For the next fortnight from Saturday (29th May) artists and crafts people across Dorset are inviting the public in to see what they do. Studios and galleries are opening around the county to enable people to look around and talk to the artists about their work and inspiration.
It’s all part of the Dorset Art Weeks, the county’s 10th biennial celebration of visual arts which include sculpture, textiles, jewellery, glassworking and more. The event is organised by the Dorset Visual Arts whose aim is to celebrate the fact that we have a high level of talent in the county.
Lyme Regis takes part in this festival of art with several studios opening for the two weeks. The studios and galleries in Lyme which are taking part are listed on the website below:
I intend to visit as many of the open studios during the coming two weeks as possible and will add to this blog as I do.
At the same time the Lyme Regis Philpot Museum is showing, in the recently opened Malthouse Gallery, pictures of Old Lyme entitled ‘Another Look at Old Lyme’ which shows how the town has developed over the past 100 years.
Before we moved here in September last year we had visited the town at least twice a year for over 20 years and have been interested in its history and developments. So much so, that in the past couple of years, since the advent of the World Wide Web, I have followed events through local papers which published their weekly copy on the net.
