Take the Arts Trail to Linton

ARTIST Pam Farey’s 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’s main street filled with Ms Farey’s artwork.

She is expecting around 100 people across the weekend to visit her front two rooms and the hallway covered with her paintings.

With art reaching almost to the ceiling, colourful works vie for space with blue furniture, canary yellow banners, silk umbrellas, and film props.

“I think people are interested in my art and the ambience of my historic home, it was the blacksmith’s house originally,” Ms Farey said.

“I feel there is a lot to see and enjoy.”

Ms Farey came to Linton as an established artist 23 years ago looking for a change of scenery.

“It is a very pretty town and that’s what I love about it,” she said.

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’s tail garlanded with roses.

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’s handiwork.

She said she loves doing public art.

“Because it’s out there and people can see it,” Ms Farey said.

She is currently working on making a silent movie Saving baby Ruby and creating two felting pieces for the Woolly West Fest in Hamilton.

Ms Fahey said life is tough as an artist however her passion and creativity is abundantly displayed in Peacock cottage.

The Golden Plains Community Arts Trail is on Saturday 4, April and Sunday, 5 April from 10am to 5pm.

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.