Lawrences of Crewkerne is co-sponsoring a major new exhibition of works by the Camden Town Group which runs at the Museum of Somerset in Taunton until July 8.
A Fragile Beauty: Art on the Blackdown Hills 1909 to 1925 captures the atmosphere of this Somerset and Devon borderland in a period when the First World War was changing English society forever.
The Camden Town Group, led by Walter Sickert, was inspired by daily life in the capital but then was also drawn to the countryside, especially the Blackdown Hills. Inspired by the example of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, artists such as Spencer Gore, Charles Ginner and Robert Bevan created Somerset and Devon landscape paintings of great freshness and immediacy.