What’s On January - May 2020

THINGS TO DO AT BRANTWOOD

Our Terrace Coffee House & Restaurant for delicious FREE Entry for Children freshly prepared food. Speciality coffees and teas. Licensed. FREE Parking Dogs and well behaved owners welcome!

The Main House is a treasure trove of Ruskin’s paintings, Brantwood, East of Lake drawings & personal possessions. Coniston, Cumbria, LA21 8AD 015394 41396 The 8 unique gardens and 250 acre woodland estate have [email protected] stunning views and plant collections. Visit The Ice House - don a hard hat and visit Ruskin’s ice chamber. www.brantwood.org.uk

Brantwood bookshop for specialist books on Ruskin as well as a range of quality crafts, gifts and souvenirs.

Free car and coach parking. Alternatively, arrive by boat on either Coniston Launch or Steam Yacht Gondola. Regular sailings to Brantwood jetty.

OPENING TIMES Open Wed-Sun 10.30am-4.00pm From 18 March 2020 every day 10.30am - 5.00pm

April-October: Guided garden walks every Wed & Fri at ADMISSION PRICES 2.15pm. Included in House or Garden Ticket. Please check Adult £8.70 in advance for availability. On alternate Thursdays, Ruskin Student £7.70 Lace demonstrations . Included in House ticket. Gardens only £6.20 Children Free Childrens House Quiz & Garden Activity Trail. Enquire at Admissions Desk. Discounts for groups on application.

DISABLED ACCESS A variety of day & residential courses are held throughout Our hillside gardens have varying the year. To book or enquire about any of our Courses levels of access. Parts of the site are or Events, please contact us or visit our website. steep. Please note that access to the Severn Studio exhibitions is via steep external steps.. Disabled If you would like to become a Friend of Brantwood drop-off available at the House. For and help to continue our work here, a membership further information on disabled Cuprite Chalcotrichite form is available for download from our website or access please contact us. The Treasury - the Mineral Collection brantwood.org.uk contact us directly at Brantwood

BLUE GALLERY EXHIBITIONS SEVERN STUDIO EXHIBITIONS COACH HOUSE LOFT EXHIBITION NEW EXHIBITION FOR 2020

Admission is included in house ticket Admission is included in house or garden ticket 14 - 16 April From 20 March Inspired by Nature – The Life The Treasury 22 November 2019 - 15 March 2020 18 January - 16 February and Art of Christine Isherwood - The John Ruskin Mineral Collection Master of Topography: John Ruskin’s Debt ‘Roots’ by Local Furniture Makers A celebration of this local artist, A permanent display in the Linton Room to Samuel Prout John Ruskin strongly believed that in doing fine with many paintings and drawings Samuel Prout (1783-1852) was one of Ruskin’s labour, we were connected with nature and art. on display previously seen only by early drawing masters and probably the most In the 21stC, Cumbria has an incredible amount of close friends and family. The official furniture-making talent, creating beautiful, elegant influential on the development of his ability to book launch of ’Inspired by Nature’ render architecture and human habitation in and exciting furniture, and training the next will take place during the exhibition, town and country when travelling. This exhibi- generation to keep those skills alive. Included as well as a talk given by Rachel tion shows examples of paintings and drawings within the show are The Rusland Movement, Isherwood (see details on website). by Ruskin and Prout drawn from The Ruskin, Lakeland Bespoke and Matt Jardine. Lancaster University. COURSES 22 February - 29 March 18 March - 25 May ‘Water Essays’ by Frances Winder 20 - 21 March The Making of the Mountains: John Ruskin Frances’ work reflects the mood and atmosphere Pastel course with Sandra Orme. and the Geology of the Hills of landscape. She explores water, its moods, Spend each day learning to create beautiful and This new dedicated exhibition explores Ruskin’s colours and flows. From storm cloud formations Mountains inspired and obsessed Ruskin his dramatic skies and clouds in pastel. Refresh- fascination with mountains, minerals and the world and the gap in the clouds, through the rhythm of entire life. To him they were evidence of the ments provided. 10.00am – 4.30pm. £70 p.p. for of geology. After an absence of nearly a century, living nature of the earth. Childhood encounters rivers, fast, slow and sluggish. Broadening into one day. £130 for 2 days. Residential option in his personal collection of over 2,000 museum- of the and the Alps created an lakes and marshland, out to the shores and pools quality mineral specimens has returned to the Brantwood’s Lodge available. insatiable appetite to understand the geology on the seashore. house and is now on display. Ruskin was one of the and geomorphology of mountains. At the same 17 April last great polymaths for whom art and science time, his reading of Wordsworth and discovery 4 April - 10 May Flowers at Brantwood: Watercolour were inseparable, and one of the Victorian era’s of the artist JMW Turner led him to explore the ‘Ruskin’s Reverie’ by Kate Bentley Workshop with Sally Bamber most active private collectors. spiritual power of the hills and the way in which Whilst her paintings were influenced by Ruskin’s A one day hands-on workshop to explore some art conveys this. connection to the Pre-Raphaelites and his techniques that Sally uses when painting flowers ESTATE EVENTS association with Turner, it was the interiors of with watercolour. All materials and refresh- Brantwood itself that formed the integral part of ments included. 10.00am – 5.00pm. £70 p.p. Seeing Nature in a New Light her work during her time as Artist in Residence during 2019. In particular Kate was drawn to 29 April Mondays 6 April & 25 May Ruskin’s chairs which “represent a poignant Tremendous Trees & Wondrous Pond Dipping With South Cumbria Rivers Trust John Ruskin reminder of the presence of somebody.” Woodlands: workshop with Kate Bentley Come and find out what mini beasts lurk in our This acrylic workshop is designed for those who gardens. Included in Garden ticket, children free. 16 May - 28 June love trees and woodlands and would like ‘Beyond Lakeland’ by Helen Fryer guidance as to how to perfect their painting Thursday 16 April The land sandwiched between the Solway and the techniques in this area. 10.30am - 3.30pm £90 Dawn chorus walk - (6.30am - 9.30am) Guided 'Back 'o' Skiddaw' is one which Cumbrian born p.p. (includes lunch and refreshments). walk through Brantwood estate to listen to and artist Helen knows intimately and has been hugely identify our woodland and garden birds. Breakfast Samuel Prout Martin Greenland influential in her work. Her landscapes are highly Kate will also be holding a ‘Meet The Artist’ day may be purchased from our café from 9.30am, evocative, full of atmosphere and alive with move- on 28 April during her exhibition ‘Ruskin’s following the walk. No dogs please. Pre booking 28 May - 2 August ment. They usually depict those wild, remote Reverie’ in the Studio. via Brantwood required. Free event. ‘The Art of Invention’ by Martin places which she loves to explore with her dog Greenland in all weathers. Wednesdays 22 and 29 April, 6 and 13 May Martin works to create believable places, or Blossom days 11am – 3pm. Come and look round landscapes, which are completely fictional. As a our small orchard and admire our beautiful apple painter, he finds that what he does has closer blossom. Feel free to bring your pencils, water ties to the work of poets or writers of fiction. colours or camera and spend some time contem- Through close observation of real places, he plating the flowers at close quarters. uses elements which an audience recognise to help draw that audience closer to then see the All outdoor events are weather dependent, please contact us for confirmation. subtleties, nuances and meanings of 'landscape' . Frances Winder Helen Fryer Kate Bentley