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8FeaturesJ.M.W. Turner Nudes exhibition 10 Hounslow Golf Park New family attraction 13 Tidefest Life on the tidal Thames 16-17 Chiswick Book Festival Celebrates 100 years of the BBC 18 Brentford Festival Returns after a break 19 Chiswick House Dog Show Harry Pointer and the Philosopher’s Bone 20 Chiswick in Film New festival 26 Creative Mile Brentford shows off its artists 3 13 10 1819 12 Contents AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2022 4RegularsINSIDELetter from the Editor 14 Gardening Notes From the head gardener at Osterley Park 21 Coffee Break Crossword 22 Jazz at George IV What’s on in September 24 Hen Corner Ten years on All information in this edition was correct at time of publication but may be subject to change. Published by: out&about Magazines. While we endeavour to make sure that all published information is accurate, the publishers cannot be held responsible for mistakes or omissions or any loss resulting from non-publication of an advertisement. While all reasonable care is made to ensure accuracy of information, the publisher accepts no responsibility for the views or claims made by any of the contributors, advertising or editorial content included. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is strictly prohibited. The views expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of ‘out&about’ or the editor. Terms and conditions apply. Please recycle your magazine. GET IN TOUCH AmandaDIRECTORRowley Tel:info@outaboutmagazine.co.uk07967660772 f @outandaboutmagazines @outaboutmag www.outaboutmagazine.co.uk ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Gerry Devine Tel:geraldineholden@icloud.com07710574479 BridgetEDITOR Osborne bridget@thechiswickcalendar.co.uk out&about Magazines www.outaboutmagazine.co.uk Tel: 07967 660772
West London has a new festival. Chiswick In Film festival is taking place over the weekend of 30th September – 2nd October, celebrating the area’s connections with film – both the industry people who live here and the films that have been shot here. Page 20 It comes at the end of a month of festivals. Tidefest is a one-day event at Strand on the Green on Sunday 4th September, celebrating life on the tidal Thames. Page 13
Then the Chiswick House Dog Show takes ‘Harry Pointer and the Philosopher’s Bone’ as its theme on Sunday 25th September. Page 19 Les McCallum likes to follow a much quieter pursuit away from the crowds: birdwatching. He is delighted to have spotted Mandarin Ducks in Isleworth. Page 7 Sara Ward at Hen Corner realises it is now ten years this summer that she has been writing for Out & About, documenting the seasonal changes with her chickens and her bees and JazzforhasHounslowvegetables.home-grownPage24GolfParkopenedasanewattractionfamilies.Page10atGeorgeIVstartsupagain after the summer break on Thursday 8th September with Sarah Moule & Simon Wallace Trio showcasing the Genius of Duke Ellington. Page 22 The Head Gardener at Osterley House offers their advice on gardening. Page 14 And the much-praised exhibition of J.M.W. Turner’s nudes – a surprise for many who thought he only painted seascapes and ships – continues until the end of October. Page 8 ready for an active end of summer!
On the same day is Brentford Festival, which actually takes place in Blondin Park in Ealing. Page 18
The weekend of 3rd–4th September is also the Creative Mile, the second time Brentford has organised an arts trail from Kew Bridge to Johnson’s Island, with more than 70 artists showing off their work at eight venues.
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The following week Chiswick Book Festival, from September 7th to 14th, celebrates 100 years of the BBC with some of the corporation’s leading lights discussing art, drama, fiction, sport and current affairs. Pages 16-17
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This is one of a series of exhibitions at Turner’s house. Co-Curators Dr Jacqueline Riding and Franny Moyle put together collections which they hope will show the many facets of the Jacqueline,artist. who advised film maker Mike Leigh’s the biopic Mr. Turner (2014), said: “What is so wonderful about the show, and so wonderful about working on the show is that we are teasing out the personal aspect of Turner… a very private man.
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Michael Frayn, (author of several critically acclaimed and commercially successful novels, non-fiction and dramas, including Noises Off), expressed his surprise: “Firstly, this house, which I did not know about, which has been beautifully saved and restored. And secondly, this exhibition itself. The only human figure of Turner’s I knew was the self portrait of him as a young man. So, I was surprised, and others will have as big a surprise as I did, when they see this exhibition.”
“But in these intimate works you see him as a traveller, an adventurer, someone joining in social settings. You see a fascination with women.
Playwright Michael Frayn and author Claire Tomalin, his wife, opened an exhibition of J.M.W. Turner’s nudes together on Friday 8 July in the artist’s former home in Twickenham.
Between the Sheets: Turner’s nudes has received rave reviews for its unique focus on the private life and work of the otherwise much documented maritime and landscape artist. Everyone knows his seascapes and paintings of the River Thames, but not so many are aware he also drew nudes.
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Franny, author of the critically acclaimed The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner (2016), who came up with the theme for this exhibition, said:
“Here is a man who was called a recluse and a loner. I think this is a Victorian invention about Turner based on the last few years of his life when he was unwell.
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“When you see Turner’s landscapes you get a sense of his awe and relationship to the wider world. In putting these very intimate drawings together you get a vision of the man close-up. You can almost feel his breath on your neck.”
Between the Sheets: Turner’s nudes is open to the public until Sunday 30th October 2022 at Turner’s house, 40 Sandycoombe Road, St Margarets, Twickenham TW1 2LR.
General Manager at Maryville Care Home, Kathleen Liang said “It was lovely to have Mayor, Councillor Raghwinder Siddhu here for the day. The residents were delighted that he was able to visit us and join in on the day. We all had a wonderful day and we hope that Mayor, Councillor Raghwinder Siddhu will come to see us again soon!”
Mayor, Councillor Raghwinder Siddhu said “It was my privilege to attend the 100th birthday of Sr Anna. I met some lovely residents and they made my day with their smiles.”
Maryville Care Home is run by Frances Taylor foundation which o ers a wide range of social care and support services across the UK. Maryville Care Home provides residential care, nursing care and dementia care for 39 residents from respite care to long term stays.
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Mayor, Councillor Raghwinder Siddhu joined residents of the home for the birthday party on July 16th, 2022, at 2pm. Celebrations included greetings, live entertainment by the singer Liza Jaz followed by BBQ and drinks.
For more information, please contact Kathleen Liang, General Manager at Maryville Care Home on 0208 560 7124 or Kathleen.liang@psmgs.org.uk
Mayor, Councillor Raghwinder Siddhu has visited Maryville Care Home in Brentford to celebrate the 100th birthday of one of their residents Sr Anna Bye. Sta at the home organised a big party in the garden for Sr Anna, who was thrilled to receive a congratulatory letter from Queen Elizabeth II which was proudly presented to her by the Home Manager.
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SH: Yes, it’s great fun. You choose your games on an easy-to-use touchscreen TV then hit the ball. Radar tracks where the balls lands and feeds all the information back to the TV screen in your bay. It can get competitive! And the third activity?
The 18-hole “Cascades” course has stunning blue waterfalls, caves and meandering rivers; all designed with rope fencing and plenty of vegetation.
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RH: Well, it’s all bringing families and groups of friends together in a positive and fun environment. Of course, the theme is golf – but it’s nothing like your standard perception of golf! Hitting a ball with a club (which we lend you) is involved but the activities deliver genuine adventure whatever your age. What activities are there?
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SH: That’s the KnockAbout 9 course. We lend you a club and putter and you go off with your family or mates around a 9-hole golf course. It’s casual and relaxed, there’s no special dress code, it’s all about just giving golf a go whatever your ability. Is there a café or restaurant on site?
We caught up with owners of the brand new Hounslow Golf Park, husband and wife team, Richard and Sally Haygarth, to find out more about this intriguing new complex in West London. So tell us a bit about Hounslow Golf Park
RH: Well, we have one of Europe’s largest Adventure Golf Courses. The 18-hole “Eruption” course features a huge erupting volcano with “lava flows” alongside the walkways.
RH:prepared!And then there’s the Games Range which is a double-decker golf driving range but the “grass” is bright blue with massive red, green and yellow circular targets dotted around. That’s because there are virtual arcade-like games for you to play on.
SH: What I like best are the life-size moving dinosaurs. I hope I am not spoiling the surprise but as you go round the course, be
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The foreshore also is full of history – little bits of history which you can just pick up off the shore if you know what you’re looking for. A walk along the foreshore with archaeologist Dr Fiona Haughey will make you see it in a different light.
Sunday 4 September Book tickets for the tours or turn up on the day to enjoy Tidefest, Sunday 4th September between 10am and 5pm. www.thamestidefest.net
Eel Pie Island has become legend in the history of the British Blues explosion of the 1960s. The Eel Pie Island hotel, which hosted ballroom dancing in the 1920s and 1930s became famous as a Blues venue once trumpeter Brian Rutland started holding jazz sessions there in 1956.
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Activities available for adults and children alike include boat trips, paddleboarding, canoeing, kayaking, river dipping, island visits, foreshore walks, an angling competition, art displays, seine netting, live fish tanks, children’s games, a circus workshop, stalls and refreshments.
“We want people to enjoy and learn about as many of the wonders of the Thames Tideway as possible” said organiser Martin Salter.
Tidefest is an annual celebration of the River Thames. Based at Strand on the Green in Chiswick and other locations along the Thames tideway, including Brentford and Barnes, it is an opportunity for a bit of fun by the river and to learn something about the waterway which plays such a huge part in the lives of Londoners, about its history and its ecology.
Famous names who played there included Long John Baldry’s Hoochie Coochie Men (including Rod Stewart), Acker Bilk, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (featuring Eric Clapton), The Who, The Yarbirds, The Tridents (featuring Jeff Beck), Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones. Take a trip over to the island to soak up the atmosphere and see ‘The Sixties on the Thames’ exhibition exploring the island’s music history and the role it played in getting so many big careers off the Oliver’sground.Island is sadly misnamed. Oliver Cromwell did not hide out there during the English Civil War, nor is there a secret tunnel connecting the island to the City Barge pub. But it does have an interesting history nonetheless and this is a chance to visit a place normally closed to the public.
Andy Eddy, Head Gardener at Osterley Park & House, writes
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In the photo you can see Miscanthus sinensis ‘Malepartus’ – the Chinese Silver Grass – a stunning variety that can grow to 2m tall and with a boldly striped mid-rib to each leaf and glistening, silky, pink seed heads it is a remarkable sight each autumn. A further bonus is that if left without being cut back at the end of the summer its leaves will bleach and add an important dimension to your winter display. We also grow the large specimen Giant Oat Grass – Stipa gigantea – whose glorious, fluttering seed heads glow when the sun shines through them and once again provide a valuable part of our winter Alldisplay.ofthese plants are readily available to buy online or at your local garden centre so why not bright up you summer and winter display.”
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“One of the many plant groups that we use in our borders at Osterley is the huge range of ornamental grasses. These come in a wide range of not only heights and sizes but also with many differing colourful seed heads in the late summer and autumn too. All of these make splendid specimen plants on their own but also grouped together can make a stunning impact, particularly if planted to let the sun shine through their trembling stems and glistening seed heads. Of course you don’t need a large garden to grow these lovely specimens as they will all live quite happily in raised beds or even in pots on a patio or balcony, and being wind proof can take quite a battering in even the most windy of locations.
BarkerImages/PaulTrustNationalPhotography205846.no.charityRegistered2022.TrustNational©© with a visit to Osterley House Step back in time From architectural wonders to artistic masterpieces, explore what treasures lie in this 18th-century party mansion. nationaltrust.org.uk/osterley-park-and-house
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Chiswick has been home to many BBC performers – from Richard Briers and Morecambe & Wise to Clare Balding and Jeremy Vine - and its Book Festival often includes some of the Corporation’s best-known faces and voices. But this year’s Festival features more BBC authors than ever, as Auntie approaches her 100th birthday in October.
Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen will talk about his forthcoming book The Making of the Modern Middle East The BBC’s head of history, Robert Seatter, will celebrate its remarkable past and discuss its uncertain future with Will Wyatt, former chief executive of BBC Broadcast.
Jane Garvey will interview Justin Webb of Radio 4’s Today programme about his memoir The Gift of A Radio. And Radio One breakfast presenter and children’s author Greg James will lead a story-telling session with Chris ThereSmith.will be sessions with former BBC journalists, Nick Higham (The Mercenary River), Alex Gerlis (Agent in Peril) and Mihir Bose (The Battle to Create a Non-Racial Sports World).
Director Torin Douglas introduces this year’s line-up of authors
Political film-makers Michael Cockerell and Michael Crick will
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From Ronnie Archer-Morgan of Antiques Roadshow and the Reverend Richard Cole of Radio 4’s Saturday Live, to Dame Eileen Atkins, who won an Emmy for her performance in Cranford, and Dame Sheila Hancock, who made her name in the sitcom The Rag Trade, this year’s Festival is chockfull of the Corporation’s finest, past and present.
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Jessie Childs, discussing how to create great historical fiction with Lucy Jago and Miranda Malin, and there’s a full line-up of popular novelists including Adele Parks and Sadie Jones. Two of Chiswick’s greatest writers, WB Yeats and Dame Iris Murdoch, will also be featured, reminding people of Chiswick’s great literary heritage.
The Chiswick Book Festival runs from September 7 to 14 at St Michael and All Angels Church and other venues. Full programme and booking at the festival website.
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CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) will have their own space. Next to them the Blondin Consortium will be selling canned drinks including beers and lager and there will also be a table selling Pimms. The café will be working their way through the coffee beans and serving home-made cakes and sandwiches. The live bands, selected in 2020 only to be disappointed by lockdown, will now have their chance to perform. The music mix will include The Thrillers, Republic of Brentford, W3 DTour, The Bats of Ealing, Near Death Experience and Angela AlsoRichardson.inthepavilion local community groups will be showing off what they have learnt in classes. As in previous year the organisers are planning a dog show, with Kennel Club rules, stalls and activities for children. For more information: www.brentfordfestival.org.uk
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Linda Massey invites you to come and take part Brentford Festival 2019
You can forget the geographic boundaries; you need not ask why the Brentford Festival takes place in an Ealing park but be assured that after two years since the last event the organising committee of volunteers are excited to be planning for Brentfest22 which will take place on Sunday 4th September from 12 to 6pm in Blondin Park. The layout of the event will look different this year, particularly because in 2018 we started fundraising for a community building in the central sports area and in 2021 we were able to deliver the promise. Although the building has been open for a year as a venue for parties, exercise classes and a café run by volunteers, on the day of the festival it will be the must-go-to refreshment hut.
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After a hugely successful show last year, the Chiswick House Dog Show is back again this year – and we are celebrating 25 years since the first Harry Potter book was published. Our theme is ‘Harry Pointer and the Philosopher’s Bone’!!! That should set tails wagging amongst those owners who love to dress up their dogs for the Fancy Dress class. The Show is run by local volunteers for the enjoyment of the whole community, not just for their ‘best friends’ and aims to raise money to maintain and improve the grounds of Chiswick House and MyTailtoo!ownersforEntryorg.uk).(www.chiswickhouseandgardens.Gardensisfree:it’safundayoutallthefamily–andnon-dogaremorethanwelcomeClassesrangefromWaggiesttoPrettiestBitch,andfromDog’sGotTalenttoBest
The list to choose from is long. Did you know all these (and these are just some) had scenes shot in Chiswick?
The Servant (1963) Film starring Dirk Bogarde and Sarah Miles written by Harold Pinter (Chiswick House) Darling (1965) - Beautiful but amoral model Diana Scott sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties (Strand on the Green) Quatermass and the Pitt (1967)A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called into to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people (the graveyard of St Nicholas Church)
Goodbye Mr Chips (1969) - A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl (Strand on the Green) An American Werewolf in London (1981) - Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists (interiors shot at Chiswick maternity hospital - since demolished) Love Actually (2003) – Feelgood movie about eight very different couples, loosely interrelated, but all in love (interiors Rupert Road & Blenheim Road) De Lovely (2004) – Musical biopic of Cole Porter (Chiswick House) Never Let me go (2010) –Dystopian drama based on the book by Kazuo Ishiguro (Chiswick Town Hall) The Theory of Everything (2014) – Biographical film about the life of physicist Stephen Hawking (interiors shot at Grove Park TimeVicarage)this heritage was celebrated! The schedule of films and speakers will be published towards the end of August. For updates on the schedule keep an eye on the Chiswick Cinema and The Chiswick Calendar websites. www.chiswickcalendar.co.ukwww.chiswickcinema.co.uk f @outandaboutmagazines @outaboutmag www.outaboutmagazine.co.uk
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Very often in Chiswick you see the road opposite the Town Hall or alongside St Paul’s Church Grove Park filled up with catering trucks and film location vehicles and you know sooner or later as you are watching a film or a TV series there will be a scene which is vaguely familiar. Filming is big business in Chiswick, bringing in millions of pounds a year. You may also have glimpsed David Tennant, Hugh Grant or Colin Firth at a local supermarket or the gym. Chiswick is full of film industry people, not just actors but directors, producers, designers, scriptwriters … even Foster Books gets in on the act hiring out antique books for anything from Cyrano to the Barbie film. Chiswick Cinema, celebrating its first birthday this summer, is hosting a Chiswick in Film festival over the weekend 30th September – 2nd October, in collaboration with The Chiswick Calendar Aswebsite.wego to press they are finalising the schedule of films, all of which will have some connection with Chiswick –either in the personnel involved or scenes which were shot here. Each will be screened with a speaker connected with the film to talk about the making of the film.
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Larry Pryce on Live Blues & Jazz in the Boston Room Back with a vengeance after the August break
Numbers such as It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing and Take The A Train, show why the Ellington Orchestra’s music has been described as one of the most important contributions to American culture.
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Thursday 15th SeptemberGreg Davis Trio Featuring Vanessa Rose
Thursday 22nd SeptemberWilma Baan & The Rob Barron Trio present ‘Visions’
The highly regarded Dutch vocalist’s rich, mellow tone, impeccable timing and elegant delivery pays obvious homage to her musical influences, Nancy Wilson, Julie London & Dianne Reeves. Wilma will be showcasing numbers from her well-received debut release, So Nice (Marcus Valle), as well as visiting some of her all-time favourites such as Close Enough For Love (Johnny Mandel) The Summer Knows (Michel Legrand), I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (Rodgers and Hart) and The Folks Who Live On The Hill (Jerome Kern) among others. @outandaboutmagazines @outaboutmag
The much-travelled tenor saxophonist Greg Davis brings his top-drawer trio including the acclaimed Chiswick based double bassist Sandy Burnett over to the Boston Room for a night of classic jazz standards and Latin grooves featuring special guest vocalist Vanessa Rose.
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The music of Duke Ellington has been inspiring singer Sarah Moule and pianist Simon Wallace ever since they both discovered jazz. Together they celebrate the genius of ‘The Duke’ and his right-hand man, Billy Strayhorn, two of the most respected and prolific song writers of the jazz era.
Sarah Moule & Simon Wallace Trio celebrate the Genius Of Duke Ellington
Thursday 29th SeptemberDelta Trio Started by guitarist Marcus Bonfanti and bassist Jihad Darwish in 2015, the Delta Trio is more than just a blues trio. Their music ranges from Bluegrass and Delta Blues, covering material from the likes of John Martyn, Paul Weller, The Meters and Little Feat with various jazz, soul, blues, funk and rock influences in their playing. Marcus Bonfanti, twice winner of the British Blues Awards for best Acoustic Performer and Songwriter, has toured the world with the likes of Eric Clapton Google The Chiswick Calendar + Jazz at George IV for how to get tickets
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Venue: George IV, 185 Chiswick High Rd, Chiswick, London W4 2DR. and Van Morrison. Jihad Darwish has toured, performed and recorded worldwide with numerous artists including Sting, Eric Bibb, Imelda May, Beth Rowley and Mica Paris.
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When Nisia, the previous editor of Out & About, first contacted me asking if she could include a feature on Hen Corner in the magazine, little did I know that I would still be writing our page ten years later!
The first issue that I contributed to, Aug - Sep 2012, was a two page spread with an interview on one side and my first column, Cider in the City, on the other. Looking back over the issues, I’ve kept copies of them all, it’s a special delight to see Nandos, one of our favourite chickens, who made it to the front page. I know that many have been faithfully following our antics over the years and it’s been great to meet so many both online and in person either here at Hen Corner or ‘out and about’ at local events. So here we are, ten years after that first feature, and I thought I would share some highlights of the decade.
Ten Years with Out & About!
HEN Corner
2012 - Winning Best Honey in London at the National Honey Show 2013 - Our Schools Programme ran a chick hatching project 2014 - We harvested our first Brentford peaches 2015 - Hen Corner began a fulltime business 2016 - Launch of our new website 2017 - Developed our bread skills with French baker Richard Bertinet 2018 - Excited to be part of a new TV series Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge (BBC Two) 2019 - Start writing regularly for Country Living Magazine 2020 - Taking our courses online to an international audience 2021 - Winning Gold at the World Marmalade Awards
Wow, we have been busy, so what’s coming up? We are building on our writing foundations with magazines and I’m writing a book - Final copy is due with our publishers, Pimpernel Press, so watch this space and find me, with a hen or two, signing copies in a bookshop near you soon…
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Brentford is holding its second Creative Mile event – a walking trail from Kew Bridge to Johnson’s Island with artists’ work exhibited in locations along the Moreway.than 70 artists are showing their work in eight venues over the mile long route during the weekend of 3-4 September. Starting at the London Museum of Water & Steam, the trail takes in the Musical Museum, Studio Flox, and Watermans Art Centre and winds its way down to the buzzing arts quarter on Catherine Wheel Road where you will find a hive of creatives spaces including The Loft and Johnson’s TheIsland.Museum of Water and Steam is home to several artists, including jewellers, ceramicists, a woodcarver, sculptor and furniture maker, a bronze caster and a Artisticblacksmith.blacksmith Neil Brown creates beautiful objects from steel in his smithy, which is the oldest blacksmith’s in continuous use in London. At the other end of the trail, Johnson’s Island is home to 16 art studios. The artists work in a range of mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, sculpture, mixed media, mosaics, jewellery, hat-making, music, writing, metalwork and Theceramics.tinyisland is interesting to visit just to see the higgledypiggledy studios crammed into a space which was once used for the old station master’s and lock keeper’s offices. It originally formed part of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Brentford Dock. Being able to peek into the studios and meet the artists is a Thetreat.artists who share the space describe it as: “a magical, creative space - where history, art and nature are woven together,” surrounded as it is by canal views with colourful narrowboats, herons and the occasional flash of a Foundingkingfisher.creative director ‘Mr Mr Pearce’ said: “I originally got the idea of a Brentford art trail when I had a studio on Johnson’s Island. One of the things I noticed was how many people coming to our open studios would say that they had lived in the area for years and never knew we were there. This got me thinking about how we could increase awareness…” 26 f @outandaboutmagazines @outaboutmag www.outaboutmagazine.co.uk
Brentford Art trail, 3-4 September
