Alderton Arts Festival – Kids Corner

There’ll be plenty to keep the kids entertained, with a collection of traditional games including Hook a Duck, Penny Push, Hoopla and more!

Prize every time!
Lots of fun for the ids!

Come along, have a go and join in the festival fun!

I found my creativity in my latter years of life after reducing my work hours and attending an art for wellbeing course. Then social media enabled me to explore different artists and styles until I found my passion with Acrylic Fluid Art (paint pouring).

I was drawn to this medium because it suits me; it is often messy, there are few rules and is very colourful. I am now officially addicted to my hobby which I find has few limitations in respect of what you can paint pour on or over and what tools you can use.

Sometimes I create abstract wall art on canvas and other times I’m recycling the overspill paint to create beautiful unique jewellery pieces and trinkets. Currently I enjoy attending some art and craft fayres and village shows as a stall holder around my home county of Northamptonshire.

We are a local personalisation crafty business.  We specialise in creating bespoke gifts made on site while you wait. We also offer a make & take table open to all ages and all abilities.  Prices are from pocket money to go on treat yourself or someone else.  We believe ‘Everyone should be crafty and make a mess’.

Our products are unique wooden items for make and take tables as we cut these ourselves.

Textiles (Sarah Hopkins)
“I am a self taught weaver, who has been practising this craft for some eight years.

I have always loved the tactile nature of natural fabrics and am fascinated by weaving and how it combines functionality with aesthetics; channelling one’s mental energy into using one’s hands, in a skilled, creative, purposeful way, is essential to being human”.

Ceramics (Dan and Martin).
“We have been collaborating since 2010, specialising in throwing, hand building, slip-casting and sculpture, with a range of finishes including glaze (dipped, poured and brushed-on), oxides, underglaze, crushed glass, and coloured slip.

We enjoy surface texture, colour and individuality. We use carving, chattering, inlaying, and hand-added pieces to ensure that every piece we craft unique and impossible to replicate pieces, some functional, all decorative”.

Wight Chine Arts is a small local family project, which began during the coronavirus lockdown. The idea stemmed from a challenge of who could collect the most beach glass and as our family are extremely competitive, these products are our efforts throughout the pandemic! Every design is unique due to the natural materials we work with, all the sea glass, driftwood, and seashells are all collected from beaches on the Isle of Wight.

I have lived in South Northants for the past 30 years and my cushion collection is a fushion of my love of working with fabrics and a passion for the flowers in my garden.

Having enjoyed the experience of printmaking in my college days I like to keep my designs quite stylised and 2 dimensional and in some cases with a nod to Art Nouveau and The Arts and Crafts designs.

My bags are created using solely upcycled fabrics which is an interesting challenge and means each one is quite unique.