Langport - Heart of the Somerset Levels

Langport Leisure Painters

Langport Leisure Painters welcome anyone interested in painting or drawing or both to their weekly meetings in the Ridgway Hall, off Bow Street, Langport every Thursday morning 10am to 12noon. No formal tuition is given but there's a lot of mutual support from other members and also the occasional demonstration by a local professional artist.
Cost £2.50 per morning.

Further details are available from Diana Mason 01460 281622, Avril Howlett 01458 251214 or Shirley Cave 01458 259140 or simply turn up!

Art Exhibition 2-15 June 2012 for all LOCAL ARTISTS!

This exhibition is part of the Langport Festival June 2-10 2012 but will last for a full 2 weeks not just the week of the festival.
We invite any artists from the local area to submit up to 4 hung pictures plus 4 mounted pictures. Choose your own theme and your own favourite medium. You
must deliver your artwork on Friday June 1st and collect it Saturday June 16th.
The Entry Form must be returned by 21 May. It contains full details of how to take part and is available to download and print from this website or pick up a copy from:
- Langport Library
- The Potting Shed Cafe, Old Kelways, Langport
- The Parrett Visitor Centre, Westover, Langport
- Langport Information Centre, Bow Street, Langport
The exhibition will be hung across three venues: Langport Library, The Potting Shed Cafe and The Parrett Visitor Centre. At each of these places there is
ample free parking.<BR>
The pictures will of course be available to purchase during the exhibition and we look forward to generous support for our local artists.

Art Demonstration
Also as part of the Langport Festival we are very pleased to announce that local artist Kate Lynch will demonstrate drawing with charcoal, using locally grown willow charcoal.
This demonstration will take place in Ridgway Hall, off Bow Street, Langport on Thursday June 7th 2012 10am to 12noon. A charge of Ł5 will be made on the door.
Kate
Lynch began exhibiting her work in 1985 - primitive and imaginative images of the mother and child. She then developed a more low-key palette and worked from the landscape and still lives. In 1999 a move to the Somerset Levels inspired her interest in documenting the people working in the landscape - the willow
growers, peat diggers, shepherds and, more recently, bee keepers. She works in oils, pastels and willow charcoal.
She is a qualified art teacher who has mixed her professional life as a painter with educational work in schools and community art projects with all age groups and abilities.