ACMS member Olive Maggs will be giving an illustrated talk The Publishing Unwins and the Gresham Institute, an Arts and Crafts building in St Thomas Church, 122 New Road, Chilworth, GU4 8LU at 19:30 on Saturday 8th October.

Entrance is free and there will be wine served. All are very welcome.

A lectern serving as a memorial to John George, co-founder and former Chairman of the Society was presented to the Watts Gallery. See the full report.

Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden is the first book in over two decades devoted to the most important garden designer of the twentieth century.

See our publications page for more details.

This September, Court Barn Museum will be showing how much influence Norman Jewson had in the Cotswolds, working on projects from Sapperton to Campden.

Further details on our external events page.

Arts & Crafts Selling Exhibition

Hill House Antiques will be holding their 4th Annual Arts & Crafts Selling Exhibition from Thursday June 9th to Saturday June 18th 2011.

New web address: voyseysociety.com

The Voysey Society has been founded to celebrate the oeuvre of architect and designer Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941), one of the leading figures in both the Arts and Crafts movement and its immediate successors.

It is the Society’s objective to encourage research into all aspects of Voysey’s life & work and to help to maintain his legacy. Amongst other activities, the Society hopes to develop a programme of lectures and visits around the country.

They are now seeking expressions of interest in joining the Society. In particular they hope to fill key committee roles including Executive Chair and Secretary. If you are interested in membership, please contact the acting membership secretary, Dr Peter King with your name, address and email address. If appropriate, an indication of your willingness to take an active role will be especially welcome. There is no commitment and no cost at this stage.

Surrey Archaeological Society Annual Lecture

The Life and Work of Helen Allingham by Annabel Watts. Friday 10th June at The Menuhin Hall, Stoke D’Abernon, Surrey.

A special exhibition celebrating the importance of nature to the Arts & Crafts movement.

Thurs 21 April – Sunday 3 July 2011 at Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden.

External lecture: Victorian and Edwardian portraits with Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins, Chairman of The National Trust, Sarah Staniforth,  Peter Funnell and Jan Marsh discuss the importance of portraits to the National Trust, and how it has joined forces with the National Portrait Gallery to create a national trail of great Victorians and Edwardians. The event marks the launch of a new book A Guide to Victorian & Edwardian Portraits. Held at the National Portrait Gallery, 31 March.

To be followed by a lecture by ACMS Society member John Fairbanks about his sketches of Arts and Crafts buildings.

480 pages with 267 colour & 65 b/w illustrations, hardback. RRP £65.00

See our publications page for more details.

Compton in the 1890s - At home with GF & Mary Watts

8.00 pm Monday 28 February 2011
United Reformed Church Hall South Street, Farnham
£5 payable at door, (students £2) including welcoming drinks from 7.30 pm Enquiries 01252 702449

The Artistic House Selling Exhibition, March 18th - 27th 2011, 11am - 4pm

New book by Mary Greensted: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain

Mary Greensted tells the story of the birth and development of the arts and craft movement in Britain with the help of numerous illustrations showing the buildings, furniture, metalwork, and the people who influenced it.

Please help raise funds to ensure that The Brooking Collection is moved to a safe place pending plans to build new museum. The major part of the collection, currently housed at the University of Greenwich's Woolwich warehousing, must find a new site. Please read more about this urgent need.

Donations can be made through the Charities Aid Foundation.

 To mark the actual day, John Chuter, nephew of the builder, will be giving a talk about it at the church at 7pm on 28th May. There will also be a display in the church from 28th May to 7th June.

It will be followed by a talk by Marianne Tidcombe.

A new membership secretary is required to take over from the Acting Membership Secretary. The ability to manage a Microsoft Excel database is necessary as is an Internet connection for sending and receiving email messages. If you think you may be interested in assisting the Society with this task, your contribution will be very welcome. To find out more, contact Denise Todd .

The annual subscription is due on 1st January and the rates are unchanged from this year. However, the Society's banking details have changed, so please look out for the new standing order mandate in this month's mailing.

Jan Ward's book on the life and work of Leonard Stokes is now available to purchase, either at Society lectures or via Amazon UK. Details of this and other publications of interest may be found on the publications page.

Note that almost all of the publications may be purchased from Amazon via convenient links on the publications page.

The Lutyens Trust 2010 desk calendar

Enjoy the genius of Sir Edwin Lutyens and raise money for The Lutyens Trust by buying one of their desk calendars. - sorry, now SOLD OUT

The calendars, which are printed on high quality paper, feature photographs from the Lutyens Trust Photographic Archive.

Details and more pictures are here.

The project will cost on the region of £34M of which nearly three-quarters has been found; the Whiteley Village Appeal is still looking for about £6M to finish off the project.

Read more about the ACMS visit to Whiteley Village and the restoration project.

It will be followed by a presentation by Society member Robin Stannard on the Philips Memorial Cloister with Rob Anderton of Waverly BC. Society member Sarah Sullivan will also present a short illustrated presentation on the ACMS Recording Project.

Hindhead Together is leading on an appeal to save Undershaw, the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, from residential development. The striking redbrick house, which Conan Doyle commissioned and lived in at the height of his career, sits in 3 acres of land in Hindhead, high in the Surrey Hills, looking down the Nutcombe Valley and onto the South Downs.

Find more details on the Hindhead Together website or in the newsletter (pdf 1.3Mb)

Colin Pill who undertook a research project on Newlyn Copper, mentioned here in 2007, has produced a book on the subject, co-authored with Daryl Bennett.

Colin has also recently launched a web site on the arts and crafts metalwork associated with the Home Arts and Industries Association: www.artsandcraftsmetalwork.co.uk

For more information and an on-line booking form see Bath (GULP)
 

The Society has received the sad news of the unexpected death of John George chairman of the arts and crafts movement in surrey since it was founded in 1996.  he led the society with imagination and enthusiasm and will be greatly missed.  a service is to be held next week in guildford, surrey.

"A joyful celebration of the life of John Francis George";
on Wednesday 9 July at 2pm
at Holy Trinity Church High Street, Guildford (at the upper end of the High Street, opposite the almshouses)

No flowers, donations to your own choice of charity/organisation

To celebrate the centenary of the Caroe family at Vann, Hambledon, there will be a programme of lectures and a tour of the house and gardens on Wednesday 30th July 2008. A flyer for the event may be downloaded in PDF format.

In a programme to be broadcast on Thursday 10 July at 8pm, the Channel Five series The Property List will be looking at the best places to find period homes in the UK, and Godalming will be featured as the best place to find Arts and Crafts properties.

Appeal and exhibition - A £75,000 restoration project has been launched to restore the murals by Anna Lea Merritt in St Martin’s Church, Blackheath designed by architect Charles Harrison Townsend. Members of ACMS are invited to attend a reception and presentation about the murals by Art Historian Olive Maggs  in the Village Hall, Blackheath, Surrey on 18 June. Also an exhibition in the Church The Story of the Patron, the Architect and the Artist

Touring Exhibition - Ancient Landscapes Pastoral Visions: Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists with study day and talks by art historian and exhibition curator Anne Anderson at all venues:

• Southampton City Art Gallery   18 April - 22 June
• Victoria Art Gallery, Bath   Part 1: 26 July - 7 September Romantic response to the British landscape
• Victoria Art Gallery, Bath   Part 2: 13 September -19 October Brotherhood of Ruralists
• Falmouth Art Gallery   20 September to 1 November

Appeal for help from The Brooking Collection Dry and secure storage, an equivalent space to 2-3 garages, is sought for two years to safeguard architectural components until they can be accommodated at Greenwich. If you can assist or have suggestions for possible locations, please contact Charles Brooking: 01483 274208

Exhibition 31 May - 5 July Watercolour Through the Ages: Works from the Borough Collection, including Helen Allingham, at Guildford House Gallery, Guildford 01483 444742

Exhibition until 13 December Makers & Movers at Crafts Study Centre, Farnham 01252 891450

It will be followed by a lecture by Robin Stannard on Thackeray Turner.

BBC Radio 4 starting Monday 24th March  15:45 to 16:00 Laurence Llewelyn Bowen's History of Home.

Episode 1, Mr Voysey: The Architect of Middle England was recorded at Norney Grange with Wendy Hitchmough and Russell Clapshaw discussing Voysey with Llewelyn Bowen.

The Artistic House Selling Exhibition, March 7th - 16th 2008, 10am - 4pm
Tel: 01373 467897 or email: Chris Vickers  for further information.

BBC Radio 4 starting Monday 12th November  09:45 to 10:00 Book of the Week - Augustus Pugin.

Rosemary Hill's biography of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of Britain's greatest architects, abridged in five parts by Doreen Estall and read by Haydn Gwynne.

Opening hours: daily from 10am – 4pm. Admission, £3 in aid of St John Ambulance. Prinknash Abbey is off the A46 near Painswick, Gloucestershire. Follow brown signs to Prinknash Abbey Park. Parking and refreshments are available.

Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland - Exhibition at Millennium Galleries Sheffield 25 October to 20 January 2008

Millais - Exhibition on the founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at Tate Britain from 26 September to 15 January 2008. Tel: 020 7887 8888 www.tate.org.uk 

It is planned to extend the galleries to show a few pictures of every visit (where possible) from now on.

In part to celebrate 150 years since Voysey's birthday on the 28th May 1857, and also as much of Chris' work is inspired by, and to the designs of CFA Voysey, he has re-launched his website featuring many designs and details by Voysey.

BBC 2 on Wednesday 30th May at 19:00 - Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again - Letchworth.

Heaven: Folkwoven in England.
Jonathan Meades tells the story of Letchworth, the first British garden city. A social experiment, its legacy is Britain's ubiquitous, banal sprawl. Yet it all started so charmingly with naked dew-bathers, vegetarian mystics and sandal-makers roaming through Hertfordshire clay fields.

A project is being established to study the history of Newlyn copper and to bring together pictures, documents and oral history of this important Arts and Crafts venture. The outcomes of the project would be to increase public access to and enjoyment of the history and cultural significance of Newlyn copper, promoting exhibitions, web based information and a publication to capture and illustrate the Newlyn story. Download the newsletter in PDF format (920Kb).

The selling exhibition has part emphasis on CFA Voysey and AW Simpson of Kendal, as coincidentally it is the 150th anniversary of both men's birth.

BBC 4 on Sunday 20th May at 20:00 - Edwin Lutyens Master Architect.

As part of their Edwardians season, the BBC are showing architecture critic Patrick Nuttgens' 1981 documentary on the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, exploring the plans and buildings of the man who designed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and the city of New Delhi.

The variety of exhibits, from stained glass windows, enamels, tapestries, domestic furniture and homewares, filmed interiors, architectural plans, illustrated books and garden furniture will provide audiences with many routes of interest and much to admire. For enthusiasts, the exhibition will offer the opportunity to view key items as well as works rarely seen in public.

Read an extended description of this event.

ACMS members Chris and Jenny Vickers are holding their annual selling exhibition this year from 9 to 18 March. Download more details and also see their website which shows their furniture and metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Style made to commission or from stock.

Augustus Pugin designed the Houses of Parliament. He designed cathedrals, churches and grand country houses. He created furniture, lighting and wallpaper. His mid-19th-century ideas about what ordinary houses should look like are hugely influential today.

The award will provide the foundation stone of the £10m Hope Appeal to save the Gallery. The Gallery has already reached over £1m of pledges and gifts, but still needs to continue fundraising. If you would like to make a donation online now to the Hope Appeal please go to www.justgiving.com/wattsgallery.

The Watts Gallery

VOTE Watts Gallery on Sunday 17 September

The Watts Gallery

There will also be a Restoration Roadshow at the gallery on Sunday 30 July 10am-6pm.

The Annual General Meeting for the Arts and Crafts Movement in Surrey will be held on 24 May at the Tilford Institute. The meeting will be followed by an illustrated presentation "The Hope appeal and Watts Gallery past, present and future".

For more details, go to the Publications page.