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Our adventure ….

It began in Hastings in 2018….

Foreword

In March 2018, East Sussex based Creative Force received a confirmed grant

• f £32,700 from the Heritage

Lottery Fund (HLF) to deliver its project Exploring Marianne North. Thanks to money raised by National Lottery players, the project aimed to raise a much greater awareness of the inspirational Victorian explorer, artist and botanist, Marianne North who was born and lived for much of her early life in Hastings. Working with a number of partners across the town, the project developed a series of creative events for people of all ages to get to know more about this extraordinary woman, her adventures and her exquisite works.

The Adventure The project undertook a week-long intensive artist’s residency with Sheridan Quigley who, working with volunteer Mary Dawson, worked with every child in the Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, which sits next door to Marianne’s birthplace and within the original grounds of her home. A fine gallery of pictures, inspired by Marianne’s life and works, was created and displayed by the children at their school. At their Great Exhibition event on 25th May, the children and their parents were joined by Amber Rudd, MP, the Mayor of Hastings, Councillor Nigel Sinden and the Deputy Mayor, Councillor James Bacon. Marianne North herself even made an appearance! A series of presentations ‘Introducing Marianne North’ took place during May from which a group of 10 women from East Sussex was recruited to research and discover more about Marianne. Their research, deliciously illustrated by her paintings, was compiled into a booklet, ‘Travelling with Marianne North’, to give readers a taste of her experiences. The free booklet was published during September 2018 and distributed throughout Hastings. The Hastings Local History Group designed a pop up exhibition that follows Marianne’s life using her rich and beautiful art works and quotes from her ‘Recollections’. The exhibition ran from September 2018 to March 2019. Bohemia Walled Garden Heritage Open Day The Heritage Open Day transported the garden into Victorian times and into the fascinating life of Marianne North with talks, musical entertainment, story-telling and Victorian toys. Discovering Marianne North Thursday 20th September Hastings Museum and Art Gallery The Making of a Flower Painter We were delighted that Christine Blakemore, the Great, Great Niece of Marianne North, joined us for the day to tell us about Marianne’s earlier years as a child and young woman, including her travels with her father to The Levant. Peppered with touches of detail that reflect Marianne’s personality, Christine’s talk brought the Marianne North story to life. Marianne North and the Restoration of her Gallery at Kew Gardens Assisted by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Royal Botanic Gardens embarked on a programme to conserve and restore the Marianne North Gallery to its original Victorian splendour. Jonathan Farley ACR, Senior Conservator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew talked about Marianne North's travels, her construction of the gallery, RBG Kew's restoration and the odd things he discovered along the way. Chile: In the footsteps of Darwin and Marianne North Horticulturalists Penny Hammond & Sue Minter, both formerly of RBG Kew, travelled together to Chile in 2008 to see, growing in their natural habitat, the many Chilean species we grow in our gardens. Whilst there they found themselves following the travels of Marianne North. Their talk linked the pictures painted by Marianne with recent views and close ups of the plants seen, revealing how observant she was as a painter. Finally …… We went back to Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School during the Autumn term, 2018, to deliver an After School Club with 15, year 5 and 6 children. They learned how to research about Marianne North, how to paint with oils, took a trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to see Marianne’s Work for themselves and produced a short film about their

• findings. This is available on the Marianne North website from June 2019.

In 2019, our two very different exhibitions will also appear at the Museum in the Park in Stroud, close to Alderley, where Marianne lived for the final years of her life. To see the resources we have created, visit our website: www.mariannenorth.uk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/exploringmariannenorth/ Twitter: @MarianneNorth30

Marianne North week at Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School May 2018….

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On Friday 25th May 2018, following a week's work in school with artist Sheridan Quigley, an exhibition of the children's work was shown in the school hall.

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The work was hung in the same manner as Marianne North's work in her

• gallery. The children also displayed their sketchbooks which will be used

to show their progress every year when the school will hold an annual Marianne North week.

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This was further enhanced by the display of books about Marianne North along with flowers and plants that had been used by the children as inspiration for their work and learning about Marianne North. Guests included parents of the children, local MP Amber Rudd, the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Hastings, representatives from the local council and the Jerwood Gallery, residents from Marianne House and the children themselves.

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We also had a guest from The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Kew has been generous with its support for the project and continues to be so.

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The guests and children were charmed by a visit from ‘Marianne North’ who opened the event by cutting a red ribbon.

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Teachers' comments from the week included: “Having every pupil’s work included in the exhibition felt very special… Having an artist come in to work with pupils was brilliant!” – Year 6 Teacher “Having art books especially for Marianne North Week was great! It was good to make it all cross-curricular – children enjoyed having a specific country to focus on. The children learnt great skills during the artist sessions.” – Year 4 Teacher

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Around 150 years ago, when the world was a very different place, there was a lady who loved flowers. She loved flowers and plants and trees and grasses, anything that grew. She lived in a big house with a lovely garden and even had greenhouses to grow special plants in. One day the lady went to visit Kew Gardens in London where there was a magnificent greenhouse. It was so hot and muggy inside, it was just like a tropical

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shapes, sizes and colours. She loved this greenhouse and all of the different plants in it so much that she visited it whenever she could. The lady also loved to paint. She particularly loved to paint pictures of the flowers and plants that she enjoyed so very much. She also loved to travel, although of course travelling was very different in those days. There were no aeroplanes and no cars, just wagons, carriages, horses and, of course,

• legs. There were some trains but not many yet. Carriages pulled by big engines with

steam puffing out of the funnel. One day the lady decided that she wanted to go on an adventure. Not a little

• adventure. OH NO! A great big amazing adventure to explore the world and find

as many plants and animals as she possibly could. She wanted to see the huge redwood trees in America. She wanted to see banana trees and pineapples, koalas and long slimy snakes. She wanted to see plants that lured insects into their chambers and then went… snap! Closed shut and ate them. And most of all she wanted to paint them and share them with people back in England so that they would also be able to see the wonderful things that grew in different parts of the world. So she packed up her bags and off she went……..

She spent 14 years travelling back and forth around the world, tirelessly painting and bringing her pictures back to England. She went to: Canada, America, Jamaica, Brazil, Tenerife and Japan. To Borneo, Java, Ceylon, India, Australia and New Zealand. She even went to Singapore, to South Africa, the Seychelles and Chile too. She went to as many places as she possibly could and she painted and painted and painted. She saw huge trumpet flowers and lilies and fruits. She smelt the sweet smells of exotic blooms. She saw monkeys and spiders and plants like pots. All things of great wonder including the massive redwood trees that she so longed to see. She was sad that people were cutting them down and could see already that sometimes people don’t look after nature as well as they might. But she was still amazed that the tree stumps from the giant redwoods were large enough to hold a dance on! Magnificent! Can you imagine? She travelled to all of those countries by boat, carriage,

• ccasionally some trains, on horseback or sometimes on donkeys or mules. Often, to

get right into the jungles and difficult places, she had to walk for miles and miles. She climbed cliffs and crossed rivers just to see the best of all things right there in the wild, where she knew it all belonged. And she did all of this wearing her long Victorian skirts and, with some help, carrying her paints and paper and easel. She was a true adventurer and explorer. An incredible and very brave lady. She even found plants that no-one in the Western world had ever seen before and these plants are named after her. What else do you say? Well, let me see… she had a gallery built for all of her paintings back in England at Kew Gardens, right there where the hothouse is that inspired her to travel around the world. It meant that people could visit and see all the wonders of the world that she had been able to see. The gallery is still there, you know, so that people can see her paintings and wonder at her extraordinary travels around the world.

We did drawing and exploring in Marianne’s garden (the

• nly children in the world who could!) as well as

learning about Marianne, Victorian history, geography and food from different parts of the world…………….

Photos: Teri Sayers-Cooper for Creative Force

We created our own works inspired by Marianne’s paintings and beautiful plants brought in especially for us to draw including orchids, bromeliads, pitcher plants and lilies…………….

Photos: Teri Sayers-Cooper for Creative Force

In reception we did leaf printing, painting with big, paint brush swooshes and even used washing up brushes. One pupil exclaimed that “I’ve had the best day of my life!”

Photos: Teri Sayers-Cooper for Creative Force

Finally, on 25th May, Sheridan put everything together and created the Marianne North Great Exhibition in our school hall. We were so proud of our work.

Photos: Anna Winter

Even our swishes and blots looked great!

Photos: Anna Winter

Other people really seemed to like it too!

Photos: Anna Winter

Marianne North herself opened the Great Exhibition and talked to us about her adventures which was wonderful!

Photos: Anna Winter

Some other VIP’s came to our Marianne North Great Exhibition too.

Photos: Anna Winter

What a fantastic day!

The Presentations

We delivered several public presentations, promoted as 'Introducing Marianne North' during May / June. We held three presentations, all of which were fully booked. We also held a presentation in Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, open to parents of children in the school and residents from the Marianne House complex. In all we reached around 100 people from which 10 were recruited as volunteers to work on the Booklet project. Feedback from the presentations included: "Thank you so much - what a fascinating insight into Marianne's life. A woman with such courage, a pioneer, explorer, painter, singer, so many wonderful talents and an inspiration for young women.... Good luck with everything" "Marianne's story glows out of the Victorian past, like her

• paintings. Thank you for the detail."

"Thank you for reviving childhood interest and love of the paintings in Kew." "Wonderful insight into her work and journey - great to build from this. Thank you." "I feel totally inspired to recreate one / all of Marianne's trips! Very much looking forward to the workshops. Thank you..!" "Really informative - left me wanting to find out more about this amazing woman". "Really enjoyed your intro - I have been to the M.N. Gallery at Kew but had no idea of her connection with Hastings! Reminded me of the context of her work. Many thanks."

The Booklet Workshops

The booklet workshops with 9 women and 1 younger participant took place between 20th June 2018 and 20th July 2018 at Sacred Heart Primary School which proved to be the perfect venue. We worked with project and local graphic designer, Kristina Alexander of Super 8 Design who developed the design concept. Our introduction included a visit in the school grounds, which were, of course, once upon a time also Marianne's gardens. Further, as some of our participants live in Marianne's home, we were lucky enough to be invited into the house to see for ourselves, where Marianne North lived and to see the, albeit slightly changed views of those she would have had from her balcony. Everyone visiting felt privileged to enjoy this extraordinary opportunity.

The Booklet workshops: intense and fascinating

Photos: Teri Sayers-Cooper for Creative Force

The Booklet workshops: intense and fascinating

Photos: Teri Sayers-Cooper for Creative Force

It started in Hastings in 1830…. The The booklet booklet introducti introduction

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On the Old London Road in Hastings stands a large, white house in which, in 1830, Marianne North was born into a comfortable existence. Self-educated, (she detested school), Marianne was intelligent and sensitive with a lively sense of humour and a talent for singing. Her family, wealthy and well-connected, eschewed Victorian conformities, all of which stood her in good stead and undoubtedly helped to de- velop the remarkable person that she was to become. She spent her winters at Hastings Lodge “a large house with lots of bells, servants and visitors surrounded by gardens”. There were "three glass-houses: one for or- chids, another for temperate plants, and another quite cool for vines and cuttings" where Marianne and her father would "work like slaves". Summers were spent in Rougham, the family’s country home (where she owned a pet parrot called ‘Twenty Pounds’), and travelling in Europe, North Africa and The Levant. It was her passion, some would say obsession, shared with her father, for plants, flowers, nature and travelling that secured her place in history. These along with her magnificent paintings now housed in her gallery at The Botanic Gardens, Kew. From her first visit to Kew’s Temperate House in the 1850s, Marianne dreamed of ex- ploring the world to paint all things beautiful and exotic in nature. From 1870 she followed that dream, hunting out plants across the world bringing hundreds of gloriously rich oil paintings of flowers, trees and animals to an astonished audi- ence in England. She also kept a journal, edited into the intensely personal, beauti- fully descriptive and evocative ‘Recollections of a Happy Life’, that tell of her re- markable experiences. In 2018 the ‘Exploring Marianne North’ project worked with a group of 10 women from Hastings to research and discover more about Marianne. Their research, deli- ciously illustrated by her paintings, has been compiled into this booklet to give a taste of her experiences. We hope you enjoy ‘Travelling with Marianne North’. Pub ublishe lished in S in Sep eptem tember ber 2 201 018

The Booklet

The Hastings Local History Group designed a pop up exhibition that follows Marianne’s life using her rich and beautiful art works and quotes from her ‘Recollections’. It includes a fascinating look at Hastings whilst she lived in the town and her adventures thereafter. It showed at Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse St, Hastings TN34 3AU

From September 2018 to March 2019 The exhibition has been shared with The Museum in the Park in Stroud, close to where Marianne lived during her last years. They are showing this, along with the booklet exhibition during Summer 2019

The Launch on 4th September

Photos: Anna Winter

On Sunday 16th September 2018 we joined forces with the Bohemia Walled Garden in Summerfields Wood The Heritage Open Day transported the garden into Victorian times and into the fascinating life of Marianne North with talks, musical entertainment from Harmony One, art work and story-telling. It was a warm and beautiful day, perfect for launching the booklet and for showing the booklet as a poster exhibition. They posters were spread around the garden on easels, set at heights to allow adults and children to look at them. In an extraordinary feat of time travel Marianne North herself also made an appearance! To our delight so also did Sally and Tom North, the Great Great Nephew of Marianne. What a pleasure and a wonderful surprise. With thanks to the volunteers at Bohemia Walled Garden for such a special day.

Photos : Kristina Alexander

Photos : Ann Winter

Our VIPs!

Photos: Teri Sayers-Cooper for Creative Force

“Really enjoyed it. Lots to see. Great coffee and cakes!” “Fascinating piece of history! The information boards are stunningly beautiful and very informative. And the garden is the perfect setting!!” “Beautiful Exhibition. I specially like the involvement of the children in painting flowers and plants. Well done!” “What a lovely way to make sure Marianne North and her legacy is not forgotten. Loved the setting and clever use of easels with info. Well done!” “A lovely setting for a very interesting talk. Very Enjoyable” “Very interesting and educational day. Thank you” “Lovely—thanks a lot x” “Thank you for a really delightful event. I knew about Mari- anne North before, but it made a great afternoon. Perhaps we could have an Annie, Lady Brassey event too?” “Wonderful and fun. Well done” Cllr Nigel Sinden, Mayor of Hastings “Cool and Trendy” Feedback from the Bohemia Walled Garden event:

On Thursday 20th September 2018 Discovering Marianne North, took place at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

The Making of a Flower Painter You know when something special is going to take place when a member of the North family agrees to speak at your event. Christine Blakemore didn’t fail to deliver or impress. In her touching talk about her Great Great Aunt’s earlier life, Christine took us on a mesmerising journey, peppered with family anecdotes and relics that are not on public view and only a few people ever get to see. She brought along ’Aunt Pop’s precious satchel, an original painting and the guitar believed to have been given to Augustina, Marianne’s niece, by Marianne

• herself. Christine also appears to have been blessed with a beautiful singing voice, just as

Marianne was, as she played and sang along to the guitar in an impromptu lunch time

• performance. Quite simply wonderful!

Marianne North and the Restoration of her Gallery at Kew Gardens Jonathan Farley ACR, Senior Conservator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew treated our audience to an often humorous and fascinating account of Marianne’s life and the conservation of her paintings and gallery, a major project led by Jonathan. The more than £3million pound refurbishment, part funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, took several years to complete. Jonathan took us through the processes required to return the gallery and the works to their former glory. The team of conservators used photographs, specialist knowledge and detective-like research to determine and reproduce, for example, the beautiful flooring in the gallery and the lighting to be as close to the original as possible. The paintings themselves proved beyond tricky! Never deterred, however, each was digitally catalogued, restored and rehung in their exact position, as Marianne North herself decreed. See Kew’s website for more information about this extraordinary project. Chile: In the footsteps of Darwin and Marianne North Finally Sue Minter and Penny Hammond talked to us about their fascinating journey to Chile,

• riginally intending to follow in the footsteps of Darwin, only to find themselves following the

trail of Marianne North. They gave us a flavour of the country and the plants that grow there, how these are reflected in the works of Marianne, and the conservation of those plants and

• trees. In particular they talked and showed photos of the Chilean Wine Palm, which, because
• f its many uses, has been felled to the point of being given ‘vulnerable status’. Undoubtedly

Marianne would have been horrified at this outcome, being an early exponent of preserving

• nature. As Sir Joseph Hooker, then Director of Kew said about her work in the preface to the

Official Guide to the North Gallery in 1882: ‘….very many of the views… are already disappearing, or are doomed shortly to disappear, before the axe and the forest fires, the plough and the flock, of the ever advancing settler or

• colonist. Such scenes can never be renewed by nature, nor when once effaced can they be

pictured to the mind’s eye, except by means of such records as this lady has presented to us.’

Photos : Ann Winter

Christine Blakemore tells us about ‘Aunt Pop’ and her travels.

Jonathan Farley relating an often humorous account of Marianne North's travels, her construction of the gallery, RBG Kew's restoration and the odd things he discovered along the way. Penny Hammond (left) and Sue Minter presenting plants originating from Chile. The plant specimens are from their own gardens in Devon, revealing how the world of horticulture has moved globally since Marianne North’s travels.

Photos : Ann Winter

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Left to right: Mayor of Hastings Cllr Nigel Sinden, Christine Blakemore, Penny Hammond, Sue Minter, Jonathan Farley, Teri Sayers-Cooper, (Project Director, Exploring Marianne North)

Photo : Ann Winter

“Wonderful talk by Christine Blakemore. An insight into the life of a Victorian lady of particular mien and what the British did then” “Absolutely excellent day, in every way! Thank you” “A very well organised and well-paced day with excellent speakers and visual presentation. Well done! p.s. Super venue” “Thank you for such an enjoyable, interesting and enlightening day—really great!” “A brilliant day—very interesting and inspiring” “A very stimulating day! Many thanks for raising awareness

• f a local Hastings heroine”

“ Thank you for such an intimate, inspiring insight into the unique free spirit your Great Great Aunt—her travels, precision, knowledge of exotic flora beautifully alive for us today in her rich paintings. A very special day” “A truly wonderful, entrancing day. I enjoyed it immensely— can you delight us with similar events in the future?” “I have owned two books on Marianne North for years and I’m so pleased that we are celebrating her skill, talent and sense

• f adventure”

Feedback from Discovering Marianne North:

“Thank you very much for organising such an interesting and informative day on the travels and paintings of Marianne

• North. We were privileged to hear humorous stories and

anecdotes about her family life from one of her descendants, no less, who obviously loves her dear Aunt "Pop" dearly. Then we were treated to a most fluent and entertaining account of the intricacies of restoring her gallery and huge collection of beautiful paintings by the very man who had organised and

• verseen the whole project! We ended the day by being

transported to Chile by two eminent horticulturists who had followed in Marianne North's footsteps... It is a pleasure to have experienced such a high quality event including, amongst other things, the specially themed Walled Garden day and the delightful booklet you and your team have produced with a lot of research and

• dedication. I thoroughly enjoyed being immersed in the

fascinating world of this greatly talented lady who spent many years in Hastings and of whom the town should be very proud!” “I thought the day was an outstanding success from every angle: venue, speakers, large-screen imaging, organisation. May I compliment your and your team on staging such a superb and valuable event? For me it was especially rewarding as I am deaf, but could hear the speakers clearly as they had excellent (old-fashioned!) diction and the Durbar Hall has excellent (equally old fashioned) acoustics. I consider myself as knowledgeable on Marianne’s life and paintings and am familiar with her Museum. Nevertheless I learnt so much from the excellent speakers and am grateful for having had the opportunity to attend such a very special event” Feedback from Discovering Marianne North:

From September 13th to December 6th 2018 Marianne North After School Club

We worked with 15 children to learn more about Marianne North as an explorer, adventurer, artist and plant-lover. The children were treated to different approaches during this time which included:

 Keeping a sketchbook of their work and learning;  A fascinating session with Roy Calthorpe who took

the children through their paces on how to research. Topics on what it is was like travelling during the 19th century were: what people wore; what diseases they might catch and plant medicines they may have used; what they used for money; the types of transport they travelled on; what Marianne would have taken with her;

 Learning how to paint with oils and how to paint

plants (from stem upwards!) with Sheridan Quigley;

 A trip to Kew Gardens to see the Marianne North

Gallery and the newly restored Temperate House, the inspiration for Marianne’s travels;

 Learning how plants came to be named after

Marianne North;

 How to make a film about their own work with Anna

Winter;

 Becoming a Marianne North Ambassador

Photos : Ann Winter

Our Day at Kew

Our Day at Kew

Photos : Ann Winter

Our Thoughts on the Marianne North After School Club

Our Thoughts on the Marianne North After School Club

Our Thoughts on the Marianne North After School Club

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We showed off some of the work that had been created and gave the first showing of the two films,

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their findings and the other about the whole project. All of this with delicious cakes and tea from All Season’s Catering. The After School Club children attended with teachers and their head teacher; singers from Harmony 1; Jonathan Farley from Kew; members of the Booklet group, artists, volunteers, the Mayor and Deputy Mayor

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It was very informal and the perfect way to celebrate the end of a year-long project

Photos : Ann Winter

Photos : Ann Winter

We also asked people what they thought about the project

Sacred Heart Primary Catholic School will be holding their own Marianne North week in July 2019. The project has gifted the school the two exhibitions to be used during that week to inspire the children

THANK YOU! The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Christine Blakemore and The North Family All of the staff and volunteers from Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Marianne North After School Club The ‘Travelling with Marianne North’ Booklet Group Bohemia Walled Garden and volunteers Alexandra Park Greenhouse Group Sussex Coast College The Stag, Hastings Every artist, designer, project manager, speaker, participant, audience member and volunteer who has been involved in our exploration. And especially to May the adventure continue!

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