Family lunches
We can now welcome children of eight years and over for weekend family lunches.

Wednesday 1st October
Our October exhibitor is Dom Theobald. Dom's luminously coloured and richly textured semi-abstract works derive from a wide variety of sources – cartoon forms, music, botanical drawings, documentary photographs, film and found objects among them. From these he draws out images as varied as dragonfly wings and shoes, leaves and pools, lungs and bones, moons and feathers, images which, when set against the intense colours and densely worked surfaces that form the ‘backgrounds’ of his works, become metaphors for the sifting and selection of thoughts and feelings that the memory becomes involved in during the slow process of making a painting. For Dom this is a process whereby the background becomes a kind of ‘net’ in which these forms, or ‘stones’ as he likes to call them, have been caught or dredged, each of them resonant with meaning and a vivid sense of life. Intensely poetic too, is the way in which these forms come to echo and reinforce each other, pulsating, not just across the picture surface but also from work to work, in a vibrant and impassioned statement of belief in how the magical ordinariness of things can come to embody the most profound sensations of the sacred and numinous.

Dom who studied Fine Art at the 'Slade', shows regularly in galleries in this country and in Europe and the USA. He will be at Swan House this evening.

Monday 6th October
Penny and Stuart Mack play and sing traditional and contemporary folk as well as their own compositions, with guitar, bodhran and whistles.

Monday 13th October
Canadian Rick Sheppard and David Sheppard, play
American roots music together with Rick’s own compositions. “…a gloriously honeyed sound”. Alan Tabelin, The Lowestoft Journal.

Monday 20th October
Richard Blackburn’s new band ‘Hard Rain’ return to play Dylan classics, as well as Jagger/Richards material.

Monday 27th October
Keith Krykant on jazz guitar and vocalist Sally Voakes , sprinkled with an assortment of their own interpretations of more obscure yet vibrant material, as well as their own compositions.