Fresh: Re-Freshed

There will be a lot going on at Fresh: Art Fair this year. Now in its 7^th edition at Cheltenham Racecourse, Fresh: promises new ideas and a host of new art.

• Fresh: Art Fair at Cheltenham Racecourse 26^th – 28^th April 2024
• Private View from 5.30pm Thursday 25th April – enjoy free wine and first pick of the art

Featuring eleven new exhibitors, new artists demonstrating their work and new workshop to try your hand. As well as twelve painters working in two studios, Robert Fogell will be present, sculpting all weekend in the Fresh outdoor Sculpture Park and Keziah Burt in the foyer, working on one of her famous portrait sculptures, which include commissions for Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles.

All day on Friday there will be a drop-in workshop in the foyer run by artist and former lecturer Martin Bowden who will guide all age groups in water-colour painting. And over the weekend, the incomparable Doctor Fun aka Tracy Spiers PhD will run mixed-media workshops mainly for children.

And if your imagination needs a little more stimulation, they will be literally ‘bringing art to life’. On Saturday and Sunday, they will have actors from Beyond Repair Entertainment body-painted as characters from a life-size painting. The painting, “Dancing on the Street” by celebrated Cotswold artist PJ Crook MBE FRSA RWA, was until recently hung in a famous New York apartment.

The outdoor Sculpture Park will be hosting 17 sculptors, most of them new to Fresh: Art Fair. They will be showing 55 spectacular garden pieces in all shapes and sizes in steel, bronze, bronze resin, stone, marble, ceramic and more.

Art enthusiasts are welcome to the Private View on the Thursday evening for a complimentary glass or two of wine. There’ll be a chance to have your portrait created by the amazing silhouette artist Alison Russell.

Fresh: Art Fair hosts 50 leading galleries, showing nearly 5,000 original prints, paintings and sculptures by 500 UK and international artists. Art enthusiasts can look forward to exciting new talent and famous names like Picasso, Hockney, Matisse and Miro, all original art from as little as £50 to £20,000 or more, but most well within your budget. With all this plus licensed cafés and free parking, there’s no more enjoyable way to browse and buy art.

Fresh: Art Fair will be in the Centaur Building at Cheltenham Racecourse from 26^th to 28^th April 2024 with a Private View from 5.30pm on Thursday 25^th.

Tickets from £6 and available on the Fresh: Art Fair website. Early bird offer, half price tickets, until 31 March.

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