Flying Monk Art Trail 2023 Guide

We are delighted to welcome you to the 10th annual edition of The Flying Monk Art Trail, this year organised by Caerbladon.

This weekend event celebrates the quality of artists and makers living and working in the Malmesbury area. It is an opportunity to meet the artists in their studios, homes and pop-up spaces, and maybe pick up an original piece to take home. Buying artwork direct from the artists and makers is an enjoyable experience, you’ll be supporting local creativity while acquiring something special and unique that you will cherish in years to come. We recommend you follow the numbered routes on the maps to get the most from your visit.

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About Caerbladon

Caerbladon is a not-for-profit community interest company founded

by

David and Karen Drake, Malmesbury

residents with four decades of professional arts experience.

With a changing programme of exhibitions, workshops, projects and events we encourage people of all ages to enjoy art, buy artworks and express themselves creatively. We take a place-based approach, responding to the local context and addressing the needs of various communities, promoting sustainability, understanding of and respect for the unique heritage and character of the area. We also believe strongly that celebrating diversity and being accessible to all is the key to a vibrant and inclusive cultural life.

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Malmesbury Map

Caerbladon

Caerbladon, Market Cross, Malmesbury

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Warden & Freemen

Market Lane, Malmesbury

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John Bowen Gallery

Town Hall, Malmesbury

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Renew High Street, Malmesbury

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Kings Arms Hotel Annex

High Street, Malmesbury

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Malmesbury

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Ratcliffe & Son

Westport Iron Works/Foundry Rd, Malmesbury

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In addition to exhibitions and projects, we supply high quality art materials and books at affordable prices to offer inspiration and useful advice on different techniques and approaches. Our gallery and art supplies shop is on Market Cross, at the top of the High Street, and we see the whole town and surrounding area as a canvas for Caerbladon exhibitions, events and projects.

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Javier Garcia

Through his art, Javi uses his creativity as a medium for storytelling, exploring visual definitions of beauty. He loves the challenge in creating pieces of art that transcend time and experimenting with different historical eras and art genres. He paints mainly in oils on hard surfaces, such as board or canvas board, so he can use techniques like scoring, scratching or rubbing to create

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different textural effects. In his quest to deconstruct beauty he uses seductive, alluring classical or iconic cultural figures and repurposes them to create contemporary works.

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Phillip Kingsbury

Malmesbury scenes in Linocuts and Screenprints. Also small colourful paintings on canvas and gesso board. Views of Malmesbury and its historical characters. Phillip moved to Malmesbury when he was 2 years old, loves to draw and paint Malmesbury with its houses, streets and lovely river walk. He now lives here with his family.

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Lucy Carolan

My ceramic work is traditional thrown earthenware and decorated using natural earth pigments, often incorporating clay collected from places I visit. My ceramic work and watercolours are inspired by the natural world and connection with my immediate environment.

The Guild of Wiltshire Artists

The GWA is a lively group of 32 practising artists based in Wiltshire, work encompasses a wide variety of mediums, styles and subject matter from figurative to abstract. As a group exhibit personal drives for creativity and influences are diverse but we hope to inspire our visitors with our members work.

John Bowen Gallery

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Jackie Morris

As a child I collected things from the beach, e.g. shells, feathers and anything shiny or unusual and created pictures and scrapbooks. This was my beginnings as a mixed media artist. Mixed media describes the use of many different arts crafts and techniques to create interesting unique two- and threedimensional works of art. The materials

I use include found items, metal, fibre, buttons, things from nature, paints, inks, resin, clay, feathers, to name but a few. I make handmade greetings cards, art journalling, canvas pictures, altered bottles, boxes, bookmarks, wall hangings and so much more as the inspiration takes me.

Tony Kellett

I have been painting and drawing for about five years since I retired. I did a little painting as a teenager and attended an art foundation course then but nothing after that until I retired. Sometimes I wish I had made a career in art. I paint in oils, mostly landscapes and portraits. I also use watercolours, painting nudes, mostly using only one or sometimes two colours. I like to

emphasis colour in my work. I have been copying some grand masters’ paintings –always hoping some of their skill will rub off on me!

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Alison Goodall

I came to ceramics only after I retired, and now see my work as a constantly evolving experiment with clay. Using hand-building techniques of coiling and pinching, I create sculptural pots for the garden, as well as smaller indoor pieces. My work is influenced by the natural world and by the worn and patinated

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surfaces of archaeological finds. I sometimes carve cracks and fissures into my pots, reflecting both the erosion worked by time and the elements, and the damage that mankind has inflicted on the earth.

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Lou Ropner

I am truly passionate about glass. Its colour, vibrancy and as the basis of my creative work. The material I most love to use is dichroic glass. Quite rare to use it unfused, it’s expensive but so worth it. All the glass I use is opaque and either has an iridescent or opalescent sheen which is effective and attractive in a mosaic. With this glass I make mosaics on tile or slate for the garden, on silver plate and

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metal for jewellery and on wood for the home. The work I especially enjoy and value is to make crosses for churches and private homes.

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Jill Buckley

With a childhood on a farm and a career in archaeology, I have an interest and affinity with the landscape, which is reflected in my work. I have had to drastically downsize since the 10 ‘ paintings of my art degree, now enjoying the discipline of miniature oil paintings! I also work in woven tapestry with earth themes.

I am a printmaking artist working in etching, linocut, screen printing and collagraph as well as some fabric printing. I love printmaking and exploring different methods including etching without using acid and have tried photogravure etching as well as using dry-point and collagraph methods and using recycled materials such as tetra Pac. I am inspired by nature around me and places I have visited, but my work is more about finding different

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ways of printing. It is the medium and the method of printing that drives my creativity by experimenting and producing different mark making in a printing plate to achieve a successful design. Good drawing skills and use of colour are also very important in my work.

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Lucia Tripepi

I draw and fill my drawings with colour. My pictures come straight from my hand without giving them much thought. They are born from feelings, memories or impressions left by animals. and people I have met in my life.

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I’m a traditional blacksmith, forging by hand all manner of decorative, sculptural, functional and historical ironwork, I make homewares, hooks, garden ornamentation, handrails and bannisters, curtain poles and tie backs, garden tools, wood working tools, kitchen knives and tool knives, and historical reproductions. If you can draw it I can make it!

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White Wave Clay Co.

I am a creator, ceramicist, crafter and nature lover. I started my business in 2021 making handmade and handpainted ‘Halliespheres’ from my dining room table in West Street. I knew instantly that I had created a product that invites vitality and purpose, inspiring people to align with the seasons and connect with nature, and in turn create their own beautiful, long lasting and flourishing flower arrangements. I run

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my growing business together with my busy young family and my job at Historic England. I am very much looking forward to opening my working studio for the first time this year.

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Joanna Cleaver

Creating tile art for nearly 10 years, Using a mixture of wall tiles, old crockery & mirrors to bring them to life. Mostly creating winged hearts (crockery angels) which are finished with black grout that I think really makes them pop and gives them a bit of a tattoo look. Most recently introducing small red glass beads to give the appearance that they

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are bleeding. Also recently creating mirror jewellery/key holders that are finished with tyre inner tube trim around the edge.

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Rushes House

2 Suffolk Close, Charlton, SN16 9EA

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The Cottage

Little Badminton Lane, Lea, SN16 9NG

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LITTLE SOMERFORD

Lea, SN16 9PB

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Little Somerford Village Hall

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8 Somerbrook

Great Somerford, SN15 5BF

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Millbrook House

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I create bold abstract art with an emphasis on experimentation and spontaneity. Paintings evolve organically through layers of gestural brushstrokes and expressive mark-making where I search to balance impulsive and more deliberate visual language using a variety of materials including: fluid acrylic paint, spray paint, marker pens, pencil &

charcoal on canvas or paper. I love how abstract art produces strong, immediate and visceral responses in both the creator and the audience and I hope that viewers of my work enjoy the engaging compositions as I have experienced joy in creating them.

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Paul Deacon

A thread which runs through a lot of my current work can be summarised as being about the colour of memory. For me the essence of a place is defined by its light rather than pictorial detail. To represent my feeling for a place, through colour, is my intention.

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Miranda Carter

Miranda draws inspiration for her paintings from the physical experience of nature and the elements. She explores the feeling of being ‘earthed’ and connecting to the landscape by immersing herself in the natural world. Her work invites us to appreciate the scale and awe of nature. The paintings are a mix of blended colours, bold marks and

glimmers of light that create a sense of space and depth.

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Little Somerford Art Group

Come and visit the Little Somerford Art Group’s Open Studio in the Little Somerford Village Hall, which is on the road to Great Somerford, by the railway bridge. Ten artists offering a varied selection of paintings, prints and greetings cards at very reasonable prices … early Christmas presents?

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Artists: Alex Baines, Anne Caple, Basia Martin, Chris Juson, Heather Harris, Julia Frayling, Leila Bailie, Lynne Patchett, Pauline Jordan, Susan Lonford-Brown

We welcome all artists of any ability from beginners onwards to join our friendly group meeting on Tuesday mornings from 10 am. A small charge of £4.50 a session and an annual subscription of £10 is payable. We work mainly on our own projects supporting each other in our endeavours. Periodically we host painting workshops under the guidance of visiting

artists – always fun and well attended and a chance to try something new.

For more information:

Basia Martin martinbasia@gmail.com

Chris Juson chris@analog.co.uk

Jill Carter

Jill is an experienced contemporary multi-media artist exhibiting and facilitating workshops in the South West. Her visual storytelling draws on personal life events and explores how art can promote insight, inspiration and wellbeing.

Discover diverse multi-media artworks, created in response to self, people and place, narratives depicted with drawings, colourful collage, inky visual journals, prints, curious totemic figures, together

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with transformed bundles of found objects and stitched assemblages.

Enjoy visiting her garden studio, a space in which to be curious and inspired by her dark, quirky, yet engaging, less than perfect, playful art making process.

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Tricia Morris & Lucy Greenyer

Tricia Morris transforms old textiles into new work by making, refashioning, embellishing and mending. Her work includes clothing, accessories, quilts, pictures, cards, and upholstery. She is driven by sustainability and the idea that it’s “not waste until you waste it”.

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Lucy Greenyer is a mixed-media artist who creates work exploring place, memory, and folklore through drawing, embroidery, printing, photography, and watercolour.

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Pinkney Map

Avon Cottage

Pinkney, SN16 0NZ

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The Hay Barn

Pinkney Park, SN16 0NX

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Nicki Heenan

The connection between the materiality of the environment and painting symbolises what my work is about. I have researched for many years the properties of colour, pigment and the synthesis of paint from found earth. I incorporate these materials into my paintings which imbue the land they describe. I hope you get a sensory experience when viewing my work based on the landscape.

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Brian Smith

I am always trying to find a twist on what initially appears ordinary as daily life evolves. A glimpse of light or a particular set of circumstances may suggest an idea which will develop in my mind to formulate a painting. Sometimes I work Plein air or from sketchbooks, initial ideas from my own images or even studio exercises can develop into a finished work. I try to engage with the viewer

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and hold their attention. I do not wish to compete with the camera. My dictum is ‘Brain before Brush, Indicate do not State’.

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Coming Up

Sir John Betjeman’s Banana Blush

Malmesbury Abbey

7pm Saturday 18 November

In 1974 John Betjeman, then Poet Laureate, became an unlikely pop star, recording his verse to music by Jim Parker for the album Banana Blush. It became a cult classic, regularly played on radio by John Peel, and is treasured by many musicians including Jarvis Cocker and Suggs (Madness).

In this special performance of a cult classic from 1974, Zeb Soanes (Classic FM) will perform Betjeman’s much loved verse, accompanied by the dazzling virtuosity of the Chris Warner Ensemble.

Tickets available from Caerbladon or online at caerbladon.co.uk

Acknowledgements

Event production and management:

Karen and David Drake

Designer: Oliver Norcott

Caerbladon

12 October – 23 December 2023

In the run up to Christmas we turn our gallery over to small artist works, prints, designer products, glass and ceramics, textiles and original hand-made works, alongside everything you need to express yourself creatively. Featuring work by a range of local artists and makers and specially curated displays of artist supplies and books, suitable for all ages.

Phillip Kingsbury for the original branding

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Kim Langley and Claire Baker for establishing The Flying Monk Art Trai

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