Where: Museum of Gloucester

When: Thursday, January 30, 1pm to 2pm

Mary Greensted, one of the leading authorities on the Arts & Crafts Movement, will be giving a fascinating talk about its local roots at the Museum of Gloucester on Thursday, January 30.

Her talk is entitled 'Gimson and the Barnsleys: The Start of the Arts & Crafts Movement in the South Cotswolds'.

Ernest Gimson has been described as 'the greatest of the English artist-craftsmen'; he and the brothers Ernest and Sidney Barnsley were central to the British Arts and Crafts Movement.

In 1894 they made the radical and romantic move from London and Birmingham to the south Cotswolds, then a relatively unknown part of the country. Their work as architects, designers and makers gained them recognition worldwide and their example attracted a succession of designer-makers, including Alfred and Louise Powell and William Simmonds to the area through the 20th century and beyond.

As a curator at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum (now The Wilson), Mary Greensted was instrumental in building up the nationally important Arts & Crafts Movement collection. She has been involved in organising exhibitions nationwide and has written widely, most recently "The Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain" (Shire 2010) and "Ernest Gimson: Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect" (with Annette Carruthers and Barley Roscoe, Yale 2019).

She is a trustee at Court Barn, the museum of craft and design in Chipping Campden in the north Cotswolds, and a patron of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

The cost of the talk is £5 for adults, £3 concessions.