Abbot Hall and Farfield Mill
Abbot Hall and Farfield Mill
Thursday 25 April 2024
Abbot Hall and Farfield Mill
Abbot Hall and Farfield Mill
Thursday 25 April 2024
Abbot Hall was re-opened in 2023, on the banks of the River Kent is now one of the best centres for visual art in Cumbria.
Its permanent display includes one of the most comprehensive collections of John Ruskin’s drawings and watercolours and a substantial collection of modern and contemporary artworks by Bridget Riley, Frank Auerbach, Paula Rego and Richard Wentworth, as well as lithographs by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henry Moore.
We hope to see the two exhibitions - Gilbert Spencer, younger brother of Stanley Spencer, and Claud Cahon who is best known as a writer, self-portraitist and photographer
For those who remember Helen Stalker, a previous curator at the Whitworth who now works for Lakeland Arts, will meet us at the hall.
We will visit Farfield Mill, on our way and have lunch. Farfield Mill is an art, craft & heritage gallery set on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Housed in a former Victorian Woollen Mill, the gallery spaces, artists’ studios, power loom and handlooms are set over four floors, displaying, and selling a range of contemporary craft, art, and jewellery, handcrafted and designed in the Mill and surrounding area.
Anne Mackinnon’s studio is next door in a converted spinning mill and you’d be welcome to visit if you wish.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £42.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
When: Thursday 25 April
Coach Pickups: Stanley Green Retail Park, Cheadle at 9.15
RNCM, Booth Street, Manchester at 9.45
Return from Kendall; Approx 4.00pm
Lunch at Farfield Mill - soup and sandwich with vegetarian choice
Abbot Hall was re-opened in 2023, on the banks of the River Kent is now one of the best centres for visual art in Cumbria.
Its permanent display includes one of the most comprehensive collections of John Ruskin’s drawings and watercolours and a substantial collection of modern and contemporary artworks by Bridget Riley, Frank Auerbach, Paula Rego and Richard Wentworth, as well as lithographs by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henry Moore.
We hope to see the two exhibitions - Gilbert Spencer, younger brother of Stanley Spencer, and Claud Cahon who is best known as a writer, self-portraitist and photographer
For those who remember Helen Stalker, a previous curator at the Whitworth who now works for Lakeland Arts, will meet us at the hall.
We will visit Farfield Mill, on our way and have lunch. Farfield Mill is an art, craft & heritage gallery set on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Housed in a former Victorian Woollen Mill, the gallery spaces, artists’ studios, power loom and handlooms are set over four floors, displaying, and selling a range of contemporary craft, art, and jewellery, handcrafted and designed in the Mill and surrounding area.
Anne Mackinnon’s studio is next door in a converted spinning mill and you’d be welcome to visit if you wish.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £42.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
When: Thursday 25 April
Coach Pickups: Stanley Green Retail Park, Cheadle at 9.15
RNCM, Booth Street, Manchester at 9.45
Return from Kendall; Approx 4.00pm
Lunch at Farfield Mill - soup and sandwich with vegetarian choice
EVENT DATE
APRIL 25, 2024
COST
£42.00 per person
POSTAL BOOKINGS
Booking Closed
NUMBER OF PLACES
Max. places: 30
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