Mizzi Studio visited Hastings this month to learn more about the area’s regeneration plans and, in particular, our proposal for a Marianne North inspired botanic garden. Alexander Wilberforce, founder of the Hastings Botanic Garden (HBG) project, shares the news.
In the autumn of 1852, Edward Lear, while painting a fig tree in the overgrown garden of the Hastings MP Frederick North, made a lifelong friendship with the MP’s daughters, which affects lives to this day. Artist and writer Maureen Connett tells us more about the lesser known artistic and musical talents of the writer, Edward Lear, best known for his limericks and nonsense poetry.
An exhibition of botanical drawings by Marianne North, who travelled the world practising her skill, will be held at Horntye Park during this year’s international chess congress. Nick Terdre reports. All illustrations by kind permission of the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew.
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