Visual Arts

Visual Arts...

Whether you are interested in Exhibitions, workshops, Talks, Open Studios, Outdoor Art or Dancing at this year's Ashby Arts Festival, there is something for everyone.

Flags

Debra Hall has worked with children aged 5 - 16 from Woodcote Primary School, Hilltop Primary School and Lewis Charlton

School to make 120 new flags. Debra is photgraphed here with a few of the flags. We hope that they will be going up 14th and 15th August. As soon as the flags appear, it brightens everyone's mood and we know the Festival is imminent. If you would like to find out more about Debra's other projects please see her website www.getsmartthroughart.co,uk

Exhibitions and Galleries

We are fortunate enough to be able to show an exciting range of work by regional and local artists in various town centre locations. From traditional realism, to abstract and contemporary including work from some of this year's degree shows, there is a lot to see including paintings, photography and prints. Add exciting sculpture and installations, and Ashby has much to offer visually during the Ashby Arts Festival. Alongside these venues, we have lots of other exhibitions within easy walking distance. Even getting from one venue from another is a visual journey as visitors follow the Outdoor Gallery Trail between exhibitions, open studios, and workshops. So come along, enjoy what you see, learn more about techniques and ideas. Ponder the question "what is art?" and have the opportunity to purchase an original work. Please contact Helen Joyce if you would like to be involved

You will require a trail ticket and a map to access all the exhibitions and open studios. These will be available at £3:00 per adult, and will be free for children. They will be available from all exhibitions, open studios, Ashby Tourist Information Centre, amd the Ashby Arts Festival Trailer on Market Street. The income from the Passport will help to fund future arts festivals and arts events in the town.

Workshop - Still life with museum bygones

Watercolour workshop - choose a composition made up from plants and some of Ashby Museum's interesting bits and bobs

27th August 10:00-4:00pm

Price per adult £20

Venue: Ashby Museum

Tickets are available from Di Lorriman on 01530 414276 www.dilorriman.co.uk

Festival Art Talk

An inspirational presentation by two regional artists with international repuations, in the award winning contemporary headquarters of Ashfield In2Focus. (Kindly sponsored by Ashfield In2Focus)

First Speaker: "Hester Finch Portraits and Paintings: Finding meaning in my work"
Hester Finch is a young British portrait artist, draughtswoman and painter. A graduate of the Ruskin School at Oxford Unversity, she completes regular commissions and exhibits throughout the UK. She will be giving a talk about her art, her experiences as an emerging artist in London and in Leicestershire, and the reasons behind why she paints what she does.

Second Speaker: Phil Redford.

Studied Brighton College of Art in the 1960s and retired as senior lecturer (printmaking) at Leeds Metropolitan University after thirty years. Phil is a painter, printmaker and book artist with a forty year exhibition

history at home and abroad. His talk at Ashfield house will cover a brief history of his work generally, then focus on the extended project of his series of hand printed books based on the composer Richard Wagner's music dramas of the 'Ring' and 'Tristan'.

26th August 7:00 - 9:00pm

Ashfield In2Focus, Resolution Road, Ashby de la Zouch Le65 1HW

£3.50p to include interval refreshments

Tickets are available from Tourist Information or Ascott House Exhibition

Ashby TIC T: 01530 411767 or Helen JoyceT: 01530 560166