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MAYOR OF SUTTON VISITS Very many visitors to Oaks Park, including the Mayor of Sutton, Tony Brett Young, enjoyed what must be the best visual art festival in the borough of Sutton. In spite of the poor weather on Saturday, Oaks Park Art Studios Open Weekend 2004 was the biggest yet. |
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Oaks Park Studios Annual Summer Open Weekend 26th & 27th June 2004 |
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WIDER COMMUNITY OF OAKS PARK Alongside the nine artists who opened their studios, Friends of Oaks Park showed photographs of the Oaks House as it used to be and of the Park as it is now, beautifully renewed after the storms of 1987. On Sunday, Honeywood Heritage Centre also treated visitors to a viewing inside the old Bakehouse, where the oven was lit and bread was baked again for the first time for decades! |
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ARTS COUNCIL GRANT Thanks to the generosity of Sutton Arts Council, the studio artists were able to organise a free hands-on art event, “Create a Tree”, which enabled visitors to get involved with the creative processes. |
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CREATING THE TREE Art student volunteers from Sutton College of Learning for Adults were out in force to lend a hand and did a fantastic job of showing visitors various ways to make the ‘leaves’ using a variety of techniques including painting, printmaking, collage, frottage, resist and stencils, which were then fixed onto the ‘tree’. The tree, which was designed and constructed by studio artists Nicolette Carter and Itamar Martinez, made a striking centrepiece in the courtyard outside the studios as it gradually ‘grew’ an array of coloured and textured leaves. |
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The Mayor of Sutton visiting Kendra Haste’s studio, June 2004 To view more works by this artist click on the picture. |
