Your Hosts Christa and Bill are both involved with art.
With the new major national art Gallery, the Turner Contemporary opening in 2011, Thanet has a growing arts community and is a great place to take a break and get away. Why not try a mosaic course with Martin Cheek? see Martin Cheek's mosaic courses or Flint House Art Courses
Christa started painting after our four children had grown up. She spent a number of years attending Emily Ball's classes in Sussex, who with John Skinner, (Emily's teacher), are inspirational. Visit Emily Ball's Web site and John Skinner's Web site.
Her main materials are canvas & wood with Hammerite paints, Oils and Acrylics in a contemporary style. The Isle of Thanet Coast, personal experience and emotions are her primary sources for her ideas.
South Lodge is full of Christa's contemporary paintings.
Bill is a public and community artist who also creates his own sculptures from time to time. He is also involved with Chesworth Arts Farm in Horsham, West Sussex - see www.ArtsAgri.com
A resource to help businesses and established arts practitioners to work together for their mutual benefit.
Bill is a passionate believer that everyone benefit's from using their creative talents, which you all have. The education system today throughout Europe and beyond has a tendency to restrict the time and opportunity for children to use their creative skills at school. This needs to change. We will all enjoy life more and make more of life if we use our creative skills. Give children the chance of performing at their best.
Click here to view examples of our work.
