{"id":32646,"date":"2024-09-19T22:01:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T21:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32646"},"modified":"2024-09-19T22:01:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T21:01:24","slug":"art-in-the-park-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32646","title":{"rendered":"Art in the Park Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024091902.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to Stephen Gray, an artist from Culham, for the pictures and details.<\/p>\n<p>Howbery Park recently hosted an art competition and exhibition centred around the theme &#8216;Water in our World.&#8217; The park is by the Thames and the event encouraged artists to explore the vital role water plays in our lives, promoting the idea of sustainable living and conservation.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024091901.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nStephen was honoured to have his painting selected as the winning entry. The judges appreciated how his artwork connected with Howbery Park&#8217;s grounds and its conservation efforts. <\/p>\n<p>P.S. I remember going for a job interview in Howbery business Park near Wallingford in 2019. I did not get the job but thought it looked a good place to work, with its buildings set among trees in parkland around a Manor House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Stephen Gray, an artist from Culham, for the pictures and details. Howbery Park recently hosted an art competition and exhibition centred around the theme &#8216;Water in our World.&#8217; The park is by the Thames and the event encouraged artists to explore the vital role water plays in our lives, promoting the idea of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}