ARTIST Pam Farey\u2019s home and studio, Peacock Cottage, will be open for the Golden Plains Community Art Trail on the first weekend in May.<\/p>\n
The weatherboard cottage is a burst of blue in Linton\u2019s main street filled with Ms Farey\u2019s artwork.<\/p>\n
She is expecting around 100 people across the weekend to visit her front two rooms and the hallway covered with her paintings.<\/p>\n
With art reaching almost to the ceiling, colourful works vie for space with blue furniture, canary yellow banners, silk umbrellas, and film props.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think people are interested in my art and the ambience of my historic home, it was the blacksmith\u2019s house originally,\u201d Ms Farey said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel there is a lot to see and enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Farey came to Linton as an established artist 23 years ago looking for a change of scenery.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a very pretty town and that\u2019s what I love about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The house was a plain weatherboard when she arrived and she has put her artistic talent to good use transforming it into the colour of a peacock\u2019s tail garlanded with roses.<\/p>\n
Just up the Glenelg Highway, two bus stop shelters in Scarsdale, one adorned with cheeky birds, the other with a soldier and his light horse, are more of Ms Farey\u2019s handiwork.<\/p>\n
She said she loves doing public art.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it\u2019s out there and people can see it,\u201d Ms Farey said.<\/p>\n
She is currently working on making a silent movie Saving baby Ruby and creating two felting pieces for the Woolly West Fest in Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Ms Fahey said life is tough as an artist however her passion and creativity is abundantly displayed in Peacock cottage.<\/p>\n
The Golden Plains Community Arts Trail is on Saturday 4, April and Sunday, 5 April from 10am to 5pm.<\/p>\n
Go to the GP Arts Inc. Facebook page to download a digital flyer with information on artists and a trail map on where to find them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ARTIST Pam Farey\u2019s home and studio, Peacock Cottage, will be open for the Golden Plains Community Art Trail on the first weekend in May. The weatherboard cottage is a burst of blue in Linton\u2019s main street filled with Ms Farey\u2019s artwork. She is expecting around 100 people across the weekend to visit her front two […]<\/p>\n