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, last year's Oaks Park Art Studios Open Weekend was the biggest yet. 

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. 

KATE WILSON STUDIO
Royal Academy-trained painter Kate Wilson, formerly working at Oaks Park Studios, welcomed visitors to her studio nearby at 2A Tharp Road, Wallington, to coincide with events at Oaks Park. 

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The Mayor of Sutton visiting Kendra Haste's studio, June 2004
To view more work by this artist click on the image

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!