What do the words Calm and Serene suggest to you as an artist?
Can you find ways of expressing calmness and serenity through your art work?
Work for this year's Open Art Exhibition may be on any theme: landscape, seascape, still life, abstract... provided the mood or feeling in the work is calm and serene.
The Selectors are hoping for thoughtful and intuitive new works, in any 2 or 3 dimensional medium.
All works must be original, and may not have been previously submitted to a Harbour House Open Art Exhibition.
Artists are also invited to include a brief artist's statement, explaining their work and how it relates to the theme of Calm and Serene. This is particularly helpful to the Selectors in the case of abstract and 3-dimensional works, and will be available in the exhibition for visitors to read.
Open Exhibitions are a great opportunity for local artists to take their first steps in showing their work, and as many of our local, established artists also continue to take part, it makes for a very exciting collection of new work.
To encourage artists in the pursuit of new works, Harbour House has organised a day workshop on Thursday 10 January, with local art therapist Jenny Murphy. Rather than teaching specific painting and drawing techniques, Jenny will provide plenty of basic art materials and a series of stimuli related to the town of Calm and Serene, encouraging participants to respond intuitively, and find a personal path in their art work. Non-artists find Jenny's approach encouraging and non-judgmental, while practising artists welcome the opportunity to inject some spontaneity into their work.
Later this year a second Open Exhibition opportunity arises, and artists are invited to examine the human condition in Being Human, Human Being.
Handing-in of work is on Monday 17 March from 9.30 - 12 noon, and all works must be accompanied by a completed submission form and fee.
