I’s enlightened patronage of art, as exemplified in the outstanding royal portraits by Van Dyck of the 1630s, led inexorably to the outbreak of Civil War in 1642 and the raising of the King’s standard on Edge Hill.

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Price per talk £15, concs £12.50, members £7.50.

To book call 01926 645500.

Includes collections, grounds and exhibition admission.

Book all 3 in the series for the price of 2

Course: Pick up a paintbrush

Course: Pick up a pencil

Sun 5, 12, 19, 26 June, 10am – 4pm

Sat 18, 25 June, 2, 9 July, 10am – 4pm

Work with artist Beccy Roberts on this course aimed at total beginners. Explore different painting styles and methods in an informal and enjoyable way to rekindle or ignite your passion for painting.

Work with artist Beccy Roberts on this course aimed at total beginners. Experiment with a variety of simple exercises and learn basic drawing skills in a relaxed and informal way.

Monday cookery schools • 4 April: Easter cake making and bakery.

• 16 May: Gourmet canapés and cocktail sweets.

• 6 June: 4 course gourmet dining.

To book call 01926 681177.

Tickets: £110 (for a 4 week course)

Tickets: £110 (for a 4 week course)

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Forthcoming exhibitions Stanley Spencer

Quentin Blake:

25 June – 2 October

15 October – 11 December

This exhibition focuses on a crucial, but hitherto ignored, aspect of Spencer’s work: his gorgeous garden views and landscapes. Its central theme is as relevant today as it was in Interwar Britain: the increasing development of the countryside, and the ensuing confrontation between the natural environment and man-made structures.

Quentin Blake is known primarily as an illustrator of children’s books – including, most famously, the works of Roald Dahl – but he has also worked with galleries and public institutions across Europe. His spontaneous, recognisable style has won him countless awards, and in 1999 he was created Britain’s first Children’s Laureate. This display of Quentin’s works features some of his more familiar illustrations, together with some recent works from hospitals and maternity units. It is a rare and fascinating opportunity to see Quentin at his most inventive, amusing and therapeutic.

and the English garden

Stanley Spencer, Wisteria at Englefield. Oil on canvas, 1954. © The Estate of Stanley Spencer 2010. All rights reserved DACS.

‘Capability’ Brown and the landscapes of Middle England 25 June – 2 October

This is the first-ever exhibition focusing on the work of the internationally renowned landscape designer ‘Capability’ Brown (1716–83) in the Midlands.

Through themes and case studies, including an analysis of Compton Verney’s own parkland, the exhibition shows how improvements in guns and carriage technology were just as important as neoclassical mythology in creating midGeorgian landscapes that appeared to be ‘natural’, but were in reality just as artificial as the formal gardens they replaced.

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As large as life

Remember, remember:

A history of British fireworks 15 October – 11 December

From the origins of Britain’s Firework Night celebrations, through the folklore of Fire Festivals as they are enacted now, this exhibition focuses on the astonishingly vivid and vital artwork of the packaging and advertisements of 20th century fireworks.

Exhibition co-organised by Compton Verney and The Museum of British Folklore.

Visitor information Open

Dogs

Sat 26 March to Sun 11 December

Assistance dogs only.

Tues – Sun & Bank Holiday Mons, 11am – 5pm

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How to find us

Quentin Blake, from the series of 60 drawings for the Kershaw Ward at Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre.

Postcode CV35 9HZ. We are situated 9 miles south-east of Stratfordupon-Avon, on the B4086 between Wellesbourne and Kineton. From the M40 take junction 12 and follow the brown signs.

Public transport links By rail The nearest stations are Leamington Spa, Banbury or Stratford-upon-Avon, approximately a 25 minute taxi ride from each.

By bus From Banbury or Stratford take the 269 – for details call 0871 200 2233.

Advertising poster for Standard Fireworks

All our floors are accessible by wheelchair. There are also specially adapted toilets, large print guides and wheelchairs. Hearing loops are fitted at the information desk and assistance dogs are welcome. For more information call 01926 645500, email info@comptonverney.org.uk or ask on arrival.

Parking Parking is free for visitors. There are a limited number of spaces in front of the gallery for blue badge holders. There is also disabled parking in the main car park if you wish to explore our accessible woodland footpaths.

Shuttle bus Throughout the season we will be running a shuttle bus from the car park to the gallery. Subject to volunteer availability.

Group visits Pre-booked adult groups of 15+ receive discounted admission, an introductory talk and special offers in the shop and café.

From Stratford at the Pen and Parchment Inn, take City Sightseeing Heart of Warwickshire tour calling at Compton Verney.

Call 01926 645516 to book.

Special tours can be booked at an additional £3 per head.

Service runs: Sat, Sun and Bank Hols from 16 April – 24 July; daily from 25 July until Sun 4 Sept; Sat and Sun until 25 Sept.

For further details visit www.city-sightseeing.com or call 01789 412680.

School visits

Visit www.comptonverney.org.uk to download our group visit guide.

One-day programmes for pre-booked school groups.

Call 01926 645560 to book.

Students £5/£6, depending on programme.

Free admission for teachers.

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March - June 2011

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