Festival Part Two – Particpation
Monday 10th – Sunday 16th June
We are inviting all-comers to paint, make Art, with their own interpretations of the Abbotsbury Idyll.
I mean all sorts of Artists/People who wish to make Art :
professionals, amateurs, students, beginners to paint “en plein air”.
Observation and/or Abstraction.
It costs £10 to register for one day, £50 for seven days.
£5 for Students for a day.
How does it work ..? Register after 10am in the Grand Barn then … go out into the Village and the Landscape find a point of view and make studies. When you have finished or when you feel like a break return to the Grand Barn with your work.
We invite you to refresh your vision.
This Festival’s purpose is to encourage and promote responses, observations, and insights of the glorious Landscape, human and natural in the picturesque locality of Abbotsbury.
It costs £10 to register for one day, £50 for seven days
£5 for Students for a day.
How does it work ..? Register after 10am in the Grand Abbey Barn then … go out into the Village and the Landscape find a point of view and make studies. When you have finished or when you feel like a break return to the Grand Abbey Barn with your work.
What do you get for your registration fee ..? Participation in the Festival …. which includes the use of the Grand Abbey Barn as a base for :
The Exhibition.
A Festival catalogue including Artist’s notes and maps with some guidance to suggested views and vistas.
The Grand Abbey Barn will have its own ambiance encouraging dialogue with other Artists.
For bringing your refreshments, your packed lunch.
Dialogue with the Public.
Sharing and comparing visions of the Landscape.
Showing and discussing the work, techniques and inventions.
For group reviews and essential feedback.
Mentor Artists, tutors experienced in classical and modernist traditions can, on request, be available for tutorials.
In the evenings in the Grand Abbey Barn there will be power-point talks, presentations, and discussions inviting participation from the audience. Free for registered Artists, £10 entry for the public.
The Grand Abbey Barn is a retreat from the weather.
Why Abbotsbury..?
In one of the most picturesque and glamorous English landscapes Abbotsbury is settled beside the Dorset World Heritage Site Coast at the end of the Chesil Bank Lagoon and has evolved since the middle ages in balanced harmony with its countryside surroundings. Downland hills and woods roll down to the sea. Although its facilities are welcoming to visitors and accommodating to traffic the Village and its landscape are unspoilt and uninterrupted by the modern world. This harmony is exemplified by nearby nature reserves as well as the Swannery and the Sub-Tropical Gardens.
The Historical Village has developed around the ruins of the Medieval Abbey and the scattered remaining buildings of the Abbey complex. The recently developed Abbey Barn Farm steading and cafe by the Lake with the Grand Medieval Barn, itself newly refurbished, makes a charming ambiance for visitors.
The Festival of Landscape Art is ideally situated here in a place accommodating to visitors where history and nature meet.
Artists based at Abbotsbury’s Grand Medieval Barn hardly need to turn around to find unique features, looking inside, and out from the village are wonderful and breath-taking views to study.
Within easy walking distance are an unlimited variety of views and vistas, St. Catherines chapel on the hill standing sentinel over the village and the bay, from the Western Coastal Path high up on the ridge looking over the Village to the sea.