art at the farm

We hope to encourage artistic endeavours of all kinds here at Racquety Farm. The landscape offers ample food for those who like to draw and paint. Ros has been a painter/printer, off and on, for many years.

The print shown here was part of a series prepared for H Art (Herefordshire Art Week) some years ago. Some of these prints are hanging in Racquety Lodge. The brief was to highlight The Hedgerow and its importance in our landscape.

These days the ‘Hedgerow’ represents a mini wilderness. Hedgerows are sculptured yet wild, havens for beautiful everyday plant life and important contributors to the maintenance of bio-diversity in a countryside that is so intensively managed for farming. Hedgerows also give us glimpses of wider views. In fact, they frequently dominate our connection with the landscape – yet we imagine ourselves to be looking over them, across them and beyond them. Take another close-up look, they are fascinating and very busy!

Other art forms that have enjoyed using Racquety Farm as a base and inspiration are:

• Dance - Ballet for ‘would be’ swans in the studio

• Writers workshops for community theatre

• Singing workshops

H Art Week in September at Larchwood Studio.