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Tucked away in the Sussex countryside Farleys conjures up an extraordinary atmosphere that testifies to its position as a meeting place for some of the key personalities in 20th century art. See the details here

Bridget Adler is organising another wonderful holiday to look forward to in May 2025, this time centred in Vienna. Do look at the attached brochure and if you have any questions please contact Bridget

on 07885 699479 e-mail. tasm.membership@gmail.com

Click here for the brochure

I have tickets to take a group up by train on Tuesday 14th January 2025 in the morning.   £17.00 per head plus train fare.

If anyone would like to book a ticket please message or email me and once payment has been received I will reserve them a ticket.

Thanks very much 

Bridget

Bridget Adler

Membership Secretary

Arts Society, Midhurst

tasm.membership@gmail.com

07885 699479

A horticultural haven bursting with colourful planting, a contemporary glasshouse

Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its latest project, a kinetic glasshouse set on the edge of the gardens here at Woolbeding.

This unfolding structure provides the focal point to a new garden that reveals how much the ancient Silk Route – which linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia – has influenced English gardens of today. It features ten steel ‘sepals’ with glass and aluminium façade which take four minutes to open, creating an immense 141m2 space in the shape of a crown. 

The glasshouse draws inspiration from the spirit of Victorian ornamental terrariums. It deploys cutting-edge engineering to provide a functional protective structure while at the same time offering a beguiling, decorative element to the new Silk Route Garden. 

10.30 am for a group talk at 11.00 am

National Trust Members £3.00 pp (please bring your membership card)

Non-National Trust Members £15.00 pp

On site café for lunch

We will be parking at a private house nearby – there is no parking permitted at Woolbeding Gardens – where possible please share a car – all names need to be booked in for the parking arrangement (further details nearer the time)

contact Bridget Adler to book – reservation on payment please

tasm.membership@gmail.com or 07885 699479

please make payment to

Arts Society Midhurst

20-20-65-00295604

Trip to Sicily 10th  May 2024

We are now announcing a  7 night trip to Sicily to include guided tours  to the Valley of the Temples – Palermo – Siracusa – Piazza Amerian – Taormina flying from Gatwick. Staying in a 4* hotel on the coastline of Giardini Naxos and daily tours with some meals included.

For full information, please see the brochure by clicking THIS LINK

Please contact Bridget Adler tasm.membership@gmail.com if you would like more information or would like to book on to this trip.

Holland Trip 8th to 12th May 2023

TAS Midhurst is offering a guided visit to the highly anticipated Vermeer exhibition in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Also included is a guided tour of the Rijksmuseum, entrance to the Van Gogh Museum and the Panorama Mesdag, a guided tour of the Mauritshuis in the Hague and visits to Bruges, Delft and the Keukenhof Tulip Festival. Accommodation is a 4* hotel in Delft.  Transport will be by executive coach from Midhurst.

Estimated cost approximately £1,199 pp with a £169 supplement for single occupancy of double room (Price to be confirmed mid-September).  £100 deposit required in October with full payment due January 2023.

This trip is now full but if you would like to be on the reserve list pleaes contact Bridget Adler - tasm.membership@gmail.com

Exact date and details to follow 

We will be driving (due to increased coach charges at this time) to Farleys and Standen House in East Sussex.

Farleys conjures up an extraordinary atmosphere that tesitfies to its position as a meeting place for some of the key personalities in 20th Century Art.  Lee Miller and Roland Penrose filled their come with a collection of contemporary art treasures over 35 years.

Standen House and gardens was created in 1890's by Margaret Beale and Phili Webb and together they used the firm Morris & Co to craft Standen House into a family home.  

Meet at Midhust Ruins Car Park at 9.15 on Thursday 16th June 2022

Booking starts at April lecture. - £35.00 for National Trust members and £48.00 for non-National Trust Members

or email Bridget Adler - tasm.membership@gmail.com - Any queries. 07885 699479

CHARLESTON HOUSE charts the art and lives of the artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and their contemporaries.

Bell and Grant began to paint Charleston from the outset. Not just the walls, but every surface imaginable, transforming the house into a living, breathing work of art. Over the following decades, Charleston became a gathering point for some of the 20th century’s most radical artists, writers and thinkers known collectively as the Bloomsbury group. It is where they lived out their progressive social and artistic ideals.

A visitor assistant will accompany you around the house as you explore the individually designed and hand-painted rooms.   There will be a staggered entry time for the group and the remaining time will be spent in the garden or having lunch – either bring your own picnic or in the on-site café at Charleston House.

MONK’S HOUSE is Leonard and Virginia Woolf's 16th-century country retreat. Nestled in the heart  of rural Sussex, Monk’s House is a tranquil 16th-century weatherboarded cottage inhabited by Leonard and the novelist Virginia Woolf from 1919 until Leonard's death in 1969.

Get to know Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the wider Bloomsbury Group by visiting Monk's House. Full of their favourite things, the house appears as if they just stepped out for a walk.

BERWICK CHURCH is where Bishop Bell of Chichester wanted to revive the tradition of extensive murals in some of the small Downland Churches. The outbreak of WWII saw Grant and Bell with Quentin (Vanessa’s younger son by Clive) designing murals at Berwick with brightly coloured interpretations of English country life during wartime.  Grant focused on Salvation and the medieval imagery of the ‘Labours of the Month’.  

Bishop Bell likened the achievement of the Bloomsbury artists at Berwick to that of Giotto who had been inspired by the life of St Francis and whose murals the bishop had seen himself in the church of St Francis at Assisi.  Bishop Bell believed the murals represented a fulfilment of his vision to reunite religion and ‘modern’ art and so bring about a ‘spiritual awakening of our country’.

 COACH TRANSPORT TO HOUSE & CHURCH SO TIME TO RELAX BETWEEN EACH VISIT.     THERE IS A CAFÉ AT CHARLSTON HOUSE BUT NOT AT MONK’S HOUSE. ALTERNATIVELY BRING YOUR OWN PICNIC/REFRESHMENTS

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE SEPTEMBER LECTURE OR ON-LINE BY TELEPHONING OR EMAILING BRIDGET ADLER ON A FIRST-COME,FIRST- SERVED BASIS – NUMBERS MUST BE CONFIRMED BY END OF SEPTEMBER

 TICKET PRICE  £40.00 per person

to include entry to house and church and transport

Excluding lunch/refreshments

If you are a member of the National Trust the cost will be £34.00 as there will be no charge to Monk’s House if you show your membership card.

BRIDGET ADLER – 07885 699479 – bridgetadlerinteriors@gmail.com

POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 2021 - COVID

n the morning we will visit the 17th century home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and the country
meeting place of the Bloomsbury Group. There is a gallery which holds regular exhibitions (optional).
MONKS HOUSE AND GARDEN
In the afternoon we will visit the home of Virginia Woolf. (National Trust)
Booking starts at the February 2021 lecture
 

Postponed because of Covid19 - postponed until 2023

Highclere is a Grade 1 listed country house in Hampshire with a park
designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century. It is the country seat
of the Earls of Carnarvon.

It achieved international renown as the main location for the historical
drama series Downton Abbey and the film based on it.

 

Evening visit to include supper (date to be confirmed)

Tour by The Purcell Club.

Booking starts at the February 2020 lecture

am: Tour of Whitchurch Silk Mill

pm: Tour of Bombay Sapphire Distillery

Booking starts at the September 2019 lecture 

For details of this one week visit, see the NEWS section HERE

am: Lecture by Valerie Woodgate on the Exhibition

pm: Visit the Exhibition

Booking starts at the March 2019 lecture

Am: A guided tour of Arundells, the former home of Prime
Minister Sir Edward Heath containing his extensive personal
collections.
Pm: A guided tour of Salisbury Cathedral.
Booking starts at the May 2018 lecture
 

Am: Permanent Collection Highlights Tour.
Pm: “American Modern” Lecture on the exhibition and time for independent visit.
Booking starts at the February 2018 lecture
 

A guided tour.
Booking starts at the July 2017 lecture.
 

Booking starts at the March lecture
 

Booking starts at the February lecture
 

Booking starts at the November 2016 lecture
 

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For full details and booking form click on the link above and quote midd161 (view your tour)

Contact:  susan.ryan@virgin.net

MIDHURST DFAS presents: 

MAGICAL ANDALUCIA

6 days from £869  Departing 10th October 2016

WHAT YOU WILL SEE:

• 14th century Alhambra Palace, Granada
• Cordoba & The Mezquita
• Seville
• Reales Alcazares
• Jerez de la Frontera & sherry tasting included
• Museo de Bellas Artes
• Ronda

ACCOMMODATION:

2 nights at the 4* Alhamar Hotel, Granada

3 nights at the 4* Tryp Macarena Hotel, Seville

A set 3 course dinner without drinks is served on the first night at each hotel, and the remaining three nights are on bed and breakfast basis.

Booking starts at the June lecture
 

Private tour of house & garden, to include lunch.

Booking starts at April lecture.

"Romans to Rogers" Architecture from the Romans through to Lord Foster & Lord Rogers was the suggested title of our recent visit to London.  And so, blessed with blue skies and a warm sunshine, we set off to explore 2000 years of history and architecture in the City of London.

Our guide, Tony Tucker, a Blue Badge guide and NADFAS lecturer, led us round the hidden corners finding Roman remains, secret crypts, a beautiful medieval church and secret gardens and alleyways.  We contrasted these to the Victorian and the ultra modern - threaded together with stories and histories to bring all alive.

A lasting memory will be coming across an extensive section of Roman wall behind which rose three huge new glass and steel skyscrapers, certainly bringing home to us in visual clarity the impact  and meaning behind the title of our walk.

A hugely successful and memorable day!

Visit Report

On the 20th may we had a most enjoyable visit to Hatfield House, a beautiful Jacobean House built by Robert Cecil., Earl of Salisbury in 1611, and once the home of Elizabeth 1st before became Queen.

The House, described as one of the Treasure houses of England, lived up to its name and every room was a surprise and delight.

The lovely sunny afternoon was ideal for exploring the famous and beautiful gardens. We were also lucky to see the exquisite private gardens which are only open once a week. A truly memorable visit.

Morning - Drapers’ Hall plus lunch.

Afternoon - Armourers’
Hall.