ARTSPARK – Igniting young creative talent
This year the Henley Arts Trail is launching the Art Spark Prize. In collaboration with the Henley Youth Festival and The Art Society Henley we want to support & encourage the most talented young artists in the area. The winners of the ArtSpark competition will be offered a chance to be taught their choice of specialist skill by one of our professional artists, shown below, who are also experienced tutors.
A creative career can be a difficult choice to make. Schools often don’t have the facilities to allow students the opportunity to try out a full range of media and we want to give those with a real talent and passion for art & craft a chance to experience them.
The media offered are: Silver jewellery making, wheel thrown pottery, print making, life drawing, watercolour, oil painting, textiles and sculpture. It’s an extremely generous prize. These tutors don’t usually run one to one classes for teens so it’s a rare opportunity.
If you are 16-18yrs old and living in the Henley, Wargrave Twyford & Charvil areas you can apply online.
Applications are now open and the deadline is 29th February. The online application process is very simple –
1) Choose one of the eight specialist skills you want to learn if you win
2) Dig out five pics of your very best art or craft pieces (doesn’t matter what it’s made of, just anything that shows your creativity)
3) Tell us a bit about what being creative means to you. And that’s it.
The winners will be announced at the Henley Youth Festival Awards Ceremony on March 10th in the Henley Town Hall.
