Fenners Fellow and Artist Julie Leaming has been running a group of drawing skills and life drawing classes for school students at the Fenners Studios in Letchworth. Supported by Digswell Arts Trust this series of workshops were part of an ongoing series of classes made available to schools, aimed...
Digswell Arts Fellow Kirke Raava has been working with year 6 students at St John’s Church of England Primary School and will be curating a pop-up exhibition this Friday, 29th March 2019 that will reveal the work produced during this project. Digswell Arts is piloting a scheme called “Artists at...
1) How would you describe your current practice (e.g. materials, techniques, themes, key questions, approach)? I have started using the print room at The Forge and exploring monoprinting technique. I have found my way back to sewing, after years in the fashion industry. I had lost the passion for...
Press Release: Digswell Arts Trust February 2019 Contact: Dave Nelson on 07801 236257 or at dave@davenelsonart.com Meet Hertfordshire’s Award-Winning Artists Digswell Arts Trust Open Studios this Spring The Forge, Hertford Road, Digswell Nr Welwyn Garden City, AL6 0BU 11 and 12 May 2019, 11am to...
Allistair Covell is nearing the end of is five years with Digswell Arts. 1) How would you describe your current practice? I create vibrantly colourful and rhythmic abstract paintings, inspired by my synaesthesic responses to sound, primarily music. Synaesthesia is a neurological phenomenon, a...
Digswell Arts Trust is an arts and educational charity offering low cost, well-maintained studios in our two buildings in Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City providing studios for approximately 26 emerging artists. A number of our studios in Letchworth will be coming vacant during 2019,...
Stuart Jones took part in the Artrooms Art Fair at the Melia White House Hotel, Regents Park, London in January 2019. During the Private View, Stuart was awarded the Contemporary Arts Trust Prize. It was judged by the trustees, including Professor Andrew Stahl, Professor of Fine Art at the Slade...