Dorset Art Weeks are continuing here at
Othona. We have now have about 350 visitors over 5 days so everyone
is still very upbeat about how the event is going.
While the Exhibition is going on
everyday life at Othona continues so there are some residential
visitors staying for the week, enjoying all the benefits that the
place provides. As part of this weeks stay they have had the chance
to get involved with some artistic activities. On Monday morning
Elizabeth led a drawing session and yesterday I led a monoprinting
workshop. Seven people enjoyed experimenting with some monoprinting
and making use of some local foliage and seaweed to print from as
well as more conventional textured paper or mark making along the
way.
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| Everyone hard at work |
We worked in the Art Room, which is a
wooden hut in the grounds, which is now over 20 years old and getting
a little past its sell by date, though still proving a light and airy
place to work in. Plans are in place to replace it soon with a new
slightly larger and environmentally sensitive building that can be
used more flexibly. Money raised from the exhibition will heading
towards the building fund.
This weeks guests will be off tomorrow
and then some families will be staying over half-term and they will
get the chance to transform the outside of the art room by painting a
mural.
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