For 20 years, the annual Wirksworth Festival has charmed, excited and entertained thousands of local and international visitors. The 2013 Festival offers a fascinating mix of art, music and performance, including an exhibition by the multi-talented Mary Wardle, who is our Artist of the Month. Tom Blyth reports.
FOLLOW THE NARROW, STEEP AND WINDING LANE that is The Dale, not far from Wirksworth’s town centre, and visitors to this year’s Wirksworth Festival will find at No. 10 a wonderful new exhibition by Mary Wardle, print-maker, photographer, author and garden designer. Prolific and successful in all these fields, her life story is as complex and inspiring as the variety of her artistic adventures…