Somerset Art Works has joined forces with Black Swan Arts in Frome, Somerset for a unique SAW members’ exhibition and the first at Black Swan Arts since last year’s coronavirus lockdown.

In Pursuit of Spring has been inspired by poet Edward Thomas’ account of his journey by bicycle between London and Somerset to meet the arrival of spring in 1913. Responding to various themes in Thomas’ book, around 50 SAW members have created artwork to illustrate the Somerset leg of his journey.

He enters the county near Farleigh Hungerford, eventually arriving on Cothelstone Hill in the Quantocks on March 28, as the storm clouds of the Great War gathered. Thomas was killed four years later at the Battle of Arras.

Black Swan Arts shop will reopen on April 12 and the full exhibition will open on May 17.

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