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A talk on the marine life of Lyme Bay can be heard at Sladers Yard in West Bay on Thursday, September 1.

A talk on the marine life of Lyme Bay can be heard at Sladers Yard in West Bay on Thursday, September 1.

A NEW creative writing charity will offer a fun challenge at a renowned literary festival.

A HIGHLY acclaimed artist will be exhibiting his work in West Bay from this month. Julian Bailey, known for his brightly coloured paintings and drawings, will be exhibiting drypoint prints at Sladers Yard in West Bay from Saturday, July 17 until Sunday, September 12. Mr Bailey's Dorset landscapes are in private and public collections throughout Great Britain and the USA. His work has been shown at Sladers Yard since 2009. The exhibition will focus on Mr Bailey's life drawing works, which he has been developed over the last three or four years. Julian Bailey's drypoint prints will jo...

Alf Stockham: visionary intensity Alfred Stockham, the artist and teacher, who has died aged 87, was a gifted painter in oils whose work never quite achieved the popularity and acclaim it deserved. Tending to work on a small scale, he made highly individual, well-designed, distinctively textured and patterned paintings, often of lyrical and visionary intensity. Intelligent, warm-hearted and generous-spirited, he had an ability to keep surprising his audience. Although there were certain subjects he favoured, such as boats and the beach, he would vary his interpretation from abstraction to bro...