Art I Spy A to Z

Art I Spy A to Z Spot the details in the pictures

Art I Spy A to Z

Keep the little ones entertained with an I spy game. Spot the details in the paintings.

A great way to introduce children to Jersey art and artists.

Art I Spy A to Z

I spy with my little eye something beginning with…

A Would you like a clue?

They fly through the air!

It’s not A for Apple – that’s way too easy! And it’s not A for Aardvark – this isn’t a zoo quiz!

Race Meeting at Grouville Common, 25 July 1849

by Philip John Ouless (1817-1885)

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A is for‌ Acrobat There are lots and lots of people entertaining the crowds in this painting, including some acrobats! Can you spot someone playing a tambourine? And someone giving a horse a bottle of beer?

Art I Spy A to Z

I spy with my little eye something beginning with…

B Here’s a clue – what’s the best thing to play I spy with?

Mike Stentiford, MBE, 2001 by Philip Harris (born 1965)

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B is for‌ Binoculars Mike loves to tell people about the wildlife in St Ouen. His favourite spot is in the background of this painting.

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I spy with my little eye something beginning with…

C This one is REALLY difficult!

Your mum or dad might not even know!

This place doesn’t look like this now – there’s a building on top of it!

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C is for …

Corbière A lighthouse was built on this rock in 1874. It was the first lighthouse in the British Isles built out of concrete.

Corbière Rocks by Sarah Louisa Kilpack (1839-1909)

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I spy with my little eye something beginning with‌

D No clues on this one – its easy!

Elizabeth Castle Jersey, 1764 by Dominic Serres (1722-1793)

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D is for ‌ Dog And isn’t it a very cute dog! I wonder what its name was?

This picture was painted before there were proper roads between St Helier and St Aubin, so people often used to walk across the beach.

Can you see the lady carrying a basket on her head?

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I spy with my little eye something beginning with‌

E There are so many things in this painting! But what begins with E? Can you see any elephants? How about an eel?

Do you need a clue?

The answer is the name of the thing artists lean their pictures on when they are painting?

The Artist’s Studio in Hill Street by John Le Capelain (1812-1848)

E is for‌ Easel

Nowadays paint comes in tubes and bottle. When this picture was painted, artists had to make their own paint by crushing rocks and minerals.

They used one of these tools, which is called a muller.

This is a mahl stick.

Artists rest their arms on a mahl stick to keep their hands steady as they paint.

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I spy with my little eye something beginning with…

F No clues on this one – it’s easy!

Summer from ‘The Four Seasons’ by Emily Crawford (active 1869-1906)

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F is for…

Flowers This little girl is called Harriet and her mum, Emily, painted this portrait of her. The painting is called ‘Summer’ and has lots green trees and colourful flowers. Emily had three other children and she painted them as the other seasons.

If you were to paint an autumn picture what colours would you use?

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I spy with my little eye something beginning with‌

G There’s probably lots of things beginning with G in this painting! How many can you find?

A Warm Welcome, Bob Le Sueur, 2007

by Stephen Shankland (born 1971)

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G is for…

Gate There’s so much to see in this painting. I can see a butterfly, some wallflowers, a jumper, a kayak, palm trees – what else can you see?

The man in this painting is called Bob. He lived in Jersey when German forces occupied the Island from 1940 to 1945. He helped find places for escaped slave workers to hide.

Art I Spy A to Z

I spy with my little eye something beginning with…

H This one is quite easy – no clues this time!

Edouard Vraicing by Edmund Blampied (1886-1966)

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H is for…

Horse Edouard is the name of the man in this painting. He is collecting seaweed or ‘vraic’ as it is known in Jersey.

Farmers like Edouard used vraic as a kind of fertiliser for their crops.

I wonder what the horse is called?

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I spy with my little eye something beginning with…

I This is a difficult one! There’s not that many words that begin with I. What could it be? Igloo ? – no it’s way too sunny for that!

Keep looking…

Portelet Bay, Jersey, 1947 by Adrian Allinson (1890-1959)

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I is for‌ Island The little tower on this island is called Portelet Tower and was built to help defend Jersey from being invaded.

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I spy with my little eye something beginning with‌

J Maybe its jumper? Nope that definitely looks like armour he’s wearing.

Remember to look all around the painting

Sir Anthony Paulet, 1597 by Marcus Gheeraets (1561/2-1635/6)

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J is for‌ Jersey Sir Antony Paulet was the Governor of Jersey in 1588.

He was a REALLY important man. In real life, this painting is big and would have hung high on a wall, so that he could look down on the people below him.

Although he was a very important person, he still had wrinkly stockings!

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I spy with my little eye something beginning with…

K View of St Helier, 1833 by Philip Hutchins Rogers (1786-1853) This is a really difficult one!

Here’s a clue – k is often a silent letter at the beginning of a word, so you don’t say it.

K is for ‌ Knitting Knitting was once really popular in Jersey. In the early 1600s people in France loved Jersey stockings! But Jersey people were so busy knitting stockings that they stopped planting crops! So knitting was banned apart from certain people at certain times of the year. Men could only knit if they were with their family.

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I spy with my little eye something beginning with‌

L There’s not a lot of things in this painting. Does that make it easier or more difficult?

A Jersey Lily, 1878 by Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896)

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L is for ‌ Lily This lady is called Lillie Langtry and she was famous in her time for being really beautiful.

She was born in Jersey, so this painting is called A Jersey Lily. The artist and Lillie thought it would be good to paint her with a flower called a Jersey lily. But they made a mistake – this is a Guernsey lily! Oops!

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I spy with my little eye something beginning with‌

M Now what could it possibly be?

F W S Le Maistre, 1921 by John St Helier Lander (1869-1944)

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M is for‌ Moustache And what a great moustache it is!

Francis Le Maistre was a painter, so has been painted with his paintbrushes and palette. We should have asked for something beginning with p!