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In Jolly Good Company, a dementia-friendly charity based in Dorset, is proud to present ‘Beyond the Lines’, a moving photography exhibition celebrating creativity, connection and identity in later life. 

Beyond the Lines showcases the outstanding creativity of older people, who attended the charity’s Jolly Days, welcoming inclusive creative sessions that bring friendship, joy and a renewed sense of purpose to hundreds of people across Dorset. During one of the activities across the Jolly groups, participants learned to use professional cameras and basic studio lighting kit to take striking photographic portraits of one another.

This project documents the people who regularly immerse themselves in the waters off Weymouth and Portland. Through a series of portraits, the work explores the many reasons people are drawn to sea swimming, from physical challenge and connection with nature to mental health and wellbeing.

For the Dorset Open 2025 Arts in Hospital offered and exhibition at DCH as one of the prizes. We selected the work of 2D artist Tim Edgar to be shown alongside ceramicist Mark Hilde.

Tim Edgar’s contemporary drawing practice locates itself at the overlap between Art, Maths, and Science. Using a variety of analogue media the detailed works explore connections between micro and macro worlds. 

His works have a form of “system” painting at their core, but the intense process allows a “randomness” to creep in, ensuring final pieces are not merely mathematical but contain an element of serendipity. The grid is set, each square has similar elements, but applied differently and in different strengths. The wet and dry media combine alchemically to produce a variety of outcomes in each square. Each square is an experiment, a mini abstract work, building with others to form a coherent whole.

The grid and circle are starting points and key compositional tools. As well as establishing a symmetrical and harmonious base, they reference such key signifiers as the microscope, petri dish, telescope, planets and comets, and scientific drawing forms and symbols such as that for the electron.

The ultimate aim of this work is to prompt reflection on the cellular, the cosmic and their frail interconnectedness.