New Forest Art School will put on an exhibition at Salisbury Library to celebrate its first anniversary.

The exhibition will show works from adult students from the advanced and intermediate diploma classes, who have spent the past year fine-tuning technical skills, experimenting with style, and finding their own unique voice. This process has come with plenty of hard work, explained the director of New Forest Art School, Angela Corben: “following my 10 years of teaching in state schools and using all of my experience as a local, practising artist during the past 20 years, [the courses] are unique in the area, in that they are so in-depth.”

Angela set up the New Forest Art School after six years of running her own freelance classes in Salisbury and Fordingbridge, and already some of the students from the Wilton Pavilion-based course have already approached galleries, and are making sales. Angela, with this recent success behind her, is enthusiastic for the future, adding: “Hopefully this is the start of something very exciting!”

The exhibition will run from Tuesday 2nd July to Tuesday 30th July in Salisbury Library's Galley 4. Opening times are: Mon 10-7 /Tue 9-7/Weds 9-5/Thurs 9-7/Fri 9-7/Sat 9-5. For more information visit www.newforestartschool.co.uk or phone Angela Corben 01425 650859.