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This year's Visual Arts event offers art lovers lots of opportunities to meet artists and view their work in a range of settings from busy art fairs to more intimate settings such as artists’ studios and even their gardens!
This year the Fringe offers two large-scale events showcasing a range of styles and media where audiences will have the chance to meet the artists and buy their work.
First up is the Fringe Award-nominated Art In The Octagon by High Peak Artists. Meet award-winning artists and makers from the High Peak Artists group with a special guest artist, Carl Longmate. There will be demonstrations in oils, pastels, watercolours, urban sketching, silk painting, wood turning, photography, printmaking, jewellery, ceramics, textiles and lots more. Art At The Crescent with Peak District Artisans meanwhile showcases an exciting exhibition of contemporary artwork from some of the best professional artists and makers in the Peak District. A great opportunity to meet the artists and purchase something totally unique, this diverse exhibition features paintings, prints, ceramics, jewellery, photography and textiles.
Several local artists are throwing open their doors and inviting us into their personal spaces.
Steve Wells will be displaying his vibrant collection of mixed-media paintings and prints of animals, people and landscapes from around the world in We Are All Nature. In People Of The World In Pictures Cut Up, Hugo Edwardes and Craig Carpenter will be presenting photographs from a century ago portraying humanity in all its diversity, narrated by captions that reflect an Empire mindset. This multi-media event includes a slideshow with the cut-up book available to leaf through, plus an original soundtrack of meditation waves, nature sounds and international rhythms.
Catherine Serjeant and Suzanne Pearson are hoping for good weather as they invite you to join them at Pop Up Art In The Garden displaying art for sale by the two local artists. Subjects include holiday adventures, Buxton and the Peak District, people and places. Mixed media, acrylics, pastels, textiles, woodcuts and painted furniture will all be on show.
For those creatives who are keen to get hands-on, High Peak Photography Club is inviting people to take up the Buxton Photo Challenge 2025, a photography marathon whereby participants take six photos on six themes in six hours. Another option is Sip, Sit And Sketch with Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust with the Pump Room transformed into a sketcher's haven during the Fringe. Buy a drink and borrow sketching and painting materials to capture the moment.
There is fun for all the family on the Buxton Flowerpot Trail by Funny Wonders. Head to where you see the dots; can you find the flowerpots? This year’s trail is celebrating local institution The Billerettes.
Fringe Marketing Officer Stephanie Billen says “This year’s Visual Arts category offers a lovely balance of large-scale events and much smaller, more intimate settings. Whichever our audiences prefer, they will be spoilt for choice with a wide variety of styles and media on show plus the chance to talk to our wonderful artists and be creative themselves.”
To find out more, Fringe-goers can pick up a programme, see www.buxtonfringe.org.uk or download the free Buxton Fringe App.
The Fringe wishes to thank High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.
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