Art and Festival

Now that summer is here, there's so much going on in our area and it's hard fitting it all in. This was certainly the case last weekend. The three-week long Open Studios art exhibition in artists'  homes started last Saturday. We normally try to see as much as we can, but we are off to Greece tomorrow, so our only chance was last weekend. But, there was also a festival in Victoria Park, as well as Potfest in Compton Verney and the Thai Festival in Warwick. 

How to fit it all in?

This post is about what we did on the Saturday. 

We did not manage to see much of the work of local artists. I was also very disappointed that Rhoda Bertz did not exhibit this year, as she is my favourite local artist. This is the link to her 2022 exhibition but you can see more by using the search button on the right of this page.

This is what we did manage to see:

Sue Bent:

Her paintings are exhibited in her garden studio. Vibrant colours, domestic scenes with a focus on still life.

Arts, Eats and Treats Festival:

We then walked to Victoria Park for the Arts, Eats and Treats Festival. A new one for Leamington, so we were keen to see what it was like. It was fun, but we were a bit underwhelmed given that we had been to the Peace Festival the previous weekend.

cakes,

lots of vans serving hot food

drinks

I had not come across these before - they are water lily seeds which have been fried with different flavours. I tried some, they are not bad.

We wandered around for a while, then walked through the Pump Room Gardens and the Jephson Gardens, and got to:

St Nicholas House:

where various artists were exhibiting. I looked at the paintings of Janette George and the ceramics of Katherine Taylor.

We spent Sunday at Compton Verney looking at the work of the ceramic artists that were exhibiting at Potfest. 

We never made it to the Thai Festival. Next year maybe...