Over the three days between 30th July to 1st August 2010 Kirkcudbright hosted the annual Arts and Crafts Trail. We are all familiar with open studio events usually spread out across a whole county or region but this is one where the venues can be walked between.
We popped in on the Saturday, largely to see the Glasgow Girls Exhibition, see it if you can the diversity and standard of work of these women is breath taking. Followed by our usual visit to the Tolbooth Arts Centre where we saw work by Liz Dagg and Amy Robb, we kept bumping into Amy for the rest of the day, and a smaller exhibition of Lisa Hooper's prints. Finally onto the trail proper.
It was like a multi-dimensional day out, there was the familiar Kirkcudbright we know and love then all these amazing studios, houses, closes, gardens and a whole other town hidden from general view. We were in the studio of Jessie M.King, who worked there at the beginning of the last century, looking at work by an artist who currently lives there. Along with the art, the houses and gardens were worth the visit in their own right.
I think we might go for the three days next year, amazing.
www.artandcraftstrail.co.uk
Alas, Andy Breen (above carving)didn't have time to finish his carving that weekend but was back a few weeks later for the much longer sculpture symposium and a more ambitious project.
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