'Bathsheba' by Izzy Rees

An original painting by a student of Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne, Dorset

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This fantastic painting, by Year 9 student Izzy Rees of Queen Elizabeth's School in Wimborne, is part of an ongoing project being run by the Thomas Hardy Society Academic Director Mark Chutter, designed to encourage the engagement of younger students with Hardy and his works.

Mark Chutter can be contacted at chuttermark@gmail.com

Associated pages
Visiting the Sick Tree at St. Pancras Old Church Cemetery
'Great Things' and 'The Oxen'
Desperate Remedies
A Laodicean - Part of the Novels of Ingenuity Trilogy
The Withered Arm
The Heaths of Hardy
Best and Worst Poems of Thomas Hardy
Tess (No Angel Wings)
The Darkling Heart
Great Things
The Hand of Ethelberta - A New Play
The Lepidopterist's Tragedy
The Destruction of My England
Henchard's Last Will and Testament
The Gabriel Oak Tree
The Three Wayfarers (Opera)
Settings for Baritone and Piano by John Whittaker
Hardy Perennials by Brenda Sharp
Neutral Tones: Song Settings of the Poetry of Thomas Hardy
Penpethy Souls
A History of English Poesy
The Coppice Gate
Where the Picnic Was with a Musical Accompaniment by Gary Cunliffe
In Praise
Thomas Hardy Songs
'Bathsheba' by Izzy Rees
The Three Strangers
'Interlopers at the Knap'
'What the Shepherd Saw'
'The Superstitious Man'
Thomas Hardy's The Hand of Ethelberta
Thomas Hardy Poems to Music

Society calendar

Upcoming events

27th International Thomas Hardy Conference and Festival

From 25/07/2026 until 01/08/2026
All day event

Roman Casterbridge

On 25/07/2026
Starts 13:30 until 15:30

Writers' Workshop with the Bards of Dorchester and Dorset

On 25/07/2026
Starts 16:00 until 18:00

Visit Oxford - Hardy's Christminster

On 26/07/2026
Starts 00:00 until 18:30