daphne sandham

29th February 2024

A cold day but the sun shines through the window in the front room at Briarwood,

painting tulips in a nice tin jug

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23rd September 2023

I will be at Printfest at The Minories Colchester on Saturday 23rd September with basic kit for visitors to make their own monotype.

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19th June 2023

The Rambling Rector is in flower, and the sun is shining painting in the Garden of Curiosities

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26th April 2023

oil on board painted in the garden listening to women's hour on radio 4 and the buzz of bees on the flowers

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30th March 2023

Colchester Art Society Spring Exhibition At The Benham Gallery Cuckoo Farm 30th March -16th April

my little painting of a lady in a blue teeshirt

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4th Feb 2023

Start the year with my Valentine exhibition at Bodgeners Gallery 

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27th July

Summer Classes 2022

Drawing and Painting in the Garden of Curiosities

At 86, Fronks Road, Dovercourt, Essex CO12 3RS

Plein air painting and drawing and/or opt in to activities in ceramics, basic printmaking, 

materials techniques 

Wednesdays 3^rd/10^th/17^th/24^th/31^st in August, £20 per day, 10-12 and 1-3

Message or phone me for more info if you want to come for one or more days or half days

Daphnesandham@gmail.com 07813732078

Check us out on instagram/briarwood_gardenofcuriosities

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7th May

And the apple trees are in full bloom, this James Grieves was planted in the Garden of Curiosities in 1988 the spring after the hurricane.This tree is the first of our apple trees to flower, picking up the reflected warmth of the corrugated iron shed roof

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26th April

Lovely tulips in the Garden of Curiosities

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20th March

Spring equinox a lovely spring day, painting in the Garden of Curiosities

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1st February

Painting a new series of seagulls, too cold in the garden studio so painting in comfort in the front room, lovely sunny day

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18th January 

Exhibition in the Foyer of Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre HAHC paintings from the moving image Roller Derby 

5th December 2021

Colchester Art Society Christmas Exhibition, my ceramic "Pussycat Pussycat"sitting in the window watching the people go by

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20th August 2021

Melvyn And Daphne open their studios set in a wildlife garden as part of Dovercourt Open Studios, a walking art trail near to Dovercourt Beach. Friday Aug 20th 2 - 8pm, Saturday  21st, Sunday August 22nd, Monday 23rd 11 - 5pm

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10th July 2021

We are open as part of Harwich Secret Gardens, flowers and gardens exhibition 'In the Window' and from the rear of the shop look through the window into the secret courtyard

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1st May 2021

Bodgeners Gallery is now open again Saturday mornings 11 am - 1.30 pm and by appointment

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Ist March 2021

Bodgeners Gallery "In the Window Spring 21 exhibition", new work by gallery artists and some lovely new flower bowls by Jean Parsons

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11th February 2021

Its snowy outside in the Garden of Art Studio so painting a new series of seagulls in the front room bay window

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29th January 2021

"Valentine '21 exhibition 

Bodgeners Gallery is now on Facebook and Instagram. Each day until Valentines day we will be featuring a work by a gallery artist on the theme of love

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13th January 2021

"In the Window 'Hello '21" exhibition at Bodgeners Gallery 52, Church Street Harwich Essex

during the lockdown we have been putting changing exhibitions in the window. follow us on instagram @bodgeners_gallery 

14th November 2020

Pussycat Pussycat comfy in the Colchester Art Society Christmas Online Exhibition

https://www.colchesterartsociety.co.uk/christmas-exhibition

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15th August 2020

"Spot the Dog" lithograph  is now in the first Colchester Art Society online summer exhibition www.colchesterartsociety.co.uk/online-exhibition

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6th August 2020

my seagull painting has flown to Firstsite in Colchester as part of the joint CAS IAS exhibition "Borders" 

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14th May 2020

"Daphne Sandhams Cats" exhibition planned for Bodgeners Gallery spring 2021, Oil paintings, watercolours, etchings, lithographs and silk screen prints and of course ceramics. Ceramic cats in various stages. they will go into the kiln 4 or 5 times before they are all complete

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1st May 2020

ceramic fairy houses planned for the Fantasia Garden for the Harwich Festival at Fronks Road. Event now cancelled but the fairies have been out for May Day, mayday indeed

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20th March 2020

We are now all in lockdown, Bodgeners is closed for the foreseeable future and my exhibition cancelled, thinking ahead to next spring

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3rd March 2020

Have selected the image for the invite, Exhibition "Daphne Sandham's People Pictures" opening at Bodgeners Gallery Harwich 16th May. Paintings, etchings, lithographs, monotypes, portraits, life drawings, ceramics, and the fabrics and objects in the pictures. Also for sale, pieces from my silk scarf and silk shirt collection

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22nd February 2020

In good company, two silk screen prints from the "Love" book at the Secret Art Sale 2020 at the Minories Colchester

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8th February 2020

sorting my collection of vintage fabrics from the 80's for the Craft Fair, the St Nicholas Church Clock Fund

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