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Having a ruff day: Kennel Club exhibition highlights the plight of vulnerable spaniel breeds

1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annunciata Elwes

A few weeks ago we shed a much-needed light on Britain's at risk native dog breeds. And now, we're going full spaniel. Over the past year, photographer Melody Fisher has been travelling the UK taking photographs of ‘vulnerable’ spaniel breeds with declining registration numbers, such as clumber, field, Sussex, Welsh springer and Spanish water spaniels.
'There is nothing like it on this side of Arcadia': Hampshire's Grange Festival is making radical changes ahead of the 2025 country-house opera season | Country Life

1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annunciata Elwes

Country-house opera season is almost upon us and, this year, our eyes are drawn to The Grange Festival in Hampshire, which has made some radical changes to its programme and ticketing structure under the helm of new chief executive Tyler Stoops and existing artistic director Michael Chance. It was once said of The Grange, near Alresford, that ‘there is nothing finer… nothing like it on this side of Arcadia’ and it’s true the building has had many reincarnations.
Good things come in threes: Sir Cecil Beaton's love of flowers, fashion and fabulous friends in a trio of exhibitions

2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annunciata Elwes

It’s been 45 years since Sir Cecil Beaton died, yet the Vogue favourite retains a certain cool factor that has inspired three new exhibitions this year. This Society figure of many talents — portrait, fashion and war photography, Oscar and Tony award-winning set and costume design, interiors, acting and illustration — was ever inspired by gardens and flowers.
You've got mail: Royal Mail unveils eight folklore-inspired stamps

2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annunciata Elwes

If you see a sinister creature with long limbs, straggly hair and sharp teeth that looks like it wants to grab you, don’t go into the river. The grindylow of Lancashire and Yorkshire folklore is among eight British mythical beings to be depicted in a new set of stamps by artist Adam Simpson.
Have your say in the Historic Houses Garden of the Year Awards 2025

2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annunciata Elwes

Eight glorious gardens have been shortlisted for the Historic Houses (HH) Garden of the Year Award 2025 and the public is now invited to vote. Showcasing independently owned gardens, parks and grounds, the awards is in its 41st year and is sponsored by Christie’s.
Seeing you seeing me: How did British artists portray eachother in the 20th and 21st centuries?

3 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annunciata Elwes

Mary McCartney's double-take-worthy photograph of Dame Tracey Emin posing as Frida Kahlo (above) is among 150 works that make up Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists, which opens at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester on May 17 (until November 2). The exhibition looks at the ways artists working in Britain portrayed each other during the 20th and 21st centuries, a cosy kind of subject with themes of admiration, rivalry, emulation, inspiration and identity.
An idyllic countryside home that's light, spacious and comes with a Grade II-listed folly

4 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annabel Dixon |Annunciata Elwes

It’s five years since the Covid-19 lockdown, and thus almost five years since Barnard Castle earned a place in the national consciousness, thanks to Dominic Cummings and his [checks notes] decision ‘to test his eyesight’ by visiting this small town in Country Durham town. In fairness to Mr Cummings, we can see why he chose Barnard’s Castle over Specsavers: this charming and historic settlement of just over 5,000 people is a sight for sore eyes.
'This is the funnest exhibition London has seen in recent memory': Grayson Perry’s new show at the Wallace Collection explores the delusions of a fictitious woman

4 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annunciata Elwes

‘I’m not one for naked cherubs and goddesses throwing thunderbolts or whatever. That's not my kind of thing,’ explains Sir Grayson Perry at the opening of his new exhibition. Wandering around Hertford House in London, he describes how at times he marvelled at the craftsmanship, but found many pieces ‘cloying’. It was the discovery that self-taught outsider artist Madge Gill (1882–1961) had exhibited there in 1942 that became a trigger.
The extraordinary Egyptian-style Leeds landmark hoping to become a second British Library - and they used to let sheep graze on the roof

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Annunciata Elwes

A project to convert an extraordinary Egyptian-style Victorian mill in Leeds into the northern outpost of the British Library has been awarded £10 million from the Government. The total cost of the conversion is estimated at £70 million and, although the scheme received £1 million from Historic England in 2022 to make the landmark watertight, there is some way to go. A Grade I-listed former flax-spinning mill, Temple Works has been empty for 20 years.
Everything you might've missed last week - including the new Aston Martin

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Rosie Paterson |Annunciata Elwes |James Fisher |Carla Passino

Impressive horsepower Last week, members of the public and press at Cheltenham Festival were treated to a first look of Aston Martin's new Vantage Roadster. Look out for a test drive and review on the Country Life the website in early May.

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Articles

Having a ruff day: Kennel Club exhibition highlights the plight of vulnerable spaniel breeds

'There is nothing like it on this side of Arcadia': Hampshire's Grange Festival is making radical changes ahead of the 2025 country-house opera season | Country Life

Good things come in threes: Sir Cecil Beaton's love of flowers, fashion and fabulous friends in a trio of exhibitions

You've got mail: Royal Mail unveils eight folklore-inspired stamps

Have your say in the Historic Houses Garden of the Year Awards 2025

Seeing you seeing me: How did British artists portray eachother in the 20th and 21st centuries?

An idyllic countryside home that's light, spacious and comes with a Grade II-listed folly

'This is the funnest exhibition London has seen in recent memory': Grayson Perry’s new show at the Wallace Collection explores the delusions of a fictitious woman

The extraordinary Egyptian-style Leeds landmark hoping to become a second British Library - and they used to let sheep graze on the roof

Everything you might've missed last week - including the new Aston Martin

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Sarah Booker-Lewis

Frank le Duc

Nicola Caines

Beatriz Cruz

Kairen Kemp

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