Across the pond

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To Bridport to buy a water butt before the storms come again. On the way back we call at the village of Eype to take in an exhibition by one of the local artists. First picture that hits me as we go into the church is something that looks remarkable like the Albert Bridge. However the other scenes were mostly of the Dorset countryside in a wide variety of styles. The one I liked most was a striking picture of silver birch trees around a lake at Little Sea in Studland.

My picture here, ‘The White Sun in Winter’ shows the Purbeck coast.

Apparently Stephen John Bishop
is one of our best contemporary landscape painters who is continuing the tradition of ‘en plein air’ painting of Monet and Van Gogh. And like Constable Bishop believes that ‘painting is another word for feeling’.

It was a very sunny day but the beach was empty bar one fisherman. Maybe the tourists are deterred by the narrow lanes they to negotiate from the A35. The next picture is of the coastal path which dips down to the beach before climbing steeply back up towards Golden Cap.

We stopped at another village on the way home. Symondsbury has only a few houses but it boasts an old thatched pub and a school built in 1868 which is still open.

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