Karen tops Littlehampton open art competition

YAPTON painter Karen Boxall won this year’s visitors’ vote at Littlehampton Museum’s third annual open art exhibition.
By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Oct 2014, 13:00 BST
Karen Boxall, who won the visitors vote for her painting, Breakwater, with third-placed Brian Castle, with his dolphin wood sculptureKaren Boxall, who won the visitors vote for her painting, Breakwater, with third-placed Brian Castle, with his dolphin wood sculpture
Karen Boxall, who won the visitors vote for her painting, Breakwater, with third-placed Brian Castle, with his dolphin wood sculpture

Her atmospheric picture, Breakwater, of a young woman perched on timbers above the incoming tide, was the favourite of people attending the exhibition, which ended last month after running through the summer.

This year’s Open, with the theme Deep Blue Sea, attracted entries from a record 87 artists, amateur and professionals from across Sussex, with 78 being selected for the show, and contributing 116 pieces of work.

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Museum curator Juliet Thomas said she was delighted with the standard of work in this year’s exhibition.

Karen Boxall, who won the visitors vote for her painting, Breakwater, with third-placed Brian Castle, with his dolphin wood sculptureKaren Boxall, who won the visitors vote for her painting, Breakwater, with third-placed Brian Castle, with his dolphin wood sculpture
Karen Boxall, who won the visitors vote for her painting, Breakwater, with third-placed Brian Castle, with his dolphin wood sculpture

Helen Dungey, from Rustington, was second in the public vote with her painting, Beautifully Blue, and Brian Castle, from Worthing, took third spot with his wood sculpture of a dolphin.

Next year’s Open will be held later in the year and the theme will be ‘Fire and Ice’. More details will be announced in the spring.

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