In Conversation with Fiona McIntyre and Nicola Moorby: Sacred Earth: Art, Ecology, and Myth

Sculpture by the Lakes, Pallington Lakes, Dorset, DT2 8QU, UK October 13, 2026 
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Sculpture by the Lakes, Pallington Lakes, Dorset, DT2 8QU, UK 60 minutes (45-minute discussion followed by a live audience Q&A) Free entry Gallery open from 10am to 5pm - Event starts at 2pm

 

Join Tate curator Nicola Moorby and painter Fiona McIntyre for a discussion surrounded by the Sacred Earth exhibition, exploring the connections between artistic practice, ecological awareness and myth.

Fiona talks through the physical and spiritual origins of paint, and the hands-on process of making pigments from raw minerals and earth she forages herself. Nicola Moorby sets that work in a wider art-historical frame, tracing the use of natural materials from early British masters through to contemporary practice.

Speakers

  • Fiona McIntyre, painter-printmaker working with natural pigments and ecological landscape traditions, and a founding member of the Arborealists.
  • Nicola Moorby, Curator, British Art 1790 to 1850 at Tate, and a specialist in Turner, Constable and British watercolour. Her book Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape is published by Yale University Press.

Duration: Starting at 2pm, running for 60 minutes, a 45-minute discussion followed by a an audience Q&A.

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