Open Studios print winner

Our photo shows Josephine Broekhuizen at Whiterock Studio, presenting prize-draw winner Nigel Marks with an original print of her linocut used for the Arran Open Studios brochure. During a long and busy weekend in August, the brochure brought a lot of visitors into artists’ studios to see and talk about their work.

All the visitors to studios were invited to fill in data forms, thus providing statistics to help procure funding for next year’s event. This gave Josephine Broekhuizen, in her role as organiser, a better idea of how far and from where visitors had travelled to the event, and provided information about how many studios people had managed to visit and what their reactions to the artists and artworks were. All valuable stuff! The data forms were put into a hat and the winner, Nigel Marks, found himself the owner of an original print from Josephine’s linocut.

Nigel came specially to the island for the Open Studios Event and coincidentally was coming back to visit family when Josephine phoned to let him know that he had won the print. He was delighted to pick it up in person from the Whiterock Studio and brought other members of the family with him. And yes, he definitely intends to come back to the Open Studios Event next year!