Galleries

May

GALLERIES

May 1 - 29

George Young Recent Paintings. The Art Stable. The Art Stable Child Okeford Blandford Dorset DT11 8HB

Until May 2

Bjork Harraldsdottir The patterns on Björk’s ceramics echo the distinctive black and white designs of Icelandic woollen garments, rugs and tapestries, inspired by snow, nets and other crystalline and geometric forms. Messums Wiltshire, Place Farm, Court St, Tisbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW. https://messumswiltshire.com.T: 01747 445042

Until May 3

Spring into Art. Grasping the first opportunity to showcase their Associate members’ work, Sou’-Sou’-West Gallery will be exhibiting original and innovative work to uplift all our spirits. Creating inspiring work during stressful and isolated restrictions, the members of Lyme Bay Arts CIC have focused on hope, reconnecting with the outside world, and renewed social interaction. The exhibition will start online in early April and will then open in the gallery (where the latest Covid-19 precautions are in place) as soon as conditions allow. Sou’Sou’-West Gallery & Shop, Symondsbury Estate, Dorset DT6 6HG. 01308 301326 www.sousouwest.co.uk.

Until May 4

New Ground – An Exhibition of New Paintings by Julie Oldfield. The Malthouse, Town Mill Galleries, Lyme Regis.

Until May 8

Dorset & Wiltshire Stories. David Inshaw Prints and Drawings, Petter Southall, Furniture, Adela Powell, Ceramics. Sladers Yard Gallery and Café Sladers, West Bay Road, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL. Exhibition can be viewed online. https://sladersyard. wordpress.com/in-the-minds-eye/ Until May 12

Landscape and Still Life. Vanessa Bowman, Lynne Cartlidge and Emma Haggas. The Jerrram Gallery, Half Moon Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3LN. www.thejerramgallery.com

From May 15

The Sea, the Sea. Anthony Garratt, Frances Hatch, Janette Kerr PhD RSA Hon, Nicholas Jones. Sladers Yard, Gallery and Café Sladers, West Bay Road, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL.

May 17 – September 5

Lockdown Reflections Work by gallery & guest artists, The exquisite Tincleton Gallery will be holding a Summer mixed show of over a dozen of their gallery artists, plus three guest artists, including a range of sculptures, oils, and prints. We think everyone could do with places to go that are calm and peaceful and inspiring, so you are most welcome to visit. Tincleton Gallery, The Old School House, Tincleton, nr Dorchester, DT2 8QR. Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon from 10:00 - 17:00, no admission fee. 01305 848 909. http://www.tincletongallery. com

May 20 – August 14

Mike Perry/Land Sea brings together two recent bodies of work: Wet Deserts and Môr Plastig. Part of THG and East Devon District Council’s multi-site programme of exhibitions, events and activities titled Climate Conversations. Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG): Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX thelmahulbert.com Open Thursday – Saturday, 10 – 5

May 29 - June 4

The John Hubbard Estate showing a selection of John Hubbard’s Dorset inspired work. 12 - 5 pm daily at Chilcombe, Nr Bridport, Dorset DT6 4PN.

In Pursuit of Spring. Black Swan Arts have joined forces with Somerset Art Works for their first exhibition since last year’s coronavirus lockdown. ‘In Pursuit of Spring’ has been inspired by poet Edward Thomas’ account of his journey by bicycle between London and Somerset to meet the arrival of spring in 1913. Around 50 Somerset Art Works members have created artwork to illustrate the Somerset leg of Thomas’ journey. Black Swan Arts, 2 Bridge Street, Frome, Somerset BA11 1BB. https://www. blackswanarts.org.uk/

Until June 6

Henry Taylor (online until further notice). Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Durslade Farm, Dropping Lane, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0NL. https://www.hauserwirth.com/

Fifty Years of Dorset Inspiration

A Unique exhibition of John Hubbard’s Dorset inspired work is being presented by The John Hubbard Estate for Dorset Art Weeks

John Hubbard (1931-2017) Dorset Landscape 1965 Oil on paper, 22x19cm © The John Hubbard Estate John Hubbard (1931-2017) Windy 1963 Oil on paper, 22x19cm © The John Hubbard Estate

John Hubbard (1931-2017) West Bexington 1962 oil on paper 13x15cm © The John Hubbard Estate

FOR Dorset Art Weeks 2021, The John Hubbard Estate is presenting a oneoff exhibit of 50 years of work by John Hubbard (1931-2017) inspired by the landscape of Dorset.

American-born Hubbard first came to West Dorset in 1960, as a guest of Reynolds (the wood-engraver and designer) and Janet Stone, at their house in Litton Cheney. The landscape struck a chord—this was where he wanted to live and work. Thanks to a tip-off from the Stones, Hubbard and his wife Caryl bought the Old Rectory in Swyre in 1961. Nine years later they moved up the hill, to Chilcombe.

The exhibit is installed in the gallery space at Chilcombe, where the artist lived until his death in 2017, and work will include oil on paper, oil on canvas and charcoal on paper. Subjects range from Swyre, to Lyme Bay, Abbotsbury Gardens and Bulbarrow Hill, stopping at Burton Bradstock and West Milton on the way!

When Hubbard first settled in the UK, the influence of abstract expressionism—he had studied at the Art Students League in New York and with Hans Hofmann—on his use of texture and colour was clear. Looking at these works today, we also see the extent to which Hubbard brought a fresh eye and radical technique to the traditions of English landscape painting. Yet he also acknowledged his affinity with the landscape painters of the past such as Turner and Courbet.

In the works selected for this exhibition, Hubbard’s unique sense of ‘place’ has been rendered in his characteristically dramatic fashion. Instead of portraying the particular features of a location, he merges light and landscape together with sky and sea to create an overall atmosphere and feeling.

In a sense, all of Hubbard’s work from the 1960’s onwards was inspired and influenced by his daily life in Dorset. However, the works specifically located in that landscape have never been shown together and some have never been shown before.

Dorset Art Weeks opens new doors

DORSET Art Weeks will be a little different this year but the good news is that it is going ahead.

Many artists and makers will be resourcefully using outdoor space and some venues will be by appointment only, with others online only.

The three different ways you can see and experience all these brilliant venues will be clearly labelled on the new Dorset Art Weeks App and Website. Both enable you to browse by Artform and even store your favourites and include links to artist’s own platforms to find more information and facilitate sales.

For those that want to enjoy DAW from the comfort of their own home, there will be Online Events such as studio visits, artist talks and demonstrations to get involved in.

However you discover Dorset Art Weeks this year, we hope the wonderful breadth of talent this county has to offer will continue to inspire you, we feel lucky to have so many talented Artists & Makers on our doorstep!

Whenever you visit, please wear a mask and respect the 2 metre distance rule and all sanitising arrangements that are in-place.

The Dorset Art Weeks App is available free via the App Store and Google Play. For more information and news, follow @dorsetartweeks on social media or visit www.dorsetartweeks.co.uk

Petal Poise in East Lambrook

A Ruffled Plumage (Parrot Tulip) Oil on canvas 71x61 cm EAST Lambrook Manor Gardens is hosting Helen Simpson’s first solo exhibition in four years and her first in Somerset. Many of the plants that inspire her work grow in this very special garden. The exhibition in May will be predominately oil paintings and will include some of her ceramics. It will take place 1 - 29 May and 24 July-14 August 2021 in the Studio and Malthouse Gallery in East Lambrook Manor Garden, East Lambrook, South Petherton, Somerset TA13 5HH.

Bold colours delight in Philip Sutton woodcuts

AN exhibition of Philip Sutton RA’s early woodcuts opens in his Bridport studio at the end of May. As strong and relevant in 2021 as they were in the 60s, these woodcuts are unique, and their bold colours and balanced shapes find a natural harmony. The show brings together a collection of woodcuts that the artist made in the 60s and 70s, the exhibition was shown previously at the Royal Academy in London and went on to tour Britain.

When upcoming exhibitions were cancelled in 2020, the artist found a way forward, opening his own gallery in Bridport’s vibrant Art and Craft Quarter. The inaugural exhibition celebrated Sutton’s brilliant and diverse 21st century paintings. Although he has been shielding, Philip came to see the exhibition and cut the ribbon, in accordance with social distancing measures.

Philip is enjoying being out in his garden more often now that it is Spring and is painting in the open air once again. He is enthusiastic about his work and takes pleasure in observing the world around him, from a passing bird to a particular plant in the garden. He is excited at the prospect of his latest exhibition and is glad to be showing his woodcuts here in Dorset.

Philip Sutton—Woodcuts 1962 - 1976 will be on at The Philip Sutton Gallery, Bridport from 22 May to 26 June. It coincides with Dorset Art Weeks and the exhibition will feature among the events. Open Wednesday - Sunday 11 - 1.30 pm and 2 - 5 pm. The Philip Sutton Gallery, 6a Foundry Lane, St. Michael’s Trading Estate, Bridport DT6 3RR. philipsuttonra.com