Sydenham Arts Festival 2012

Every year Sydenham Arts festival graces South East London with its talent, featuring a wide variety of 'the arts' ranging from painted art  and drama productions to written art, like the 'Fiesta of Poetry' previosly hosted by Gale Burns.
This year however, I am going to focus on the art produced by South London's teens.
During my own GCSE Art course (only two years ago-can you believe!), I had the priviledge of being taught by glass art enthusiast Pippa Stacey who runs classes from her home. Over the past few years, her students final GCSE art pieces and her own glass peices have been exhibited as part of the festival. To the right is an example of some of her work.
This ranges from dainty trinket bowls and place mats to large decoration peices and illusion sculptures. Not only are the patterns delicate and contemporary, but her general colour theme of baby and deep sea blues and soft pastel pinks give a tranquil nautical feel, without making an obvious statement, making sure her peices appeal to people with differing tastes. In fact I suprised myself last year by taking a fancy to a white leaf patterned bowl. It sits in my room holding hair pins and lipgloss bottles!