Success for Canterbury Creatives

Local creatives in the medium of watercolour and film are celebrating recent successes.

UCA Canterbury alumni Nicola Durvasula will be showing her work at the Tate Gallery  in the most ambitious exhibition about watercolour ever to be staged, charting the 800 year history of the art.

Watercolour, which runs until 26 August, celebrates the full variety of ways the medium has been used and how it has always played a part in British Art.

2004 UCA Canterbury graduate, Nicola, who lives in Walmer, Kent, said: “I really enjoy working with watercolour because of the intimacy between me, the paper and the paint.

“I like to go back to work I started days, weeks or even decades ago to show the layers of time. The finished work looks as though it’s been painted within a matter of minutes but very often it has been developed over a many years.”

In the world of film, 21 films from Kent made it through to the final 45 in the acclaimed 2 Days Laughter Short Films competition, which culminates in a 2 day screening at Margate's Theatre Royal on April 2nd.

Successful filmmakers from Canterbury include Katharina Mietz, Dalina Rusanova and Augustas Marozas for Me & My Dead Husband, and Martin Banov for Brainstorming. Click here for more information.