Exhibitions
Jonathan Alden
“Artist’s Travelling Painting Box”. Featuring a real watercolour, two-dimensional paint brushes and unusable paint.
Frances Hatch: Mundane Miracles
Frances's work is very much based in nature, embracing the weather and materials around her to produce very site specific works.
AONB 'Take a Dorset View' Photo Competition 2023
Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty partnered up with Dorset Magazine to open the ‘Take a Dorset View’ Photo Competition
Visual Rhythm
An exhibition of works inspired by music by John Austin-Williams, Imogen Bittner, Mala Haslett, June Lisle and Helen Simpson.
For the Joy: An exhibition of three local printmakers
An exhibition of work by three talented local printmakers: Rebecca Drury, Rebecca Guyett and Caroline Buckman
Jazmin Velasco - Moore
Jazmin Velasco - Moore 1971 - 2021 Jazmin was a Mexican artist who settled in the UK and was a Dorset resident until her untimely death in 2021. She was an established book illustrator and worked in various media.
John Thomson
Light Metal: An exhibition featuring preliminary maquettes and drawings for large scale public commissions
Debbie Morris
With my wildlife art I try to bring the audience up close and personal to creatures that many of us have never been able to see in their natural habitat.
Greener NHS
NHS England has unveiled a new photography exhibition, “Care for the future: delivering the world’s first net zero health service,” it is now touring England to raise awareness.
Into the Woods
A group of artists in Purbeck are focussing on the Woodland as both a vital environmental resource and source of positive wellbeing, resulting in an eclectic mix of work.
Paul Cleden - Printmaker
Paul is an illustrator and printmaker living and working in Dorset. His work focusses on figurative movement so consequently sports are often featured because of dynamic shapes in action but equally a crowded train, a busy market or a dance hall crowded w
Rose Hatcher: Textile Art
Rose Hatcher: Textile Art: Vibrant images of flowers made from silk fibre, using a silk papier maché technique to create joyously colourful images.
Caroline Sharp
Caroline Sharp: Wood and Clay Sculptor Caroline makes woven, clay and wood sculptures, which are strongly influenced by natural form, containment and movement. They are in essence about energy - energy within the soil and earth transformed within seeds an
Dorchester Camera Club
Another beautiful photographic exhibition by the very talented Dorchester Camera Club. John Tilsley: High Altitude, Aspen
Kathryn Thomas
Kathryn's work offers escapism on another level: some works may be more suggestive than others but the aim is that the viewer immerses themselves into the painting, spends time contemplating and finally allows themselves to express their vision
Chris Dunseath
Chris's sculpture is concerned with a diverse range of concepts and is made out of a variety of materials including wood, stone, bronze and paper. The content has ranged from an interest in transformation and change to its current involvement with aspects
Helen Brasher
Helen is a Fine art printmaker working from her studio in Dorset. Her work is landscape derived printing semi-abstract tactile images based on the colours and forms of the coastline. Helen is drawn to detailed fragments of the landscape.
Unmasked
Portraits by Andy Scaysbrook and words by Emma Pittard of NHS workers on the COVID front line in Dorset.
Chloe Cox: Windrush
Chloe Cox, 23, from Bridport, was the winner of Best Young Portrait or Figure Award, from the Society for All Artists (SAA), making her Young Artist of the Year 2020. Chloe has very kindly loaded this piece to DCH to help us celebrate
Krystyna Sargent
Krystyna Sargent: Alchemy. The narrative of my work is of timelessness. Each piece of my work is designed to create the essence of a weathered survivor from an ancient era that perhaps could have been dug from an archaeological site.
Zennor Box: Painter and Concept Artist
Zennor’s background is in fine art but she has also worked in animation as a model maker and concept artist since 1994.
AONB 60th Anniversary Photographic Competition
The Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers almost half of Dorset is a nationally important protected landscape.
Victoria Jardine: Wound Series
Wound Series 'The wound is the place where the Light enters you’, Rūmī, 13th-century Persian Poet. Healing from trauma, whether emotional or physical, is a transformational journey.
NHS portrait paintings for DCH
A fabulous exhibition of staff portrait paintings organised by local artist Becky Blake.
Group 7
Explorations in Colour - group 7 was formed from the original ‘7 ARTISTS’ which was established in the 1970s.
George Wright
George Wright: Another Way of Life George studied Graphic Design at Wimbledon School of Art and has been a freelance photographer since 1975.
Colin Moore
Colin Moore is a painter-printmaker who specialises in linocut prints of the British landscape, often coastal and maritime subjects.
