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Completing the picture

Rating: 3

September 24th 2007

Meet the artist who brings the Elizabethan era back to life from her studio in Hastings. Nancy Cremore finds out how Melissa and her paintbrush cross the centuries...

Two Moors, One Festival

Rating: 2

September 21st 2007

Linked with Classic FM, Devon's out-of-season music festival is giving audiences even more to look forward to this October. Started in 2001 as a one-off event to help regenerate the area following the devastating foot-and-mouth epidemic, the festi...

Exhibitions Around the County

Rating: 3

September 17th 2007

There must be a bigger concentration of artists and makers in the Westcountry than anywhere in the land. It seems a new art gallery opens every week in Somerset. Travel the county and you will be bombarded by art galleries, even in the smallest co...

Hertfordshire Open Studios 2007

Rating: 2

September 9th 2007

As the Hertfordshire Open Studios event gets underway this month, Caroline Foster finds out about its inception from the Hertfordshire Visual Arts Forum

Hidden Thames Treasures Revealed

Rating: 2

September 7th 2007

Fragments from the Foreshore, a striking exhibition of contemporary photography of ancient and modern objects found on the foreshore the River Thames providing vivid snapshots into our past is on display at the River & Rowing Museum, Henley on...

Quick on the draw

Rating: 2

September 6th 2007

The Big Draw 2007, a nationwide celebration of drawing, at over 1,300 events - ranging from rocket science and evolutionary biology through to Mange art and the world's largest collage - will take place across the country throughout October...

The Blue Duck Gallery in Caversham.

Rating: 3

September 6th 2007

If you're looking for something individual and unusual, The Blue Duck will almost certainly oblige...

Photographer Steve Highfield in Appleton, Cheshire

Rating: 2

September 5th 2007

Photographer Steve Highfield has produced a whole new view of Appleton and the fields, folds and fallows thereabouts.. Words: Patrick O'Neill

Gordon Wilkinson - Glasson Dock watercolours

Rating: 2

September 5th 2007

Gordon Wilkinson took his watercolours to a Lancashire coastal village where traditional industry and leisure activities rub shoulders. Words: Roger Borrell

Sheep in the Forest of Dean

Rating: 3

August 28th 2007

If you go down to the woods today ... you will find some very unusual sheep. This summer is the perfect time to track down the new roving ambassadors for the Forest's creative talents.

SOMERSET ARTIST: BRIAN HOYLE

Rating: 3

August 25th 2007

The home of artist Brian Hoyle and his wife Pamela is located near Crewkerne, in the tranquil and beautiful setting of a Japanese garden. The garden is the result of the couple's hard work and dedication over the 30 years they have lived here. Bri...

FOR ARTS SAKE EXHIBITIONS

Rating: 3

August 25th 2007

Find out the latest in the Somerset art scene with our round-up of events taking place around the county this September.

ANTIQUES: SAIL IN MINIATURE

Rating: 2

August 25th 2007

Ship modelling is as old as life itself, for it is natural for a boy to shape a piece of wood and float it. In contrast, many model ships are very accurate scale versions of the ships they depict. Built to skill and perfection many are regarded as...

Place to be

Rating: 0

August 25th 2007

There's a new artistic hub coming to east London, so we find out what's so special about Shoreditch's Rivington Place

BOOKS EXMOOR

Rating: 3

August 25th 2007

This September we look at books that were born of the wild heights of Exmoor, including, 'Our Love of Exmoor' by Ernest Davey; 'A Wild Life on Exmoor' by Johnny Kingdom; 'Exmoor Revisited' by Donald Ayres and 'My Exmoor Scrapbook' by C Matthew Sha...

MEMORIES FROM DAVID MILLER - Devon Arts

Rating: 3

August 24th 2007

Author David Miller, interviewed this September, has strong childhood memories of his home town of Teignmouth - which include falling into the yachting pool on the day HMS Hood sank, and a scandalous pyjama party at a local hotel.

THE UNEXPECTED GUEST - Devon Arts and Antiques

Rating: 2

August 24th 2007

Agatha Christie's classic tale of intrigue, 'The Unexpected Guest', comes to Torquay's Princess Theatre this September.

SAILORWORK - Devon Arts and Antiques

Rating: 2

August 24th 2007

Produced by sailors on their travels, or by their loved ones awaiting their return, sailorwork artefacts have a growing appeal. Find out more in the September issue.

Home movies

Rating: 2

August 23rd 2007

Anwar Brett looks at Fulham's latest film stars

A new walk of life

Rating: 3

August 22nd 2007

Abandoning a successful career as a City lawyer for an artist's life, Richard Davidson enjoys painting everyday objects taken out of context. He seeks to convey the life and personality they acquire through their owners, as he explains to ...