Gallery Trail 2010
The Arundel Gallery Trail will take place from Saturday 21st to
Monday 30th August alongside the other great happenings of the
Arundel Festival. Over 150 sculptors, painters, printers,
ceramicists, photographers and jewellers are amongst the many
exhibitors showing this year, giving you the opportunity to meet
and talk to the artists whilst discovering many of Arundel's period
homes.
The event is an essential part of the South's art calendar drawing
together a wide range of established artists as well as showcasing
much unknown local talent. The Trail draws over ten thousand
visitors. Be prepared to discover all styles of art and medium
including paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles,
decoupage, stained glass and jewellery. During the ten day period
you can wander from venue to venue. Entry is free and is a great
day out for art collectors and enthusiasts alike.
You can pick up a
Trail Map at any venue. Use it to plan your art
adventure or simply join the trail at any point. Just look out for
the venue flags. We hope you have a wonderful time discovering the
enormous talent that is the hallmark of this famous art
trail.
Arundel House Restaurant & Rooms is proud to play host to
Mike Payne, who will be be exhibiting some of his
many concepts and illustrations throughout the festival from Midday
until 5.30pm.
Mike Payne
Renowned award winning international artist Mike Payne is best
known as the creator of ranges and concepts of hugely successful
characters and licensed merchandise known across the
world.
After 26 years in the civil service, Mike Payne broke free and
became a renowned international award-winning cartoonist and
illustrator. A chance event when the art director of Athena
International (greetings cards) happened upon an open portfolio of
Mike’s cartoons resulted in the launch of a new career and Athena
buying everything in the folder. Mike is now one of the UK's
leading and most respected experts in the world of commercial
humour, greeting card design, books and gift concept development.
Images and creations from the many characters he has created have
an immediate and instinctive appeal, and it is estimated that
greetings cards featuring his creations have sold in excess of ten
hundred million worldwide.

When Mike was a small child people used to say that he could draw
before he could walk! Mike was always drawing and found inspiration
for his cartoons from Disney and Giles. When he was asked to create
a bear with a great depth of feeling for the then newly formed
company Carte Blanche in 1987, working under his pen name of
“Miranda”, Mike created a phenomenon.
Mike's 'Tatty Teddy' character for the 'Me to You' concept (the
charcoal bear with the blue nose), together with other unique
creations, have won numerous awards in the USA, Europe,
Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and, of course,
the UK. Mike has travelled the world doing many “signings” and
after seventeen years of drawing the teddy bear, in 2004, decided
the time was right to move on to pastures new.
Mike’s latest concept
Charlie’s Ark, has taken over four years to develop.
Greeting cards, cross-stitch kits and two different varieties of
paper-craft are now on sale. The First Collection of Charlie’s Ark
children’s stories was released in November 2009 by Andrews UK as
an Audio-book CD and the Second Collection of stories was released
recently.
The humour continues in the form of "The Wine Buffs" which is a
range of amusing greeting cards on sale throughout the UK.
A lecturer at schools and colleges, with many TV appearances to his
name and a passion for professional acting, Mike is a sought after
and original public speaker. His time as Sky News cartoonist in
1999 was the perfect environment to entertain and promote the art
of cartooning, for which he is globally renowned.