Category: Dorset Art and Antiques

For the love of wood

Matthew Burt – ecologist, craftsman and renowned furniture maker – still lives a few miles from where he grew up in the Wylye valley You...

An extraordinary portrait

Dorset artist Jack Dickson features on Bill Bailey’s BBC series, creating a powerful portrait of railway worker Rizwan Javed MBE Jack Dickson, a member of...

Building on a creative legacy

A forgotten Hepworth and an important musical partnership – Bryanston approaches its centenary with an artistic flourish A list of old Bryanstonians has many famous...

What’s on show in 2025?

Fanny Charles looks ahead to what’s coming this year January is an odd time in the art world – some galleries carry their December/Christmas exhibitions...

Fettled, smoothed and sworn at

Christmas joy at Sturminster Newton workhouse chapel ‘The workhouse was not just a building; it was the collective pain and suffering of those who found...

Peter Ursem – 25 years of printmaking

A Dutch artist who came to North Dorset in the 1990s celebrates a quarter of a century of creativity in Dorset and Cornwall At the...

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Getting back under the saddle

Laura Wilson watched a therapist treat her horse – and gave up accounting to train as a McTimoney animal chiropractor My event horse Cookie had...
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CRANBORNE PETTY SESSIONS, April 12th, 1906 BRUTAL CONDUCT OF A STEPMOTHER | Then & Now

We love pairing a vintage postcard with a photograph taken in the same spot today. Now, alongside the postcards, we’ll feature a newspaper article...

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