This exhibition is FREE to visit There will be a free preview and Q&A with the artist and David Painting (the author of the book about the exhibition) at 7pm in Dorchester Abbey on Thursday 30th April. Please do come! Drawn to Imperfection is a collection of 21 large scale contemporary portraits offering an engaging [...]
This event is FREE and available for viewing throughout the Festival week A collaborative installation of small artworks created by a variety of groups within the local community and by the young people of our charity partner, Be Free Young Carers. Designed and led and by Oxford-based artist Emma Coleman-Jones, individual responses to The Abbey, [...]
The work will be available to view 11am-5pm Weekends & BH Mon Dorchester Artists including Sophia Stewart-Liberty Tracy Lester Ed Metcalfe Carol Golding Simon Clements Bill Maish Emma Coleman-Jones will be exhibiting their work in the Dorchester Abbey Guest House. 25% of all sales will go to the Festival Charities - Dorchester Abbey and Be Free [...]
Tickets £20 Cygnets Art School are also running an Anime workshop at 3pm Calling all young budding artists 5-13yrs! A 90 minute workshop with a Spring theme: a class using dip pen and inks to create some beautiful, vibrant chicks. We provide all the materials, just turn up in messy clothes and no need for parents to [...]
Cygnets Art School are also running a spring chick drawing workshop at 1pm Calling all young budding artists 5-13yrs! A 90 minute workshop with a Anime theme: creating a watercolour Tortoro masterpiece from the Studio Ghibli films. We provide all the materials, just turn up in messy clothes and no need for parents to stay! Cygnets Art [...]
Tickets £8 (children under 16 free) There will be a section of seats reserved at the very front of the nave for Festival Friends at this event. Festival Friend privileges include early booking and the best seats in the house! Do consider becoming a Friend – find out more about it here. The Director [...]
Tickets £70 This event is SOLD OUT but you can add yourself to the waiting list by going to the box office. We will contact the waiting list in order if customers drop out and want to resell their tickets. Arrive early, have lunch and enjoy our food and gift fair in the cloister garden! [...]
£35 Ticket price includes weaving materials to create 2 willow bird feeders to take home This relaxed, 2hr course is run by Suz Williams of The Copice Co During this workshop you will make 2 willow fat ball bird feeders and learn several basketry techniques that are used in larger projects. Willow weaving is an [...]
A morning dedicated to Latte Art! Learn new skills and give it a go. Or simply watch and donate to drink as much specialty coffee as you want! Organised and sponsored by the team at Horsebox Coffee Co. & Dark Horse Roastery. They’ll be mixing it up with their ‘Delicious decaf’ and plant based milks [...]
Tickets £70 Lunch available for purchase from the food and gift fair in the Cloister Garden open 10am-5pm All levels of painter are welcome to work with Lucy Burton on a stage by stage process to create a Pet Portrait in Oils or Acrylics You'll use an ‘islands to oceans’ method of working, aiming to [...]
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