Local artist, Jude Fleming, offers opportunities for children to paint and draw at her Westwing Studio each week. For this exhibition, she has chosen from the best works produced so far this year.

Guided by the elements and principles of colour and design, Jude leads the children through the great Masters of art, and contemporary and modern artists. Together, they work their way through art genres - the figure, portraiture, landscape and still life, art as a narrative and a means of personal expression.  There is an imperative to make lots of work and to try different techniques, whilst looking and learning from one another and clocking up brush and pencil miles in their practice as artists.

Jude says, “I take a very sensory approach to art making as touch, sound, taste, smell and sight are the ways we experience the world. Art works are as much about ourselves as the subjects we portray.”

“Looking at the paintings, handling them and choosing which works will hang, always makes my heart sing - I couldn’t ask for a more satisfying task.”