Hosting Whiteknights Studio Trail this Weekend!
The popular arts and crafts trail is back for its annual summertime exhibitions around the Whiteknights area of Reading this weekend! With Leighton Park and the University at the heart of the trail it is an excellent opportunity to explore the creative arts from 37 different artists in 27 venues. The route forms a pleasant walking trail and enables visitors to take in Painting, Printing, Glass Making, Jewellery, Sculpture, Photography, Carpentry, Sound and Video.
Between 11.00am and 6.00pm on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th June Leighton Park will become Venue 17, hosting four talented artists in Peckover Hall.
Our very own EAL teacher, Tom Cartmill, will be displaying his distinctive textured mixed media paintings and drawings Tom using combines traditional techniques with more innovative processes. An interest in change through time and the inevitable accumulation of experience underpins his work: The way that buildings and much used objects age, weathering and transforming with the passage of time, is a constant source of inspiration.
The other artists showing at Venue 17 include Leigann Thomas, Mick McNicholas and Sarah Pye
Sarah creates large impressionist paintings using ideas inspired by an exquisite view or image. With natures colours and light always foremost in her mind, Sarah loves to scrape, drop and dribble acrylics creating dappled woodlands, vibrant coastal scenes or colourful explosions of wild flora.
Leighann Thomas is a studio potter making wheel thrown functional pieces and, more recently, handmade coiled, pinched and slab pieces. Her work has a simple aesthetic that focuses on form, and the textures and tones found in nature. Leighann creates a range of beautiful pots, bowls and vases in a graceful organic palette.
Mick McNicholas is a representational painter who finds authenticity in close examination and is dedicated to the pursuit of art as an act of looking and responding to life. His principal interest lies in portraiture, and his favoured mediums are oils and charcoal.
You can find out more about all the artists at http://www.studiotrail.co.uk/
