Fife artists announce dates for arts and crafts exhibition at Bowhouse

ENOS, the East Neuk artists’ collective, has hired the Bowhouse event space near St Monans for an arts and crafts exhibition and market on November 2-3. It will be open from 10:00am until 4:00pm each day, and will feature over 40 local artists displaying a diverse range of arts, crafts, design and photography. Entry is free. More details at www.eastneukopenstudios.org

The ENOS event was first staged at Bowhouse as a safe venue during Covid – so successfully that this is now the fourth year in which it has been held there.

After another successful summer of open studios throughout the East Neuk, the area’s local artists will be gathering together in one venue for a winter event. Together they will provide an unparalleled opportunity to view the varied work of the East Neuk’s local artists, from paintings, drawings, and prints to ceramics, glass and textile art works, often inspired by the picturesque East Neuk’s fishing villages and its rural scenery. Lavinia Kilbride, who chairs ENOS said: “This has became an annual event for our group and people come from far and wide every year to see and buy our members’ work. Bowhouse is a great venue with lots of parking and it has a cafe and craft brewery on site, we also have additional food stands on the day.

“We have a few extra invited artists so there will be something for everyone and it’s a free event. It’s a great time to start your Christmas shopping or maybe see something that you may want to buy later. Our members often receive commissions and you can also pay by credit card.”

The event was staged at Bowhouse for the first time in 2021 as the art world was recovering from the constraints of Covid. It had the enormous advantage that a lot of people could be there without it being crowded, making it easy to move around, get a good view of the artists’ work, and make purchases – post-Covid, those factors are still a great asset.

With Bowhouse becoming an annual event, the East Neuk artists now have special branding for the occasion featuring the distinctive outline of the venue as seen from the approach along the main road.