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Quand on a reçu un tel héritage, comment ne pas travailler à s’en rendre digne?

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🔥Silk dress breaks records at Devon exhibition

A red silk dress embroidered by 380 people in 51 countries has gone on display at Killerton House. read full news

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The Amazing Art of Cath Whitehead

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THE AMAZING ART OF CATH WHITEHEAD

Blog by Lynne Pearl

Cath has been painting, in love with art since childhood, she would say and has always been fascinated by painting and art.  It is definitely a gift when you see the amount of art, the strength of it and how her whole house is filled with art.  This is not a mild interest this is a fine calling.  Where people usually sit in chairs there are paintings stacked up in their tens and propped on the stairs and in the spare bedroom which no longer houses human guests but paintings upon paintings.  The imagined world and the light of a vibrant perception is everywhere.

Cath started in watercolour and has moved into pastel but now mostly uses acrylic to achieve the effects she is after.  Her subject is mostly landscape and she enjoys the here and now but always looking beyond to something eternal.  She has organised painting holidays but now tends to paint with friends on a day painting in nature in the South West UK.

Cath has learnt much about technique.  She applies the colour richly and in the style of the 19th century Impressionists.  As I look at her painting of an estuary or of a tree, I am reminded of sitting in an art gallery in Paris that houses Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’.  Towards the end of his life he painted the water lilies in his garden at Giverney, not just a few small paintings, these are giant canvases which depict the light on the water and the lilies at every time of the day and how they change with the light, the sun and the water.  It is a closely examined and depicted art of the nature of change, moment by moment, the transitoriness of light and flowers on water.

Cath does the same with her depictions of the countryside of Devon, with the light falling on the red soil churned in furrows by the plough and the sea as it sits moodily in a steep sided estuary.  Trees become painted as giant friends, with almost a personality they are so firm and present to the viewer.  The intrusion of the human world in the form of architecture becomes monumental and reduced to the bare minimum.

Cath interprets a world for us that is teeming with life and so beautiful in its colours that it almost hurts the eyes to view.  It is a celestial portrait of the Earth brought down for us to see and be inspired by.

Her latest exhibition will be at: PENNSYLVANIA  ART GROUP,   Engine House, Killerton House, Devon UK. May 19, 10 am to 4.30 pm

All funds will go to a Ugandan charity.

Lynne Pearl

Story, Travel poetry, and blogging on Travels in the South West

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Killerton House & Dress History

Killerton House & Dress History

This summer I finally made a visit to Killerton House in Exeter, the National Trust property home to its fashion collection. Following the exhibition closure last year due to roof repairs, 2018 marks the re-opening of the fashion display with a programme of exhibitions relating to the National Trust 2018 theme of women and power.

My visit timed with the second exhibition since it’s re-launch, ‘Br…

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£20,000 boost to essential Killerton roof repairs thanks to grant from Viridor

£20,000 boost to essential Killerton roof repairs thanks to grant from Viridor

Malcom Jarvis/National Trust Killerton House, near Exeter, has received a major £20,000 boost towards their overall fundraising target of £100,000 to plug the gaps in its leaking roof. Viridor Credits Environmental Company has awarded a grant via the Landfill Communities Fund to help to bring the historic roof scape back to life. (more…)

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe brings a festive chill to Killerton

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe brings a festive chill to Killerton

The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe at Killerton. Courtesy of Steven Haywood Killerton House will throw open its festive doors on Saturday 21 November to unveil its much anticipated Christmas transformation inspired by ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, by CS Lewis. (more…)

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The Music Room at Killerton