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FAIRBRIDGE GARDEN & ARTS SOCIETYSupporting the Fairbridge Programme
of The Prince’s Trust
NEWSLETTER
www.fgas.uk.com
Issue No 81 Autumn 2017
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CONTENTS
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION 1
LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN 2
FORTHCOMING EVENTS 3
DIARY DATES 6
www.fgas.uk.com
Cover photograph: freshly cut blooms at Common Farm Flowers, visited on the FGAS Wessex trip in June 2017
Printed by Hot off the Press, Fulham Broadway, London SW6 1BH, www.hotoff.co.uk
BECOME A MEMBERMembership of Fairbridge Garden & Arts Society (FGAS) costs £25 per annum. Download a membership form from the website, www.fgas.uk.com, or ring or email the Membership Secretary Ruth Hayward on 020 8480 5060 or [email protected].
Profits go to the Fairbridge Programme of The Prince’s Trust. The Prince’s Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales
1079675 and in Scotland SCO 411.
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DEAR MEMBERSDEAR MEMBERS
Summer Party: What a lovely, quintessentially English summer’s evening it turned out to be for the party on 4 July. The sun shone, the air was warm, the band was great, the garden looked lovely (thanks to Steph, the vicar’s gardener) and the sound of clinking glasses suggested everyone was enjoying themselves. We had a bumper turnout with more than 130 guests during the evening and raised over £1,650 for Fairbridge young people. Excellent result! Thank you to everyone who came and supported us and to the vicar of All Saints, Revd Canon Joe Hawes. Thanks must also go to Lucy Hart, the head gardener at Fulham Palace, for her walk and talk around the walled garden and to Dean, the vicar’s apiarist, who gave a very interesting insight into keeping bees in an urban environment. Thank you also to The Sands End gastro pub in Fulham for providing such a generous prize for the winning entry ticket. Dinner for four with a bottle of wine was much appreciated by the winner.
Knight Frank Fulham has continued its sponsorship of the party, for which we are very grateful to the new office head, James Davies, who commented: ‘What a pleasure it was to attend the Fairbridge Garden & Arts Society Summer Party on 4 July. It was wonderful to see such good attendance and to meet so many members. Knight Frank Fulham are delighted to be continuing our support of this important charity, both in sponsoring the yearly events and by way of our house sale scheme. This is an excellent way of supporting FGAS when selling your home: if Knight Frank are given sole instruction on the sale, we will donate 5% of our fee (net of VAT) upon completion of the sale to the charity. If you would like to discuss current market conditions or to arrange a free market appraisal of your home, please do not hesitate to get in touch on 020 7751 2400 or by email at [email protected]’
Forthcoming visits: There are still a few places left on these two trips (see also page 3):
Chatsworth, 13 September: this focuses on five centuries of fashion with the opportunity to see an array of garments owned by Chatsworth’s spirited and often eccentric owners. A tour of the Capability Brown landscape garden is also included.Charleston House and Farleys House & Gallery, 28 September: a private tour of Charleston and a pub lunch are followed by a visit to Farleys House for a private tour of the home of the Surrealist Roland Penrose and his photographer wife, Lee Miller.
Eccleston Square, Part 3: in October we are planning a third visit to Eccleston Square to see the garden in its autumn glory and look for ideas to cheer our own gardens up before winter sets in. We will let you know the date as soon as it is finalised.
Have a wonderful summer.
With best wishesVanessa ScholfieldChairman
The Sands End135–137 Stephendale Road London SW6 2PR
Tel: 020 7731 7823www.thesandsend.co.uk
Reservations: www.opentable.co.uk
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS: DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Wednesday, 13 September: 8.30am-approx 7.30pmDAY TRIP TO CHATSWORTH HOUSE AND GARDEN, BAKEWELL, DERBYSHIREThere are places available for this trip, which coincides with the major exhibition ‘House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth’, at the fabled 297-room home of the 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Garments of its spirited, often eccentric, inhabitants are displayed throughout the house, from wedding and Coronation dresses and exceptional couture pieces by Worth and Dior for entertaining at house balls to the 11th Duke’s collection of embroidered slogan jumpers with such declarations as ‘Never Marry a Mitford’. Discover the fascination with bejewelled insect brooches of former Mitford sister, Deborah, the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, or the mini-dress designed by Helmut Lang for the wedding of her granddaughter, the 1990s supermodel Stella Tennant. Our 11am one-hour guided tour of the house encompassing the exhibition will be followed after lunch (not included) by a tour at 2pm of the ‘Capability’ Brown landscape garden with its stupendous 300-year-old cascade. Learn about the impact of the 19th-century head gardener Joseph Paxton or explore Dan Pearson’s redesigned trout stream in situ, winner of Best in Show at Chelsea in 2015. We meet at St Pancras Station at approximately 8.30am for the 1hr 50min train journey to Chesterfield, where a coach will take us to Chatsworth House. The coach will stop at Chatsworth’s famous farm shop on the way back to the station, in time for a train arriving at St Pancras at approximately 7.30pm. Cost: £50, excluding train fares. Exact train times are not published yet but we estimate that it would be c8.50am and with a senior rail card the fare should be about £27 return. To book, please email [email protected] or ring her on 020 8563 9697 by 15 August and complete the booking form within one week. Dinah’s mobile on the day is 07966 297255.
Thursday, 28 September: 8.30am-approx 6.30pmDAY TRIP TO CHARLESTON AND FARLEYS HOUSE & GALLERY, EAST SUSSEXSussex, with its Downs rolling dramatically to the sea, is a county where renowned 20th-century artists have been inspired to settle as ‘Ravilious & Co: the Pattern of Friendship’, this summer’s exhibition at Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery demonstrates. There is still an opportunity to catch – in one day – two renowned, very different artistic hothouses. Charleston, where Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and David Garnett created the country home of the Bloomsbury Group during the First World War, has left a legacy of art, literature and liberated living that we can vividly imagine on our private 11am tour. We continue a couple of miles down the road for lunch at the picturesque pub, the Cricketers’ Arms in Berwick, where those who wish can walk to the church to see the murals by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. In the afternoon we continue to Farleys House & Gallery near Chiddingly, for a private tour at c2.30pm of the former home of the Surrealist artist and collector, Roland Penrose, and his wife, the photographer and journalist Lee Miller, a muse of Man Ray. Both houses have gardens to explore – views of the Downs are never far away – and on arrival at Charleston c10.30am we will have coffee and time to look at its shop of Bloomsbury-inspired merchandise. The coach will depart from Parsons Green at 8.30am. It will pass over Putney Bridge and make a second pick-up outside East Putney station at 8.45am. The same arrangement will apply to the return journey. Cost: £80. To book please email [email protected] or ring her on 020 7736 5305 by 7 September and complete the booking form within one week. Jo’s mobile on the day is 0787 6221062.
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Thursday, 5 October: 2-4.30pmGREEN SPACES OF CANARY WHARF – A WALK WITH DIANA KELSEYIf you associate Canary Wharf with a jungle of glass, steel and concrete… think again. This walk will concentrate on the imaginative landscaping and planting between the steel and glass skyscrapers. We will first visit the new 300m-long Crossrail Place roof garden. This is a true green oasis where many of the plants are native to countries visited by ships of the West India Dock Company, which unloaded their wares in this very location 200 years ago. It sits almost exactly on the Meridian Line and the plants are arranged according to which hemisphere they are from. We will also walk through Canary Wharf looking at the other green spaces. However a walk with Diana cannot be without some history of the area. It is an amazing story of how this open marshland became the great West India Dock in the early 19th century, declining in the mid 20th century to industrial wasteland, to be regenerated into a world-class financial centre. As we start at the Museum of London Docklands, come early and take the opportunity of visiting this fascinating museum. It also has a nice café for a snack lunch. Starts at 2pm. Meet outside entrance to Museum of London Docklands (inside if wet). Nearest tube West India Quay on DLR or a 10-minute walk from Canary Wharf (Jubilee Line). Cost: £20. To book, please email [email protected] or ring her on 020 7736 1066 and complete the booking form within one week. Jill’s mobile on the day is 07840 206309.
Tuesday, 10 October: 11am-approx 1.30pm‘OPERA: PASSION, POWER AND POLITICS’, LECTURE AND EXHIBITION VISIT AT THE V&A, EXHIBITION ROAD, LONDON SW7Celebrate the recent opening of the Exhibition Road Quarter at the V&A – the museum’s most significant architectural intervention in over 100 years – by a lecture and visit to its first show in the Sainsbury Gallery, one of the largest exhibition spaces in Europe. Marvel at the new Sackler Courtyard above it, comprised of 11,000 hand-made ceramic tiles inspired by the V&A’s rich tradition of ceramics. In ‘Opera: Passion, Power and Politics’, the V&A, the world leader in innovative performance exhibitions, is collaborating with the Royal Opera House to create an immersive journey through nearly 400 years of opera, focusing on seven premieres in seven cities, from London to St Petersburg. More than 300 objects, including important international loans, will be shown alongside digital footage of compelling opera performances, played via headphones; experience a new RO recording of Verdi’s ‘Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves’ thrillingly in a 360˚ sound installation. In the words of Kasper Holten, outgoing opera director of the Royal Opera, ‘the exhibition will show us opera as the soundtrack to the history of Europe… and that the art form has as much to say to society today as it did 400 years ago’. Meet our lecturer Anne Haworth at the Learning Reception at the Sackler Centre, reached via the main Exhibition Road entrance, at 10.45am for the lecture at 11am, followed by timed entry to the exhibition at 12.15 and 12.30pm. Cost: £20 V&A Members, £30 Art Fund members, £36 non-Members. To book, please email [email protected] or ring Dinah on 020 8563 9697 and complete the booking form within one week. Dinah’s mobile on the day is 07966 297255.
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Wednesday-Saturday, 8-11 NovemberFOUR-DAY, THREE-NIGHT BESPOKE FGAS COACH TRIP TO FRANCE’S CHAMPAGNE REGION This is fully booked.
Thursday, 16 November: 11am-approx 1.30pm‘IMPRESSIONISTS IN LONDON’: LECTURE AND EXHIBITION VISIT, TATE BRITAIN, MILLBANK, LONDON SW1Discover captivating works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro, Sisley, Derain and their compatriots in the first major exhibition to chart the stories of French artists who sought refuge in Britain during the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War. ‘The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1879-1904)’ maps the artistic networks they built in Britain and the aesthetic impact London had on their work. A large section displays representations of the Thames, by Monet, of course, and such artists as Pissarro (see back cover). Highlighting their engagement with British culture, traditions and social life, the exhibition demonstrates not only how the French artists perceived London but how patrons and art dealers discovered their talent. Paul Durand-Ruel, for example, who first met Monet and Pissarro in London and bought over 5,000 Impressionist works, saved them, according to Monet, from starvation. Meet at 10.45am at the entrance to the Clore Gallery, which is at the right side of the building with your back to the river, for a lecture at 11am followed by timed entry to the exhibition. Cost: £20 Tate Members, £30 Art Fund members, £36 non-members. To book, please email [email protected] or ring Jo on 020 7736 5305. And complete the booking form within one week. Her mobile on the day is 0787 6221062.
Wednesday, 29 November: 11am-12.30pm PRIVATE TOUR OF MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, PALL MALL, LONDON SW1In a prime position east of St James’s Palace, the Grade 1-listed mansion was designed and completed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1711 for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, and remained the London residence of the Dukes of Marlborough until 1817 when it was taken up by the Crown. In the 1860s it was considerably enlarged to become the home of the Prince and Princess of Wales, later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. She took up residence again when her husband died; their second son, who became George V, had been born there, and it was later the home of his widow, the dowager Queen Mary until her death in 1953. The Queen made the house available to the Commonwealth following the establishment of the Commonwealth Secretariat in 1965, which it remains to this day. As befits a mansion with the status of a royal palace, Marlborough House contains fine rooms of murals, tapestries, paintings and sculptures of the highest order. Of particular interest to those who went to the Queen’s House in Greenwich in April are the 1636 paintings by Orazio Gentileschi inserted in the cupola ceiling of the saloon. Commissioned originally for Queen Anne of Denmark for Greenwich, they were generously passed on to her friend the Duchess of Marlborough for her new London abode. The garden retains its 18th-century layout and Queen Mary’s thatched summerhouse and the royal pet cemetery of Queen Alexandra survive. Meet at 10.45am at the entrance for our exclusive tour at 11am. Cost: £25. To book, please email [email protected] or ring Dottie on 020 7731 0128 and complete the booking form within one week. Dottie’s mobile on the day is 07904 257974.
It is essential that first you book your place, THEN complete the enclosed booking form and send it with a cheque made out to FGAS
or Fairbridge Garden & Arts Society to Dottie Lundell, 1 Edenhurst Avenue, London SW6 3PD, tel 020 7731 0128.
Wednesday, 13 September Day trip to Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Thursday, 28 SeptemberDay trip to Charleston and Farleys House & Gallery, West Sussex
Thursday, 5 OctoberA walk with Diana Kelsey: green spaces of Canary Wharf
Thursday, 10 October‘Opera: Passion, Power and Politics’ lecture and exhibition at the V&A
Wed-Sat, 8-11 November Three-night trip to France’s champagne region
Thursday, 16 November‘Impressionists in London’: lecture and exhibition at Tate Britain
Wednesday, 29 November Private tour of Marlborough House, London SW1
Overleaf: Kew Green, 1892, by Camille Pissarro, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Charing Cross Bridge, 1890, by Camille Pissarro, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, both on show at ‘Impressionists in London’ at Tate Britain, 2 November-7 May, 2018. See opposite for FGAS visit.
Diary Dates
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