Tony Heaton MDesRCA works from his studio in an old rope making factory in Bridport. Tony works in mixed media – line, coloured pencil and crayon. to produce drawings linked to famous English authors, playwrights, composers also historical and world heritage sites, not forgetting famous landmarks in Bridport and West Bay such as Balsons, The George and the new Jurassic Pier.
Anthony Dodds of East street, Bridport has just launched a new website which specializes in English music for the classical guitar. Mr Dodds has been teaching guitar in West Dorset and East Devon for the last twenty years having gained his teacher’s diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in 1988. The publishing of music began in 1991 and the first books contained a variety of arrangements mostly suitable for the younger player. In 2004 he decided to concentrate purely on English music and this website and the books of music therein are the result. Visit Capriol.co.uk
The Guy Mallinson Woodland Workshop is celebrating its first anniversary in West Dorset by announcing three new two-day courses - Totem Pole Carving, Woodworking For Wildlife and Making A Rustic Stool.
These courses are very much in response to public demand, and are intended to compliment the existing and very popular Bowl Carving and Kitchen And Garden Pole Lathe Turning courses.
As the blustering flush of Spring bursts across Bridport with its lusty longings, delirious daydreams and spent piles of cherry blossom quivering their last in the gutters – one can’t but help think: To capture a snapshot of nature at it’s best, That, my friends, is a challenge worth pursuing. Being helplessly at the beck and call of such seasonal stirrings Bridport Radio would like to declare,“The inaugral Bridport Radio photographical competition is open for entries!”. The twin yinging and yanging themes being: “The Beauty of Nature” &/or “Hideous Desecrations”
John Stevens has always taken photographs from the time he studied at the Central School of Arts London (now central St Martins). At that time he worked entirely in black and white. After careers in design, horticulture and as an art dealer and gallery owner he now works as a photographer and painter. Specializing in macro photography of flowers he also takes pictures of landscapes, the sea, female figures and faces, more recently experimenting with abstract form and colour. These pictures can be described as “art photos” as they have been enhanced on a computer which results in a painterly quality. After many years in Suffolk John now lives in Bridport, Dorset. Visit his website: jsphotoimages.com
James Verner uses wood for its aesthetic as well as practical qualities in well-proportioned designs. The superbly finished surfaces allow the wood to speak for itself. The Studio produces furniture for clients world wide. Rare English hardwoods are immortalised in the furniture, their grain patterns displayed decoratively in highly finished, durable surfaces. www.jamesverner.co.uk
Thanks to a £44,400 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Bridport will be the centre of a major art historical event in April 2008. “Fra H. Newbery, a Dorset Trail,” will consist of a series of linked exhibitions and events across Dorset, centred on Bridport, to highlight and celebrate the influence of artist and educationist Francis H. Newbery. Fra Newbery was brought up and educated in Bridport and went on to become the Director of the Glasgow School of Art in 1885. He is widely acknowledged to be a key figure in the promotion of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School.
The Bridport Prize is an annual international creative writing competition for poetry and short stories. The Bridport Prize is the biggest open creative writing competition in the English language. It has been the first step in the careers of many established poets and novelists.
The artist Keith Thomas, from Bridport, has won The Kenneth Allsop Trophy for the Bridport Open Art Competition with his entry "Pelican". Mr Thomas¹s stainless steel sculpture received the highest number of votes from visitors to the exhibition at Bridport Arts Centre during August and September. The exhibition welcomed over two-and-a-half thousand visitors to see more than two hundred pieces of work from artists throughout the South West.
Tony Heaton MDesRCA works from his studio in an old rope making factory in Bridport. Tony works in mixed media – line, coloured pencil and crayon. to produce drawings linked to famous English authors, playwrights, composers also historical and world heritage sites, not forgetting famous landmarks in Bridport and West Bay such as Balsons, The George and the new Jurassic Pier.
Anthony Dodds of East street, Bridport has just launched a new website which specializes in English music for the classical guitar. Mr Dodds has been teaching guitar in West Dorset and East Devon for the last twenty years having gained his teacher’s diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in 1988. The publishing of music began in 1991 and the first books contained a variety of arrangements mostly suitable for the younger player. In 2004 he decided to concentrate purely on English music and this website and the books of music therein are the result. 
The Guy Mallinson Woodland Workshop is celebrating its first anniversary in West Dorset by announcing three new two-day courses - Totem Pole Carving, Woodworking For Wildlife and Making A Rustic Stool.
As the blustering flush of Spring bursts across Bridport with its lusty longings, delirious daydreams and spent piles of cherry blossom quivering their last in the gutters – one can’t but help think: To capture a snapshot of nature at it’s best, That, my friends, is a challenge worth pursuing. Being helplessly at the beck and call of such seasonal stirrings Bridport Radio would like to declare,“The inaugral Bridport Radio photographical competition is open for entries!”. The twin yinging and yanging themes being: “The Beauty of Nature” &/or “Hideous Desecrations”
John Stevens has always taken photographs from the time he studied at the Central School of Arts London (now central St Martins). At that time he worked entirely in black and white. After careers in design, horticulture and as an art dealer and gallery owner he now works as a photographer and painter. Specializing in macro photography of flowers he also takes pictures of landscapes, the sea, female figures and faces, more recently experimenting with abstract form and colour. These pictures can be described as “art photos” as they have been enhanced on a computer which results in a painterly quality. After many years in Suffolk John now lives in Bridport, Dorset. Visit his website: 
James Verner uses wood for its aesthetic as well as practical qualities in well-proportioned designs. The superbly finished surfaces allow the wood to speak for itself. The Studio produces furniture for clients world wide. Rare English hardwoods are immortalised in the furniture, their grain patterns displayed decoratively in highly finished, durable surfaces. 
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