Billy Apple

Next year's Artists Open Studios has a couple of new features.
Firstly, the Trail Guide has been replaced with an art-centric catalogue of participating artists and their work. To make sure art is the focus, the organisers introduced a competition to choose a work to grace the cover of the catalogue.
At a function held last Tuesday evening, from 86 entries, the 12 finalists were announced, having been judged by a local panel.
"It took us about three hours to pick our 12 finalists," says Artists Open Studios co-ordinator Sarah Williams.
The winner, however, was chosen by a formidable artistic duo, imported for the occasion - Billy Apple and Adrian Hailwood - and they chose a work by Amy Fitzgerald.
I was honoured to be one of the 12 finalists and managed to get some time with art icon Billy Apple.