Friends of Shipley Art Gallery

2007 Mini Art Tour

on Saturday 14^th July 2007

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Warkworth, a quick coffe break on the way. We should have been visiting Sue Fenlon, who works in watercolour
and pastels, but her exibition space was double booked. Recently been working on paintings of walking through
the medows and pathways of Northumberland.
Number 39 on the Twelfth Summer Art Tour 2007.

Warkworth - Population: 1,600.
The village of Warkworth is situated just one mile west from the North Sea and Amble harbour and 7 miles south
east of Alnwick. It is surrounded on three sides by the Coquet river and is dominated by the massive presence of
Warkworth Castle.
The village has one main street leading up to the castle, with public houses, shops and tearooms, as well as private
residences.

Priscilla Day-Eckhard.
Priscilla was born in Hornsea, is dyslexic and as a child
wanted to be a book illustrator. She went to 27 different
primary schools, but dosn't say why, and got a scholarship
to Oxford University.
Painting her fantasies on junk other people have thrown away,
she charges from 50p to £5,000.
Number 41 on the Twelfth Summer Art Tour 2007.

Its into Alnwick centre for lunch.

The annual fair is in town. The Fair is now in its the 36th year and was originally set up by the chamber
of trade to increase trade in the town in an exceptionally quiet period of time.
Times do change and in recent years the Fair has become a celebration of local people, fun and friendship.
Any reference to a Medieval Fair is long gone and the committee who are few have tried to bring a little
light hearted entertainment and fun to Alnwick to brighten up the somewhat damp days we and the rest of the
country are experiencing at the moment! We can't and wont promise that the Fair will be to everyones taste
as it impossible to please everyone. We can but try! More recently the Fair has been able to help local
charitable causes, earlier in 2007 we held a Twelfth Night Ball hosted at
Alnwick Gardens, funds raised are to be donated to the British Heart Foundation.
The Duchess High School Choir have also benefited from Alnwick Fair in aid of their trip to Canada in July 2007.
Alnwick International Music Festival will also receive a contribution towards entertainment.

To a lot of people, at first sight this medieval castle can seem foreboding, and certainly its history
has plenty in drama and intrigue. You may recognise the castle as a film location, for such films as
Elizabeth, Becket, Blackadder and Harry Potter.
Today Alnwick Castle is very much a living castle, at the heart of thriving estates and businesses;
and is still a family home, as it has been for nearly seven hundred years.

And so on to Joanna English (painted nature), No. 42 on the Twelfth Summer Art Tour 2007.
Wildlife artist and natural history illistrator.
Highly detailes watercolour paintings, sketches, prints and greetings cards.
Yes Hugo was saved from Christmas.

Applause for the driver: after he reverses half a mile down a very narrow lane.

The next and last stop is Eshott Heugh Workshops near Felton. Ian Hall and Jane Murray,
numbers 35 & 36 on the Twelfth Summer Art Tour 2007.

(Mirror mirror on the . . . )

Ian works in stained glass and mirrors. While Jane paints trees, vegetables, leaves and flowers,
by a mile the best artist we have seen today.

Its time to relax with tea, or coffee, and scones. Then its off home.