SIT select art trail 2019

free guide

8 – 26 May

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stroud, gloucestershire

please note that certain studios will also be open in the week SIT select is an arts organisation supporting the visual arts and applied arts.

Based in Stroud, Gloucestershire we support local and national artists in events, talks and educational opportunities with a successful annual Select Arts Trail every May. SIT select supports the economic prosperity of Stroud and the area.To join SIT select and support our work go to: www.sitselect.org Follow SIT select on Facebook and Twitter

Director Lizzi Walton

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Saturday 11 – Sunday 12 May 11am – 6pm Saturday 18 – Sunday 19 May 11am – 6pm

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Wednesday 8 – Sunday 26 May

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Welcome

people + places Many of those of you attending this great event will

counter culture. Along with them comes music, dance,

already be familiar with the extraordinary proliferation of

theatre, film, new places and ways of eating, online

artists working in the Stroud area. In garden sheds, shared

sales, evening classes, shops, galleries, college courses;

studios, converted mills and industrial buildings; in the

the new services they need like picture framers, art

living rooms of houses and in the kitchens of rented flats

materials suppliers and many other micro industries.

artists have found places to practise their work. The very

They have added to the culture and community in a way

density of these activities brings with it the excitement and

which makes this region sing out loudly.

possibility of artistic partnerships, of group exhibitions,

All this will not last forever: it will evolve. The attractions

attracting lectures by visiting experts, shared supplies of

of the very culture that has been established here will

necessary materials in a community of understanding and

attract those with the means but who live lives that have

challenge. This rare concentration of creative practitioners

not yet been able to prioritise time for creativity. But let’s

embraces the long established, recent graduates and

make certain that this region stays vibrant, full of artists

the earnest amateur alike. It is like a hive or rather a

for as long as possible. Go to their workshops, buy their

series of hives spread throughout the towns and valleys

work, attend their talks and classes, make works

of the region each purposefully producing work to

yourselves and support the artists in whatever and

challenge and enhance the way we see our world.

whichever ways you can. Be where the buzz is!

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Liz Lippiatt

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cloth couture, printed textiles & womenswear designer Textile Studio, First Floor, Stroud Valleys Artspace, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA m: 07929 412246 e: liz@lizlippiatt.com www.lizlippiatt.com www.guildcrafts.org.uk Liz is a textile designer and traditional printer of fine cloth with a passion for colour and texture; renowned for devore prints for fashion, and printed and dyed natural linens and organic cottons for bedcovers and interiors. Recent work has been inspired by the vibrant bluebell and striking green stems, uniquely carpeting the British countryside in Spring. Liz is a member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen. Her work is shown at The Guild at 51, in Cheltenham.

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From Sims Clock (aka the Four Clocks) in the centre of Stroud, opposite the Ecotricity premises, turn left up John Street. Textile Studio is on the left in Stroud Valleys Artspace.

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printed textiles designer guest artist at Textile Studio Textile Studio, First Floor, Stroud Valleys Art Space, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA t: 01608 658676 e: jennybicat@bicat.co.uk www.jennybicat.com Jenny Bicat designs and prints fabrics which she uses to make individual garments, fashion accessories and dĂŠcor pieces. She has a background in Fine Art Painting and has wide experience as a designer for performance.

Using non-digital screen-printing techniques, she has specialised in putting colour into sheer silk fabrics with reactive dyes. This year she has also produced bedspreads and wall hangings. Jenny exhibits with the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

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From Sims Clock (aka the Four Clocks) in the centre of Stroud, opposite the Ecotricity premises, turn left up John Street. Textile Studio is on the left in Stroud Valleys Artspace.

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Helen Foot

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weave, knit and textiles designer guest artist at Textile Studio Textile Studio, First Floor, Stroud Valleys Art Space, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA m: 07779 255921 e: studio@helenfoot.co.uk www.helenfoot.co.uk With a strong sense of colour and a passion for keeping traditional skills alive, Helen’s work is all about juxtaposing nostalgic handicrafts with rebellious contemporary aesthetics. From designing concepts to finishing of the products, it’s all done by hand and with a careful eye. Helen trained at the Royal College of Art and now runs her studio from rural Herefordshire. She returns as a Guest Artist in Liz Lippiat’s studio for this year’s trail.

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From Sims Clock (aka the Four Clocks) in the centre of Stroud, opposite the Ecotricity premises, turn left up John Street. Textile Studio is on the left in Stroud Valleys Artspace.

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textile printer Textile Studio, First Floor, Stroud Valleys Art Space, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA m: 07974 742525 www.markmake.co.uk www.sarahpearsoncooke.com Sarah Pearson Cooke is a textiles designer maker who specialises in Shibori resist dyeing. This interest has also led her to explore mark making on a variety of materials including wood. She has recently collaborated with her husband, the furniture designer Matthew Tradgett, to create wooden sculptural outcomes for the outdoors.

Where possible she uses sustainable sources for her fabrics and has been most recently interested in exploring rust dyeing without additional dyes or chemicals.

Her recent designs capture memories of unusual lost objects like old wood working tools and antique keys.

She produces one-off silk scarves, furnishings, fine art, costumes, children’s garments and accessories.

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From Sims Clock (aka the Four Clocks) in the centre of Stroud, opposite the Ecotricity premises, turn left up John Street. Textile Studio is on the left in Stroud Valleys Artspace.

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Nicola Grellier

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artist Select Studio, First Floor, Centre for Science & Art, 13 Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BB t: 07870 445043 e: art@nicolagrellier.co.uk www.nicolagrellier.co.uk Nicola Grellier is a multi media artist, employing materials and objects which describe human space and scale. Working with chairs, screens, clothing, discarded paper, and empty pill packaging to examine vulnerable states of body and mind, Grellier’s practice is grounded in drawing, painting, collage and installation. She works in the Select Studio in the former Stroud School of Art, now Centre for Science & Art. Nicola will also be open

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on Wednesdays 15 & 22 May and welcomes visitors.

Please note that Nicola will be away on Saturday 18 May but the studio will be open.

At the bottom of the High Street walk along Lansdown Road and it is the Victorian building on the left opposite the Library. The studio is on the first floor.

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Kerry Phippen

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artist Select Studio, First Floor, Centre for Science & Art, 13 Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BB m: 07972 265870 e: info@kerryphippenart.com www.kerryphippenart.com Scottish artist Kerry Phippen’s work is strongly rooted in her observation and love for animals and the wild places they inhabit. Kerry looks for the ‘magical’ in darkness and will be showing new works from a recent winter trip to North Norway. Sensitive charcoal drawings of reindeer and other beasts, along with dramatic ink landscape paintings will be on show for the first time, inspired by this extraordinary place in the Arctic Circle. Kerry has received several awards in many prestigious venues in the UK and has exhibited in The Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, RWA , and The Jerwood Drawing Space. She has an ink drawing in the permanent collection of The British Museum.

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At the bottom of the High Street walk along Lansdown Road and it is the Victorian building on the left opposite the Library. The studio is on the first floor.

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hand weaver First Floor, Centre for Science & Art, 13 Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BB m: 07854113330 e: janine@freeweaver.co.uk www.freeweaver.co.uk Erna Janine has been hand weaving for many years. Under the name Cloth Maker, she produces one-off garments out of ethical yarns sourced from different corners of the world. Having a background in Nordic weaving techniques, accumulated whilst living in Iceland for almost 20 years, she has developed her own style of work. Being inspired by frequent textile residencies to India and Japan, Erna uses a number of techniques: spinning cotton, dyeing with natural pigments, including Japanese mud. Practicing the Saori approach to hand weaving is an added inspiration, running the Freeweaver Saori Studio, based at Craft Central on The Isle of Dogs – London’s only fully registered Saori studio, where she teaches Saori hand

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weaving. Hand woven garments and ethical yarns for sale.

Also open on: Friday 17 May. At the bottom of the High Street walk along Lansdown Road and it is the Victorian building on the left opposite the Library. The studio is on the first floor.

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Craft in the Basement You may have often wondered what goes on in the basement of the Centre for Science & Art building behind the gate on Locking Hill, now you can find out.

Dawn AlmĂ si potter Kate Buckingham printmaker Sue Harker potter Jeannie Ireland leather worker Emilia Krankowska ceramicist Woollen Wisdom felter

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Basement Studios, Centre for Science & Art, 13 Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BB e: fierydawn@gmail.com www.craftatthecentre.com Craft at the Centre is a focus for craft practitioners and teachers, working together to develop a vibrant social hub for community engagement and wellbeing through craft and creativity. Sustainability and respect for the natural world are central to our ethos. We seek through our work to encourage an understanding of the craft materials we work with, their origins and inherent value, sourcing our materials locally and sustainably wherever possible. We are a Community Interest Company (CIC) which means that any profits we make are used to make our service more accessible, or are reinvested back into the Centre. There will be demonstrations and opportunities to get hands-on. We look forward to meeting you.

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At the bottom of the High Street walk along Lansdown Road and it is the Victorian building on the left opposite the Library.

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Sue Bradley

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knitwear and mixed media textile designer 4 The Woodlands, Uplands, Stroud GL5 1QE m: 07791 680128 e: bsuebradley@aol.com www.suebradleydesign.com Sue Bradley is a designer who creates unique and decorative textiles, her work is very eclectic and experimental and she has an obsession with pattern and colour. Designs are often inspired by her extensive research into historical and ethnic costume and vintage fabrics. She has recently produced a collection of sweaters and large inspirational textile pieces for the fashion industry and current clients include Missoni, Etro and Shrimps. Visit her studio to see the latest collection of garments and to find out about her exciting

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Creative Textile Workshops.

Also open on: Wednesday – Friday 8 – 10 and 15 – 17 May. A 15 minute walk from Stroud town centre, take the B4070 Slad Road until you reach Gloucester Street

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The Woodlands. The studio is in the 4th house on the

second left into Shepherds Croft and left again into left, there is plenty of parking in the close or nearby.

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Matthew Harris

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textile artist guest artist of the Museum in the Park Gallery 1, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stratford Road, Stroud GL5 4AF m: 07776 098133 instagram: matthewharriscloth www.matthewharriscloth.co.uk Matthew Harris works with cloth, paper and thread to create drawings/collages and textiles. By a process of painting, staining, cutting, piecing, stitching and binding he constructs work that is primarily concerned with the translation of drawn marks into cloth. He has exhibited widely throughout the UK as well as Europe, Japan and the USA. You can meet Matthew at the Museum in the Park for the two Trail weekends where he will have sketchbooks to view and he will discuss his work

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exhibited in the Sightlines exhibition.

The Sightlines exhibition in Gallery 1 with Helen Carnac, David Gates and Matthew Harris see page 136.

A46 from the town centre, turn left onto the A4171 and turn right at the third mini roundabout to park at the Leisure

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roundabout and Stratford Park will be on your right. Cross

cross the Merrywalks footbridge, turn left at the next at the crossing and follow the footpath up to the Museum.

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Lansdown Pottery: John & Penny West

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potters Lansdown Pottery, Hill Farm, Main Road, Whiteshill, Stroud GL6 6JS t: 01453 298567 e: pottery@onetel.com www.lansdownpottery.co.uk “It is a constant surprise to realise the difference that the environment has had on our making. It will soon be six years since we moved to The Studio in Whiteshill. The straight lines and angles of town have made way to a quieter approach. Being closer to nature has led to softer more organic shapes and forms, integrating the use of natural, locally found materials and the firing of our wood kiln for soda glazed pieces.”

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From Stroud, drive along Stratford Park Road, turn right at roundabout and head towards Whiteshill.

Keep going up and at the crest of the hill, as you leave the village we are on the left. The number 63 bus stops outside.

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Sabine Kaner

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textile artist Marycroft, Farmhill Lane, Stroud GL5 4DD m: 07912 520980 e: sabine.kaner@gmail.com instagram: sabinemake www.pinterest.comsabinekaner “My background is in fine art print. I currently work with various mixed media, often using recycled woollen garments incorporating them into my work, together with print, stitching and hand embroidery. I work in an abstract way, drawing my inspiration from shapes in nature, and the different colours and forms that I encounter in my surroundings. I use printing techniques such as lino cuts, mono prints and watercolour painting, blending them all together with embroidery stitches.

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I am a member of S.E.W.” Also open on: Tuesday 14 May. From Stroud, drive along Stratford Park Road, turn right at roundabout and head towards Whiteshill.

Marycroft is on the left just before you reach Whiteshill.

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The number 63 bus stops outside

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Ange Mullen-Bryan

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artist Studio 6 The Painswick Centre, Bisley Street, Painswick GL6 6QQ m: 07722 067894 e: alenapost2@yahoo.com www.angemullenbryan.com “My paintings take their inspiration from the lakes, forests and skies of a vast Swedish landscape and a very particular Nordic light. This is where they begin like snapshots from a road trip or plotted points on a map.

A solitary hunting hide beside a forest road, thistly with dry branches, its spikes like a feathered nest. Solemn snowscapes have long shadows and fierce pink skies.

Hot lupins, dark pines, dripping lakes and quiet fires.”

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Drive through centre of Painswick on main road, after traffic lights take a right at the cross roads down Bisley Street. Turn into Painswick Centre car park on left about 200 metres down the hill. Free parking for visitors to the centre and studios.

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Valerie Jordan

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artist Cockshoot Cottage, Sheepscombe GL6 7QY t: 01452 814441 e: valerie@valeriejordan.co.uk www.valeriejordan.co.uk “My recent work has involved drawing, painting, printing and sewing in direct response to the landscape of Miami, where I lived and worked for a few years before returning to the Cotswolds. I layer, superimpose and repeat details from studies of shimmering water and marine life, fish, shells, flowers, etc. within structures that echo both Eastern carpet design and the formal grid of the city. I regard these ‘landmarks’, natural and man-made, as equally transient.”

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From Stroud take the B4070 through Slad to Bull’s Cross; there, take the Sheepscombe Road, this road is called Longridge. Take the right off this road, just before Beech Lane. The Trail signs indicate the turn off the Longridge Road. There is a quarry space you

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Jack Everett

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artist Shutway Quarry, Jacks Green, Sheepscombe GL6 7RD m: 07799 855645 e: bamboojack@hotmail.com www.jackeverett.org “Out in the woods the trees communicate with each other using scent, electrical impulses, sound and by transferring toxic substances to their leaves to discourage insect invasion and attract others that intervene on their behalf. This information is relayed using chemical signals through fungal networks around their root tips; the wood wide web.” Jack Everett, in his unique and beautiful studio, surrounded by these trees, working with wooden Platonic solids as printing blocks, explores the possibility of finding a language that tells us more about the nature

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of these durable benefactors and providers of life.

See page 142 for workshops.

From Stroud on the B4070, through Slad, through Bulls Cross to first crossroads. Turn left towards

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Sheepscombe, the studio is 400 yards down on left in the wood, opposite the white fence on right. Park on the road and walk up the footpath.

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Melanie Cormack-Hicks

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artist Studio 1, Pegasus Art Studios, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ m: 07807 157388 e: artistmelcormackhicks@gmail.com www.artistmelcormackhicks.com “Art can speak to your heart, invoking powerful emotions. My wish is to capture moments you’ll fall in love with and rediscover every day. I’m a fine artist who paints the landscapes I love, working from my studio and on site in the woodlands, meadows and rivers that surround me, or the stunning Devon Coastline. The joy of painting for me is throwing ink and paint onto a surface, creating chaos then calm, revealing moments, those glistening jewels.”

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From Stroud, follow London Road A419 to Griffin Mill Trading Estate which is located on the right hand side. There is free parking in front of the building and in the large car park to the left behind Bailey Paints.

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artist Pegasus Art Studios, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ m: 07974 257024 e: jane_fisher@btinternet.com www.janefisher.com “In a life well travelled the inspiration for my work comes from a myriad of sources, whether it’s memories of the past, current long-distance coastal walking, or the excitement of being a spectator watching cycle racing.

With a Fine Art Painting degree, I have shown in The Jerwood Drawing Show and in many other Exhibitions.

Media: oil paints, charcoal, inks and watercolours. If the viewer becomes involved in the space of my paintings, if they awaken personal memories, feel the weightlessness or freedom, I am delighted!”

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From Stroud, follow London Road A419 to Griffin Mill Trading Estate which is located on the right hand side. There is free parking in front of the building and in the large car park to the left behind Bailey Paints.

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artist Studio 9, Pegasus Art Studios, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ m: 07910 332245 e: fowlerlayfigures @gmail.com www.paulfowlerstudio.co.uk “The lay figures that I am working with have been used in other artists’ studios for two hundred years, they have been understudies in many paintings. They are in my studio now, their history their place and the space they occupy in our time offer a unique physical structure for my paintings to follow. I am using costumes from the East and the West, using the precision of the folds and the ritual and the symbolism of pattern in tradition and

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ancestry in an overlapping history that folds time.”

Also open on: Wednesday 16 May; Thursday 17 May; Friday 18 May. In addition Paul will be running workshops on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 May see page 141 for full details.

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From Stroud, follow London Road A419 to Griffin Mill Trading Estate which is located on the right hand side. There is free parking in front of the building and in the large car park to the left behind Bailey Paints.

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artist Attic Studio 1, Pegasus Art Studios, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ m: 07792 015059 e: maxhaleart@gmail.com www.maxhaleart.co.uk “I like the absence of formality and yet my drawing can be precise when necessary. I have been a painter for over 45 years so have matured my approach into further experimentation which excites me. My practice now based near Stroud allows and follows my teaching in the area plus the writing for the Artist magazine and a book on drawing currently under the pen. My inspiration is everywhere and I maintain that the most evocative work is made from the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Usually people feature somewhere in my work, simply as they inspire and have such individuality.”

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artist Studio 5, Pegasus Art Studios, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ m: 07917 818500 e: carolhoness@gmail.com instagram: fern_cottage_studio www.etsy.com/FernCottageStudio Carol Honess is an artist specializing in ink drawing and printmaking, using the natural world as her subject matter. Seed heads, leaves and ferns are printed onto paper or clay, to make original prints and little tiles and pendants, nearly always in a smoky indigo blue. Her intricate, detailed ink drawings – usually of birds, trees and insects – are sometimes realistic, sometimes imaginative. Many are then hand printed by the artist to make cards and series of unique, affordable prints.

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artist Studio 5, Pegasus Art Studios, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp, Stroud GL5 2AZ t: 07973 431295 e: mwca@btinternet.com Sarah has enjoyed oil painting for over thirty years. After various careers she studied at Heatherley School of Fine Art in London and Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence.

She has recently moved away from portrait painting to focus on both landscape and still life. Â She lives and works near Stroud in Gloucestershire.

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Teresa Poole

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artist Studio 3, Pegasus Art Studios, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp, Stroud GL5 2AZ m: 07800 856460 e: art@teresapoole.co.uk www.teresapoole.co.uk Teresa Poole is a decorative/mixed media artist crossing the boundaries between interior decorative art, photography, fine art and applied design. “I am influenced by oriental art both in my more traditional interior work to finding beauty in the unusual in photographic urban landscape. Working as an interiors artist for 35 years and training with designer Thomas Messel as a furniture artist learning traditional techniques that I still use today. I have painted murals internationally and worked in USA where I exhibited in New York.”

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Sarah Wimperis

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artist guest artist of Pegasus Art Attic Studio 2, Pegasus Art Studios, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp, Stroud GL5 2AZ m: 07837 096027 www.sarahwimperis.co.uk “I am the only English Artist to have worked on the film Loving Vincent. My work is influenced by that experience of becoming Van Gogh. I travel widely to research and paint and I will be showing large and small paintings in

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Please note that this exhibition will be open only on the one weekend of 11 and 12 May.

Travels With My Paintbrush illustrated talk see page 141 Saturday 11 May 7pm Attic Studio, Pegasus Art Tickets: £5; reservations at www.pegasusart.co.uk

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Susie Harding

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artist Unit 16, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ m: 07554 455775 e: info@susieharding.com www.susieharding.com “You are here…”

“I’m doing some very different work for this year’s show.

Still figurative of course I am exploring the idea of the body as landscape. This is not a new idea; there are many ancient cultures all over the world who believe the bodies of ancestral animals and people have been turned into landforms in the form of rocks, mountains, caves, rivers and lakes. This work is not intended to be a literal interpretation of a figure in landscape, but I am hoping to take you with me on a journey to try and find ourselves

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Also open 11am – 4pm on: Tuesday 14 May – Friday 17 May; or by appointment.

From Stroud, follow London Road A419 to Griffin Mill Trading Estate which is located on the right hand side. There is free parking in front of the building and in the large car park to the left behind Bailey Paints.

Unit 16 is located under the Pegasus Art shop.

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Julie Fowler

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ceramic artist Clayworks, Unit 16, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ m: 07963 112767 e: clayworks@btinternet.com Julie Fowler creates narrative based ceramics which take the form of functional ware, decorative panel pieces and sculpture. Aiming to draw the viewer into a world of romance, kitsch and grandeur her work is eclectic, taking inspiration from Victorian splendour through to the colour pallet of Matisse. Julie continues to explore the never ending possibilities clay can offer.

Her more recent pieces aim to combine text to create

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quirky functional pieces.

Also open on: Monday 13 May; Friday 17 May. From Stroud, follow London Road A419 to Griffin Mill Trading Estate which is located on the right hand side. There is free parking in front of the building and in the large car park to the left behind Bailey Paints.

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Gloucester Printmaking Cooperative (GPC) Unit 16c, Griffin Mill, London Road, Thrupp GL5 2AZ t: 01453 350885 e: info@gpchq.co.uk www.gpchq.co.uk

Six Printmakers Printmakers Gallery Saturday and Sunday from 11am – 5pm Tuesday and Thursday 11am – 3pm

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Come and experience printmaking for yourself and see the artists at work.

Gloucestershire Printmaking Cooperative (GPC) is a

Monoprinting: Emily Lucas

shared printmaking facility housed in a converted mill in

demonstration Saturday 11 May 11am – 1pm

Thrupp. The downstairs studio offers fantastic facilities for etching, stone lithography, wood and lino cutting,

Printing on Fabric: Anne Haworth

monotyping and letterpress. The upstairs studio has

workshop Saturday 11 May 2pm – 4pm

facilities for fine art screen printing, fabric printing and photography. During the Select Art Trail six of our members

Lino Cutting: Faisal Khouja

are showing their work in the Printmakers Gallery. The

demonstration Sunday 12 May 2pm – 4pm

show ranges from relief printing, including cardcut and linocut, to collograph, monotype and silkscreen. All the

Printing on Fabric: Anne Haworth

facilities used to create their work are available for you

demonstration Saturday 18 May 11am – 1pm

to see and you can ask the artists about the processes and techniques during the demonstrations and workshops that they will run over both trail weekends.

Collographic Printing on Paper: Eppie Short & Gerry O’Dwyer workshop Saturday 18 May 2pm – 4pm

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From Stroud, follow London Road A419 to Griffin Mill Trading Estate which is located on the right hand

Lino Cutting: Arthur Penn

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demonstration Sunday 19 May 2pm – 4pm

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Faisal Khouja

m: 07976 561723

m: 07902 918556

e: anne@annehaworth.com

e: contact@faisalkhouja.com

www.annehaworth.com

www.faisalkhouja.com

Anne Haworth is a printmaker

Faisal Khouja is a Linocut artist

who works on paper and fabric.

creating bold, graphic work using

Using different forms of relief

the geometric patterns and

printing as a starting point she

rythyms found in nature. He is

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Fairy Tales and myths.

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Gerry O’Dwyer

m: 07816 830755

m: 07802 229116

e: emilylucas777@gmail.com

e: ggodwyer@icloud.com

www.gpchq.co.uk

www.gerryodwyerart.work

Drawing, stitch and simple print

Gerry is a printmaker working

processes lie at the heart of

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Emily’s practice. She is interested

process, he is fascinated by the

in the inadequacy of language to

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communicate, utilising fragments,

demands. His work uses the

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to create narratives and

to explore the effect of light on

ambivalent meanings.

the landscape.

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Eppie Short

m: 07590 219881

m: 07789 772693

e: arthurpenn1@hotmail.co.uk

e: eppieisabelshort@gmail.com

www.arthurjpenn.com

www.gpchq.co.uk

Arthur is a printmaker,

Eppie is an artist printmaker

specialising in linocut. He draws

working in collograph, inspired by

his inspiration from his garden

artefacts of cultural diversity that

and the hedgerows around

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Nailsworth. Arthur uses natural

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forms and hand printing to create

recall museum objects preserved

free flowing linocuts.

in glass cases, detached from their original context.

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artist Studio 14, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07957 580447 e: nicolasings@yahoo.co.uk www.facebook.com/Nicola Clark Art Studio Nicola combines many aspects of art and creativity to her paintings bringing joyous colour and figurative imagery to the viewer. “The inspiration of my work is celebration and story-telling.” Nicola studied at

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Also open on: Tuesday 14 May; Wednesday 15 May. Victoria Works Studios is on the A419 at the junction for Chalford Vale between Stroud and Cirencester.

It is located next to Lavender Bakehouse and opposite Halliday’s Mill. Parking is available on the roadside and in the lay-by on the Stroud side of the building.

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Elaine Day

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jewellery designer Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN e: elainejuneday@me.com www elainedayjewellery.co.uk www. guildcrafts.org Elaine Day is a jeweller who has been practicing her craft in silver, gold, precious and semi precious gems, for 30 years in the Stroud Valleys. She is heavily influenced by the natural world above and below water and likes to show habitat or movement in her pieces to highlight the charming character of the subject.

Elaine mainly produces one off pieces but is happy to work on commissions or reproduce some of her designs on request.

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upholstery and interior designer Studio 3, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN t: 07767 777038 e: katerina@theupholsteress.com www.theupholsteress.com Katerina upholsters decorative and fine furniture by hand, using traditional techniques. Hand stretched webbing, hand tied springs and hand-sculpted and stitched stuffing, combine to create the true shape of a seat and one that will last for many years to come.

She uses tools passed down through generations of upholsterers and traditional materials such as jute webbing, horsehair stuffing, hessian, twine and unbleached calico. Katerina works to commission, restoring family heirlooms and well-loved upholstered pieces to their original condition. She also runs upholstery classes where traditional techniques are taught in a relaxed and friendly environment.

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fabric designer Studio 13, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07801 784173 e: lizzie@myblueshed.co.uk www.myblueshed.co.uk www.myblueshed.folksy.com Lizzie Mabley is a printmaker and fabric designer. Her vibrant collection includes hand printed and digitally printed fabrics. Lizzie’s designs begin with a sketch which she transfers to lino, carves and prints by hand to create pattern repeats ready for fabric. Lizzie’s designs purposefully retain their ‘block printed’ feel and each tells the story of its handmade origin. Her prints are fresh and joyful, her use of colour brings vibrancy and often quirkiness to her work. Products in the collection include cushions, lampshades and table linens and selected fabrics can also be ordered by the metre.

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Rebecca Simmons

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potter Studio 5, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07914 938643 e: rebsimmons@yahoo.com “I am interested in the sculptural potential of domestic pottery. My intention is make pieces that consider the relationships of shapes and forms while focussing on simplicity and practicality of use. Recently I have been inspired by earthy ancient pottery from Africa, Japan and Roman art and also the minimalist shapes of early European industrial pottery that came about through considering the interaction of form and function.”

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Anna Simson

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ceramicist Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07970 224470 e: anna@giraffe-view.com www.annasimsonceramics.com Anna is a ceramist who creates beautiful porcelain and stoneware tableware specialising in nature-inspired glazes. Her mugs, bowls, teapots and other domestic pieces are functional and elegant and the finishes are subtle. Alongside her more conventional ware, Anna has a quirky range of sculptural cups and also makes tactile rattling seed pods, particularly pleasing for their

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Also open 10am – 4pm on: Monday 13 May; Wednesday 15 May. For workshops check: www.victoriaworksstudios.co.uk Victoria Works Studios is on the A419 at the junction for Chalford Vale between Stroud and Cirencester.

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Zoe Watts

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silversmith Studio 17, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07789 930812 e: zskwatts@googlemail.com www.zoewattsdesigns.co.uk Zoe’s collection of hand crafted items range in size from the smallest of stud earrings to large sculptural yet functional silver vessels, vases and platters. She is inspired by the movement of energy within nature and intent upon creating interesting relief and scrumptious textures into her pieces. Themes that are often explored within her work include the Elements, growth patterns within plants, the Sky and the Sea. Zoe’s specialist technique is chasing and repousse; an ancient technique where hammers and steel punches are used to create depth and decoration on the surface of the metal. She has received several awards for her work in this field, most recently becoming a Scholar of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust.

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textile artist guest artist at Victoria Works Studios Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07956 674570 e: lauracstitch@gmail.com www.instagram.com/lauracstitch Laura Cadman is both fascinated and inspired by the memories that cloth can hold throughout its existence.

Her processes are heavily inspired by discoveries of how, when, and why textile artefacts were created; she strives to envisage the stories, lives, and even secrets therein. Explore her expressions of testing times throughout modern history, her work has been recognised and elevated as an awardee at the Festival of Quilts and has continued to evolve as she develops her meticulous practices.

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artist guest artist at Victoria Works Studios Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07711 0139150 e: francesclarkstone@gmail.com www.francesclark-stone.co.uk instagram: @francescsart Frances Clark-Stone is a painter working in oil and pastel. Her work is an emotional and personal response to inner and outer worlds inspired by landscape, dreams, experiences and musings. Her repertoire includes narrative, landscape and abstract work, using a range of techniques. The current abstract collection is based on night time reflections of artificial light on water in Croatia. These large oil paintings invite the eye to rove amongst the shapes and patterns to discover rhythm, relationship and form.

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stained glass artist guest artist at Victoria Works Studios Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN t: 01453 890083 e: sarahdavisglass@btinternet.com www.sarahdavisglass.co.uk instagram: @sarahdavisglass “My fascination with glass began with a love of colour, design and structure. Studying at Bristol School of Art enabled me to develop skills in stained glass techniques, which I apply in my work on original glass panels, hangings and windows. One of the delights of glass is there are so many techniques to choose from, each with its own challenges and possibilities. In recent years I’ve have developed a particular interest in sgraffito painting, where intricate designs are traced into the painted surface of the glass.”

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fashion and textile design students guest exhibitors at Victoria Works Studios Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN e: lichen.daveport@sgscol.ac.uk Students on the Foundation in Art & Design Diploma or in their second year of study on the Extended Diploma in Fashion & Textiles at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College are exhibiting their latest course work, a personal response to their study trip to Paris. Level 3 Extended Diploma in Fashion & Textiles is designed to expand students’ creative skill base and introduces a wide range of skills and techniques including printmaking, pattern cutting, experimental shape-making, sewing skills, fabric manipulation, surface design and textiles. The course philosophy is to nurture innovation and originality, skills which are valued in any trade, alongside the development of a business relevant toolkit of essential skills.

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jeweller Lower Cheyne, Queen’s Road, Rodborough, Stroud GL5 3SN m: 07973 930197 e: susancowiewilkinson@gmail.com instagram: @susanwilkinsonsilver Susan Wilkinson is a designer maker working in silver and semi-precious stones. Her ideas come from time in her garden or trawls along quiet beaches. Rather than replicating nature, it is the combination of random patterns and organic textures that she appreciates and realises in her work. The techniques used to achieve this include milling, reticulation and hammering the silver against stone: the effects are different each time. Surfaces are left matte, and semi-precious stones are unpolished

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Also open on weekdays: Monday – Friday 11am – 3pm.

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wooden clad house on your right about 50 yards along Queens Road.

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potter guest artist of Susan Wilkinson Lower Cheyne, Queen’s Road, Rodborough, Stroud GL5 3SN m: 07817 437561 e: pencam30@yahoo.com www.pennycampbellpottery.co.uk Penny creates beautiful, stoneware pots with contemporary glazes that are captivating in their unexpected depth and intrigue. Inspired initially by family connections with Winchcombe Pottery, Penny’s skills as a potter were later honed through an apprenticeship at Hookshouse Pottery. Penny is passionate about making pots that are pleasingly tactile, lovely to look at and in the true spirit of studio pottery, designed to be used and

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Also open on weekdays: Monday – Friday 11am – 3pm.

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glass artist The Old Farmhouse, Rodborough Lane, Butterow, Stroud GL5 2LH t: 01453 762657 m: 07918 507857 e: ChrisB-noodle@hotmail.com www.ChrisBfusedglass.com The forms, structures and patterns found in nature and ancient cultures are where Chris draws her inspiration to create installation garden art in the medium of fused glass.

She works experimentally and intuitively with the qualities, colours and textures of glass, adding detailed drawing and natural light to enhance and magnify details. Her pieces are uniquely individual but she does accept commissions that fulfil a clients specific brief. Chris also facilitates

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collaborative community art works to raise money for charity.

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Butterow West, continue along nearly to the end of Rodborough Lane. The Old Farmhouse is on your right, above a high stone wall with wooden trellising.

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jeweller guest artist of Chris Beckett The Old Farmhouse, Rodborough Lane, Butterow Stroud GL5 2LH m: 07765 766202 e: jewellery@pascalestanley.co.uk www.pascalestanley.co.uk Pascale creates striking, soulful jewellery inspired by nature and ancient symbols. Wire is her material of choice for creating mini masterpieces carefully shaping, hammering and weaving it to form intricate, sculptural pieces. Her collections consist of earrings, pendants and rings in fine silver or gold filled wire, combined with semi-precious stones. Pascale gains inspiration through her interest in decorative pattern and objects from

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ceramics guest artist of Chris Beckett The Old Farmhouse, Rodborough Lane, Butterow Stroud GL5 2LH t: 01242 575864 m: 07748 217904 e: hello@jackiewhiteceramics.com www.jackiewhiteceramics.com instagram: jackiewhiteceramics “There is an eclectic mix to my ceramics. Some are practical pieces for everyday use, whereas others are decorative for home and garden, in addition to porcelain and silver jewellery. All pieces reflect my varied inspirations from textiles, nostalgia and politics, intricately woven with a sense of humour. My work is hand-built illustrating my enjoyment of the sculptural process. My main medium is porcelain, however, I also work with earthenware,

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stoneware and crank.” Commissions are welcome.

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artist Morven, St Chloe, Amberley GL5 5AS m: 07904 548321 e: info@alisonvickery.co.uk www.alisonvickery.co.uk Alison Vickery is an artist whose work is infused with colour and light, she has a passion for drawing and mark making and is inspired by the beautiful world around us. She works in a wide range of media creating lively pieces that capture the essence of her subject.

All Alison's work starts with a response to her subject usually in one of her many sketch books. Her studio looks out on her lovely garden with wonderful views

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Also open 11am – 4pm on: Thursday 16 May. From Stroud take the A46 towards Nailsworth. After about two miles turn left up Culver Hill signposted to Amberley. Take the first left to St Chloe by the cattle grid then second right and Morven will be just up

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Galina Gardiner

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artist guest artist of Alison Vickery Morven, St Chloe, Amberley GL5 5AS t: 01453 882022 m: 07970 154419 e: galina@galinagardiner.co.uk www.galinagardiner.co.uk Galina is known for her characterful oil paintings of life around the commons of Minchinhampton and Rodborough. Particularly popular are her humorous depictions of cows and horses as they roam freely through the villages and along country lanes, munching on hanging baskets and holding up traffic. Galina is also noted for painting giant ice-creams and other striking images of food. She produces signed, limited edition

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Also open 11am – 4pm on: Thursday 16 May. From Stroud take the A46 towards Nailsworth. After about two miles turn left up Culver Hill signposted to Amberley. Take the first left to St Chloe by the cattle grid then second right and Morven will be just up

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Clare Bassett

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artist and jewellery designer Hawthorns Cottage, Lower Littleworth, Amberley GL5 5AN m: 07740 151313 e: clarebassett@aol.com www.clarebassett.com Clare Bassett is an artist who is a printer and painter, specializing in lithography and screen printing.

“My work is figurative and dream-like, somewhat surreal. I love to depict bold, statuesque women at pivotal moments in their life narratives. Their monumental forms are strong and sculptural, yet this contrasts with points of uncertainty and indecision.

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Hawthorns Cottage is half a mile from The Bear at Rodborough. Take the road running along the ridge below the pub. The house is on the valley side.

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Hannah Linfoot

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artist Chesapeake, Moor Court, Amberley GL5 5GA m: 07766 721402 e: hannahlinfoot@yahoo.co.uk www.hannahlinfoot.co.uk Hannah Linfoot draws and paints. Predominantly working in oils her paintings are bold, expressive and rich in colour. She has a distinctive style which brings to life the atmosphere of her subjects. The inspiration for her paintings come from the landscapes and countryside she loves. Hannah’s paintings demonstrate how rural life comes in many different forms, she finds beauty in subjects such as working farm buildings and decaying out buildings. Also on show are a selection of still life paintings.

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Turn first right to Amberley, then right into Moor Court or park in layby and walk across as above.

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Susie Hetherington

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textile artist guest artist of Hannah Linfoot Chesapeake, Moor Court, Amberley GL5 5GA m: 07919 567022 e: susie@susiehetherington.co.uk www.susiehetherington.co.uk Susie Hetherington’s pattern and print designs take inspiration from very local sources, observing the smallest details as she walks round the her village, the commons, or through woodland and gardens. From photographs, she produces naturalistic monochrome drawings in pen, that she later combines with her graphical sense of balance and form, to create flowing patterns across a surface. Susie’s work encompasses lino carving and printing, digitally printed fabric for interiors, one-off art prints and botanical designs for products.

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Turn first right to Amberley, then right into Moor Court or park in layby and walk across as above.

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Nicki Schmiegelow

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knitted textiles designer maker Whitemoor, Amberley GL5 5JG m: 07967 484920 e: info@nickischmiegelow.com www.nickischmiegelow.com Nicki makes knitted textiles using fine lambswool. She knits her fabric on a manual knitting machine, then felts it gently with organic soap and rainwater collected from her roof. After stretching and pressing it becomes a wonderfully soft, robust material, which she uses to make scarves, cushions and other items for the home. Her patterns range from simple geometric shapes to complex organic forms.

She loves putting together different colour combinations, often with bright accents. Her recent work includes weaving

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Also open on: Friday 17 May. From Stroud take the A46 towards Nailsworth. After about two miles turn left up Culver Hill signposted to Amberley. Turn right at the Amberley Inn. Whitemoor

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Barbara Spence

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jeweller guest artist of Nicki Schmiegelow Whitemoor, Amberley GL5 5JG m: 07906 963580 e: barbaraspence@hotmail.co.uk www.barbaraspence.co.uk Barbara’s work is inspired by astronomy. From planets held in orbit to eclipses, she explores overlapping bodies or the space between objects. Working principally in silver, Barbara uses traditional techniques to create circular forms or outlines with contrasting colours, textures or materials. Each piece of jewellery is structured

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to capture a fleeting moment of dynamic motion.

Also open on: Friday 17 May. From Stroud take the A46 towards Nailsworth. After about two miles turn left up Culver Hill signposted to Amberley. Turn right at the Amberley Inn. Whitemoor is on the right, opposite the church.

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Amberley Inn, then follow as above.

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Steve Mansfield

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sculptor using reclaimed materials 2 Marling Close, Amberley GL5 5AQ t: 01453 872282 m: 07401 458925 e: dabhand@thisartlark.co.uk www.thisartlark.co.uk “Living across the fields from a Cambridge nature reserve, watching grebes dance and herons fish. Working as a volunteer warden on Skomer Island, spotting shearwaters, gannets and puffins, cormorants, razorbills and guillemots, black-backed gulls and kittiwakes.Beachcombing for driftwood – worm eaten, cracked and weathered.

Searching for the textures shapes and patination that together will form an atmospheric sculpture. Regularly in galleries from Dartmouth to Shropshire, my driftwood sculptures evoke a sense of wild places, a reminder of windswept walks.” Steve is also at The Clay Loft Gallery.

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memorial and then left again. The house is on the left.

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Gemma Pitman

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artist painter Silver Trees, Besbury Lane, Minchinhampton GL6 9ES m: 07813 312899 e: studio@gemmapitman.art www.gemmapitman.art “I am a Cotswold based artist with strong links to Cornwall, having lived there for seven years before relocating to Gloucestershire in 2009. I paint using inks and powdered bronzes to create art with a contemporary interpretation on places that have

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Also open on: Monday 13 – Friday 17 May 10am – 2.30pm.

The studio is just off the Cirencester road, a short distance down Besbury Lane, opposite the Park area of Minchinhampton Common. Parking available on site.

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Alice Early

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designer Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester GL5 5ET m: 07497 602952 e: alice@aliceearly.co.uk www.aliceearly.co.uk instagram.com/aliceearly/ Alice is a London-based designer of contemporary, sustainable clothing for women. Her motivation is to create clothes that feel and look great but have a minimal impact on the environment. Her garments have longevity of wear and style and are made from organic cotton and sustainable and durable components.

Taking inspiration from utilitarian workwear and Japanese minimalism she finishes her pieces with delicate details and bold buttons to create garments that are simple yet beautiful.

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Susan Early

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willow basket maker and willow artist Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester GL5 5ET m: 07791 618575 e: susanearlybaskets@gmail.com www.guildcrafts.org.uk Susan weaves traditional and functional baskets using English willow and time-honoured techniques from her workshop near Stroud. In addition to basket making she creates sculptural pieces in willow combining natural found and hedgerow materials. Susan is a member of The Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

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There is a bus service from Stroud Merrywalks Bus Station: 35, 63 and 63a. There is ample parking but no disabled access.

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Fionna Hesketh

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jewellery designer Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester GL5 5ET m: 07817 111160 e: info@fionnahesketh.co.uk www.fionnahesketh.co.uk instagram: @fionnaheskethjeweller Fionna has developed a very personal style of working with a variety of precious and non-precious materials, including vitreous enamel. Her unique jewellery reflects her interest in closely observed form and texture.

Themes and inspiration which run through her work are notions of strength and fragility; with mark-making influenced by observation in the landscape, and the materials used. Fionna is a member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen, and has been successful making and selling her work nationally.

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Annie Hewett

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potter Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester GL5 5ET t: 01452 741236 e: ceramics@anniehewett.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk/members/anniehewett Decorated domestic slipware. Annie’s work combines her enthusiasm for plant forms with her love of letterforms and calligraphy. The clay surface, coated with slips and oxides, offers a blank and enticing canvas for decoration and pattern-making. All the work is completed whilst the clay is in its raw state and then fired with a transparent glaze. She does feel that it is important that her work can be used on a daily basis, is tough and resilient and can be washed in the dishwasher if required.

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Cleo Mussi

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artist Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester GL5 5ET m: 07791 653208 e: mussimosaics@gmail.com www.mussimosaics.co.uk instagram: cleomussimosaics Cleo Mussi is an established artist drawing gestural figurative mosaics from reclaimed ceramic tableware.

Working within the folk tradition she creates elegant, decorative and political pieces with humour and a lightness of touch. Mussi incorporates and marshals the inherent properties gleaned from patterns, marks, forms, colour and text into a world of narratives reflecting the time that we live in. Cleo’s pieces are in private collections world wide as well as in many public spaces throughout the UK.

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Tessa Tyldesley

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jeweller Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester GL5 5ET t: 01453 882647 e: tessatyldesley8@gmail.com www.tessatyldesley.co.uk Tessa Tyldesley is a jeweller who uses semi-precious stones and silver. Her earlier training as a painter is reflected in her pieces with an eye to creating a fine balance of weight, colour and texture using a diverse variety of stones and silver pieces sourced from around the world. Some of her pieces are bold and some of them are more delicate, if you like stones there will be something for you to feast your eyes on.

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There is a bus service from Stroud Merrywalks Bus Station: 35, 63 and 63a. There is ample parking but no disabled access.

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Rhiannon Faye

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ceramicist and contemporary jewellery designer The Roundhouse, Frogmarsh Lane, South Woodchester GL5 5ES m: 07411 017933 e: 1280ceramics@gmail.com www.1280ceramics.com Rhiannon Faye creates beautiful porcelain vessels and jewellery. The simplicity of her forms and choice of colours from deep blues to turquoise draw the viewer in.

Her hand crafted jewellery is simple, setting porcelain stones into silver for a contemporary individual look.

Meet Rhiannon in her delightful garden studio.

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Tom Knowles Jackson

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potter The Clay Loft, Inchbrook Mill, Gydynap Lane, Inchbrook, Nailsworth GL5 5EZ m: 07507 069566 e: tom@tkjceramics.com www.theclayloft.co.uk instagram: @tkjpots Tom makes functional pottery for the table, sideboard and oven that is inspired by Far Eastern Traditions, local materials and the ceremony of eating and drinking. Tom works in stoneware that is high fired in gas reduction to create pots that are robust yet refined. His pots are decorated with glazes and slips derived from wood ash and riverine muds collected from the locality. Tom pots from his studio at Inchbrook Mill adjacent to The Clay Loft, an open access ceramics studio offering classes

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and membership that he established in 2018.

The Clay Loft will have demonstrations and an exhibition in the 1673 Gallery. Details on page 144.

The Clay Loft within the Inchbrook Mill studio complex located on the A46 (the Bath Road) near Papa’s Pizza

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adjacent to the Inchbrook Trading Estate and immediately next to to Renishaw. Parking is to the rear of the building. It is a ten minute walk from Frogmarsh Mill along the old railway cycle path.

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ceramicist The Clay Loft, Inchbrook Mill, Gydynap Lane, Inchbrook, Nailsworth GL5 5EZ t: 01453 759830 m: 07850 441809 e: mail@adrianbatesceramics.com www.adrianbatesceramics.com instagram: @adrian_bates_ceramics In all my pieces I am looking to explore the relationship between inner space and outer form; where they meet and merge one into the other. I also look to capture a sense of movement and simple elegance which requires each form to be refined and pared back to emphasize its essential qualities. This allows the form to shine through, unencumbered by additional pattern or colour, although texture is retained or added to subtly contrast different surfaces.

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Frogmarsh Mill along the old railway cycle path.

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Anna Gravelle

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textile artist Article Studio, Inchbrook Mill, Gydynap Lane, Inchbrook, Nailsworth GL5 5EZ e: studio@annagravelle.com www.annagravelle.com www.article-studio.com Anna Gravelle is perhaps best known for taking the traditional craft of tufting (usually associated with rug making and candlewick bedspreads) and using its potential for adding a tactile and three-dimensional character to interior fabrics, accessories and stunning artworks. She has drawn on this tradition and made it contemporary by using luxury materials – the finest wool cloth and silky threads – to make it delicate and working the technique like exquisite embroidery. The results are beguiling and irresistible to touch.

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rear of the building. It is a ten minute walk from Frogmarsh Mill along the old railway cycle path.

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Angie Parker

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textile weaver Article Studio, Inchbrook Mill, Gydynap Lane, Inchbrook, Nailsworth GL5 5EZ m: 07931 633368 e: angie@angieparkertextiles.com www.angieparkertextiles.com www.article-studio.com Angie Parker weaves rugs and exquisite, vibrant textiles derived from traditional Scandinavian rug weaving techniques. Her distinctive and intricate floor art and fabric creations are hand-woven using long established patterns, such as Krokbragd, which she combines with her instinctive and daring approach to colour. It is the creative process of importing a contemporary element to the time honoured techniques of rug weaving and the responses from the viewer which most excite her.

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textile artist 60 Home Orchard, Ebley, Stroud GL5 4TT m: 07852 341653 e: joanna_hammond@hotmail.co.uk Joanna Hammond is a textile artist, she mainly works with machine embroidery. Most of her designs are built up from layers of cotton organdie, using cold-water dyes and a variety of threads. Her themes reflect her environments, she has been inspired by landscapes in places she has lived or visited, realising the numerous correspondences between embroidery and natural scenery. The majority of the embroideries are mounted without the use of formal frames, thus leaving the edges

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Also open 11am – 4pm on: Monday 13 – Friday 17 May. From town centre take the Cainscross Road, take second exit at the roundabout into Westward Road. Turn left at the second set of traffic lights leading to the council offices. Before crossing the canal turn right into Home

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Discover the Endangered Species Bill Jones shop window quiz Stroud town centre shops

many UK species of birds and animals now extinct or close to extinction. It is an emergency that also threatens mankind’s future. As part of Select Art Trail, Bill Jones has designed a trail around Stroud shop windows.

Children are invited to find the shops displaying in their windows the cardboard cut-outs of animals that are either now extinct or endangered.

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Then drop the completed flyer off to one of the boxes in the Town Council Office and the Stroud Valleys Project Eco Shop on Threadneedle Street and you may win a prize! There are free badges for all children who complete the trail.

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Stroud Valleys Project Eco Shop, 8 Threadneedle Street, Stroud GL5 1AF Monday – Wednesday 10am – 5pm Thursday – Friday 10am – 4pm Saturday 10am – 3pm

Booking Tickets can be booked in several ways. Please check the details beside the event.

• You can send a cheque made out to Stroud International Textiles for the full amount and send to the SIT select office address. Remember to include details of the event you are booking, your name, address,

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65% of animals lost over the last 10 years. This includes

phone and email plus a stamped addressed envelope

• You can contact the SIT select office on 01453 751056.

• You can book online, details are on the bookings page at: www.sitselect.org

tom knowles jackson, the clay loft

The world is losing animals at a startling rate with over

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björk haraldsdóttir

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Materials Matter Jacy Wall + Björk Haraldsdóttir Wednesday 8 May – Sunday 19 May Open Monday – Friday 11am – 5pm Saturdays 10am – 5pm Sundays 11am – 4pm

Jacy Wall Björk Haraldsdóttir In Conversation

A collaboration with two contemporary artists who

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create textiles, etchings and ceramics. A dazzling show

Saturday 18 May 6.30pm

of pattern and colour to delight and surprise. Pattern

Lansdown Gallery

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conversation with Andy Christian.

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Meet the Artists Saturday 11 May + Saturday 18 May Lansdown Gallery Meet the artists in the gallery on the Saturdays when you can wander round the exhibition with Jacy and Björk.

portraits: peter millson

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Jacy Wall

Jacy Wall’s woven tapestries interrogate the nature of

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textiles, often simply deconstructing and playing with

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pattern and structure. Interventions such as stitching,

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patching and darning, implying imperfection, instability

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mending. Printmaking is an important element of her practice, creating a conversation between weaving and drawing, yarn and paper.

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Björk Haraldsdóttir

Björk Haraldsdóttir’s tactile and expressive ceramic

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art explore the interplay between three-dimensional

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architectural form and two-dimensional surface

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treatment. The pieces are a conversation between the inherent individuality and imperfection of the hand built object and the implicit perfection of mathematical pattern and geometry.

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Sightlines Helen Carnac, David Gates + Matthew Harris exhibition Saturday 4 May – Sunday 2 June; Tuesday – Friday 10am – 4.30pm Saturday – Sunday 11am – 4.30pm* closed Mondays except Bank Holidays *Extended opening times 11am – 6pm: Saturday 11 – Sunday 12 May; Saturday 18 – Sunday 19 May Gallery 1, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stratford Road, Stroud GL5 4AF free admission

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Sightlines as an idea began in 2009 when both David

the experience of looking, seeing and making. In particular,

Gates and Matthew Harris, took part in the touring

the way in which the spaces, voids and holes prevalent

exhibition Taking Time, Craft and the Slow Revolution

in much of the three-dimensional work direct sight lines

which was co curated by Helen Carnac. Throughout the

and viewpoints through the gallery space, to crop and

intervening years all three artists have looked at ways in

frame new views of other works both two and three-

which the dialogue and routes of enquiry opened up by

dimensional. The resulting visual juxtapositions brought

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about by this looking through, will lead to a conjoining of

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Helen Carnac David Gates Matthew Harris

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Park, Stratford Road GL5 4AF In 1975 the artist Winifred Nicholson invited the recently graduated Andy Christian to stay indefinitely at her home, Banks Head on the Roman Wall. In lieu of rent he worked on her garden and made picture frames for her.

Through her he came to meet and was befriended by many contemporary artists and collectors including the Rev. Geoffrey Bennett, long time friend and collector of L. S. Lowry, the sculptors David Nash and Andy Goldsworthy, tapestry weavers Lynne Curran and William Jefferies along with the wildly eccentric composer of the Doctor Who theme music, Delia Derbyshire. This talk will focus on the textile aspects of the years spent at Banks Head with actual works from that time to enjoy and share. Andy Christian, writer, curator and artist, is an engaging and enjoyable speaker who will share his experiences of living with such inspirational artists from

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this fascinating period in our history.

Tickets: £8; concessions: SIT select members and students £6. To book go to: www.sitselect.org

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In the North Wind’s Breath Andy Christian

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Drawing: Beasts & Bugs Paul Fowler

Saturday 11 May 7pm

half day workshops

Attic Studios, Pegasus Art, Griffin Mill, Stroud GL5 2AZ

Monday 13 May + Tuesday 14 May

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9.30am – 12.30pm and 1pm – 4pm We are very fortunate that Sarah Wimperis is our Guest

Attic Studios, Pegasus Art, Griffin Mill, Stroud GL5 2AZ

Exhibitor in our newly refurbished Attic Studios on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 May (see page 46). In the

Inspired by the theme of Species Extinction the Attic will

evening she will delight us with stories of travelling with

be divided into two areas, one with mini beasts,

her paintbrush.“For over forty years I have been

magnifying glasses and small tables: Beasts & Bugs

travelling with my paintbrush. From the painting kit in an

The other end will have a large installation of Wild

old wooden box that travelled all the way to China on

Woodland Creatures (taxidermy) which artists can move

the Trans-Siberian railway in 1984, where paintings

around and draw from different angles. Paul’s installations

literally saved my life, to my glorious travelling studio

are legendary – there will be branches covering the

which I take with me across Europe.” Sarah is a

beams, and beautiful creatures on tables and plinths.

professional artist and the only English artist to join the

There is no prescriptive medium – bring whatever you

team of one hundred and twenty five international

would like to draw with. There will be charcoal, pencil

artist-animators to inhabit the works of Vincent Van

and liquid graphite on offer to sample. You could use

Gogh in the making of Oscar nominated film, Loving

watercolour, pen, ink, pastels. Paul has been teaching

Vincent. Sarah’s talk will be illustrated with a huge

Fine Art for the past twenty years, the last ten at Pegasus

variety of drawings and paintings and there will be an

Art. His teaching style is inclusive and encouraging. He

opportunity to ask as many questions as you like!

guides and assists rather than dictating. Come away

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with a small detailed piece, or try sketching on large

Tickets: £5; reservations at www.pegasusart.co.uk

pieces of paper in a loose style – step out of your comfort

or t: 01453 886560 e: info@pegasusart.co.uk

zone and enjoy drawing from these beautiful creatures.

Fee: £25 per half day workshop. For more information and booking contact: e: fowlerlayfigures@gmail.com m: 07910 332245 www.paulfowlerstudio.co.uk

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workshops Friday 17 May 10am – 5pm Jacks Green, Sheepscombe GL6 7RD Wednesday 22 May 10am – 4pm Centre for Science & Art, 13 Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BB “I shape and turn, then burn and brush out grain, ink up and move these block around large papers, directing but never knowing what will emerge; repeating the process, changing ink colours and blocks, working the geometry, looking for the images that tell me more about the lives of trees… beauty keeps emerging.” There is an opportunity to work alongside Jack and experience the skills of wood block printing in the stunning setting of his individual hand built studio or in Stroud town centre.

Participants are asked to come prepared to work at making their own prints from the prepared wooden blocks. No previous experience needed.

Fee: £40 per workshop; includes all materials but please bring lunch to share. To book go to www.sitselect.org. If attending his studio see page 30

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for directions; please ring Jack Everett if you get lost 07799 855645.

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Wood Block Printing Jack Everett

Building Ceramic Planters Masterclass Adrian Bates

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workshop

Saturday 18 May 10am – 4pm

Saturday 11 May 10am – 4pm

We will explore stitch, texture and surface relief using

You will make a planter during the workshop, using

paper and textiles. The process will involve stitching

sheets of clay cut, shaped, textured and joined together.

and layering inspired by mark making. We will be

Later in the day we will explore different kinds of slip

using a wide variety of fabrics to create and build up

decoration and finish what we’ve made to produce a

a collection of experimental samples. Using a

planter for indoor or outdoor use.

combination of machine as well as hand stitch.

Draw Your Own Skirt Block Martha van der Laan

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Saturday 18 May 10am – 4pm

Saturday 25 May 10am – 4pm

Paul will offer a talk on his work, methods and life and

Learn how to draw your own skirt pattern, made to fit

will run a fully hands-on, interactive workshop sharing

your own shape and size. This will then be used to make

techniques he has perfected in hand building his iconic

a toile to put these pattern cutting skills into practice,

vessels using the coil building technique. Participants

with an emphasis on how to customise your basic block

can expect to make their own vessel and to have this

using dart manipulation, gathers, pleats, seams to alter

fired to bisque or glazed using the Clay Loft house glazes.

shape and style.

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Hand Building with Coils Masterclass Paul Wearing

Sewing Shed Stroud, 5 Thompson Road, Stroud GL5 1TE

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Stitched Surfaces Martha van der Laan

The Clay Loft, Inchbrook Mill, Gydynap Lane, Nailsworth GL5 5AS Fee: £85 per workshop; Clay Loft members £75; includes

Fee: £60 per workshop including coffee and tea.

tools, materials and firing. At these workshops we welcome

Please bring your own lunch. For more information

those new to working with clay, and those with experience

and to book go to: www.sewcreativezone.co.uk

will have a chance to develop their ideas. For more information and to book go to: www.theclayloft.co.uk

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An exhibtition of current work by: Adrian Bates Paul Wearing Richard St John Heeley

11th to 19th May 2019 With a PV 7 pm to 10 pm, 10th May Gallery 1673, Inchbrook Mill, GL5 5EZ For info email: tom@theclayloft.co.uk

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£85 (£75 members) For info/to book: tom@theclayloft.co.uk

The Clay Loft is a ceramics studio between Stroud and Nailsworth offering classes, workshops and studio membership for potters of all abilities.

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1st–30th May 2019 Monday–Saturday 10am–5pm Sunday 10am–4pm

The Malthouse Collective Salmon Springs Trading Estate, Cheltenham Road, Stroud GL6 6NU

OutOfLineMidlands email: outoflinemidlands@aol.co.uk

Sarah Wimperis at Pegasus Art Open Studios Guest Exhibitor Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th May Attic Studios 11am - 6pm Drawings & Paintings for sale All welcome Illustrated Talk

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Sarah Wimperis Artist on Oscar-nominated film Loving Vincent www.sarahwimperis.co.uk

Saturday 11th May 7 - 8pm £5 Attic Studios

Book online www.pegasusart.co.uk 01453 886560 info@pegasusart.co.uk Griffin Mill Stroud Glos GL5 2AZ

Pegasus Art SELECT OPEN STUDIOS 11 - 12 - 18 - 19 May 11am - 6pm

Guest Artists

Studio Artists

Sarah Wimperis 11th & 12th May

Jane Fisher Paul Fowler Teresa Poole Sarah Howard Max Hale Carol Honess Susie Harding Julie Fowler

Mel Cormack-Hicks

11th, 12th, 18th & 19th May Unique artwork for sale at studio prices Meet the artists, see them at work

10% OFF IN THE SHOP 11th, 12th, 18th & 19th May

Talks & Workshops ‘Travels with my Paintbrush’ Illustrated Talk with Sarah Wimperis Saturday 11th May £5 7 - 8pm Attic Studios Book: www.pegasusart.co.uk Paul Fowler Drawing Workshops ‘Bugs & Beasts’ & ‘Wild Woodland Creatures’ 13th & 14th May Half Days for £25 Book: fowlerlayfigures@gmail.com

Pegasus Art Griffin Mill Stroud Glos GL5 2AZ info@pegasusart.co.uk 01453 886560 www.pegasusart.co.uk

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At Cornwall’s beautiful Trereife House and gardens, Breeze Fair showcases the best designer-makers and artists in the region, with three days of exhibitions, workshops, talks and demonstrations.

September 13 - 15 Trereife House Penzance, Cornwall TR20 8TJ

breezefair.org

Admission £1.00, children under 15 free Please bring cash or cheque

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World Textiles Weekend

Martin Conlan: Slow Loris -Tribal Textiles from Southwest China Jennifer Evans: Jenpatola - Decorative Textiles and Jewellery sourced in India John Gillow: African, Indian and South East Asian Textiles plus his own textile books Polly Lyster: Dyeworks- lovely linen, hemp or silk garments and cloths dyed in natural shades with indigo shibori a speciality Dorothy Reglar: Colours of Asia - Designer maker of ethnic inspired garments Tiger Moth: Carpets, cushions, scarves and jewellery from around the world.

Other stalls yet to be finalised OUTSIDE - Fabazaar: Contemporary Indian textiles and clothing

 SATURDAY, May 18th 10.00am – 5.00pm  SUNDAY, May 19th 10.00am - 4.00pm Bisley Village Hall, Manor Street, Nr STROUD, Gloucestershire. GL6 7BJ

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Information from Bailey Curtis on 01453 823375 or bailey@baileycurtis.com

Delicious food by Woodruffs of Stroud

World Textiles Weekend 2019 includes:

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Within their individual practices, Members of The Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen demonstrate their use and the versatility of enamel as material.

FREE ADMISSION Opening times: Saturday 1 June – Saturday 8 June 10am – 6pm daily Sunday 9 June – 10am – 5pm

Tetbury Market House, Market Place, Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8DA

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An exhibition of beautifully designed, contemporary crafts from Members of The Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

With daily demonstrations and an opportunity to meet the makers, this annual fair in the heart of the Cotswolds is a wonderful opportunity to view, buy and commission handcrafted work.

MATERIAL IN FOCUS – ENAMEL

Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm Sunday 11am – 4pm, closed Mondays

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Mansfield 60 Steve www.thisartlark.co.uk

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Vickery 53 Alison www.alisonvickery.co.uk

Hetherington 57 Susie www.susiehetherington.co.uk

For full address details, please view the artist information in this brochure.

Visit www.amberleyartisans.co.uk for a printable map.

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Amberley Artisans are talented local artists and craftspeople, living and working in and around Amberley.

With a variety of open studios, exhibition spaces, and guest exhibitors – along with parking, pubs and walking – Amberley makes a great destination on the Select Art Trail.

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The train and bus station are in the town centre and there are many bicycle parking rails.

Car parking is plentiful and the parking for the Museum is free and located next to Stroud

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College and the Stratford Park Leisure Centre.

Access Unfortunately some of the studios and venues that are part of the Select Art Trail may not have wheelchair access. Please check before visiting.

There are many pay and display car parks around the town, all offering disability parking.

Accommodation For a full list of accommodation contact the Tourist Information Centres. The SIT select website also has names of B & Bs. Liability The organisers cannot accept liability for any damage, injury or loss sustained by any member of the public visiting any of the events or exhibitions.

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