Edward Atkinson Hornel - Glasgow School
Glasgow School:
Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864--1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children. He was a cousin of James Hornell.
He was born in Australia, of Scottish parents, and he was brought up and lived practically all his life in Scotland after his family moved to Kirkcudbright in 1866. He studied for three years at the art school at Edinburgh, and for two years at Antwerp under Professor Verlat. Returning from Antwerp in 1885, he met George Henry and associated himself with the Glasgow Boys.
Hornel and Henry collaborated upon The Druids Bringing in the Mistletoe (1890), a procession of druidic priests bringing in the sacred mistletoe, gorgeous with polychrome and gold. The two worked side by side to achieve decorative splendor of color, Hornel boldly and freely employing texture effects produced by loading and scraping, roughening, smoothing, and staining. In 1893--94 the two artists spent a year and a half in Japan, where Hornel learned much about decorative design and spacing. Towards the close of the nineties his colors, while preserving their glow and richness, became more refined and more atmospheric, and his drawing more naturalistic, combining sensuous appeal with emotional and poetic significance. In 1901 he declined election to the Royal Scottish Academy. A member of Glasgow Art Club, Hornel exhibited in the club's annual exhibitions.
In 1901 he acquired Broughton House, a townhouse and garden in Kirkcudbright, which was his main residence for the rest of his life. On his death the house and library were donated for the benefit of the citizens and Broughton House is now administered by the National Trust for Scotland.
There are examples of his works in the museums of Aberdeen, Buffalo, St. Louis, Toronto, Montreal, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Hull, Bath, and Liverpool.
Music: Ed Alleyne Johnson: Life On Mars Parisienne Walkways
Gardens of the Cotswolds - GardenTours.com
We start this tour on 22 May 2019 in London at the very comfortable Doubletree by Hilton West End Hotel where you will meet your tour leader and fellow garden visitors during complimentary welcome drinks. We spend the second day of the tour visiting the world famous Chelsea Flower Show where you will see first hand the work of some of the world’s best garden designers. Over the next 4 days we explore a number of exceptional historic and contemporary gardens in the Cotswolds. Boughton Castle, with a walled garden laid out by Gertrude Jekyll, Hidcote Manor, the Arts & Crafts masterpiece which is by far one of Britain’s greatest gardens, the all-organic garden at Snowshill as well as the contemporary gardens at Broughton Grange Estate are just four of the 10 gardens that we visit on this tour and which are sure to leave you with a lasting impression of these two regions of the UK. We return to London from the Cotswolds for the last night of the tour. For those that stay in London just a little longer we offer a complimentary visit to the newly opened Temperate House at Kew Gardens on May 28th, the last day of our tour.
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Explore the gardens of Stoneywell, an arts and crafts gem
Take a look around the gardens of Stoneywell cottage, an Arts and Crafts gem and home to a unique collection of rhododendrons. This Leicestershire home opens to visitors in February 2015 but you can get an exclusive tour of the grounds with gardener Joe Thompson in this video. Find out more about Stoneywell at
Music: Continue Life by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Kirkcudbright Grand Parade 2018 A
Leading The Kirkcudbright Grand Parade, is this years Cornet Jack Bell & Cornet's Lass Elen Austin. The Silver Band, is Annan Town Band.
Holiday Home Promo: Blue Cottage
If you have a statement to make do it with video! If a picture tells a thousand words then a 2 minute video tells a thousand pictures! The owners of this high-end holiday cottage wanted to promote that luxury feel and all those little extras, thereby attracting the more discerning holiday guest willing to pay that little extra. Blue Cottage is a fabulous holiday property located in the South East of England, near Farnham.