Art In The Yard

Art in the Yard is a new outdoor community art initiative for viewing a wide variety of work on display by local artists and, also a venue for local buskers to play in front of a live audience.

The local art event in the heart of the community
Art in the Yard is your opportunity to celebrate the wealth of talent in the local area and for local artists to get involved in our community art project. The event promises to bring together a wide variety of art including original artwork, ceramics, woodwork, glassware, photography and demonstrations by local artists.

Henderson Court | High Street | Lymington

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Event sponsored by:
About Colten Care
With more than 30 years’ experience, we are a family-owned care home company based in Lymington, who owns and operates high-quality care homes across Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire. Our services include residential, nursing and dementia care.

Our aim is to be both the south coast's care home operator of choice and care home employer of choice.

Click Here to find out more details.

In support of:
25% of the profit from pitch fees is donated to the hArt charity.
About hArt
hArt is a young Lymington based charity offering creative ways to support mental health needs in people of all ages and at all levels. We offer a wide range of activities from art workshops for families through to therapeutic one-to-one and group work for people with very specific and complex needs. Our aims are to to use indoor and outdoor spaces to encourage self expression and self care for health and wellbeing and to bring people together around creative activities for friendship and community connection.

Click Here to find out more about the charity.

Limited Space

We have space for 6 x 3.5m x 2m high Heras construction panels which can be split into 2 pitches. There is a maximum total of 12 picture hanging pitches.
Due to our limited space, artists can only book alternating weeks. (Maximum of 2 pitches per month)

Exhibiting Costs:

Non-Members
Full Panel - £30.00 per day
Half a Panel - £17.00 per day

Members of The Local Art Scene
Full Panel - £20.00 per day
Half a Panel - £12.00 per day

Times

11am - 4pm
Setup : 8:30am

What you need to bring?

A table if you are exhibiting ceramics
A small table if you are selling cards and prints (Must not be wider that 1.5m)
'S Hooks' to hang your painting on the gridwall (Can be purchased at most iron mongers and DIY stores)

Insurance

As this is an outdoor event, artists must have their own insurance. Cheapest we found was membership to a-n which include public liability insurance for just £36 per year. Click Here for details.

New Venues Wanted

If you have space available in a disused courtyard in a central location, and would like to support local artists in your community, please drop us a line.