Neoartists Blog

Bolton Art Studios are holding their Christmas Open Event on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th December 2008 between 11am and 4pm at Hampson Street, Horwich.  From Noon each day, we are running free children’s art workshops, so bring along your kids for a Textile-based fun on Saturday with Jane Flanagan and Claire Barnett. 

On Sunday, Julia Entwistle and Helen Plester will run a Painting/Drawing workshop.  Refreshments are available and you can browse among the forty studios for reasonably-priced Christmas gifts.   Hampson Street is between the B6226 (Lee Lane) and A675 (Chorley New Road).  Everyone Welcome.  www.bacm.co.uk

Everyone is working really hard towards the Neoartists Exhibition which opens on 7th September and I’m sure our visitors would like to know how things are going….the joys….the challenges….the possibilities….the disasters….and ultimately, the end result.

Got any thoughts to share ?

Just when we thought nothing was happening, everything happens at once.   As you can see from above, our proposed studios were featured in the Leigh Reporter last week.

Meanwhile, we’ve been advised that we do need ‘change of use’ planning permission, and building regulations approval, so we applied for both of those last week.   An Environment Inspector came out to look at our site this week to check that our proposed dust/fume extraction systems from the sculpture workshop won’t upset the neighbours.  Glad to report he seemed to be happy with what he saw so there shouldn’t be a problem with the planning application.

We’ve been in further negotiations with the mill owners in the last few weeks because they wanted us to provide a guarantor to ensure we could meet our obligations under the lease.  Needless to say none of us were prepared to risk our houses on this and so we’re happy to report that, as a result of reviewing our business plan, they’ve now conceded on this point.   Therefore, we have instructed our solicitors to proceed with the ‘agreement to lease’. 

Watch this space ….