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PAW 2025

16 Days: Sat 24 May – Sun 8 Jun
34 Open Studio Artists
68 Rollington Artists
13 Pop-Up Studio Artists
9 Castle View Artists
15 Concerts & Other Events
PYA in 17 schools – theme: Myths, Monsters and Legends
Love Cake Cafe at Rollington
Exhibition Fees:
- £100 – Open Studio
- £120 – Group Exhibition
- £140 – Gallery/Business Open Studio
- £70 – Additional or Guest Artist
- £100 – Rollington Artist (+25% commission)
- 50% Student Discount on exhibition fees to students under 30 in full time education or within 2 years of graduation
Brochure & Programme Cover Image: Kitty Wass
Chair: Charlotte Heath
Festival President: Philip Jackson CVO DL MA FRBS
Musical Director: Hannah Ely

PAW Flyer 2025

Concerts & Other Events

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Concert: The Comic Muse, Kitty Clive’s 18th-Century London Apollo’s Cabinet
Concert: Bach and His Roots, Ayres Extemporae with Hannah Ely (Soprano)
Children’s Workshop: Make your own Monster (aged 4 to 8 years)

Mini-Festival Weekend
Concert: The Prince of Music, Stile Antico
Singing Workshop: with Stile Antico
Concert and Talk: A Room with a View, Augelletti Ensemble & Alexander Chance (Countertenor)
Concert: Love After the Storm – French Cantatas Saraband & The Opera Company (with Hilary Cronin, Emily Gray & Samuel Boden)
Concert: MI–Micranthes Stellaris, Ensemble Gamut!
Concert: Cubaroque, Toby Carr, Elizabeth Kenny & Nicholas Mulroy

Poetry: Purbeck Poets Performing
Workshop: Writing Non-Fiction
Concert: Guitar Classics with Craig Ogden, Coffee Concert at Encombe
Illustrated Talk: Myths and Monsters: Tales from Dorset & around the World by Nick Jubber and Tim Laycock
Concert: The Fairy Queen
Community Concert: Young Purbeck Musicians in Concert

PYA 2025

In 2025 there were a record number of schools involved working with 7 artists and the range of workshops includes, glass art, puppet making, painting banners, clay making and 3D art using recycled materials. Workshops and artwork from the schools were based on the festival theme, which this year was ‘Myths, Monsters and Legends’. Three of the workshops created props and scenery for the performance of The Fairy Queen that took place on the 7th of June. We hope that you came and saw the inspiring results in The Byre at Rollington Barn.

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Rollington Installations

Scrolling

A Kinetic sculpture by Emma Browning

The sculpture is titled “Scrolling” to reflect the journey we have made from the tactile act of turning pages in books to the seamless scrolling of digital information today.

Audience participation was an integral aspect of this piece. So you were invited to physically engage with the sculpture by manually rotating the books on their axes. This interaction brought the pages to life, triggering a flickering, cascading motion that simulates the flow of information. This movement of the books reflects the boundless reach of knowledge today, where, in the age of AI and instantaneous digital access, information pours forth without limits.

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Rollington Private View Invitation

Exhibiting Visual Artists

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Open Studio Artists:

Rollington Artists:

1. Robin Mackenzie, Katy Harrald & Heather Gibbons
2. Kitty Wass
3. Sophie Orde-MccGwire
4. Cathy Veale
5. Eleanor Spalding, Laura Butt, Kasia Zagloba, Harriet Wallis
6. Diane Roberts & Matilda Clark
7. Jo Porter
8. Gillian at Bonfields Glass
9. Sinead O’Neill and Pip O’Neill
10. Mon Hawley & Sandie Clark
11. Charlie Money
12. Richard Hooke
13. Burngate Purbeck Stone Centre Exhibition and Open Week
14. Janine Drayson
15. Boilerhouse Gallery – Artist run cooperative
16. Sandy Hill Arts
17. Andy Farrer – Landscape Photographer
18. Dorset Dried Flowers
19. Friends of Norden Cottage Studio: Phil Hill, Stan Davis, Sandy Hardwick, Clarke & Burns Creations
20. Heritage Workshop
21. Jane Elmer-Smith & Aline Johnson
22. The Phoenix Group (we rise up & come together every year!) with Annie Lovelass, Trish Rudd, The Recycled Woodturner, Sophie Weld-Davies, Gilly by Gilly, Matthew Barnes, Lynnette Davies, Freddie Miller, Pia Elliot, Artwork by Jan, Lynne Dinmore Ceramics, Caroline Kezmee Studio, Thea Vollering
23. Kimberley Day, Claire Tozer, Sarah Mazdon
24. Wendy Jeavons
25. Andrew Thomas SWAc
26. The Creative Return (the Gallery’s gone by we’re still here) with Fiona Kelly, Graham Towler, Cliff Towler, Rose Hatcher & Frauke Fege
27. Grange Gallery
28. Rempstone Studio and Emma Ryder
29. Purbeck Artisan Yard
30. Dougal Dixon Animation
31. Galiani Glass Art – Ian Godfrey and Gail Boothman
32. Tall Trees Pottery
33. David Hyde
34. Helen Hayek – Unbound Dorchester

Yvonne Barnett Adams
Cenk Albayrak-Touye
AndyKnillArt
Roy Aplin
Paul Barron
Harry Beaves
Dawn Bellin
Steve Bowling
Richard Brayshaw
Elizabeth Brown
Eddie Burrows
Alistair Butcher
Maggie Caudell
Deborah Clarke
Glenn Couling
Linda Courtney
Brigit Cree
Jan Dagley
Eisā Jewellery
Pia Elliot
Suzy Ely Wright
Charlotte Fereday
Jennifer Frankland
Rebekah Rose Gavra
Emma-Louise Grinsted
Clive Hannay
Jo Harkness
Kitty Hartnell
Daniela Hatfield MA RCA
Ciara Hegarty
Julie Hixson
Gilly Hopson
David Hyde
Allie Hyett
Naomi Ings
Sophie Jenkins
Nancy Jones
Kerry Jury
Roger Lockey
Paul Longland
Cathy Malcolm
Sally Maltby
Ed Marriott
Jill Marsden
Jo Martin
Lyn Mills
Jill Mirza
Siân O’Neill
Elizabeth Read Wilson
Reid Ceramics
Tim Rose
Mark Singleton
Brooke Snell
Marion Spencer
Ben Spurling
Natalie Spurling-Holt
Alan Stephen
Nicola Stockley
Angela Sturch
Thoughtprints
Lucy Tidbury
Becky Walker Jewellery
Linda Wallis
Kitty Wass
Wendy’s Clay Men
Juliet West
Samantha Woodford

Castle View Artists:

Laura Butt
Annie Campbell
Mae Grimaldi
Kitty Hartnell
Sara Moseley
Jon Phillips
Eleanor Spalding
Andrew Thomas
Kim Wessely

Pop-Up Studio Artists:

The Pop-Up Studio is a marquee at Rollington Barn where artists demonstrate their work and you can often have a go yourself. There is a different artist every day from 11am.

Cathy Malcolm
Lucy Tidbury
Roger Lockey
Gillian Appleton
Catherine Ramm
Kitty Hartnell
Rose Hatcher
Charlotte Fereday
Gail Boothman
Linda Courtney
Jonathan Sells
Pia Elliot
Sy Wood and Scott Taylor

PAW Team Members

Festival President: Philip Jackson CVO DL MA FRBS

Trustees:

Chair: Charlotte Heath
Treasurer: Joan Ingarfield
Secretary: Joanna Colville
Trustees: Emma Ormond, Emma-Louise Grinsted, Nick Salt, Debbie Evans, Sheila Marsh and Ian Godfrey (joined Apr 2025)

Admin & Finance:

Administrator: Joanna Colville
Grants Applications: Anne Easterbrooke
Finance: Sheila Marsh

Events:

Director of Music: Hannah Ely
Events Coordinator: Emma Ormond
Event Ticketing: Emma Ormond
Friends Coordinator: Emma Ormond

Visual Arts:

Membership Secretary: Emma-Louise Grinsted
Exhibition & Membership Applications: Emma-Louise Grinsted
Members & Event Sketching: Penny Barker
PYA Coordinator: Sophie Jenkins
Rollington Set-Up: Seb McEwen
Rollington Manager: Seb McEwen
Rollington Labelling: Emma-Louise Grinsted
Daily Rollington Sales Report to Artists: Emma-Louise Grinsted

Publicity:

Publicity Group Chair: Ian Godfrey
Strategic Director of Communication: Laurel Hart
Signage Coordinator: Jonathan Easterbrooke
Publicity Distribution: Joanna Colville & Will Everett Acoustic Distribution
Brochure & Programme Design: Louise Leffler www.louiseleffler.co.uk
Website Design: Emma-Louise Grinsted www.pyewacketdesign.co.uk
Social Media: Clara Moseley

PAW Volunteers: Tim Arnold, Penny Barker, Ginette Boyd, Richard and Sandra Brown, Jay Buckle, Margaret Burdett, Annie Campbell, Mike and Rhiannon Eland, John and Sabine Fairhall, Charlotte Fereday, Peter and Debbie Handy, Jack Haworth, Mary Haysom, Sue Haysom, Richard Jeffries, Sue O’Brien, Jan Sayers, Maurice Turner, Douglas Tweddle

Named Friends of Purbeck Art Weeks (some wished to remain anonymous): Susan Adams, John Allcock, Geoff and Sue Allen, Andrew and Sue Allner, Stuart Archer, Mrs Andrew Bailey, Rex Bale, Richard and Susie Bond, Ginette and Andy Boyd, Richard and Sandra Brown, Charles and Jay Buckle, Margaret Burdett, Claire and Ted Carroll, Drs Paul and Linda Cartwright, John Challis, Neil Chapman-Blench, Susie Clark, Christopher Clarke, Hugh and Lucy Cocke, Richard Coleman, Kate Cotton, John and Gillie Coverdale, Shelley Cranshaw, Paul and Sarah Docx, Stephen Dru-Drury, Anne and Jonathan Easterbrooke, Mike and Rhiannon Eland, Barbara Esam, Debbie and Jonathan Evans, John and Sabine Fairhall, James Farnham, Daryl Fielding and Roderick Watt, Miranda Fulleylove, James and Arabella Gaggero, Mark and Claire Gearing, Richard and Rosemary Gledhill, Jane Glyn Davies, Peter Golob, Sue Haysom, Norman Hayward and Jacky, Charlotte Heath, Roger Higgins, Rosemary and Tim Hill, Don and Yvonne Hunter, Steve and Sue Hutchings, Sue Inge, Peter Jackson, Rachel James, Aline and James Johnson, Chris Johnson, Brian and Sheila Jolly, Vin Kaluza, Mari Larthe de Langladure, Rachel Lawton, Laura Leach, the Lloyd family, Panny Loucas, Virginia Lynch, Jim and Margaret McAllister, Janet Morris, Joanna Morris, Peter and Sue Morrison-Wells, Mary V Mullin, Angela Myerscough, Sue and Gerry O’Brien, Emma Ormond and Douglas Tweddle, Simon and Meriel Parvin, Joanna Penley, Joanna Percy, Steve and Gabrielle Peskin, Nicholas and Christylle Phillips, Lynn Power and Ian Clowes, Bill and Moira Purver, Shona and Chris Radford, Mike and Jill Ross, Douglas and Sarah Ryder, Jan Sayers, Susannah and Bruce Selby Bennett, Alan Shrimpton, Adam and Carol Shutkever, Gill Sibthorp, Tony Smith, Tom and Ceridwen Sooke, Adam and Amanda Spielman, Eric and Virginia Stobart, Giles and Sandra Sturdy, Jessica and Robin Sutcliffe, Howard and Lindsay Swanton, Sally Tattersall, Howard and Dilys Thomas, Graham and Geraldine van Tuyl, Ian and Lynn Vaughan-Arbuckle, Andrew and Beth White, Sue White, David and Linda Whitehouse, John and Gill Wood, Andrew Wright, Anne and Les Wright, the Wynn-Evans family, Sarah Yeung

If you have anything that you would be able to add to this page, please let us know by emailing info@purbeckartweeks.co.uk, thank you!