An event for all food lovers is taking place in Barton upon Humber next month as the town holds its first ever food festival.
The Waterside Food Festival takes place over the weekend of September 14 and 15 and incorporates the monthly Saturday Barton Farmers’ Market as well as the Waterside Food Festival being held the following day along The Ropewalk Promenade.
The festival is being organised by The Ropewalk in conjunction with North Lincolnshire Council and all money raised will go to the Lindsey Lodge Hospice.
Organiser Liz Bennet said the Festival aimed to showcase the very best in local producers and at the same time raise money for a very worthy cause.
“Already more than 10 stalls have confirmed for the Food Festival and these will be selling, amongst others, jams, chutneys, marmalade, cheeses, meat wines, cider and beer cakes, cookware and handcrafted wrought iron and driftwood candlesticks and decorative items.”
There will also be tastings of preserves, breads, cheeses and lots more to tempt visitors.
“As well as the stalls there will be hourly demonstrations in Ropery Hall with Brigg chocolatier Fiona Sciolti and top chefs Nigel Brown of the Nigel Brown Cookery Academy which is based at The Ropewalk and Colin McGurran of the world-renowned Winteringham Fields.”
Liz explained that the Farmers’ Market, always held on King Street on the second Saturday in every month got the Festival under way.
“In September as well as all the usual stalls in this popular accredited market there will also be entertainers and competitions. Your local farmers’ market is really the best way to meet producers and at the same time take advantage of all that Barton has to offer.”
“And on the Sunday at the Food Festival there will also be attractions such as stilt walking chefs as well as other performers and music throughout the day as well as children’s activities.”
“The Ropewalk’s Craft Gallery will also have a stall displaying tableware by David Hilton, Josie Walter and Brenda Wright.”
Barton Farmers’ Market runs from 9am until 1pm on September 14 and the Waterside Food Festival the following day will run from 10am until 4pm.
The annual exhibition by The Ropewalk Studio artists. Featuring work by:
David Alcock
Sally Beaumont
Emily Connor
Debbie Grice
Richard Hatfield
Gill Hobson
Judith Land
Darren Langton
Tim Needham
Julie Oxenforth
Michael Scrimshaw
Shirley Trumble
Keith Woodcock
The Ropewalk’s popular Christmas Art Market will showcase the work of more than 40 makers and artists.
Taking place over the weekend of Saturday December 7 and Sunday December 8 those makers and artists selected to take part will be selling original handmade gifts, cards and artwork (more…)
Helen Martino would describe her work as being ‘sometimes serious and sometimes playful’. For many years Helen worked as a functional potter, making batches of domestic pots on a wheel. Now she sees herself as more of a maker in clay, hand building each piece individually by using soft and flexible sheets of clay. These sheets of clay are freely cut, curved and sometimes twisted, this is how Helen is able to create different perspectives and distortion within her work. The surface is painted with slip, underglaze pigment and resists. Depending on the piece silver and gold lustre may also be incorporated.
Helen is fascinated by body language and how this can be communicated. She observes Mogul and Persian miniatures and admires how they are able to tell a story within one image. These artworks often show a significant event within the life span of a person or family. Helen’s sculptures are also intimate like the miniature and show a single event that can be applied to the past, future and present, allowing the viewer to determine the story of each artwork.
Working in Cambridge, Helen exhibits widely across the UK and is the founder member of Cambridge Open Studios. She will be exhibiting in the Box Gallery in November.
Yorkshire born and bred, Eleanor Tomlinson is a traditional artist and illustrator based in East Yorkshire. Inspired by the beautiful Yorkshire countryside she has grown up amongst, Eleanor predominantly works in ink and watercolour to specialise in capturing and celebrating UK wildlife and the local countryside. Eleanor’s distinctive style using ink and watercolour, combines traditional, well-loved subjects with a contemporary, illustrative twist. Her use and composition of contrasting white space brings a narrative and sense of movement and energy to her pieces. Eleanor’s artworks have also been developed into a wide range of cards, stationery, limited edition prints and homeware collections alongside her original pieces which are being sold in an array of independent shops and galleries across the UK.
LAND, SEA AND SKY
The theme for this exhibition ‘Land, Sea, and Sky’ was chosen because its wide-ranging associations might be interpreted in many different ways, and in part because the theme was seen to have some relevance to the location of The Ropewalk Gallery. No size limit was imposed and artists were invited to respond to the theme in as wide a way as possible, to be as traditional or as innovative as they wished both in process and format. The final selection includes three dimensional and large format pieces as well as more conventional prints.
Printmakers Council was founded in 1965 by a group of prominent printmakers to raise the profile of printmaking as an art form and to provide an exhibition society for members. For over fifty years PmC has continued to pursue these aims through a rolling programme of exhibitions, lectures and practical workshops.
Two new exhibitions with links to northern Lincolnshire are opening this Saturday (Sept 14) at The Ropewalk arts centre in Barton upon Humber.
In the Artspace is Re-Tellings, a solo exhibition by Grimsby based artist Sue Stone whose work is inspired by people, place and time. (more…)
