A NEW programme of exhibtions opens at Frodsham’s Castle Park Arts Centre tomorrow (Wednesday May 15) and will run until Saturday, June 22.
And on Friday, May 17 there will be a free open evening and a chance to meet the artists involved between 7-9 pm
Gallery 1 will feature will feature the Eddisbury Artists and is entitled Journey. The group of local artists who originally met in a room at the rear of the Post Office in Frodsham moved to Castle Park in 1996 and has been holding exhibitions there ever since.
Gallery 2 will feature “The Seasons” by Marc Turner who paints with his left hand after having to have a right wrist replacement. He says: “This change has encouraged new growth and challenged my art.”
Gallery 3 will showcase “Creative Connections”, a collaboration of artists with Sue France – known as Cheshire’s “Queen of Networking” who has announced plans to retire later this year after a decade of running business networking group “Creative Connecting in Cheshire.”
The Link Gallery will feature “Eclectic Fusion” by Diane Moore who says she is largely influenced by pattern, form, colour and texture inspired by nature and the world around us.
She says: “My paintings aren’t necessarily representational – more in the abstract and often formed from the imagnation. I’m a little bit like a magpie collecting shiny new things, but instead I collect endless ideas…full of interpretation, expression and possibility, working with what the paint wants to do on the paper andliterally going with the flow.”
In the Foyer, painter Jenny Holland will exhibit oil and acrylic landscapes from The Lakes, Yorkshire, North Wales and the Wirral, using palette knives.
In addition, Life Drawing workshops will be held on Saturdays in Gallery 2 at a cost of £10 per session or advance payment of £50 for six sessions.
Details are available from s.christies@talktalk.net or the website www.castlepark.co.uk/workshops