An Exhibition
​of Dot Adams' Art

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When our good friend Dot Adams died earlier this year, the Friends wanted to arrange an exhibition of her art, to commemorate and celebrate her life, and the joy this talented, cheerful and modest lady brought to so many.

The works shown in June and July in the Civic Centre Art Gallery "Foyer" display space have now also been on show at Cobbett, along with many other paintings, collages and prints.  
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Dot's family have been very supportive of this enterprise, and most of the paintings on show were for sale, with proceeds going to support enhancements to the Library.  Other works have been loaned by family and friends.

​The Civic Centre exhibition poster included a lovely summary of Dot's artistic life, written by her daughter, Helen Davies:

My mother told me she was never without pencil & paper even as a young child. Her formal education was interrupted by the 2nd World War. Evacuated to the Isle of Wight, her schooling was basic and didn’t include formal art classes but creativity was still encouraged.

She started work aged 15 and was trained in architectural drawing, having a natural talent in that direction.

From my childhood I remember her always with pad & paints on camping holidays sitting on rocks oblivious to the incoming tide or on dangerous cliff edges.

In the late 60s & 70s, in keeping with the times, she attended some interesting progressive, experimental art classes taught by Jack Chick. He encouraged her in a more abstract approach and she held an exhibition of rather “avant garde” mixed media paintings using unusual techniques and subject matter. She found some of the comments of the public very amusing.

Later she joined various art groups and began selling more paintings, exhibiting with fellow artists at local events & country pubs.

Finally she became a very active member of the Cobbett Road Library Art Group and campaigned passionately to keep it open.

We hope this exhibition will help this aim.​

There are some photos of the Civic Centre exhibition on the Photogallery page.

General Data Protection Regulations

The Friends' Data Policy was adopted at our AGM on September 29.  You can download a copy for information.

Greening Cobbett

Our gardeners were successful in applying for a Community Chest grant from the City Council.  The funds have been used to improve the beds around the Library, to turn the small enclosed area at the back of the building into a pleasant seating area and to provide additional planting near the statue.  Plants have been chosen, in part, to cope with the heavily-polluted air at this busy road junction, and should make a contribution to absorbing that pollution.

The free-standing courtyard walls were pressure-washed, and received a coat of masonry paint.  The bricks are the London Rustic type with a wavy pattern, used in many Southampton buildings.  Their surface detail means they used up far more paint than plain ones would have done!

Planters for the courtyard were bought from the Southampton Wood Recycling Project, and most of the plants came from Mayfield Nurseries.

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