News - Artweeks in Eynsham Echo
Artweeks for Eynsham Echo, May 2008
Make a date for Artweeks, 10th to 18th May
The annual Artweeks returns to the county from 3rd to 26th May 2008 and will be in North Oxfordshire for the week of the 10th. There are many exhibits in the local area during that week and the best way to plan your visit is with an Artweeks Guide, available from libraries, Tourist Information Centres, museums, galleries, shops and many other public venues. Or visit www.artweeks.org to download the Guide or search for artists by name, location or genre.
Eynsham will be buzzing with activity during Artweeks as there are no less than ten exhibits in the town. June King is opening up her garden studio at 18 Old Witney Road to show her fabulous glass and mosaic; the newly refurbished Star is the setting for painting and drawings by Elsa Dawson and Catherine O’Keefe, and Brenda Hayden is showing her paintings of wood and water, land and sea at St Leonards Church. At The Red Lion, Crabapple is a group of seven artists showing work in a variety of media and Eric White’s colourful pastels can be seen at his studio at 37 High Street. Julia Loken’s watercolours are inspired by her lovely garden and you can see all of these at Myrtle Cottage, Tanner’s Lane. Talented potters at Old Forge Pottery are showing their work at The Old Forge, 33 Newland Street, and Jane Tomlinson’s colourful paintings of the natural world are on show at 18 Newland Close. Sue Cook and Karen Foster are two artists inspired by nature, Sue in paintings and Karen in her food photography and you can see their work at 32 Mill Street. More fabulous flower photography is on show from Tabitha and Christopher Schenk at 6 Cassington Road. Finally no Artweeks visit to Eynsham would be complete without a trip to Eynsham Community Primary School, where a huge range of children’s artwork will be on show.
Full details of these and all Artweeks events are in the Guide and on the website. So plan your trip today - it’s a wonderful opportunity for the public and artists to come together in a low-key, neighbourly setting and share in the creative activity going on there.