The villages of Brabourne and Smeeth will for the
second year running be the venue for a village arts weekend on Saturday
and Sunday. (October 16-17)
This year the artists have decided to hire the
scout and guide hut for their venue and Sue Chapman, chairman of the
six-strong committee said: “Last year we were unfortunate with the
weather with strong winds which blew down the marquee in my garden.
“Luckily this wasn’t until towards the end of
the last day.
“So this year we decided not to take any risks
with the weather.”
The village arts event has got bigger this year.
Artists from the villages – Sue Chapman, Cathy Chesney, Liz
Garnett, John Devenport, Vi Sprawling and Angus Zapora – are to be
joined by other local artists including David Robinson, Neville Langley,
Jane Richardson, Julie Taylor, Olga Van Dijke, Leigh Smallwood, Lee
O’Connor, Jacqui Palmer, Lyn Mercy and Linda Lewis.
There will be a wide variety of art on display
both indoors and outside including paintings, photography, glasswork,
textile art, pottery, silverware, metalwork and woodwork, and it is
billed as a great event to purchase more interesting and unusual
Christmas presents.
Also there will be live demonstrations by Linda
Lewis of textile art on Sunday, Sue Chapman, watercolour/acrylic
painting, and Vi Sprawling, who will be doing pastel soft toy
portraiture.
“This is all part of the growing movement by
local artists to raise the profile of arts in the borough and show
locals and visitors the wealth of talent that is in the area” said Liz
Garnett.
A number of the participating artists are members
of Ashford Visual Artists and take part in South East Open Studios.
“We are all truly excited about this
increasingly popular art event in our village and hope that we might
even be able to expand it next year with even more participating
artists, especially if we can utilise even more of the outside space,”
said Sue. “If anyone has
any ideas or would like to participate next year, do come along and
speak to us so that we can start planning early.”
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