Joldwynds, Surrey

02/02/2022

Thinking of summer & its blooms! Wedding flowers on the terrace at Joldwynds.

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23/11/2021

Blue skies at Joldwynds

05/11/2021

The Hunger, 1983. Starring David Bowie & Susan Sarandon, shot at Joldwynds.

31/10/2021

Party girls enjoy a summer wedding

27/10/2021

More Griff for Vogue China

26/10/2021

🤍 for shot in the kitchen

20/10/2021

Dinner in full swing! ✨✨✨


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16/10/2021

Thank you for the photo and for all your hard work Caiger & Co.] 🤍 What a wedding!
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16/10/2021

Joldwynds featured in country life magazine when it was built in 1934

15/10/2021

Thanks for the fab shot - we hope you had a fantastic staycation!

05/10/2021

Peachy wedding table set up on the terrace at Joldwynds 🌾

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03/10/2021

Rainbow sunset of dreams on the terrace.

10/09/2021

Wedding flowers for F & M

06/09/2021

The Sitting Room, 1934.

06/09/2021

The Stairs

05/09/2021

Ray Charles’s ‘Mary-Ann’ on the Yamaha grand piano in the pink room

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30/08/2021

The curious double-headed Olive tree

27/08/2021

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26/08/2021

2020’s Blythe Spirit, directed by Edward Hall and starring Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher and Judi Dench- filmed on location at Joldwynds.

25/08/2021

Front Door & Deer.
Photo circa 1934

22/08/2021

Cat Anderson at Newport Jazz Festival, 1965. Photograph by Francine Winham.

‘Bitten by the photography bug and eager to rekindle her American roots, Winham moved to New York in 1963 to study and began shooting the stars she had long admired, selling the results to magazines such as Downbeat and the Village Voice. “Jazz clubs were perfect for me. I liked to get close, really close, and see the expression on a performer's face. That's what really interests me, the intimacy.”

It was during this time that Winham developed what she called her “fever” technique. By holding the shot still for half a second and then moving the camera, she created a blurred free-form image that mirrored the dynamic improvisation of the performer (a technique later imitated on jazz record covers and in magazines).’

www.rockarchive.com/photographers/francine-winham-1937-2013

21/08/2021

Evening light

19/08/2021

Wedding flowers in the early morning light

18/08/2021

First Floor.

16/08/2021

The Terrace, 1934


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Wedding prep. Table centres ✔️

16/08/2021

The happy couple! A summer wedding at Joldwynds. Congratulations to P & E.

16/08/2021

View From the Drive, 1934

16/08/2021

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16/08/2021

Wedding breakfast in the games room ♥️

16/08/2021

Trumpeter Cootie Williams, performing in Newport, Rhode Island in 1965. Photograph by Francine Winham.

Francine was a multidisciplinary artist and philanthropist who gave new life to Joldwynds from the 60s onwards with her love for Jazz and the arts. The house became a creative hub for performance, debate and other creative events. Francine was an activist for equality who merged work and life into one, putting her energy and enthusiasm into everything she did. She also started Joldwynds Jazz, a bursary charity to help struggling artists. Her early passing due to cancer left a great void but her nieces continue in her footsteps.

15/08/2021

Joldwynds continues to support artists and culture and will be hosting events online and opening its doors so stay in touch.

Francine Winham was a film maker and photographer, screenwriter, jazz and opera singer, political activist, and an art collector, and captured the likes of Malcolm X, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Hugh Masekela, Cootie Williams, Dizzy Gillespie and Cat Anderson amongst many others, using her unique and innovative style which was later used by other photographers. Read more

In honour of Francine, Joldwynds will soon open an online exhibition and shop with prints and other objects of her work as well as of other resident artists, to help support ongoing projects.

15/08/2021

During WWII Joldwynds was handed over to a charity to become a maternity unit for single mothers.

Since the 60's with Francine Winham, and later with her nieces, Joldwynds has hosted film & TV series productions, music video shoots, weddings, artist residencies, opera and jazz concerts, horse riding events as well as being a guest house for charitable programmes, workshop retreats and is a meeting point for creatives.

Some of the productions using Joldwynds as a location include "The Hunger", two chapters of Agatha Christies' Poirot series, the 2020 remake of "Blithe Spirit" and the Roald Dahl biopic "To Olivia" set to be released early 2021 and What's Love Got To Do With It (2021).

15/08/2021

Introducing Joldywynds.

Joldwynds is a 1930's Grade II listed modernist art deco house designed by Oliver Hill for the 1st Baron Greene. It is located on the Surrey Hills Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty overlooking the Weald.
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The house has a rich cultural history. Home to multidisciplinary artist and pioneering jazz photographer Francine Winham from the 1960's and in the later years with her nieces, the house has been a cultural hub for artistic, literary and charitable events, concerts, filming, retreats and artist residencies. Joldwynds consists of a coach house, walled garden, swimming pool, pond, horse training fields, stables and tennis court. It preserves some of the original Philip Webb's brick & tile hung constructions, which were amongst the few first architectonic references of what became the "Arts & Crafts" style.

The main house replaced the 1874 house with the same name, which had itself replaced a previous house which had been the Holmbury Gentleman's Club. In 1930 Wilfred Greene commissioned Oliver Hill to design the new house, which was completed in 1932.
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Located in the Surrey Hills, Joldwynds is a short walk from Leith Hill, the second highest point in South East England surrounded by four areas of woodland.
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Despite its proximity to London, Guildford and Gatwick, Joldwynds is a quiet escape with stunning views extending all the way to the sea.