Paddy at the Carpark!

Paddy Campbell is creating a sculpture as part of a forthcoming series of new works of art to be placed at The Whitaker Museum in Rossendale. The sculptures will utilise several felled beech trees, reflecting their placement and the environment in which they have grown.

While the sculpture is still young and in a state of development there is a definite direction to the works progress. The sculpture is robust and tactile – retaining vigour, catching sunlight and the sounds of wood. There are more on the way over the winter.

“As part of the RAT this year I feel it would be nice to view this work as it develops. The sculpture is outside and you are welcome to stump up and have a look. The sculpture can be viewed at my outdoors studio – the top car park at The Whitaker, Haslingden Road!”

Impressions

Well worth a visit is the Impressions show at Towneley Hall. The show features work by 25 printmakers from Prospect Studios. The show is planned to run until the end of the year.

For visiting the show here is a little bit of information about how we are working during COVID:

To visit, people will need to book a slot with us at Towneley (Mon-Thurs & Sat-Sun):

From the October half term our opening hours will change to weekends only – 12-4pm, last entry at 3.30pm

Note: To promote the show on Facebook please do tag Towneley Hall in any posts and use the exhibition link from the website which can be found here:http://towneley.org.uk/events/impressions-a-printmaking-response-to-towneley/

2020 Art Trail

Rossendale Art Trail as an open studios weekend has been postponed in 2020 as a result of the current Corvid19 situation.
We’re naturally hoping that normal service will be resumed at some point in 2021. In the meantime local artists and craftspeople have come together on this website. In the future it could be that some studios feel able to open their doors to the public, if so, artists and studios may want to open their studios at different times throughout the year rather than wait for the annual open studios art trail in Autumn 2021.

Whatever the latest news, we’ll post it on this site.

Image: View from the Whitaker, Caroline Johnson