Clare Shepherd - The National Gallery of Minchington Arts & craft

A tiny private gallery in the heart of the Cranborne Chase crammed with work by Clare Shepherd; drawings, oils, and watercolours, of landscape, people, and politics.

Clare Shepherd is a graduate and prize winner of the Slade School of Fine Art, and is in a line of traditional English landscape painters such as Paul and John Nash, Eric Ravilious, Ivon Hitchens and Howard Hodgkin.

Clare paints giant political cartoons, intimate landscapes inspired by The Cranborne Chase and exquisite watercolours from the Nude.

The image and the application of paint to the canvas are important to Clare; she enjoys the thickness of paint in unexpected places and the physical nature of the paint is often contradictory to the image when viewed at close quarters.

As Clare’s studio and the ‘National Gallery of Minchington’ are set in her home, current work is always on display and she welcomes visitors to see work in progress. She also runs regular art classes and day and week-long courses throughout the year.

Opening Times

Visitors are welcome up until 7pm but please call first to make sure that some one is home!

Directions

We are just off the A354 at Cashmoor.

By Bus: Wilts and Dorset. service 184, Weymouth-Blandford-Salisbury, ask for 'Inn on Chase' bus stop and walk quarter mile along lane signed to Gussage St. Andrew until you see a garden gate up three steps. Enter the gate and walk up the right hand garden, past large log cabin, to house with white windows

By Car: Approx 7 miles from Blandford on the A354, at Cashmoor, turn to Gussage St. Andrew and drive until you reach an S-bend. Turn left into a farm track (Myncen Farm).

We are the first house. Please pull right up to, or right in beside, the garage.

Additional Information

Sadly, access is not particularly good for wheelchair users; steps, gravel and uneven ground.

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