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Download the Swanage Seen Trail Map by right-clicking here (Acrobat PDF format). Also available in print from local Tourist Information Offices.Swanage Seen
Swanage has a rich cultural heritage: the beauty of the unique coastline and town have drawn artists of international stature to paint here, including Walter Field, Charles Conder, Paul Nash, Mark Gertler, Augustus John and Graham Sutherland.
Swanage Seen celebrates this with an Art Trail - a display panel, showing the painting, a portrait of the artist and a short biography, placed on or near the site from where the original picture was painted.
Comments & Quotes
“Charles Conder painted a delightful view of Swanage coastguard station in the spring of 1900, while on holiday with his friend Augustus John. The two men, both fond of good living in London and Paris, stayed in a guest house on Peveril Point run by the mother of John Everett, another artist friend, trying not to drink and working hard...”
Swanage Seen Art Trail – Follow the trail of paintings of Swanage by its famous visiting artists…