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Beasties, bugs and butterflies at The Savill Garden's Art Week, 19 - 25 July 2010Art Week (19-25 July) at The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park, gives you the chance to create beasties, bugs and butterflies; brush up on your artistic skills; and explore the Garden to find metal sculptures of real and imaginary creatures. There are courses for adults who want to learn more about working in one particular art form, together with fun courses for children, a free family activity and an artist in residence. Sculptor Daren Greenhow will be showing his distinctive and inventive metal sculptures depicting real and imaginary creatures around The Savill Garden. (Normal Garden admission charges apply). Look out for a Pike on a Trike, the Veló-ciraptor dinosaur and a 12ft tall heron. Daren will also be the artist in residence on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 July and will be located in The Savill Garden. (Normal Garden admission charges apply). He will be demonstrating the techniques that he uses to reform and create sculptures from scrap metal, including old bicycles. There will be a free garden beastie project from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 July, when children can create imaginary creatures that might live in The Savill Garden. Draw animals, birds and insects, chop them up and make a new beastie. Then add your creation to the garden mural in The Savill Building exhibition pod. (Materials are provided and children should be supervised at all times). Artist Kerry Lemon will be running four children’s workshops on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 July. The Saturday workshops will teach children how to create a fantastic butterfly sculpture; and the Sunday workshops will make a colourful caterpillar puppet in a similar style to a Chinese New Year dragon. Places are limited and must be pre-booked. Each child needs to be accompanied by an adult and the cost is £20 per child. The adult workshops begin with ‘Acrylics in the Garden’ with painter Tim King on Tuesday 20 July. Tim will be exploring approaches to landscape painting in acrylics, using views of The Savill Garden as inspiration. Tim will encourage participants to ‘have a go’ and enjoy the process, and there will be lots of advice on materials, equipment and techniques. The cost, which also includes a full afternoon cream tea, is £40 per adult. RHS award winning botanical artist Anna Knights will be running ‘Luscious Leaves’ which will teach how to paint realistic and vibrant leaves in watercolour, a skill crucial to the success of botanical paintings. The workshop, which also includes a full afternoon cream tea, will be on Wednesday 21 July and costs £40. Based on Kerry Lemon’s monthly illustrations for Gardens Illustrated Magazine, Kerry will be running ‘Illustrating Plants’, using plants within The Savill Garden as inspiration for the creation of beautiful floral images using a wide range of materials. The workshop, which includes a full afternoon cream tea, takes place on Thursday 22 July and costs £40. Art Week organiser and Savill Building Manager, Anna Marshall, comments: “The Savill Garden is the perfect place for artistic inspiration and learning and we hope that there is something to appeal to everyone.” Places on the workshops are limited and should be pre-booked. For more information call 01784 435544 or visit www.theroyallandscape.co.uk
Ends For more press information call Sarah Halstead, Marketing Dept, The Crown Estate, on 07918 121905 or email Sarah.Halstead@thecrownestate.co.uk
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