Evening Talks 2025
Artists evening talks and power point presentations – 16th – 21st June, in the Abbey Barn
Free entry for Artists who have registered for that day.
£10 for the public.
The organisers will encourage the audiences to participate with questions for the Artists.
We recommend attendees dress as if going to evening outdoor theatre, in case of chilly evenings in the medieval Abbey Barn, a warm coat and a warm rug, it’ll be worth it.
Monday June 16th, 6,30pm
Talk considering …. Landscape Painting
Talk by Simon Fletcher distinguished specialist in watercolour.
Known internationally for his work in pastel and aquarelle, Simon has had ten books published about his work in English, French and German.
He has exhibited widely, painted portraits on commission and been sponsored by French, Japanese and German multinational companies. A well as painting he ran his own design company in England and won the first prize for a landscape feature. He lives with his wife Julie in France and Morocco.
www.simonfletcher.org
Tuesday June 17th, 6,30pm
Binny Mathews, is a Dorset Artist, versatile and sensitive. Lecturer in Fine Art, she is an accomplished Landscape painter and a celebrated Portrait painter having exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. She was one of the finalists in the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year competition 2022. Binny will talk about her work in collaboration and dialogue with her Sculptor son Rufus Martin.
Wednesday June 18th, 6,30pm
Frances Hatch will talk about her work. Her attention to the world around her, foraged materials, shamanic insights into the place, all exemplify a special vision and environmental consciousness. Frances has recently been artist in residence at Brentwood, John Ruskin’s home in the Lake District.
Thursday June 19th, 6,30pm
John Meaker .
Friday June 20th, 6,30pm
Another Interesting lecturer, to be announced.
Saturday June 21st, 6,30pm
Fernando Velazquez has developed a remarkable personal language of painting, evident in his various series “Paintings of the Floating World”, “Through the Veil” and recently “Cave Paintings of our Time”. He has exhibited individually in London, New York and Madrid and has participated in many collective exhibitions throughout Europe and America, in addition to his presence at numerous international art fairs.
“I paint to express the brutality and the beauty of life as I see it. I do not paint what I know, nor do I search perfection…For me painting is revolution, epiphany and light within darkness. Art for me, emerges from beauty, any kind of beauty that floods our senses, irrepressibly and inexplicably”.
“I realise that art follows a unique logic leading to a different kind of perception that constantly updates the way we understand the human condition. For me, art is a way of articulating hidden layers of timeless information about ourselves and the world around us.”
Fernando is a visionary artist opening great spatial landscapes of the imagination which open and reveal dark Goyaesque horrors of nature as well as bursts of sublime Angelic illumination.