February 9 2009: George Lloyd Jones, of St Edward's, Oxford, wins the CPRE Stephen Hart Memorial Art Competition.

George Lloyd Jones, who is studying art at St Edward's, Oxford, has won the CPRE Stephen Hart Memorial Art Competition 'Celebrating the Oxfordshire Landscape'.

The prize winner, who won £250.00, was announced at the Private View of the artwork on Saturday, 7 February, at The Gallery, Oxford Town Hall, and awarded by Mrs Hart, widow of the late Stephen Hart, in whose memory the competition was held.

Nine other finalists had their artwork shown in the exhibition, including; Sebastian Inglis Jones, Radley College, Abingdon, Popppy Bethell, Headington School, Oxford, Miriam Carter Fraser, St Helen's & St Katherine's School, Abingdon, and six students from Shiplake College, Henley on Thames; Melissa de Haan, Matt Welfare, Edmund Ho, Charlie Yearly, Jeremy Pattie and Mark Brackenbridge.

• For a copy of the CPRE press release.
• See Oxford Mail.
• See Abingdon Herald.

Winner - George Lloyd Jones

Poppy Bethell

Miriam Carter Fraser

Sebastian Inglis Jones

Mark Brackenbridge

 

January 2009: Private View -'Celebrating the Oxfordshire Landscape', 5 February, 6.30 p.m, The Gallery, Oxford Town Hall.

CPRE is holding a Private View of the finalists of the Stephen Hart Memorial Art Competition, 'Celebrating the Oxfordshire Landscape', on 5 February, at 6.30 p.m, at The Gallery, Oxford Town Hall.

Lord Bill Bradshaw will announced the prize winner at 7.00 p.m.

Refreshments will be provided by Bothy Vineyard.

The Private View is by invite only. If you would like to attend, please contact Amanda Bucknill at email: bucknill@btinternet.com or tel: 01491 638763

For press enquiries contact: Helena Whall at email: campaign@cpreoxon.org.uk or tel: 07766 624990

September 2008: CPRE Oxfordshire launch the Stephen Hart Memorial Art Competition.

In memory of Mr Stephen Hart, M.B.E., 1933-2006, a long-time member of CPRE Henley and Mapledurham District and agricultural advisor to CPRE Branch Executive Committee, CPRE Oxfordshire has launched an art competition for all AS/A2 Level Students in Oxfordshire, calling on them to create a piece of art work that celebrates or in some way captures an aspect of the local landscape.

A selection of the artwork will be displayed at the Oxford Town Hall Gallery, 5th – 7th February 2009. A panel of judges will select the finalist. The prize, worth £250.00 will be awarded by Lord Bill Bradshaw, President of CPRE Oxfordshire, at the Oxford Town Hall Gallery, at 6.30 p.m., on 5th February 2009, to be followed by a private view. The event will be sponsored by Bothy Vineyard.

• Click here for the poster

How to apply:

All submissions must be sent in JPEG format to Amanda Bucknill at email: bucknill@btinternet.com

This must be accompanied by a statement and full contact details.

The deadline for submissions is 23rd of January 2009.

Artists must deliver and collect own work.

Enquiries to Amanda Bucknill: 01491 638763

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In Memory of Stephen Hart M.B.E.

1933-2006

We are sad to record the death of Stephen Hart after a short illness. Stephen was a long-time member of CPRE, and for a number of years chairman of Henley and Mapledurham District of CPRE. More recently he was agricultural advisor to the Oxfordshire Branch Executive Committee. Stephen was born at Hammond’s Farm at Checkendon in 1932, and lived and worked there for more than seventy years until he and Vanessa moved a short distance to their new home only a few months ago. From there he planned to farm both Hammond’s Farm and Woodhouse Farm at Ipsden, continuing the tradition of superb land management he inherited from his father. This approach, while embracing new farming systems, sought to sustain traditional rural values of what was right for the land and livestock, for the countryside and for the local community-values which closely match those of CPRE. One of Stephen’s remarkable skills was his ability to help others to make things happen, whether locally with his ‘countless years’ as a church warden at Checkendon, or in his huge range of other village activities. He was also Chairman of Oxfordshire Young Farmers Club, President of Nettlebed Farming, a fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies, Chairman of the Environmental Committee of the National Sheep Association, and a committee member of the Family Farmers Association.

Stephen was founder of the South Oxfordshire Countryside Education Trust, which supports trained naturalist graduates to enthuse local primary school children with the beauty of the landscapes and wildlife around them. He was one of the founders of the infl uential Tenant Farmers Association and a founder member of the world-renowned Pig Improvement Company. He even found time to breed his own line of sheep: the Hartline. Stephen was awarded the MBE in 1972 in recognition of his campaigning as chairman of the remarkably successful Federation of Rabbit Clearance Societies. All this was combined with wise advice and warm friendship, which will be much missed by CPRE members, his friends and his family.

Source: Oxfordshire bulletin, Spring 2006.