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THIS year’s Henley Arts Trail will be the biggest in the event’s 15-year history.
The trail, which normally takes place over the May bank holiday weekend, had to be cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In October, a scaled-down autumn show was held in Henley, Shiplake, Twyford and Hurst that featured four physical venues and five accompanying online exhibitions.
The socially distanced event was a success, but the trail’s organisers subsequently decided to rethink their approach to 2021 in light of covid.
As a result, it is taking place this weekend (July 10 and 11) and next (July 17 and 18).
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A PAINTER from Wargrave says she will now take her hobby more seriously after reaching the final of TV’s Landscape Artist of the Year.
Shelagh Casebourne was praised by the judges on the show but lost out to a professional in the competition to win a commission worth £10,000.
Despite this, she said: “I think the experience has already changed me.”
Mrs Casebourne, an amateur oil painter, was one of three competitors all women in the final of the latest Sky Arts programme, having qualified through several heats.