Marshchapel Arts

Marshchapel Arts supports St Mary’s Church with various events throughout the year. These popular events are well supported by the community.

Marshchapel Arts attracts over Fifty Five artists for the 2025 Arts Exhibition

Once again the annual arts exhibition at St. Mary’s Church, Marshchapel has drawn in a large number of excellent exhibitors for the event which is being held over the late May Bank Holiday. Each year the group look to refresh the offering to visitors and this years collection looks to be one of the best, with over 55 artists confirmed already.

Chairman of Marshchapel Arts, Edward Mossop, said “We are extremely pleased with the artists who have been selected and the quality of the work they bring to the exhibition. There will be something for everyone to see, appreciate and buy if they wish to.” This year that process will be made all the easier as there will the ability to pay on line by card for everything. Admission fee of £3.00, art, food and drink will all be available by card payment. For the first time this year the children from Marshchapel School are getting involved. Some of them will be attending the preview evening to draw inspiration from the work on display and vote for their favourite piece of art.

Since last years event the new bell frame and an additional three bells have been installed in St.Mary’s Church. The money raised from the exhibitions has helped to fund this fantastic project. The bells were blessed by the Bishop of Lincoln at a service in the Church in March.

“We are all looking forward to welcoming visitors to the exhibition which is becoming one of the ‘must see’ events on the art calendar in Lincolnshire.” added Mr Mossop. 

The exhibition runs from Friday the 23rd to the Monday 26th May 2025, doors open from 10 a.m to 5 p.m each day, except Bank Holiday Monday when the exhibition will close at 4 p.m to allow art to be collected by both buyers and artists.

You can download a PDF of the press release here

Marshchapel Arts

Located in the Lincolnshire village of Marshchapel, the group raises funds, through it’s annual exhibition and various musical events, to help maintain St. Mary’s Church building .

All funds raised, after costs, are donated to the Church for its upkeep. It is run solely for this purpose by a team of unpaid volunteers. See St Mary’s latest work to the bells and bell frame here.

2025 Artists

In the run up to our Exhibition we will be giving you a few tasters of what you might expect to see on the boards this year. In particular, we will be featuring some of the ‘new’ artists who have not exhibited at Marshchapel in previous years.

Medina Hammad has exhibited in various locations in the UK and also in Philadelphia and Khartoum. She is a member of the Lincolnshire Artists’ Society.
“As an artist, I have always tried to register my thoughts and feelings about major experiences in my imagery. People often comment on a dreamlike quality in my work. I think this is because memory has always fascinated me – principally how focus changes and how things shift in and out.”
Welcome Medina and thank you for sharing your reflections on what inspires your painting.
We are delighted to welcome Eve Marshall to Marshchapel this year. 
“It all begins with a bit of fluff and a lot of imagination. I use a bold colour palette and layer wool fibres with silks and other textures to create my felt work. Most of my pieces have over 50 layers of wool on them before I begin the wet felting process. Once the fibres have felted and the piece has shrunk, I use a single felting needle to add tiny realistic details. The longer that you look at my work, the more details you will see. The art I create is a mixture of wet and needle felting techniques that I have developed over the past 17 years of my practice. My most popular artworks are of woodlands and gardens.
For my Odd Bird Tree series I have decided to fill the trees with a variety of my favourite birds plus a couple extra funky ones. I love needle felting birds! I think the textures and shape of their feathers lend well to needle felting. I love to see how much detail I can get with my needle when creating birds and each one takes a couple of hours to add.”
‘There’s only one Keith Richards’ is the title of this stunning oil painting by one of our regular exhibitors to Marshchapel – Mick Craven. Mick took early retirement at 49 and took up painting having completed a course at Grimsby Art College. His favourite subjects apart from vintage rock stars includes anything ‘mechanical’ and he also produces pet portraits in both oils and pastel.
 
The many faces of Keith Richards over his 60 plus years in the Stones is one of Mick’s favourite subjects and he admits that he is reluctant to sell some of his paintings of the band. I can understand why. However this one will be for sale at Marshchapel later this month and I have to say this would make a great addition to any bar or man-cave!

2024 Exhibition

You can view a 360° VR tour of last years 2024 Art Exhibition plus a video on how it is all setup at St Mary’s by following the link to our dedicated page below.

View the 2024 Exhibition

History

The church dates from the early 15th C and was probably completed around 1420. It replaced a earlier small chapel that was mentioned in 1387. It is built of Ancaster stone and unusual as unlike most other churches that gradually developed and expanded St Mary’s was built in its entirety at the same time.

In the 19th century some rebuilding of the chancel took place as well as new pews with some fine carvings. The church interior with its fine wood carvings (134 pew poppyheads all different), rood screen, font and the large west window make this an impressive church.

The well kept churchyard has a trail (see St Marys Church page for more info) and is a haven for wildlife and plants. The exterior of the church has mass dials scratched into the south side as well as many fine carvings which would have been based on local people by the stonemasons when it was built.

Village Hall

The hall was built on the current site in 1946. It hosts many events throughout the week and on a monthly basis. Available for hire throughout the year.

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St Mary’s Church

The church of St Mary’s is known locally as ‘The Cathedral of the Marshes’. The church has monthly services and is open during daylight hours for visitors.

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The Chapel

The Chapel is well supported by the village and holds events as well as a weekly ‘pop-in’ lunch. There are also numerous other groups who use the facilities.

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Marshchapel Arts

Marshchapel Arts host various music concerts and art exhibitions at St Mary’s church which are always well supported by the community and beyond.

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