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POTTERY PAINTING FOR ALL A brand-new pottery painting experience has just opened at Huntingdon Home and Garden. At The Potting Shed Studio, customers of all ages and abilities can relax, reconnect and create as they paint the piece of pottery of their choice before it is fired in the kiln to create a keepsake to treasure. The studio also has plans for children’s events and seasonal workshops. Find out more and book at events.bluediamond.gg NEW MURALS COMING SOON Cambridge City Council has commissioned a public art project for the areas around Mill Road, with two large-scale murals set to be developed in close collaboration with the local community. There’ll be paid opportunities for local creatives as well as volunteering roles for the public. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of August, with further details to be revealed soon. photographers to submit work for the inaugural edition of The City Series photobook series, which will focus on Cambridge. The team is looking for personal, open responses that capture how Cambridge feels, not simply how it looks. The deadline for submissions is 23 April; find out more at shutterhub.org.uk/ opportunities is one of five acts shortlisted for Boom Radio’s One More Dream initiative in partnership with Ambassador Cruise Line – a campaign offering performers from the 60s and 70s the chance to fulfil their musical ambitions. The winner will have their record professionally produced and perform live aboard a cruise ship. SECOND CHANCE OF STARDOM Peterborough’s Steve Strawhead CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS! Shutter Hub is inviting
Ode to the landscape Beginning this month as part of the spring/summer season at Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury, celebrating the 250th anniversary of John Constable, are two exhibitions of work by current artists that show how the influence of Constable and his contemporaries is still felt by artists today. Land, Sky, Light: New Landscapes by David Dawson presents new and recent paintings capturing the shifting skies and luminous atmospheres of this acclaimed artist’s Welsh homeland. Initially painted outdoors during each season of the year, Dawson continues to work on these landscapes in his London studio, to then complete back in the countryside. Meanwhile, Kate Giles: Remember Tomorrow highlights the keen and intimate vision of this contemporary artist, with work depicting the landscape of her native East Anglia. Primarily, it will showcase paintings and drawings completed in the last year, several of which explicitly refer to Constable’s earlier ‘six-footer’, The Leaping Horse (1825), depicting the River Stour between Flatford and Dedham that he knew intimately. Taking place from 25 April to 11 October, find out more about these exhibitions and more at gainsborough.org
BUCOLIC BRILLIANCE Visit Gainsborough’s House to see paintings like June on Earth by David Dawson (left) and Leap (Noonday) by Kate Giles (above)
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