Rosalyn Goulding, who is the Collections and Engagement Manager at St Barbe Museum, was based on Ascension Island for for six weeks in 2014 when she was employed by the Ascension Island Heritage Society to modernise their museum. Lying about halfway between Africa and South America, this strange yet fascinating isolated volcanic island has a significance belied by its small size and isolated location. Named after the day of its recorded discovery, the island has played an imortant role as a safe haven for mariners. Rosalyn will talk about the history of Ascension Island and its role in the modern world.
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FRIDAY 6th OCTOBER
Lymington Community Centre Refreshments 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm Non-members £5 |
The major St Barbe Gallery exhibition for 2015 takes the channel coast as its subject, exploring the way artists from the 18th century to the present have drawn inspiration from the cliffs, beaches, marshes and harbours of the south coast. Curators Dr Gill Clarke MBE and Steve Marshall will explore the responses of a diverse group of artists to these varied south coast landscapes. Their talk will focus on seaside holidays, defence and wartime, the working coast, storms and safe havens. Artists to be featured include Constable, Turner, Nash, Ravilious, Burra and contemporary painters such as Kurt Jackson.
Steve Marshall is currently working for St. Barbe Museum in a freelance capacity as Exhibitions Curator programming, organising and delivering an exhibition programme in partnership with artists and regional, national and private collections. Dr Gill Clarke MBE is Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester and was Guest Curator of the exhibition From Fields to Factories: Women’s Work on the Home Front in the First World War at the University’s Otter Gallery. Her relationship with St Barbe Museum has included curating or contributing to the Home Lad, Home: War Horse Story exhibition in 2014, the Randolph Schwabe exhibition in 2012/13, the Women’s Land Army exhibition in 2008/9 and the Evelyn Dunbar exhibition in 2006. Her books include Randolph Schwabe: A Life in Art (2012), The Women’s Land Army: A Portrait (2008) and Evelyn Dunbar: War and Country (2006). |
FRIDAY 4th SEPTEMBER
Lymington Community Centre Refreshments 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm Fund-raising event Friends members £3 Non-members £6 |
Geraldine Beech was a professional archivist working at the National Archives dealing with everything from medieval legal plans to maps for the Suez Campaign.
The tithe maps of the mid-19th century were prepared for the valuation process required by the Tithe Commutation Act, 1836; and were the first truly large scale maps of many places in England and Wales.
There were tithe maps of Lymington and surrounding areas including Boldre, Brockenhurst and Milford.
Geraldine’s illustrated talk will explain what tithes were, why tithe maps were made and how they and the associated apportionments are such a rich resource for local and family history.
Geraldine Beech worked at The National Archives (previously the Public Record Office) from 1974 to 2005, and as map archivist there for over twenty years. She has much experience in advising the public on maps and related records; producing catalogues, information leaflets and other guides to the records; and contributing to a wide variety of conferences and training courses on the cartographic holdings of The National Archives. She has particular knowledge of boundary mapping and associated textual records; of the tithe, enclosure and Valuation Office maps; and of Ordnance Survey and military maps.
The tithe maps of the mid-19th century were prepared for the valuation process required by the Tithe Commutation Act, 1836; and were the first truly large scale maps of many places in England and Wales.
There were tithe maps of Lymington and surrounding areas including Boldre, Brockenhurst and Milford.
Geraldine’s illustrated talk will explain what tithes were, why tithe maps were made and how they and the associated apportionments are such a rich resource for local and family history.
Geraldine Beech worked at The National Archives (previously the Public Record Office) from 1974 to 2005, and as map archivist there for over twenty years. She has much experience in advising the public on maps and related records; producing catalogues, information leaflets and other guides to the records; and contributing to a wide variety of conferences and training courses on the cartographic holdings of The National Archives. She has particular knowledge of boundary mapping and associated textual records; of the tithe, enclosure and Valuation Office maps; and of Ordnance Survey and military maps.
Felicity House works primarily in pastel, which links colour with drawing and is immediate, fresh and vibrant. She was elected a Member of the Pastel Society in 2003 and is the Society’s archivist. Felicity’s illustrated talk will place the St Barbe Gallery Pastel Society exhibition in context – giving a brief historical background to the medium and taking a look at the work of key pastel artists in history. She will also explain the materials, techniques and approaches used by contemporary pastellists.
Felicity House: "As a young child, paper was in short supply and there was never sufficient for my prolific graphite output. I clearly recall making pencil drawings on the insides of unfolded food cartons, the plain end papers of books and surreptitiously behind curtains on the wonderful surface of painted wall. I was fortunate to benefit from a post-war education that gave time and status to Art and this encouraged and developed my visual skills. Following a career school teaching I worked as an illustrator and as a tutor of life drawing and short art courses. Such flexibility gave me the opportunity to travel and fill numerous sketchbooks. I discovered the versatility and immediacy of pastels. |
FRIDAY 8th July
Lymington Community Centre Refreshments 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm Non-members £5 |
FRIDAY 8th JULY Lymington Community Centre
7.00pm Refreshments for 7.30pm Talk
All welcome Non-members £5
7.00pm Refreshments for 7.30pm Talk
All welcome Non-members £5
Mrs Otto van de Vorm, who is a passionate gardener and artist, has kindly agreed to allow The Friends of St Barbe to visit her lovely garden at Sowley House. This beautiful garden reaches down to The Solent and we will be visiting the garden at the right time of the year to see it at its best. A visit in the early evening is a real treat as the light reflects off the water and vegetation. The evening will be rounded off with a little light refreshment.
Sowley House: At the time of the 1901 census Charles H Braun, aged 33, lived in Sowley House, on his own means, with seven servants including a butler and a footman. In the stables, now Sowley House Cottage, lived John White, aged 30, as the coachman. From 1909 to 1944 Lord Coke and his family lived there. Sowley was part of the Beaulieu Estate but the house was not requisitioned during the Second World War - it was just used for storage. In 1946, Sir Henry Spurrier, Chairman of Leyland Motors, lived there or used Sowley House as a hunting lodge. He installed bathrooms and a huge storeroom to keep his guns. Sowley House and Sowley Estate were purchased in May 1958 from the Beaulieu Estate by Leyland Motors, which set up an operating subsidiary, Sowley Estates Ltd. Sowley Estates Ltd. sold Sowley House to Sir Henry and Lady Spurrier in 1962. They repurchased it from them in 1964 and sold the house to W.F. Hammond, who lived here with his family until 1985. |
FRIDAY 3rd JUNE
Sowley House Gardens 6.00pm to 8.00pm Friends Members only Entry only by by pre-paid ticket (£10) Full details will be in the Friends Newsletter - Subscribe to Newsletter |
The Arborealists are a group of artists who exhibit together to promote the theme of trees in contemporary art. The group emerged from the exhibition ‘Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree’ held at the St Barbe Gallery in 2013, and are now returning with an exhibition that will showcase an impressive diversity of prints, drawings and paintings, and of scale, medium, style, technique and philosophy, all unified by the forms and rhythms of the tree. Artists Jo Barry, Fiona McIntyre and one other will talk about their careers, influences and the development of their art practices; and why trees are such an important subject for them.
Jo Barry: 'I have always wanted to be an artist, I just cannot imagine being anything else. During the first few years after art school I was a teacher which was wonderful as children have so much talent and use it with a greater sense of fun than we grownups. I have been very lucky in that since I graduated I have been able to show my work in a number of beautiful galleries and many of the people running these have become good friends. In 1984 I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Print-makers, which together with the Royal Watercolour Society is based at the Bankside Gallery in London. In 1994 I moved with my family to the New Forest and my love of the English landscape found its perfect home. Since then this ancient part of England, in all its many moods and changes of weather has been my constant inspiration. My studio is crammed with work in progress and my dogs. It is a great life" Fiona McIntyre: True to her Scottish origins, the energetic and gestural painter Fiona McIntyre is a colourist, extolling the virtues of painterly spontaneity to capture often elusive effects of multivarious landscapes in flux. Within the environments that have moved her, she complements observation with improvisation and interpretation. Using decisive sweeps of paint or charcoal her works have the earthy gravitas of the (early) Van Gogh-inspired Cumbrian painter Sheila Fell while also, in terms of her strong palette, evoking the chromatic romanticism of Innes and John. This artist’s uncanny mix of cerebral and sensual qualities corresponds with a plethora of influences ranging from immediate family background - McIntyre’s great grandfather was the celebrated Camden Town painter Malcolm Drummond on whom she has lectured with eloquence and insight. |
FRIDAY 13th May
Lymington Community Centre Refreshments 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm Non-members £5 |
The Romsey War Horse was commissioned to commemorate the 120,000 horses, mules and men that were trained for the front line at the Romsey Remount Depot during WW1. The Memorial depicting a horse and soldier was unveiled by Princess Anne on the 3rd July 2015 in Romsey’s War Memorial Park. Amy Goodman, the sculptor of this life-size memorial, will talk about its commissioning and evolution. She says, “It was such an honour to make this piece. I wanted to show the bond between horse and soldier in a natural and subtle way. They are both a bit thin, the soldier has his arm in a sling, I wanted the young trooper to carry the weight of the world on his young shoulders through the horrors he has witnessed.”
The talk will also include a 20-minute film showing the creation of the sculpture, which was filmed by Paul French of Southpoint Films Amy Goodman has become an established sculptor and portrait artist specialising in her unique style of welded steel, bronze sculpture, and a variety of 2D work, including her distinctive equestrian ink & acrylic wash paintings. Her work is exhibited in many well respected shows and galleries throughout the UK, Europe and Kuwait in the UAE. She regularly exhibits work with the S.E.A (Society of Equestrian Artists) at the Mall Galleries in London, and recently exhibited at the prestigious Gallery le Fort in Bath, and the Affordable Art Fair in London. Amy has undertaken some notable commissions including portraits of ex-England cricketer Robin Smith, a bronze bust of the late Graham Hill as well as six sculptures depicting footballers’ (United Legends) in action for a hospitality suite at Old Trafford, home of Manchester United F.C. More recently she was commissioned by the Duchy of Lancaster to make a life-size Dairy Cow and Calf for a business development in Crewe. Amy's work has also been shown in ‘Country Life’ as well as ‘The Times’, ‘Cheshire Life’, ‘Manchester Evening News’ and local press. |
FRIDAY 10th JUNE
Lymington Community Centre Refreshments 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm Non-members £5 |
Phil Smith, Co-Director of SPUD (Space, Placemaking & Urban Design), will talk about the Observatory, its past, present and future.
The Observatory is a mobile, temporary, architectural installation that becomes a sculptural intervention, an artists' workspace, a platform, a public shelter, and a viewpoint. Initially installed at Winchester Science Centre, in July 2015 the Observatory moved to a site on the coastal path along the sea wall around the Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve. A series of artist residencies were hosted there, enabling thousands of people to visit the structure and see the artists at work. The artists exhibiting in the St Barbe Gallery are some of those who took part in the residencies at Winchester and Lymington. Phil Smith trained in fine art and education followed by nine years as a photographer. Phil has taught photography and design in the formal and informal education sectors. He ran the f.Stop Gallery and darkrooms, a public access photography facility in Bath until joining the Arts Council in 1996. Phil was Head of Visual Arts at Arts Council England South East until 2006 when he left to pursue freelance opportunities including acting as interim chief executive for a music education charity, consultancy on commissioning art in the public realm and development and management of exhibitions and artist residencies. While working for the Solent centre for Architecture + Design from 2007 -2011 Phil's projects included Places from Spaces which brought together councils and universities to share knowledge through a series of workshops, international study trips and seminars leading to temporary transformation of a public space in each city. Phil is actively involved in music as a bass guitarist, playing a wide variety of music and continues to practice in visual media mainly in the areas of photography and digital print. He enjoys hill walking, cycling, climbing, and has a broad interest in the arts. He currently works part time for the National Trust on arts development and is a Board member of the Aspex Visual Arts Trust. |
FRIDAY 8th April
Lymington Community Centre Refreshments 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm Non-members £5 |
OUT of EGYPT
16th January - 27th February
Discover more about the religious beliefs and the passage from life to the afterlife in Ancient Egypt. This exhibition explores the elaborate Egyptian rites and rituals intended to prepare the departed for an everlasting life after death. Featuring original artefacts from the Hampshire Cultural Trust collections, the exhibition has been designed to appeal to school children and families through a host of activities, while still offering lots for adults to discover and enjoy. Displays will include coffin masks, animal mummies, canopic jars, amulets, scarabs, shabti figures and a beautiful funerary boat.
Exhibition provided by Hampshire Cultural Trust.
16th January - 27th February
Discover more about the religious beliefs and the passage from life to the afterlife in Ancient Egypt. This exhibition explores the elaborate Egyptian rites and rituals intended to prepare the departed for an everlasting life after death. Featuring original artefacts from the Hampshire Cultural Trust collections, the exhibition has been designed to appeal to school children and families through a host of activities, while still offering lots for adults to discover and enjoy. Displays will include coffin masks, animal mummies, canopic jars, amulets, scarabs, shabti figures and a beautiful funerary boat.
Exhibition provided by Hampshire Cultural Trust.
David Hopkins, the castle manager, will tell how the creation of Highcliffe Castle was driven by one man’s ambition; and how the building was later re-born from dereliction through imagination, persistence and hard work.
Charles Stuart became a distinguished diplomat, successful enough in his career to be ennobled as Lord Stuart de Rothesay, but he never forgot the happy days of his childhood spent by the sea at the Highcliffe home of his grandfather, Lord Bute. When his father sold that house Charles was determined to bring its estate back into the family and to build there the country house of which he had always dreamed. It was not until 1824 that he actually bought the estate but he had already salvaged a collection of stonework, stained glass, panelling and furniture from buildings in France that were being demolished. This material was floated across the Channel on twelve barges in which, it is said, Napoleon had planned to carry his army for the invasion of England. From its days of grandeur the castle descended to the husband of Edward Stuart Wortley’s younger daughter, who in 1950 gave up the unequal struggle and sold the castle out of the family. The building became a children’s convalescent home and then, for thirteen years, a seminary for the Claretians, a Roman Catholic order. Development proposals in the 1960s were hampered by the castle’s grade I listed status. Two fires caused extensive damage and eventually in 1977 the roofless, derelict ruin was bought by Christchurch Borough Council. Plans for limited restoration made slow progress until helped by a £2.6million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, finally making the castle the viable attraction it is today. |
FRIDAY 4th MARCH
Lymington Community Centre Refreshments 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm Non-members £5 |
Picture: Richard Eurich - Wreck of the Herzogin Cecile. Southampton City Art Gallery/Estate of the artist.
SPONSORED BY: RATHBONES |
SHORELINES: ARTISTS on the SOUTH COAST
Until 9th January This major exhibition takes the Channel coast as its subject, exploring the way in which artists from the 18th century to the present have drawn inspiration from the cliffs, beaches and harbours of England's southern border. The south coast has often been a line of defence but has also been a gateway for trade and a popular destination for those seeking fun, sun and sea air. The exhibition looks at the contrasting approaches taken by resident and visiting artists who drew inspiration from the shoreline between Cornwall and Kent. Many celebrated artists have portrayed these shores including Constable, Turner, Brett, Nash, Nevinson, Ravilious, Eurich and more recently Kurt Jackson and Jeremy Gardiner. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue |
This illustrated talk by Gill Clarke is based on the diaries of the distinguished artist and influential teacher Randolph Schwabe (1885-1948) who commenced writing in January 1930 shortly before being appointed Principal of the Slade School of Art following the retirement of Henry Tonks. Over the next two decades Schwabe diligently recorded his thoughts and subtle comments on people, major events and his own artistic practice, only ceasing writing some weeks before his untimely death in September 1948. Indeed, Schwabe might be viewed as the Pepys of the art-world.
Schwabe’s diaries offer a unique record and fascinating insight into British artistic and literary circles in the first half of the twentieth century. Candid and witty, the diaries provide much rich and new material about the practice and spirit of 20th century British art, revealing the inter-relationships between often familiar figures in the art community and the tensions within. The talk will focus on not only aspects of Schwabe’s work but importantly on a number of major artists and literary figures mentioned in the diaries, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Augustus John, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Edmund Blunden and Somerset Maugham, to reveal illuminating details about their personalities. Edited by Gill Clarke & published for the first time, copies of Schwabe’s Diaries will be available on the night at a special price. Dr Gill Clarke MBE is Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester and was Guest Curator of the exhibition From Fields to Factories: Women’s Work on the Home Front in the First World War at the University’s Otter Gallery. Her relationship with St Barbe Museum has included curating or contributing to the Shorelines - Artists on the South Coast exhibition in 2015, the Home Lad, Home: War Horse Story exhibition in 2014, the Randolph Schwabe exhibition in 2012/13, the Women’s Land Army exhibition in 2008/9 and the Evelyn Dunbar exhibition in 2006. Her books include Randolph Schwabe: A Life in Art (2012), The Women’s Land Army: A Portrait (2008) and Evelyn Dunbar: War and Country (2006). |
FRIDAY 12th FEBRUARY
Lymington Community Centre Refreshments 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm Fund-raising event Friends members £3 Non-members £6 |
THE FULL PROGRAMME
Photograph: Ben Ainslie - Courtesy of Robert Wilson/Skandia. Picture: Harry Burrard Neale - Courtesy of The National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth.
SPONSORED BY: CLARKE WILLMOTT Picture: Pete Gilbert - Shotts Lane in Full Sunlight.
Picture: Martin Swan - Eleanora sailing in the Western Solent
SPONSORED BY: THESIS asset management Picture: Barry Freeman - The House of Madame Jublain.
Picture: Merlyn Chesterman - A Winter Sea.
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EGYPTIANS
5th March - 27th February Possit timeam utamur mea no. Id vix reque mazim tibique. Quo ornatus docendi quaerendum cu. Ex pro illud tritani, vis an modo volutpat, sit cu alia deleniti gubergren. Cum in commodo volumus prodesset, sed ea quis sale dicta. Decore delenit gubergren nam ad, nec nostro possim te. Eum putent forensibus ad, cu est utinam graecis persequeris, cum quando intellegam in. At numquam suscipiantur est, maluisset deterruisset his cu, quo ei tota minimum. Detracto argumentum eos ea, has porro simul albucius id. Ea harum saperet graecis cum. OBSERVATORY RESIDENCIES
5th March - 16th April Possit timeam utamur mea no. Id vix reque mazim tibique. Quo ornatus docendi quaerendum cu. Ex pro illud tritani, vis an modo volutpat, sit cu alia deleniti gubergren. Cum in commodo volumus prodesset, sed ea quis sale dicta. Decore delenit gubergren nam ad, nec nostro possim te. Eum putent forensibus ad, cu est utinam graecis persequeris, cum quando intellegam in. At numquam suscipiantur est, maluisset deterruisset his cu, quo ei tota minimum. Detracto argumentum eos ea, has porro simul albucius id. Ea harum saperet graecis cum. ARBOREALISTS
23rd April - 4th June Possit timeam utamur mea no. Id vix reque mazim tibique. Quo ornatus docendi quaerendum cu. Ex pro illud tritani, vis an modo volutpat, sit cu alia deleniti gubergren. Cum in commodo volumus prodesset, sed ea quis sale dicta. Decore delenit gubergren nam ad, nec nostro possim te. Eum putent forensibus ad, cu est utinam graecis persequeris, cum quando intellegam in. At numquam suscipiantur est, maluisset deterruisset his cu, quo ei tota minimum. Detracto argumentum eos ea, has porro simul albucius id. Ea harum saperet graecis cum. 16th ANNUAL St BARBE OPEN EXHIBITION
13th June - 25th July The ever-popular Open Exhibition returns for its 16th year. As always it draws the best in paintings, prints and drawings from across the south east. Firmly established in the regional arts calendar, and with a growing number of prizes on offer, the Open brings in artists from further afield to compete with regular entrants based in Hampshire and Dorset. The quality continues to rise and the judges have an ever-harder task selecting items to be included. A selling exhibition A great opportunity for those seeking high quality, affordable art. The handing in dates for 2015 are 28th and 29th May THE PASTEL SOCIETY
30th July - 10th September Possit timeam utamur mea no. Id vix reque mazim tibique. Quo ornatus docendi quaerendum cu. Ex pro illud tritani, vis an modo volutpat, sit cu alia deleniti gubergren. Cum in commodo volumus prodesset, sed ea quis sale dicta. Decore delenit gubergren nam ad, nec nostro possim te. Eum putent forensibus ad, cu est utinam graecis persequeris, cum quando intellegam in. At numquam suscipiantur est, maluisset deterruisset his cu, quo ei tota minimum. Detracto argumentum eos ea, has porro simul albucius id. Ea harum saperet graecis cum. A selling exhibition |
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