By KATRINA BRANDON
DRIVEN by passion and creativity, the 47th Tyers Art Festival welcomed hundreds of people.
From Friday night (November 6) to Sunday afternoon (November 8), the Tyers Art Festival was in full bloom, with more than 400 art entries filling the Tyers Public Hall from one side to the other.
Landscapes, portraits, acrylic multimedia, photography, oils and more featured. Photographs ranging from people, places and/or things, greyscale and others bursting with colour were also prominent.
Year on year, the exhibition continues to expand tent by tent, with a room for drinks, music and seating, and another with work from the schools and featured artist Barry Masterman-Smith.
Doors couldn’t open quickly enough for Friday’s gala evening, with many excited to see the new collections coming out this season, as well as new artists making their debut.
The gala evening was one not to miss, full to the brim with attendees.
Giving attendees a break from the crowd, the additional rooms were a warm welcome, with people enjoying both a good chat with the featured artist and a drink throughout the warm spring night.
Throughout the night, visitors went around picking out their ‘Popular Choice Award’ favourite work, with some also adding stickers to work they wished to buy for themselves.
Day two was unfortunately quite wet, but still had a few visitors coming through to look at the art.
The market still brought a good crowd despite the rain, but stallholders felt the brunt of the storm, with icy winds and hail coming in sporadic waves.
In contrast to the previous day, the final day brought sunshine, along with hundreds of people who made their way through the market and the art hall throughout the event.
Once visitors had enough sun in the morning, they quickly made their way to the scones inside, where they heard from Mirboo North’s Twin Lands band, while enjoying a Devonshire tea session.
The Tyers Fire Brigade was also on standby for a chat, a helping hand, and for photos in and out of the fire truck.
In the afternoon, tea and coffee was swapped for beer and wine, and Latrobe’s Yes I Can choir enjoyed the likes of I’m a Believer by Neil Diamond/The Monkees/Smash Mouth, and Diamond’s signature Sweet Caroline, and many more classics for people to sing.
Throughout the event, raffles were drawn and works were purchased, giving attendees a permanent memento.
