Posted in Arts, Out & About on Saturday May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I happened to pick up a leaflet for the Derbyshire Literature Festival, which runs from the 1st to the 14th June and the programme can be seen on line. I have not registered it in previous years, but it looks quite interesting.
For more general information on what is coming up in Derbyshire also see the artsderbyshire [...]
Posted in Alsop, Arts, Church, Events, Out & About, People on Wednesday April 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This weekend there are lots of local events to choose from & if you plan carefully you can do everything.
Thursday to Wednesday - Tissington Well Dressings - Food is served at The Stables and certainly over the weekend lunches and Teas are also in the Village Hall (I speak from experience when I say that these [...]
Posted in Arts, Events, Out & About, People on Sunday April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
May 6th - 8th - Pear Tree Farm, Matlock
Painting “Emotions” based on Landscape - all media (mainly acrylic)
Learn with Parwich artist Lewis Noble how to focus on your own individual reaction to the landscape and use contemporary techniques to produce semi-abstract images using colour, form, texture. Please bring conte crayons, oil or dry pastel sticks [...]
Posted in Arts, Events, People on Sunday April 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Derbyshire Open Arts is a visual arts and crafts event across the county. This free event invites you to visit artists and craftspeople in their show spaces and workplaces over Spring Bank holiday weekend.
Our next event will take place during Spring Bank holiday weekend, 24th, 25th and 26th May.
One of the venues for this event [...]
Posted in Arts, Events, Out & About on Saturday April 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For anyone with an interest in contemporary ceramics, an exhibition/sale is being held this weekend at the Devonshire Dome in Buxton, between 10.00am and 4.30pm.
Many of the country’s top potters are exhibiting, and are on hand to talk about their work to anyone who is interested.
The event goes by the name of Earthmarque (official [...]
Posted in Arts, Favourite posts, News, Out & About, People on Sunday March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Parwich artist Lewis Noble is to spend a year working with Chatsworth, making a body of work in response to the estate. The project starts in May 2008, and will culminate in a major exhibition in London, in May 2009. The paintings will also preview at Chatsworth, probably in April 2009.
Lewis spent two months at [...]
