Priestlands School achieves top spot in local GCSE league table.
Last summer’s GCSE results, published today, rate Lymington's local comprehensive school ahead of other local secondary schools.
At Priestlands School, 70% of Year 11 pupils gained the national benchmark standard of at least five GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and Maths. This compares with 62% at The Arnewood School Academy in New Milton and 67% at Highcliffe School.
“This is another superb set of results for our students", shared Chris Willsher, Headteacher of Priestlands School in Lymington. "Priestlands continues to be a successful school, rooted in its community and serving the community well. Education at Priestlands is about more than exam results. We know that their success published today means our students have been given greater choice about what to do next. I congratulate them and wish them well in the future.”
Local art-pop band Daisy Chains set to rock the Lymington Arts Festival 2015
Daisy Chains call themselves an “art pop” band - which augurs well for their performances at Lymington Arts Festival and Lymington Carnival in July. They’ve got several important gigs lined up imminently, where the music industry big names will be assembled and which could start to shape the future of the Band. But meanwhile, they intend to take Lymington by storm next month.
Daisy Chains was formed in 2014 and comprises “Brandley” Brandon Toor (guitar/vocals), Charley Palmer (guitar/vocals), Woody – James Wood (bass) and Toby Welch (drums). They’re all in their late teens and only recently finished their studies at Brockenhurst College.
Daisy Chains call their music “art pop”, with heavy 70's studio 54 disco elements inspired by acts such as Chic, Chaka Khan and Earth, Wind & Fire.
Here’s a recent interview with Ged Babey which provides some background for us before we’re properly introduced to Daisy Chains in July - at the Lymington Arts Festival on Saturday 11 July (2pm) and the following weekend at Lymington Carnival on Sunday 19th (1pm): http://louderthanwar.com/daisy-chains-new-band-day-interviewed/
Based on discussion with Daisy Chain’s spokesman Brandon Toor, Ged explains that Daisy Chains lyrics were inspired by Sylvia Plath and Oscar Wilde and that there’s a hefty dose of early Manic Street Preachers mixed up with the other musical influences which have shaped their music and style to date: Big Attitude as well as Ambition, characterise Brandon and the rest of the Band.
Including an ever better place for us young to hang out.
Hello everybody. Growing up near Lymington has given me the luxury of many things. The countryside, open outdoors and the peace when you need it. However, being a young adult, you need and must have a social life, as you can't be staring at trees and wild ponies all day. Here at Lymington and all the surrounding areas you have lots of things to do right at your door. What I'm here to do is to help our age to get the best out of where we live.
Calling all movie lovers, music tasters, fashion cravers, sport believers, photo creepers and bargain hunters. Here's what we have for you to check out on Lymington.com:
We've got pubs giving us fresh new local acts, something for us to listen to when we're out with our friends on Friday/Saturday nights. We have films for you to watch, all the latest blockbuster hits and more for film fanatics out there. Lymington is a very active town, and we take pride in all the sports we do, on land and water. We have a buzzing town quay with an outdoor sea water baths, keeping us active as we soak in the sun (when it’s out!)
There's a sport out there for everyone to play or watch. Shopping! Another one of the things Lymington has plenty of, not just the main retailers but we will help keep an eye out for the independent shops too, and they’ve got some great stuff! So, unless you're earning ridiculous amounts of money and can afford expensive brands, sales are good from time to time, right? That's what I'm here for, to help us get the most out of what we can as an age group, and also to help save your bank from feeling sorry for itself.
So if you're a musician or band looking for an audience to give you some feedback and the recognition you deserve, why not let us promote you on Lymington.com? Any films that are worth going to see? We will let you know about it. For all you sporty people out there, let us know what you're doing, how you're getting on and what you've achieved. Any sports/activities you think people should know more about, speak up. Fashionistas, male or female! We will give you the best of our local taste buds in case you've missed a piece that captures your eye. Like taking photos? If you're an upcoming photographer who has some great photographs of our local area or of people taking part in sports, events or anything you think takes our fancy on this page, we'd love you to tell us.
Our age are the future of Lymington, we need to have our own opinions. Our interests need to be understood and looked at. That's what I'm going to do, hopefully with your help we can get the most out of where we live.
There's another side to nearly everything - reflections from the New Forest
This week's reflections by Mark with cartoon by Hugh, consider the "other sides" of graffiti!
"I have a question for you. When does graffiti become art? Never! I hear you scream, how on earth could the inane daubs of a teenage oik ever be considered art? You are furious when you see a slogan sprayed onto a wall in a quiet cut somewhere. Incandescent when you see paint on a gravestone! How could they, you mourn."
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Graffiti through the ages
"Graffiti is a little like art though in that, when a medium is in its infancy it is almost automatically scorned by the people. When impressionism arrived, challenging photo-realism, the new artists were ridiculed. After all, where was the craft, where was the detail? These simple daubs and splodges could never be art! As you know, things are a little different now and impressionist paintings are highly sought after. Perhaps if we return to the original question, if you were walking in the forest and you came across a teenager carving the name of his one true love deep into the bark of an old oak, what would your immediate feelings be? Probably not pleasant ones.
The simplest art of all, probably
In Argentina there is a cave where many thousands of years ago someone felt compelled to daub paint over their left hand leaving just the outline many times over. The result is a riot of colour and a fascinating, yet simple, design. I wonder, again, what you would think if you saw someone, of any age, doing the same anywhere in Hampshire? I visited the Tower of London where inmates facing death had scratched their own graffiti into the walls that imprisoned them, some of it incredibly intricate. They do say that a hanging in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully although I would prefer not to take that particular route for mental stimulation. Presently this graffiti is protected by Perspex sheets in order to preserve it for future generations.
I visited Salisbury Cathedral and saw graffiti gouged into gravestones, the floor and walls. Heresy!
If you were to wander around our New Forest, in certain places you would find some very old graffiti carved by lovers into trees. Some trees are still marked for destruction with a deeply cut King’s arrow, they might have been destined for the next Agamemnon. With the advent of iron and steel as the new materials for shipbuilding the trees were spared, but they are still scarred though. What makes these marks interesting instead of offensive?
Abdul, enough!
It’s an age thing. How art appreciates over the years.
To return to the original question we could also consider the artist Constable (from a previous article). In his lifetime he was never a financial success but look at his paintings now! It would seem that age confers grace (and desirability). We would happily demolish an ugly seventies tower block but would never dream of so much as putting up a coat hook in a three-hundred-year-old cottage. So, why is age so powerful? Why is it that ancient graffiti is revered yet modern graffiti despised? Let’s face it, the inscriptions cut into the gravestones in Salisbury Cathedral are not exactly what we would term high art, merely the modern equivalents of Kev 4 Trisha.
Yet the passage of time has conferred value on these marks, these vandalisms. Roman soldiers cutting their marks into pillars were no different to young men today with their spray cans. Both had the urge to record something, to leave a message, something that might leave a memory after they have departed this earth. During World War Two bomber crew used to scratch messages into the mirrors in their favourite café. They are still there today if you care to find them. Bearing in mind the extremely high mortality rate that the crews suffered we can be sure that many of the graffiti artists didn’t make it to the end of the conflict. Again, one person’s vandalism is another’s historical document."
New Forest reminiscence and reflections on the passing of time in the art world
This week's musings and cartoonings from our resident pair Mark and Hugh begins...
"Here’s a little memory test for you. Do you remember the palaver of holiday snaps back in the eighties? Remember how you snapped away, hoping the exposure was right, the composition acceptable, the image not shaken? The joy and laughter as you, the snapper, shouted ‘Bananas!’ before pressing the button on your Instamatic?
Then, once back home, the dreaded, brightly coloured envelope with the accusatory questions on the lip which reminded you before you licked the gum. Have you included a cheque (remember them?), your address slip, the film?
Then the ten-day wait before the photos plopped onto the hallway carpet and then, after all that, probably two or three went straight to the bin. Now, of course, you think nothing of taking a selfie with a friend as you both smile happily and then, effortlessly, transmit the results across the globe. How astonishing!
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Continuing with Mark...
"Recording a portrait in days gone by was a teensy bit more involved. The process required something called an artist and a client and a chair. Also paint, canvas, an easel, a studio and time; oodles of it. There was something else that the client needed and that was patience, and a good cushion.
If you were asked what sort of paintings you would associate with John Constable I wonder what would your answer be? Landscapes perhaps, scenes of the Suffolk countryside? You would be right of course but what about Winchester Cathedral, what about Weymouth Bay, what about portraits?
Drawing with the right side of the brain.
This is the title of a wonderful book by a lady who disagrees furiously with those familiar words “Oh I can’t draw, never have been able to”. In it she takes the reader through simple but effective exercises which prove that the reader can draw. Her argument is that we need to engage the right side of the brain, something that artists do subconsciously.
John Constable, like many artists I suspect, tried most genres in order to bring the bacon home, it’s what a man does! Particularly a man with seven children to support! He tried portraiture which he found boring and he also painted occasional religious pictures. How odd that an artist who has painted what are arguably the most striking, most evocative and powerful images of English country life was not a commercial success. In fact, he did far better in France than in England. Thankfully many of his wonderful works can be found in galleries in this country although some did go abroad.
Praise be to the specialists.
They do say that in nature specialisation can be the death of a species. For example, there is a humming bird which is supremely adapted to feeding on the nectar of just one plant. Its bill and tongue have evolved for one specialist purpose. However, if the plant were to die out then so would the bird. Alan Turing, an utter genius who saved many lives through breaking German codes during the second world war was, seemingly, incapable of basic bodily hygiene. Offer him a bar of soap and he might look away disinterestedly. Offer him a page of seemingly unintelligible letters and numbers and you could lose him for months. Constable was lined up to take over the prosperous family grain business but he preferred his art. He turned away from a comfortable and secure future and chose his calling, not an easy thing to do in the days before the advent of the state safety net that many of us take for granted. The result of this determination and iron will was that he was able to devote his time and his imagination to the paintings that so many of us love today. There are some younger artists that dismiss his more traditional style as they self-publicise their brave new ‘creations’ or ‘installations’. To us though, and by us I mean ordinary British people, the utter beauty that Constable gifted us has given us joy for a very long time and will certainly outlive butchered animals in oversized fish tanks or unmade beds.
"Excuse me constable, could you tell me the time please?"
Finally, a message to Mr or Mrs Covid 19.
Go to hell, please. We want our culture back! Once the restrictions are eased, I shall be off to the St Barbe Museum or any of the other galleries nearby, or perhaps up to Town to take in some of the more well known galleries for a little time spent nourishing the right side of the brain. For the moment you are a nuisance, but we, and our delight in the beauty of art, will survive whatever you throw at us. So there!
Open Sesame! Calling all artists and would be artists too...
The St Barbe Art Gallery Open Exhibition is open for entries - and welcomes all ages, levels of ability, and subjects!
St Barbe invites you to stay at home and let your imagination run riot! The Coronavirus may have forced the museum and art gallery temporarily to close its doors and postpone its exhibitions, but will not let that discourage it.
And right now, it is re-launching submissions for its popular annual Open exhibition, which it is now hoped will be bigger and better this year than ever… Open Sesame!
Time is for once on our side, for more budding artists to have a go!
One of the few benefits of enforced isolation is that we suddenly have time. All those unfinished projects and ideas that we set aside when we were too busy can now come to fruition. If you always wanted to try your hand at watercolours, imagined a textile creation or planned a collage, St Barbe invites you to go for it!
Artists have been in contact thinking that, as the exhibition was postponed, so were the submissions. For anyone who missed the original deadline, Open Sesame!
Get inspired to paint: meet New Forest Artist Pete Gilbert
This year's prizes
Highly regarded, indeed revered and coveted, prizes are to be won! (Although it's the cuedos that counts the money will undoubtedly be welcome too.) Prizes include:
People’s Choice Award £200
The Blake Morgan Award for best painting (£250)
The Mary and John Symons Memorial Award for best print (£250)
The Coastal Gallery Award for best contemporary abstract work (£100)
The Ted Marsh Memorial Award for best work by an artist aged 18-21 (£100)
The Beaulieu Fine Arts Award for best work by a non-professional artist (£100 of framing)
This year's judges
This year’s esteemed judging panel comprises:
Stephen Powell - artist
Phil Smith – arts professional and curator
Caron Penney – textile artist
This year's details
Each artist may submit a maximum of two works, which must not previously have been exhibited at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery. Works will be available for sale unless the artist requests otherwise.
It is also recognised that artists who have already submitted may wish to swap their work, so when the new dates have been agreed, the team from St Barbe will be in contact with everyone concerned to give them that opportunity.
Full details including exactly how to submit entries with jpg images (contact the museum if you do not have access to a computer!) together with all the T’s and C’s can be found on the St Barbe website by clicking this link to the details about the Open exhibition:
The picture featured in its full glory here (with our apologies cropped for our introductory image for this article which has to be a precise shape!) is by Sarah Clarke and entitled "Summer Party" - which we thought strikes an appropriately optimistic tone for a positive future.
Young Artist’s Open Exhibition
Budding artists under 18 are included in the exhibition
The St Barbe Young Artist’s Open was launched in 2018 and now coincides annually with the St Barbe Open Exhibition.
There is no set theme, artists can choose their own subject. The only stipulation is that by entering the artist agrees that their artwork can be used for the promotion of the Young Artist’s Open. The exhibition is selected by museum staff. Successful entries will be exhibited in Gallery 3 for the whole of this year’s Open Exhibition.
There are three age groups:
Under 7s
7 – 11
12-17
How to enter the Young Artist's Open - a variation for this year
The usual method of entering for young people is by collecting an art board from St Barbe which obviously isn’t currently possible.
Open Sesame! Young people up to and including age 17 are invited to submit an artwork 20 x 25cm in any medium they like… a collage, painting or textile.
Your masterpieces can be brought into the museum when it reopens, along with £1 and the entry form from the website. All Young Artists will have the chance to win a Ted Marsh Memorial Award.
An exhibition of which the New Forest will be proud!
The organisers will be thrilled if the coronavirus crisis and current lockdown results in entries from many more artists than in other years – and would love it if the St Barbe gallery walls are smothered with artworks on a scale to compare with the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London!
Maria Ragan, Director at St Barbe adds “Whilst we cannot release the dates for the postponed Open exhibition it will go ahead as soon as we can make it happen. Open Sesame! is an opportunity for us to look forward to when these challenging times are over. Our doors may be closed but we are still working behind the scenes to bring you exciting exhibitions in the, hopefully not too distant, future”
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To quote Albert Einstein “Imagination is everything, it is the preview of life’s coming attractions”
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Bag yourself some fabulous New Forest art for Christmas!
Place your bids before Sunday night for the St Barbe Art Gallery Lymington re-stART online art auction!
Like so many organisations closed once again in Lockdown, our very own St Barbe Art Gallery and Museum has come up with an ingenious way to ensure we all get the opportunity to have some new Art on our walls for Christmas. Please support this if you possibly can - and help to ensure that St Barbe itself can be here for us in the years to come, for long after we are finally able to consign the year 2020 to the history books - and eventually to the Museums which survive!
St Barbe Art Gallery and Museum: re-stART online auction: 9-15 November
This is St Barbe's first ever silent auction which will raise much needed funds in aid of the museum and art gallery. It offers you the opportunity to buy online high quality, collectable art including paintings, prints and photographs, with something to suit every taste.
The seven-day online auction is promoting 38 works of art, all generously donated by artists of national standing. These include work by our very own locally living rock legend and artist John Illsley plus other well konwn art names Chris Whittaker, Pete Gilbert, Will Rochfort and more.
Bidders will be kept updated by text and email (the auction works like eBay).
John Illsley is of course well known as the bass guitarist of the brilliant Dire Straits, he is also a keen artist and a patron of St Barbe. His words, echoed by the other artists who have so generously donated their art: “I’m happy to donate my painting to support St Barbe and hope that it raises lots of money for them.”
All proceeds will go to support St Barbe's Community and Schools programme over the coming year. This is just one of the many important St Barbe initiatives working locally within the community to keep art alive for the future: St Barbe works with children, families, older people and minority groups to provide education, social engagement and fun!
Like all cultural institutions, St Barbe has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and it's up to all of us to do our bit as and when we can, to preserve these wonderful places for the future, of Lymington and the New Forest and for our children and grandchildren!
As Penny Curry of St Barbe said: "During another lockdown your support is even more important…please buy for yourself or start your Christmas shopping from the comfort of your own home - support a local charity and help us raise funds for our community projects."
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The St Barbe Art Gallery Open Exhibition, 17 May - 12 June is open for entries from 19 March
The St Barbe Art Gallery Open Exhibition 2021 open to any artist, amateur or professional, who can submit up to two paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics or textile works. Click here for all the lowdown about the 2021 St Barbe Open!
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17 May – 12 June 2021
The St Barbe Open Exhibition was held for the first time in 1999 and 21 exhibitions later it is firmly established as a highlight in the local arts calendar: a celebration of the incredible array of talent found in Hampshire and Dorset. Each year hundreds of artworks are submitted to be considered by the panel of professional artists who select the exhibition and award the prizes. St Barbe is proud to provide this showcase for the wonderful creations of our local artistic community.
Despite two years of lockdowns and disruption the St Barbe Open has continued and returns this spring for its 21st showing. In the unprecedented circumstances of 2020 and 2021 the Open has given local artists a chance to display the fruits of their creativity during enforced periods of isolation. Last year works referenced the challenges of lockdown and were inspired by the wonders of nature that we have the good fortune to be surrounded by here in the New Forest.
The exhibition is open to any artist, amateur or professional, who can submit up to two paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics or textile works. Usually around 80 are selected and shown to stunning effect in St Barbe’s national-standard galleries. There is no theme and the judges only selection criterion is quality. A wide range of subjects and media is guaranteed including the beautiful, the strange and the humorous. Prizes sponsored by Kate Welsh, Coastal Gallery and Beaulieu Fine Arts are awarded for the best print, abstract and work by a non-professional artist, while the Lymington Business Centre Award gives all exhibition visitors a chance to vote for the People’s Choice prize.
For the last three years the museum has also run a Young Artist’s Open which welcomes entrants from a few months to eighteen years old to exhibit alongside the adult entries, encouraging our young people to get creative from their earliest years. Long-time St Barbe supporter Gordon Young generously offers four ‘Ted Marsh Awards’ in cash and artists materials in memory of the museum’s founding chairman.
Key dates for 2021
Website open for submissions: Friday 19 March
Deadline for submissions: Sunday 11 April
Results published on St Barbe website: Thursday 22 April
Handing in days: Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 May 2021
Exhibition opens: Monday 17 May 2021
Exhibition closes: Saturday 12 June 2021
Full terms and conditions available at www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk
Lymington New Forest museum and art gallery welcomes support for its new Reaching Further campaign from John Illsley
St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery in Lymington has welcomed the support of John Illsley, founding member of Dire Straits and rock legend, for its “Reaching Further” fundraising campaign launched last week.
Dire Straits founder member and St Barbe patron, familiar locally, less well known himself an artist too...
John has been to see the fantastic current St Barbe exhibition of paintings by leading contemporary artist Jeremy Gardiner, a joint project between St Barbe and the artist over a 5 year period. Do go and see this fabulous exhibition until 24 March!
John, who is a Patron of St Barbe and also an accomplished artist in his own right, has been a strong supporter of our wonderful New Forest museum and art gallery which has been transformed in recent years into a beautiful and really welcoming venue for all to enjoy.
Speaking at the exhibition John said:
‘The creation of such an excellent Museum and Art Gallery in Lymington has been an amazing achievement and this fantastic exhibition shows that St Barbe is continuing to attract artists of national reputation for their gallery.
It was great to hear about the launch of St Barbe’s “Reaching Further” project which will help to raise funds from local business and the community to help a much wider range of groups to benefit from the cultural activities at St. Barbe.
I fully support what St Barbe is trying to achieve and I do hope that the community also continues to support this fantastic asset for the cultural life of Lymington and the wider region.’
First: providing new services to parts of the local community who currently have little or no contact with heritage and the arts. Developing innovative work with children under 5, school groups, teenagers with autism, people with dementia and socially isolated older people.
And second: reaching out to the whole community to raise the funds necessary to replace grants previously received from both central and local Government.
If you would like to know more about ‘Reaching Further’ or how you can help please see the St Barbe website St Barbe Reaching Further Campaign or speak to Maria Ragan, Director 01590 676969 - or email Michelle Kirwan for more information: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Everybody is welcome at St Barbe! Click to read about current exhibitions and displays plus a raft of activities for all and also details about the very rewarding "job" of volunteering at St Barbe on the website: St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery
New goings on aplenty at New Forest St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery
Whether you're an arts enthusiast or not take a look at what's on offer - and take pride in our fabulous New Forest heritage in the heart of Lymington!
St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery has this week announced the launch of its "Reaching Further" campaign.
This includes a number of new services for the local community, with lots to tempt you inside, including those of you who have until now had little contact with heritage and the arts.
"Reaching Further" is also about raising funds to replace grants which used to come from both central and local Government, and thus enable all these fantastic new initiatives to happen!
Reaching Further with St Barbe...
As part of the Reaching Further project, St Barbe is developing innovative work with children under 5, school groups, teenagers with autism, people with dementia and socially isolated older people.
In the next few months they will start a community Access Panel, a group that includes a range of disabled people to help improve their access and engagement. A Young Curators Panel is also being developed to help look at the museum collections with fresh eyes and develop services for young people.
Speaking at the launch of the Reaching Further campaign, St Barbe Director Maria Ragan said:
“St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, which is a registered charity, is a vital part of the cultural life in the region. We have ambitious plans to ‘Reach Further’ with a range of community outreach projects to bring these services and new initiatives to the wider community.
As an independently run museum, St Barbe values the freedom that this brings, whilst appreciating the support we have received from local and national Government that allowed us to build the fantastic new museum building, which is such a major asset for the town and the wider region.”
Much more about this to come... watch this space!
Meanwhile there's a real need for funds right now
Fundraising is vital to the Reaching Further project, ensuring that the museum can continue the high level of services currently provided while at the same time launching the new range of community initiatives that enable the museum to take its services to current visitors and the whole community.
There are many ways people can help with fundraising and sponsorship to replace the lost government funding:
The ‘Inspire Fund’ a simple and inexpensive option, that allows people to help St Barbe with regular small payments on a monthly basis.
Become a Friend of St Barbe
Sponsorship opportunities for business, or individuals
Leaving a gift in your will
Museum Chair John de Trafford explains:
We are proud to have so many St Barbe Friends, Patrons and Business Partners and we really value what they contribute to St Barbe. However, the big reduction in funding from local and national government that we have experienced since the new building opened, is putting all this at risk unless the local community can be encouraged to step in to help support St Barbe for future generations.
We hope that the wider community will recognise the excellent work that St Barbe does for the town and will support this vital fundraising effort.”
This week's reflections by Mark with cartoon by Hugh, consider the "other sides" of graffiti!
St Barbe invites you to stay at home and let your imagination run riot! The Coronavirus may have forced the museum and art gallery temporarily to close its doors and postpone its exhibitions, but will not let that discourage it.
This year's judges
First: providing new services to parts of the local community who currently have little or no contact with heritage and the arts. Developing innovative work with children under 5, school groups, teenagers with autism, people with dementia and socially isolated older people.
St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery has this week announced the launch of its "Reaching Further" campaign.
As part of the Reaching Further project, St Barbe is developing innovative work with children under 5, school groups, teenagers with autism, people with dementia and socially isolated older people.
