Skegness Carnival Arts abd Crafts competition marked the finale of what has been a brilliant week of events for the organisers.
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00:00Donny, you've got some amazing artwork here. Can you tell us about it?
00:08Yeah, I go to Splash Gold Art Weekly most weeks and I take my daughter alongside me on a Saturday.
00:16And basically, it's a good tool to have doing art, whichever art form, design you choose.
00:25Because in times it can be helpful, like in lockdown I was homeschooling my daughter Debbie and we did a lot of artwork.
00:36Now we've just seen a lot of prizes being awarded at the Skegness Carnival Arts and Crafts Exhibition.
00:43Steve Gold, you're the local artist and one of the organisers behind this. You must be really pleased about how it went.
00:50It's been fantastic. We've had an amazing turnout of people wanting to take part and to actually put the art down in various forms.
00:59From painting on rocks to photography to needle craft and arts and painting.
01:05Yeah, it's been an amazing thing to judge today. It's been difficult because there's so many good pieces of work being created here today.
01:14And it's amazing that Skegness is such a wonderful place to bring people to, to actually make art.
01:21Now the exhibition, it is an extension of what you do on a weekly basis, isn't it? Tell us a bit about that.
01:27Thank you. Yeah, well we do art every day, every week, sorry, at the Storehouse 10 to 12 on a Tuesday and Saturdays 10 to 12 as well.
01:37So we're busy at the Storehouse and we'd like to get in and about the town doing different things with different projects as well.
01:45Just to promote art and get people the chance to actually be involved with art.
01:49So I think it's such a nice thing to actually allow people to become artistic.
01:54Well certainly there's been lots of examples of all sorts of different arts and crafts in your exhibition.
02:00So maybe that will inspire some more people to come along to your classes.
02:06Maybe so, yes.
02:07So we've got Carolyn, one of the organisers of Skegness Carnival here, Friday afternoon, last day. How are you feeling?
02:16I'm very tired, but I'm also very, very grateful for everybody, all the businesses in Skegness that have supported us.
02:24Whether it's sponsorship or whether it's helping, like Steve has helped us today, helped us yesterday.
02:28He's been here doing the raffle store.
02:31And then there's all the members of the public that have turned out.
02:34All our events have been extremely well attended and everybody seems to have had a really good week.
02:39Are you planning next year already?
02:42Yes, we started last night actually.
02:44We've already gone through all our notes that we've been making this week, looking at all the things people want to see next year.
02:50We've had a lot of suggestions.
02:51They really would like the market extended over more days rather than just the two.
02:55So we have sat down already, put pen to paper and started our planning.
02:59Well, congratulations on the event and we'll look forward to having a look back at all the memories and all the pictures from the week.
03:08Lovely, thank you.