Emsworth Arts Trail
It's the annual Emsworth Arts Trail where artists set up stalls, open their studios, etc to the public to show off the their work.
This year they have 88 artists taking part.
Probably the best place to go to get as many artists as possible in the easiest way is in the town centre.
This year they have 88 artists taking part.
Probably the best place to go to get as many artists as possible in the easiest way is in the town centre.
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00:00Hi, I'm Lou Johns, I'm a sculptor and I'm enjoying the Emsworth Arts Trail, which has
00:12brought in a lot of people to see my work, which who normally wouldn't see it. We had
00:17nearly 300 people in yesterday, which is an incredible footfall, and I've got pieces now
00:23going off to Portugal and far afield, in the rain even, yesterday. I've been working
00:32as a sculptor, full-time as a sculptor, for nearly 20 years, after a career in the BBC
00:38and teaching, and this gives me the opportunity to really put on a show and show myself and
00:47my work. My name's Carol Price, I'm Chairman of the Emsworth Arts Trail. We've been going
00:55since 2001, and in those days we only had 10 people in the studios. Now it's a complete
01:04town event, because the pubs are rammed, the cafes are rammed, and everybody who is interested
01:13in any aspect of art can find something that's interesting here. It also means, of course,
01:20that people who kind of dip their toe in the water, as far as selling their work is concerned,
01:25can suddenly be a bit brave and put their work on the wall, a bit like me here, and
01:32I'm thinking, oh, is anybody going to like it? So you get a really good spin-off, not
01:37from just other artists, but from your visitors and so on.
01:41Hello, I'm Rainer, I'm a member of the Holding the Wall Pottery Group here in Emsworth. We're
01:48really pleased to be part of the Arts Trail this year. The pottery here has been running
01:52for about 50 years, it's community-based. All the members help contribute to the running
01:57of the pottery. We all make our own work, and we sell it to raise money for our own
02:03club. This lamp we made on the Arts Trail last year, and it was about 15 different members
02:12contributed, as did local children. There was a boy about eight years old, when it was
02:17nearly finished, asked if he could add the tongue, and we managed to squeeze the end
02:21through the teeth, and we're really pleased with how it turned out. Yeah, and it's a great
02:27little place for you to come down and visit us.
02:31I'm Nick Cowper, I'm a watercolour artist. I've been working the trail now since 2014,
02:38and that's every year except for one where we've lost a venue, but all of them I've attended.
02:47Now, this year, for the first time, we had the previous graphic designer resign from
02:53the job of doing the brochure and all the signage, which is a huge job, and I stepped
02:58in, volunteered. It's a huge amount of work, but it's meant I've been involved right from
03:05the beginning, right in the centre of the whole organisation. It's been a wonderful
03:09experience for me, and all I can say is, as I've seen this trail grow, even in ten years,
03:17I just hope it keeps going, and we keep seeing more people. We have people from London, we've
03:23got people from Bournemouth, we've got people from Brighton. They come from all over the
03:28place, and what a great institution for Emsworth this is.
03:32Hello there, my name's Stephen Massey, I'm doing the Emsworth Arts Trail. I'm hopefully
03:38using it mostly to promote a book that I've written concerning Gustav, who was a pigeon
03:44during the Second World War, and who, on D-Day, when there was a complete radio blackout,
03:51delivered the first message back from Normandy, stating that D-Day actually hadn't heard.
03:57It's all very much based around the area, around Portsmouth, Chichester Harbour, RAS
04:03Thorney Island, where he was based, and it just literally follows him from birth, right
04:08up to his momentous day on D-Day when he was released, flew five and a half hours back
04:14home against the appalling weather, and he was ultimately awarded the Dickens Medal for
04:21Animal Bravery from the PDSA.
04:26Hi, I'm Helena Hines, and I've been showing with the Emsworth Arts Trail for about 20
04:31years, I guess. These are some of my paintings here, some from the south of England, and
04:38some from Greece, and the inspirations kind of merge, and I guess I went to art college
04:47and then when we moved to Emsworth, I'd seen the fantastic art trail in Brighton, and I
04:53remember ringing up the council and saying, couldn't we have one of these in Emsworth?
04:57And so Marianne Horsfield and I, Marianne's a great local artist, and great with third
05:03life images, and we got in touch with the council, and here we are, normally down the
05:10line, a lot of people to thank, and Harry Price especially, so I hope you enjoy the show.
05:18Hi, my name's Lizzy Cornelius, and I'm on the Emsworth Arts Trail. I like to paint in
05:24acrylic, and I also use a black oil pen to outline my images. We start with a sketchbook
05:30where I sketch my inspiration, and then once we have the painting, we can reproduce it.
05:36Now we reproduce it by photographing it, and then we will send the files, a photographic
05:42file, off to UK companies that reproduce all my work as placemats, and coasters, and limited
05:48edition prints, mugs, etc.