Exhibitions
Artist Joanna Jacobs with Triptych - Three Mexican Beauties
We stage regular exhibitions at Pythouse Upper Barn, near Tisbury, on the Dorset / Wiltshire border. The 2007 Summer show featured new work by Joanna Jacobs, rare lithographs by Ronald Searle and people prints by Johnny Bull.
We are situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty near Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Pythouse Barns were last on the world stage in November 1830, the scene of the most notorious of the Swing Riots. Now they have re-emerged from obscurity to stage Art of Illustration's regular Exhibitions.
The show featured Joanna Jacobs' vivid mixed media works, incorporating old photographs, silver foil, bottlecaps and other objets trouvees are essentially homage to her subjects - people whose personality or achievements have deeply impressed her.
Johnny Bull is one of the UK's most innovative and exuberant graphic artists. Working with photography and digital media, he is concerned with the dynamics of people as individuals within crowds...
Ronald Searle is one of the most distinguished humorous illustrators alive today. We exhibited a selection of his brilliant and now very rare stone lithographs.
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Directions:
Pythouse Barn is near Shaftesbury, Dorset, between Semley and Tisbury. Postcode is SP3 6PA. From Semley, follow the sign to Pythouse, Newtown. Go past Pythouse on the hill on your left, under a bridge, over a crossroads with a half-timbered house on the Right. Go on another 50 yards and Pythouse barns are on the left - you see the gable-end of a stone barn overlooking the road. There is a Royal Mail postbox in the driveway. From Tisbury: Take the road to Newtown, Semley, passing Tisbury Church on your left. About half a mile beyond Newtown, Pythouse barns are on the Right, shortly after a sign for Pythouse Farm.
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