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Swindon Open Studios offers art lovers a sneak

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Swindon’s annual festival of the Hospice and in 2008 returned to
visual arts, the Open Studios, university, this time Loughborough,
features a diverse range of artwork for a PhD developing an art therapy
by over 50 local artists. intervention called portrait therapy.
Studios are open across Swindon This is used as a way to help people
and the surrounding area during the who experience life threatening or
first two weekends of September chronic illnesses as an assault to
every year. If you are interested in their sense of self-identity. As well
art, or finding out about how artists as painting portraits, Susan also
work you will be very welcome at enjoys painting in oils en plein air,
each venue. with her favourite venues being Old
Swindon Open Studios is Town Gardens and Barbary Castle.
organised by a committee of Further information is available
volunteers who are passionate on her website: www.susanmcarr.
about art and keen to publicise the co.uk
artists and artwork being produced Terry and Susan will be exhibiting
in Swindon. their paintings in Old Town Gardens
Two local artists who are opening on Saturday 3 and Saturday 10
their studio again this year are Terry September in their ‘Gallery Plein
Humphries and Susan Carr who Air’ and also at their studio at
studied at Swindon School of Art home.
during the 1990s, both leaving with All the artists taking part in Open
a degree in Design/Illustration. Studios offer original artwork
Terry has taught art at Swindon for sale, and many have prints,
College as well as running his own January Snow, Old Town Gardens - by Susan Carr, who will be opening this postcards, greeting cards and other
classes and courses, but his main year’s Swindon Open Studios alongside another local artist Terry Humphries crafts. Refreshments are available
artistic focus is his oil paintings at many of the studios. Brochures
produced en plein air (outside and Century. Terry’s favourite subjects two years as artist in residence at detailing all the artists and venues
from life), which was made popular include painting architecture, Hreod Parkway School in Swindon, are available from the Information
by the Barbizon School of painting cityscapes and seascapes. followed by an MA in art therapy Centre in Central Library.
and the French Impressionists e.g. See his website: at the University of Hertfordshire. Alternatively, all the information is
Claude Monet and August Renoir, www.terencehumphries.co.uk Since 2005 she has worked as also available online at
during the 19th and early 20th After graduating Susan spent an art therapist at the Prospect www.swindonopenstudios.org.uk

Corner of Wood Street and Bath Road - by Terry Humphries Swindon artist Terry Humphries painting at Lydiard Park
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