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CUMBRIA’S biggest visual arts event is gearing up for a bumper show.

Building on last year’s inaugural event, which saw 8,000 studio visits generate £57,000 of sales, C-Art 2012 brings together more of the county’s best visual and applied arts in another huge two-week banquet of creativity.

Running from September 1-16, 134 galleries, artists and designers will take part in the huge Eden Arts project, flinging their artistic doors open alongside a programme of special events and workshops.

Venues featured include Sedbergh’s Farfield Mill; Kendal’s Outlet Gallery; Low Sizergh Barn, Sizergh; Upfront Gallery, near Hutton-in-the-Forest; Gallery at Rheged, Penrith, and Carlisle’s Tullie House. The C-Art catalogue is available at www.c-art.org.uk

The Westmorland Gazette invites artists who are participating in C-Art to send a photograph of their artwork, a brief description and title of the piece plus a head and shoulders picture and short biography to feature in the special C-Art gallery below. Email to bob.hart@nqnw.co.uk