Welcome to Tate Cattistock
IT’S A good question: which village in West Dorset has the highest concentration of artists? I would have guessed Nettlecombe, or perhaps Symondsbury, or even Chideock; there is much more to Chideock than speed cameras, traffic fumes, and signs outside The Clock House advertising its “ugly landlord”. But then, lo, over the hills comes another [...]
How Sir Walter Ralegh’s sex life links West Dorset to Apocalypse Now
Strange but true: Queen Elizabeth I’s discovery of Sir Walter Ralegh’s secret marriage links West Dorset to the birth of the British Empire and the Vietnam War
Artist 763, corrugated
ARTIST Liz Somerville is opening up her studio in Cattistock this weekend for a Christmas Sale. There’s something about her technique, and her sense of colour, which both captures and recasts the Dorset landscape, its atmosphere, its boundaries, its contours, its delights… I could write whole alphabets of praise; I really rate her work. Anyway, [...]