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ART
LOVERS
Northants Open Studios
Save the date for the biggest ever Northants Open Studios art event this September!
Artists across the whole of Northamptonshire are dusting off their drawings, firing up their kilns, preparing their printing presses and sorting their studios ready to welcome
visitors to this year’s Northants Open Studios, which will see over 200 artists welcome you to their creative spaces to see where the magic happens!
Lamport Hall, who generously sponsor the event, saw 2800 people visit the exhibition
last year and there will also be the return of
the hugely popular mini masterpieces secret postcard sale to raise funds for next year’s event.
Katie Boyce, Director and Organiser of NOS says: “We can’t wait for this year’s open studios and we’ve been preparing for months already to make sure everything looks great for this year’s visitors! Northants Open Studios has grown
The Northants Open Studios
programme, which runs for the month
of September, brings together hundreds
of local artists who not only will be
opening their studios for visitors but
will also be running workshops, demonstrations and exhibitions at some of the county’s biggest art spaces including, but not limited to, Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, 78 Derngate, Chester House, and Boughton House.
The successful Central Exhibition will also be held again at Lamport Hall, which brings together one or two pieces from each artist taking part and is a great starting point for visitors to see which artists they’d like to visit.
supporting the event again this year, which promises to be bigger and better than ever. The diversity of styles and mediums amazes me!”
All the details of individual artists studio opening times will be available in a brochure which is distributed across the county and on the NOS website.
www.northantsopenstudios.co.uk
over 200 artists welcome you to their creative spaces
enormously over the last few years as we’ve seen lots of artists picking up their paintbrushes again since Covid and coming back to creating. It’s been amazing to see the breadth of talents and skills across the county.”
Mark Herrod, Estate Director at Lamport Hall says: “We’ve been thrilled with the success of NOS in the past
few years and are very proud to be
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