In Art 2016 Society of Equestrian Artists (SEA) Annual Open Exhibition. Jane enjoys the challenge of portraiture and painting figures in the context of cityscapes however, painting horses in a variety of situations such as racing, polo and eventing is where her heart truly …
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Freddy is a professional artist working between London and Hampshire. Having started painting from an early age, he has developed his talent throughout his previous career with the British Army. In 2014 he exhibited and sold all his sketches from his operational tour in …
Read PostOctober 8th 2019 Alfred Munnings was a keen reader whose imagination was certainly informed and inspired by the writing of Charles Dickens with its richly conceived sense of characters, caricatures, place and atmosphere. On display in the library at Castle House …
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HRH The Princess Royal visited the acclaimed Behind the Lines: Alfred Munnings, War Artist, 1918 at the Munnings Art Museum on Monday 23 September 2019. After touring the exhibition with Museum Director Jenny Hand – which included meeting renowned horse racing journalist, …
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10th July 2019 Under a marbled blue and grey sky, with horses at ease in the fields of Castle House, an attentive audience of eighty listened keenly to racing commentator Brough Scott tell the story of his grandfather Jack Seely and …
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Thoughts on the opening of a new exhibition "Behind the Lines, Alfred Munnings, War Artist, 1918" March 21st 2019 When The Honourable Patrick Seely cut the red ribbon to open the new Munnings Art Museum exhibition Behind the Lines, Alfred Munnings, War Artist, …
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In the last glow of the fading October daylight, Dedham Assembly Rooms welcomed Martin Bell on October 3rd on the occasion of the Munnings Birthday Lecture. A newly instituted annual event in the calendar of programmes delivered by the Munnings …
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The museum’s second Spirit of the Stour plein air painting competition took place over last weekend, Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd September, and was a great success. Artists, both amateur and professional, were attracted once again to the Essex / …
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It can be very satisfying when things come full circle. There was a bit of this sense of satisfaction in the air around The Munnings Art Museum on July 18th2018 when Christopher Le Brun, current President of the Royal Academy, …
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An audience of over 40 people gathered in the Munnings Studio on 16th May to celebrate the voices of ten female poets from Essex and Suffolk. After a short introduction by Museum Director Jenny Hand and Tim Gardiner (the Museum’s …
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