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May Open Day : Art & Nature at The Lost Gardens of Easton Lodge, Essex
Orb: Peto’s Japanese Tea house, Easton Lodge, Essex Acrylic on beech panel, 2023
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
Horticultural Heroine: Frances Daisy Maynard, Countess of Warwick
Graphite on paper 2022
The graphite drawing depicting Frances Daisy Maynard, Countess of Warwick has been shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022.
Daisy inherited the magnificent Elizabethan Estate of Easton Lodge in Essex in 1865.
Daisy championed opportunities for women during her guardianship of Easton Lodge and founded the Studley College of Horticulture and Agriculture for women. Her contribution to the development of the gardens partially remain today and are lovingly preserved and maintained by dedicated volunteers and the current owners of Warwick House. She commissioned Harold Peto to redesign many formal elements in the garden which lend a faded grandeur and beauty to the space.
This drawing is inspired by a photograph of Daisy dressed as Marie Antoinette at the Bal Poudre held at Warwick Castle in 1895. She was heavily criticised in ‘The Clarion’ a left-wing newspaper the following day which motivated her to loosen her links to high society, converting to socialism not long after
Tour & Draw at Audley End
Ticket prices E.G.T. members £35 non-members £40 Book tickets here.
Spaces are limited to 15 per workshop so early booking is recommended.
Accessibility: Please take a look at the garden's website for more information.
Jane Frederick, Essex Gardens Trust Artist in Residence returns this summer with her popular Draw & Tour workshops at three magnificent new venues. Each small and friendly workshop is designed to help you develop your confidence in drawing outdoors whilst mindfully engaging with some of the most treasured gardens in Essex. Suitable for complete beginners, the day includes individual tuition, a guided tour of the gardens, all materials and afternoon refreshments.
Explore and draw in and around magnificent Audley End, a Jacobean architectural treasure and extensive gardens including a restored formal parterre, organic walled garden and sweeping views landscaped by Capability Brown.
Jane will introduce you to practical approaches to outdoor sketching and mark making and teach you how to capture the unique atmosphere of this complex and fascinating historical garden.
You will learn how to explore techniques for creating colourful and atmospheric impressions of the landscape, introducing you to innovative methods of using chalk pastels. These relaxed outdoor workshops will teach you how to really look and understand what you are drawing as well as encouraging you to be ‘Bold, Loose and Accurate’ with your approach.
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021
Jane’s large painterly monotypes have been selected for this year’s Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London.
Welcome to the Garden Seekers Project talk
Artist talk at Cuckoo Farm Studios Colchester Essex
Tour & Draw at Cressing Temple
Join Jane Frederick, Essex Gardens Trust Artist in Residence for a series of 6 Draw & Tour workshops. Each workshop is designed to help you develop your confidence in drawing outdoors whilst mindfully engaging with some of the most treasured gardens in Essex.
Encounters exhibition
Jane Frederick The waters will run clear again acrylic on canvas 152 cm x 104 cm 2021
Muse Gallery presents Encounters
You are warmly invited to view the launch of Jane Frederick’s brand new work 'The waters will run clear again' on show with 3 other exciting painters, Claudia Boese, Gosia Lapsa-Malawska and Mary Romer at The Muse Gallery in London's vibrant Notting Hill district.
The new paintings and drawings are her response to the challenges that our planet has been facing in recent times whilst celebrating the power of creativity and culture as a beacon.
The waters will run clear again
Historically across cultures, the enigmatic presence of water in formal gardens has provided spectacle, symbolism and solace. Referencing theatrical Baroque fountains, Jane Frederick’s work explores the lure of historical formal gardens, highlighting their potential to provoke wonder and intrigue and offer space for sanctuary and introspection. With its ability to nourish all of our senses, arguably we need the restorative properties of water now more than ever.The waters flowing in these paintings and drawings do not run clear or freely. These enigmatic spaces exist at the mercy of their guardians and keepers as nature strives to grow free from the constraints of man, shaping and taming the environment.
Opening event 6-9pm Thursday 10th June The Muse Gallery 269 Portobello Road, London
Residency Showcase at Hamilton MAS
Hamilton MAS the micro art space by sea, Felixstowe and Artist Jane Frederick invite you to view work developed during her summer residency exploring the past, present and future of gardens in Felixstowe.
Frederick responds to and explores the past, present and the future role of public space and gardens and the role they, and art, plays for individual and community wellbeing.
The showcase continues daily between 11– 4pm until Saturday 24th October
To enable social distancing viewing is by invitation only, please RSVP Hamilton MAS on 0781 8060944 or bryonygraham@hamiltonmas.org.uk to book a slot.
Artist in residence
During August 2020, Jane Frederick embarks upon a residency at Hamilton MAS, the micro art space by the sea in Felixstowe.
Initially working in the magnificent Heritage Seafront Gardens, she will be drawing and filming to create a new art installation in the gallery space as well as researching into our fascination with formal gardens asking ‘what are gardens for?’
Art in the Garden
You are warmly invited to a socially-distanced exhibition of artworks displayed in an unusual way in a garden and woodland setting in Clavering, Essex.
Paintings & Drawings by Jane Frederick, Ruth Philo and Mary Romer. Pottery by Lisa Ghiggini.
The inspiration for this exhibition came while living through this extraordinary time of a world in lockdown due to the global pandemic.
Artists everywhere have used this time to reflect and respond in different ways. Even though creative people often work in isolation, they, like musicians and actors, writers and poets also need an audience. Viewing artworks or watching plays on a screen is not the same experience as actually being present. In this exhibition you will be able to see art shown in unusual ways which we hope will amuse and delight!
SATURDAY 11th and SUNDAY 12th July 2.00-6.00pm.
Refreshments will be served.
On Sunday we have Fifi La Mer playing French Café music.
New drawing installation now on view at Hamilton MAS the micro art space by the sea in Felixstowe
Inspired by a visit to Villa Gamberaia in Italy, Jane’s large graphite drawings and circular paintings appear like convex camera lenses pulling the viewer into a memory of the garden. Each one leads them to distinctive garden features that are designed to offer shade, sanctuary or dramatic vistas deep into the garden.
A changing installation of drawings will be on view at Hamilton MAS and new work will be shared during her residency throughout the summer. The current installation of works can be viewed through the windows of Hamilton MAS. Keep an eye open for open days and artist talks in the coming weeks.
Upload your own 'formal' garden
Get involved & become a Garden Seeker during the Chelsea Fringe.
During lock down, it has become increasingly clear how gardens, green spaces & living breathing plants are essential to our physical & psychological well being.
We would like to celebrate your formal gardens & create a virtual lock down garden seeking exhibition featuring your lovingly tended gardens.
Jane invites you to upload a photograph which captures how the ‘formal’ has inspired your own garden or local green space. It could be topiary, a neatly organised border, a coiffured knot garden or a creative display of your nurtured potted plants on a window sill. In July, she will curate an online exhibition of your formal garden moments & make a brand new art work featuring her favourite formal bits from the exhibition - an imaginative new garden influenced by you.
To enter, send your photograph along with your name & garden location to info@janefrederick.net by June 14th. Log into www.gardenseekersproject.co.uk from July 1st to view the online exhibition & new drawings.
Garden Seekers at the Chelsea Fringe
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Garden Seekers Project at this year’s Chelsea Fringe Festival which runs in tandem with the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Artist Jane Frederick will be opening the garden gate and offering you a peek into her new installation of large garden lens drawings which celebrate the wonder and delight of Italian Renaissance gardens. Debuting in Felixstowe at Hamilton MAS the micro arts space by the sea, visitors will be able to safely view the larger than life drawings through the gallery window space and experience Italian gardens opposite the Heritage Seafront gardens.