Meet some of the Guild members
Members of the Guild will be taking part in the open weekend at Wyresdale Hall Scorton, on the 24th/25th September. The hall was featured on Channel 4's Country House Rescue programme shown earlier this year.
A wide range of art and craft work will be on sale and several members will also be demonstrating their skills.
www.wyresdalepark.co.uk

photos
see some examples of the guild work at the World of Glass exhibition on the guilds facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/artcraftguildlancs

Gallery at the wharf is now open
Celebrating 25 years!
"As Chair of the Art and Craft Guild of Lancashire I am delighted that the Guild has reached this milestone Silver Anniversary. To put the icing on the cake we have just opened our brand new “Gallery at the Wharf” at Burscough Bridge, so the Guild now has a permanent home. We run as a co-operative, and it is that co-operation, determination and willingness to work together that has enabled us to finally achieve our dream of having our own Gallery. Here’s looking forward to the next 25 years!"
Yvonne Chadderton

Silver Anniversary exhibition at The Gallery at the wharf
11 November - 24 December - Gallery at the Wharf CIC, Burscough Wharf, Liverpool Road North, Burscough L40 5RZ www.galleryatthewharf.co.uk

Sat 10th July /Sun 11th July
Guild members, Christine Corthorn, Joyce Ellis, Malcolm Mentha, Pam Potter, and Ally Noble, represented the Guild and showcased their work at the free 'Lord Street Celebrates Visual Arts' weekend in Southport

The Guild had two tents in the gardens on Lord Street to promote our organization and work. As such I wasn’t expecting much but, be it Sefton Council’s advertising, or the good weather, we were busy for two days. Other activities brought the public in such as having a cartoon drawn, throwing a pot, having your face painted and making a collage (which was very
popular). There were demonstrations too, and a wide range of
other artists in attendance to discuss their work. They were all local and of a high standard. We had many visitors who were interested, chatty, craft aware AND had money to spend. Plus we had two lovely sunny days. On the negative side it was a pain having to take down and put up each day. As at “Art and Garden” thick stair rods fell from the sky exactly at packing up time at the end of trading on Saturday! A personal bug bear was one CD ALL day Saturday. I will NEVER listen to Fleetwood Mac
Rumours ever again! Sunday was more varied and played at lesser volume. Sefton Council workers were a great,
even though they weren’t being paid they were helpful and enthusiastic and even laughed when literally soaked to the skin taking the tents down on Saturday. Finally I have to mention a huge thanks to all the supporting Guild members (plus Sally not in the picture), who put up a good show and made the event really great fun. As you can see by the picture, it was a lovely weekend! (Article by Ally Noble, photo by Christine Corthorn)

Guild exhibition Winter/Spring 2010 at Arteria in Lancaster
exhibiting members images are displayed on the BBC Lancashire website: click here to go the BBC website