Henley Festival of Music and The Arts takes place from the 7th-11th of July but plans for the mammoth event are already well underway. BBC Berkshire went down to the scenic setting by the Thames to meet up with Artistic Director Stewart Collins and artist Emily Bellhouse who will be exhibiting at the Festival...

Stewart Collins describes the Festival as "a sort of arts and culture theme park. A three-and-a-half acre site, with four performance venues, art galleries, sculpture lawns, bars, restaurants, jazz, classical, opera, theatre, poetry and dance."

Highlights include Dame Kiri Te Kanawa performing on a floating stage in the Thames on the Thursday night, and Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley performing there on the Sunday night.

As well as music, there'll be arts galore too.

A feature of this year's event will be a glass art installation called 'Tentacles'.

The glass creations will be sold after the Festival.

It is made up of up to 40 glass sculptures, which will be displayed in the Thames and lit up.

Artist Emily Bellhouse explains..."The glass tentacles will be sitting on a platform just under the water, so they'll look like they're floating".

And where did Emily get the inspiration from?

"I love doing installations in unusual places - unexpected places. I love doing the impossible, floating pieces of solid glass."

Artistic Director Stewart Collins saw the installation and knew it was right for Henley.

"There are so many places where you can put beautiful art. I saw this at the sea and just thought how beautiful it was and how pretty it looked next to water."