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Philip Le Bas

Assistant Curator, Blandford Museum

 

Following art college and some years teaching and lecturing he was eager to sell his paintings. The Portal Gallery in central London took him on in 1966. It has represented him ever since, with exhibitions in Europe and the U.S., sent him around the world to work for an exhibition of the Grand Hotels of the Worlds, and sold to public and private collections. He now has another audience to please closer to home - those who visit the Blandford Town Museum. The work for the museum is more in the nature of arranging and painting installations requiring a very different approach from easel painting, but each feeds and stimulates the other. Which is good.

 

 

Jackie McNamara

Assistant Curator, Blandford Museum

 

Jackie was born & educated in Southampton &  progressed to Teacher Training at Chichester. She married Eamonn in 1958 with whom she had three lovely daughters, Clare, Catherine & Rachel who together presented us with 10 super grandchildren, all of whom are variously gifted.
She also maintained a full-time career in Teaching involving children of all ages & abilities, from which she retired in 1987.
Arriving in Blandford in 1996, Jackie soon found the museum in 1997, where she has been able to pursue her love of genealogy - and all things and persons of antiquity. Her other life-long favourites include home-decor, biographical literature and family pursuits.

 

 

Caroline Martin

Assistant Curator, Blandford Museum