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Northants & Rutland Open Studios
More than 300 artists are to open their studios this September for biggest ever event!
A total of 317 artists across 141 venues are taking part in the hugely successful Open
block with a vibrant showcase of the artistic talent across Northamptonshire and Rutland.
The Central Exhibition opens on 1st September at 10am and is open Wednesday to
Studios event which returns this September, including for the annual takeover of the stable block at Lamport Hall for the central exhibition, making it the biggest ever Open Studios event in the county!
Sunday every week of September 10am – 4pm. Entry is free to the exhibition and there is a café and parking on site. There will be a variety of artists on site at Lamport giving live demonstrations and creating art within the gardens each day, and the very popular mini masterpieces mystery postcard sale is making a return, where visitors can purchase a postcard for £10 but won’t know which artwork is theirs until the end of the show.
Artists who are opening their studios to visitors are listed in the widely
distributed brochure and on the NROS website, and you can expect a warm welcome as well as sneak peek into their creative processes.
Katie Boyce, director of NROS said: “We’re
Northants and Rutland Open Studios
invites local people to visit the artists,
potters, sculptors, printmakers and craftspeople in their local area, to see
where they work and explore the art
that people are creating near to you.
This year the successful event includes
artists from the Rutland area too, so
there’s lots of new work to explore. And to kick things off each artist taking part produces up to two pieces for the annual Central Exhibition at Lamport Hall, which fills the historic stable
to kick things off each artist taking part produces up to two pieces for the annual Central Exhibition at Lamport Hall
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