PURBECK ART WEEKS FESTIVAL 23 May – 7 June 2020 Open studios | Concerts | Talks | Grand Raffle | Competitions Events Welcome to Purbeck PURBECK Art Weeks 2020! ART WEEKS Programme This year’s Festival theme ‘Changing Seasons’ brings something MAY 23 – JUNE 7 2020 for all seasons and moods. Come and explore our rich array of Open Studios and art, along with inspiring music played by superb musicians and fascinating talks. Where to start? Our collective exhibition in Rollington Barn, including the work of our Purbeck Young Artists, is a good place. Here you can plan your art trail whilst enjoying delicious refreshments in the café. The Festival evening events kick off with a semi-staged concert of uplifting Bach Cantatas, I Fagiolini are back by popular demand, and the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth is being celebrated with some of his great cello sonatas. There are illustrated talks, our celebration of young DATE | TIME | VENUE EVENT musical talent and much more. There are plenty of activities to keep the family busy! Our postcard Saturday 23rd May | 7.30pm A REAWAKENING: BACH CANTATAS St James’ Church, Kingston AND VIOLIN MASTERPIECES competition is back, so do pick up your postcards and get them SESTINA & RACHEL PODGER signed at the studios and events you visit – you could win! Have TRANSFORMATIONS: Sunday 24th May | 7.30pm a go at sketching – whatever your age, join in the PAW Raffle, and Harman’s Cross Village Hall CASTING IN GEOLOGY AND ART ILLUSTRATED TALK BY JULIET HAYSOM remember to look at the shop window displays in Wareham, Corfe Monday 25th May | 6.30pm BOLD AS BRASS Priory Church of Lady St Mary, and Swanage and vote for your favourite. THE EVOLUTION OF THE TROMBONE Wareham Details can be found in this Brochure and our Events Programme. Wednesday 27th May | 7.30pm CELEBRATING OUR MUSICIANS Emmanuel Baptist Church, Swanage WITH LOCAL CHOIRS Tickets for concerts and other events can be booked online at purbeckartweeksfestival – they are also available at Swanage and Friday 29th May | 10.15 for COFFEE CONCERT: HARP DUOS 11.30am recital Wareham Tourist Information Centres. ELUNED PIERCE & HUGH WEBB Encombe House, Kingston Saturday 30th May | 6.30pm Come and enjoy it all with us! AU NATUREL: I FAGIOLINI CELEBRATE Priory Church of Lady St Mary, THE CHANGING SEASONS Wareham Charlotte Heath, Chair, Purbeck Art Weeks Festival Sunday 31st May | 7.30pm BOCCHERINI STABAT MATER Our winner for the cover of this year's Brochure is Marion Spencer for her Holy Spirit & St Edward’s Catholic MIRANDA FULLEYLOVE work entitled Spring Dryad. Congratulations, Marion! Church, Swanage & ALISON PONSFORD-HILL Monday 1st June | 7.30pm PURBECK POETS PERFORMING Follow Purbeck Art Weeks on social media The Globe Inn, Swanage OPEN EVENT Don't forget to use the PAW hashtag on all your posts #purbeckartweeks Thursday 4th June | 7.30pm MAPPING THE MANORS Harman's Cross Village Hall ILLUSTRATED TALK BY MARY SPARKS Friday 5th June | 7.30pm BEETHOVEN CELLO SONATAS St George’s Church, ROBIN MICHAEL & DAN TONG Langton Matravers www.purbeckartweeksfestival.co.uk Sunday 6th June | 6.30pm FROM LOVE TO DESPAIR Emmanuel Baptist Church, FIERI CONSORT & CHELYS Brochure designed by Louise Leffler | 07753 197323 | www.louiseleffler.com Swanage CONSORT OF VIOLS Printed by Marquee Print | 01202 769 077 | www.marqueeprint.com Foreword Contents FROM THE FESTIVAL PRESIDENT ARTIST’S OPEN STUDIOS 05–27 Some 26 years ago I was commissioned to do a PAW BURSARY 12 sculpture of the young Mozart, which now stands near the house in Ebury Street, London, where the SKETCH PAW 21 Mozart family stayed in 1764. It was here that the THE PAW MAP 28–30 nine year old prodigy composed his first symphony and possibly his second. Mozart’s prodigious talents ARTIST INDEX 31 were nurtured by his entire musical family. He grew ROLLINGTON BARN 33–38 up in a household full of music, and music became second nature to him. Many other great artists, also nurtured by their families, showed PURBECK YOUNG ARTISTS 39 similar talents at an early age: Pablo Picasso, Angelica Kauffman in PAW SKETCHING PROGRAMMES 40 the world of painting, Chopin, Liszt, and Daniel Barenboim from the world of music; I scratch the surface of this extraordinary pool. EVENTS 41–55 So what has this to do with Purbeck Art Weeks Festival? Well PAW ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 56–57 is, in many ways, the talented family that encourages, nurtures and helps bring on young talent; it allows children and young people SHOP WINDOW COMPETITION 59 to place their work alongside gifted amateurs and emerging and OTHER EVENTS 59 professional artists – giving everyone the experience of exhibiting or showing their work to a friendly and enthusiastic public. The fact that PAW has now been going for some 20 years is testament to its success. Started by a small group of visual artists it Buy a raffle has grown and evolved into what it is today, a fully rounded Festival ticket and win involving all the arts. It will continue to evolve, and that evolution will PURBECK ART WEEKS ensure its success. It will, however, always be a family within which an original painters, sculptors, ceramicists, dancers, musicians and artists of all FESTIVAL Purbeck Artist persuasions will find support, advice, encouragement, inspiration, excitement and enormous satisfaction. work of art of I am delighted and proud to be involved with this wonderful Festival. Raffle your choice! My thanks and admiration to all those volunteers who, through their hard work, make PAW such a success. Philip Jackson CVO DL MA FRBS Social Media Buy your raffle tickets now and win a voucher worth £250 or one of the two runner up vouchers, each worth £50, to spend To keep you ahead of what’s on and where it’s happening, we will be on original artwork/s by an exhibiting PAW artist of your making regular updates to our social media feeds throughout the choice. To be in with a chance simply buy your raffle tickets in Festival and offering exclusive insights into our artists and performers. You can find us on Facebook @PurbeckArtWeeks and on Instagram @ time for the Grand Draw, which will take place at Rollington purbeckartweeks, and Twitter. Sign up and don’t miss a thing! Barn on Sunday June 7th at 4pm in the café. Ticket sales will close at the end of the day (5pm) on Saturday June 6th. Tickets are priced at £1 each and are available Purbeck Art Weeks Festival | www.purbeckartweeksfestival.co.uk Company number: 7420934 Charity number: 1140350 from Rollington Barn and at Events venues. Registered Office: Badgers Keep, Barnhill Road, Wareham BH20 5BG WEEKEND TICKETS FROM £100 INCL. CAMPING ARTISTS’ OPEN STUDIOS 20-23 AUGUST ULTIMATE Visiting Open Studios is the perfect way to enjoy the eclectic range MEXICAN PARTY BANDLOS DE ABAJO of art produced across the Isle of Purbeck. Our artists are looking forward to welcoming you into their studios and sharing some DREVER MCCUSKERSCOTTISH insights into how they work. & WOOMBLESUPERGROUP You’ll find painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture, wood, textiles, jewellery and much, much more. Entry to all studios WATKINSNICKLECREEK’S SARAH ANDFAMILY SEAN WATKINS AND HOURFRIENDS (USA) and exhibitions is free. ELEPHANT SESSIONS Look out for the small yellow and blue PAW Art direction signs – NOAH AND or go online and plan a trail around your tastes, mode of travel THE WHALE’SMATT OWENS or timescale. Alternatively turn to the map in the middle of this MULTI-AWARD KATHRYN TICKELLWINNING Brochure. BBC FOLK AND THE DARKENING AWARD WINNING You may like to take your cheque book with you just in case THE DEMON BARBERS XL temptation strikes. Some Open Studios have card machines, but FOLK ROCK: MARTIN SIMPSON not all. Or you can secure your latest art related purchase by paying THE MAGPIE ARCNANCY KERR ADAM HOLMES a deposit. IAN PROWSE’S AMSTERDAM - PONS AELIUS - GADARENE (CAN) (EURO) JACKIE OATES & JOHN SPIERS - THE ONCE - TOPETTE!! Please remember that all studios and exhibitions are work LAURA CORTESE & THE DANCE CARDS (USA) - THE BREATH CARDBOARD FOX - PLANTEC (FRA) - CUT CAPERS - EDGELARKS environments and are likely to have hazards such as uneven WE AFRO TALLAWAH - MONSTER CEILIDH BAND - NINEBARROW surfaces, sharp tools, etc. Visitors must take great care. The trustees CARRIVICK SISTERS - SALT HOUSE - WARD & PARKER cannot accept liability for loss, injury or damage. INDIA ELECTRIC CO - THE MAGPIES THE MODEL FOLK - PLUS LOADS MORE! Details of all artists, Open Studios and the Rollington Barn exhibition can be found online at www.purbeckartweeksfestival.co.uk. MORE THAN JUST GREAT MUSIC... Alternatively follow us on Facebook @PurbeckArtWeeks and on CRAFTS KIDS AREA Instagram @purbeckartweeks, and be assured of regular updates. CROCHET STORYTELLING - GIANT SCRABBLE POTTERY FANCY DRESS - TREASURE HUNT ORIGAMI TOY SWAPSHOP - THEATRE & GAMES TIE-DYE WORKSHOPS - RHYME TIME - WISHING TREE KEY FOR OPEN STUDIOS STONE CARVING WELLY WANGING - HOOLA-HOOPING WILLOW WORKSHOPS CRAFTS - SPACE HOPPER OBSTACLE COURSE BLACKSMITH refreshments available . PRINTING - CYANOTYPE CIRCUS AREA: JUGGLING - UNICYCYLING TRADITIONAL WOOD TURNING DIABLOS - DEVILSTICKS - STILT WALKING PEBBLE PAINTING ACROBATICS WITH INFLATABLE TUMBLE MAT wheelchair access 5 STAGES - 2 CEILIDHS - OPEN MIC - SESSIONS limited wheelchair access OPEN WORKSHOPS - POETRY - FIRE SHOWS STUDIO no wheelchair access BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FESTIVAL ON A SMALL FARM WITH VIEWS ACROSS THE PURBECK HILLS AND CORFE CASTLE artist present and work Events | Concerts | Talks - EVERYONE’S FAVOURITE FESTIVAL in progress at studio PURBECK ART WEEKS www.purbeckartweeks.co.uk 5 PURBECKVALLEYFOLKFESTIVAL.CO.UK ARTISTS’ OPEN STUDIOS ARTISTS’ OPEN STUDIOS 1 SEAN OGRADY 4 GALIANI GLASS ART: GAIL BOOTHMAN Unit 10 Henbury Farm, Dorchester Road, Sturminster Marshall, Dorset BH21 3RN & IAN GODFREY Daily 10am–4.30pm, closed Wednesdays, Sunday 10am–4pm Unit B3, Admiralty Park, Station Road, Holton Heath, Dorset BH16 6HX I am inspired by the beauty of the Mon–Fri 10am–5.30pm, Sat–Sun English countryside, particularly 10am–6.30pm.