Ophelia Redpath
Sky Landscape Artist of the Year 2021 and
Artem Mozgovoy
author of 'Spring in Siberia'
Date: Saturday 20 April 2pm
Venue: Bede House, Higham Ferrers
Tickets: £12.50 (includes glass of fizz or soft drink)
On sale from Sidey Design, Market Square, Higham Ferrers from 1 March
An afternoon with artist and author
Talk, book-signing, art and book sales
Ophelia Redpath, artist, is delighted to be able to team up with her friend, Artem Mozgovoy, writer, at our Arts Weekend, there they will each talk about their work.
Ophelia will talk about her life as an artist, how her work has changed over the years in both style, medium, philosophy and subject. Although she now lives in Norfolk, she lived in Higham for two years. To pay tribute to her happy time there, she has recorded three of her most loved highlights from Higham and Rushden in a painting which will be unveiled on the day. Signed prints of this painting, and others of her works will be available for sale.
Poetry reading and book signing by Artem Mozgovoy, Siberian author of Spring in Siberia.
About Ophelia
Ophelia has followed a career in painting for nearly 40 years, holding over 100 exhibitions both in the UK and abroad.
She has written and illustrated a children’s book, “The Lemur’s Tale” and a coffee-table book, “An ABC of Cambridge Professors”.
In 2021 she was thrilled to be crowned winner of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year.
She is currently focusing her art on highlighting features of life which are endangered, namely, our wildlife, our ecosystems and irreplaceable elements of our culture. In her work she aims to celebrate their value with humour, complaint, respect and love.
Website: opheliaredpath.com
About Artem
Artem Mozgovoy is a prize-winning writer and journalist from Siberia who migrated to Europe in 2011 when the anti-gay law came into effect across Russia. His autobiographical novel "Spring in Siberia", endorsed by Stephen Fry, Edmund White and Ocean Vuong, was published by Red Hen Press (USA) in April, 2023. Publishers Weekly called it "a superb debut". Awarded the Bo Huston Award, his forthcoming book about the war in Ukraine is to be out with Publication Studio (USA) in 2024.
Born and raised in a small town in Central Siberia at the time when the Soviet Union was falling apart, Artem Mozgovoy began his career as a cadet journalist in a local newspaper when he was sixteen; at twenty-six he was an editor-in-chief. In 2011, as Russia began legalising its persecution of gay people, he left his homeland. Having lived in six different countries, including the US, and worked as a movie extra, a yoga instructor, and a magician’s assistant, Artem today holds a Luxembourgish passport, volunteers for the Ukrainian war relief with Red Cross, writes poetry and prose in Russian and English and, with his Romanian partner, lives in Brussels, Belgium.
Website: www.artemmozgovoy.com
Where will the profits from this event go?
Any profits will go towards our community projects for the town.
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