Celebrate local creativity with an exhibition of work by 2 LGBTQ+ artists in our Community Hub.

The exhibition will be on display during the week leading up to and the week following the Glastonbury Pride event on Sunday 26 July.

Visitors are also invited to spend time in the hub and garden, a peaceful place to pause and reflect during the Pride celebrations.

Everyone is welcome to visit and enjoy the exhibition.

For more information about Glastonbury Pride, please visit their website:

https://sites.google.com/view/glastonburypride/home

Featuring Lou Hart:

A self-taught artist working in a variety of mediums. Previously a pen and ink illustrator of subjects in the realms of social justice and wildlife (and very briefly an illustrator at Kew Gardens), they now take inspiration from an unplanned process of ‘subject-unfolding’.

In ‘Visitors’ Lou Hart creates detailed and powerful felted portraits of; the Dead from a variety of timelines and geographical locations; and of the Fae in differing guises. Inspired by connection with Santa Muerte, (the syncretic Roman Catholic and pre- Columbian death goddess), the works on display reference the ubiquity of death while exploring the realms of spirit.

Felting is nowadays largely used for the creation of 3d animals or wet felted landscape delineation. The works in this series are needle-felted and create a disruptive tension between what is usually seen as a familiar and ‘safe technique, with unfamiliar and ‘unsafe’ portraiture.

and Maxine Richards;

A self taught artist who lives in Glastonbury, born of Jamaican parents in Birmingham in the 60’s. Maxines artwork speaks of her love for the colours of her parents homeland, her ancestral roots to Africa, growing up in a multicultural city and also a love for living in Glastonbury. Much of her work is inspired by spirituality, culture and acestors, the love of the human form in it’s many guises also the natural/animal world.

You will often discover in her work symbolisms of birds, ancestral figures and marks representing tribal markings. Maxines inspiration stems from trees, music, dreams and travel, both home and abroad.

Many works begin with meditation along with visions, she also uses art as an outlet to express her inner most emotions.

Maxine presents an eclectic collection of artwork, working in acrylic and mixed media and in her own quirkt abstract style.