Going to Garsons Farm in Esher at Christmas is something of a Surrey tradition.
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Richmond Pembroke Lodge
Hidden in the sweeping green spaces of Richmond Park, you will find a secluded spot…
Surrey Artists’ Open Studios
June is the month that Surrey artists open their studios for Surrey Artists’ Open Studios! I was lucky enough to be invited to the private view of artist and graphic designer, Cathy Brett. Continue reading Surrey Artists’ Open Studios
Picasso Paper and Clay
The new Picasso exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking is here! Continue reading Picasso Paper and Clay
Jane Austen’s House Museum
Two hundred years ago Jane Austen left her house in Chawton for Winchester for medical treatment, where she died in July 1817.
This is the house where Jane Austen lived from 1809 to 1817. Here, she revised her earlier novels Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice and saw them published. She wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion and began her last and uncompleted novel, Sanditon. Continue reading Jane Austen’s House Museum
Box Hill
RHS Wisley Plans
If you go down to Wisley today, you’re sure of a big surprise. Continue reading RHS Wisley Plans
Stroll Through Shere
Flower Time
Constable Exhibition at The Lightbox
‘Painting is with me but another word for feeling’.
So John Constable told Archdeacon John Fisher in a letter in October 1821. If you visit the latest exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking, you will be able to see Constable’s innermost clandestine feelings expressed on the walls of the gallery.
Constable was one of the first artists of the Romantic Movement to view landscapes for their own beauty, rather than as a backdrop for a historical scene. He created his art directly from nature rather than from his imagination and he resisted the fashion of the day to piece together elements taken from nature to form a classical landscape.