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Apr 9, 20231 min read

Battiss Business: Escape into Art

Find your inner Fookean, and bring them to Somerset East on the 18th and 19th of August 2023 to enjoy food, art, Parkrun, golf and arts &...

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Apr 22, 20222 min read

The Old Officer's Mess

The building which became the Walter Battiss Art Museum on 24th October 1981 dates from 1815, when Lord Charles Somerset, Governor of the...

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Feb 25, 20222 min read

Battiss, Rock Art and Picasso

In 1938 a young Walter Battiss made his first trip to Europe; having seen his first Rock Art in 1933, and beginning to study it...

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Feb 2, 20221 min read

The hidden secret in the Battiss Museum

One of the catalogued items brought by Battiss for the opening of the Museum in October 1981, is a simply framed set of Fook stamps....

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Dec 11, 20191 min read

Colour-in like no other

We're super excited about the new stock of The Walter Battiss Company merchandise that has arrived. Pop in and have a look, we now accept...

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