Exhibiting Artists
Please use this page to plan your Open Studios tour for 2025. All of our exhibiting artists are listed here together with photographs showing examples of their work as well as how to find their studios and which days they are open. You can also search by the type of art you would like to see or use our map to plan a tour.
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Abby has always had an enthusiasm for art, colour and texture, and is at her happiest in her studio, putting into practice a different twist on traditional millinery. Building upon a City & Guilds level 2 in fashion millinery under Louise Pocock, Abby has ...
I create handmade bespoke furniture inspired by Mid-Century Modern and Scandinavian design styles. I work with primarily English timbers to create beautiful and functional pieces of heirloom furniture. Alasdair will also be open on Friday 12th from 1 ...
Alison continues to be inspired by nature and is working on some British wildlife like Otters, seals and Foxes to stand along with her mainly African animals and various birds. Alison works in fused glass and wire Alison is based in Marlborough. Inspired ...
I’m a printmaker and designer, making works on textiles and paper. I hand print all original textiles and artworks in small editions in my studio in Pewsey. Recent works have been inspired by repetition and geometric pattern. Textiles are applied to home ...
My ‘ Plein Air’ rural landscapes in oil medium will be the main part of the exhibition, but I enjoy drawing, watercolour and exploring mixed media as well. In addition, I also design, paint and make stained glass, Ecclesiastical Windows and there will ...
As we're all-too aware, the past few years have been more than a little tough for most people. As far as my art practice was concerned, it gave me the time & space in which to reinvent myself. You see, I'd long been 'secretly' painting works of 'Magic Rea ...
Inspired by nature and her well-stocked, Victorian walled gardens, Ann's love of plants and colour shines through in her striking contemporary plant portraits. She delights in demonstrating her techniques and passing on her love for working with coloured ...
I am an artist and illustrator working in acrylics and acrylic inks. Immersed in the Wiltshire countryside and the beauty of our Cape Town beach house, I enjoy experimenting with various techniques to record the countryside, beach and boats which I love. ...
Arran continues to work with coastal Landscapes, sketching and photographing on site. She then develops the work in her Studio. This year her work is mainly focused on Cornish Seascapes. She will also be exhibiting sketch books and Life Drawings. The St ...
In the dim and distant past Arty, then known as Chrys, studied Graphics at Camberwell College of Art. Having fulfilled her earning a living and childrearing responsibilities, she returned to her love of drawing, especially life drawing. Over the past few ...
I work from the garden, where my planting speaks to my love of vibrant colour, which in turn is reflected in my floral pieces. My focus usually is on the expressive rather than realistic, often fanciful and decorative in style, which probably is influenc ...
From my garden studio in the heart of Devizes I paint land and seascapes loosely in a wide variety of materials including oil, acrylic, ink and pure pigment. More recently I've been focusing on developing a language to describe floral and foliage subjects ...
My work reflects my working for many years as a painter and a sculptor Most of the work on show this year will be sculpture visitors are invited to wander around the garden that looks over the River Kennet. I look forward to talking about the process of ...
A recurring inspiration is the beauty of plants and nature with a love of colour, light, space and pattern. I paint predominantly in oils, interweaving threads of colour to connect contemplated objects.
Brenda is inspired by color and patterns, creating art which is both lyrical and vibrant. Primarily a watercolorist, focusing on flowers, still life and landscapes, she discovered acrylics a few years ago. Her Studio is full of work in progress, lusciou ...
Bronte is a printmaker who specialises in relief printing, her preferred method of printing is lino and woodblock. Bronte is a nature enthusiast and spends much of her spare time immersed in the environment on long walks or outdoor swimming. Brontes prin ...
After completing her studies at Falmouth University, Bryony travelled extensively throughout Asia. She now works as an artist in Wiltshire alongside running White Chalk Gallery. Her portraits celebrate the beauty in small but poignant moments, bringing to ...
Sharing venue with her husband and potter Nick Pearce. Another exciting year for Cathy with news that one of her paintings was selected by the Pastel Society for inclusion at the Mall Galleries, London back in February for the third consecutive year. 3 ...
Chris is a watercolour artist and children’s book illustrator, influenced by Beatrix Potter, Arthur Rackham and Norman Rockwell. He will be showing a collection of original watercolours, drawings, signed limited edition prints, cards and all his illustrat ...
My artist's practice is firmly rooted in an immediate, energetic and emotional response to the landscape. Focusing on evocation, rather than illustration, I aim to capture what I see before me in my own, rather idiosyncratic way. Working in soft pastels o ...
It's all about shadows! To catch atmosphere, temperature, light... Watercolour washes enable the subtlest effects of reflected light or rich colour in the shadows. Check out my website, and enjoy the trip! www.clive-wilson.com SPECIAL EVENT Demon ...
Based in the beautiful Vale of Pewsey, Deborah works from her studio both as a commercial and fine art photographer. Intricate and precise studies of flowers and fruits/vegetables grown in the garden are captured using the ever changing natural light. Th ...
I make a variety of ceramic pieces in high fired stoneware. Much of my work is designed for outside and are weather proof. work based on Cornish pebbles and totem poles modest in size, but are colourful and painterly and small table top whimsical scul ...
Graham creates mostly indoor sculptures from steel. Many also have the addition of other materials primarily recycled wood, but also concrete, velvet & copper. His style has been described as brutalist, but he feels it is a little softer than that. If ...
Hannah Cantellow is a Wiltshire based artist and trained printmaker, she has specialised in both Fine Art and Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking and later completed her MA in Social Sculpture & Connective Practice at Oxford Brookes University in 2018. It was ...
I will be showing new work from my Standing Stones series and other Wiltshire landscapes, including paintings I call my "Water Jewels," as well as Cornish seascapes. I paint on large and small canvases and boards and on paper, using oils, acrylics and mix ...
Jacqui likes the imperfect, natural and undulating edges reminiscent of weathered and eroded surfaces. This is evident in her Raku work, coastal tiles and strata vessels. The cobalt blue ‘splash’ tableware collection also celebrates the imperfect. Wobbly ...
Jan is an experienced mixed media abstract painter and print maker who invites you to see her varied display of work in the house. This includes 2D framed and unframed paintings, mounted prints, work books and hand made greeting cards with recent origina ...
Jane is an established artist returning to the area and to open studios after a few years away. This year she is focused on a new body of work celebrating curious collections, curating her own ‘cabinets’ in paintings and sculptures. Visual inspiration com ...
Jane has continued to experiment with mixed media,incorporating print,collage and drawing. Visitors will find a warm welcome to her studio, where she will share her techniques and once again offer an opportunity to try some simple mono printing. Special ...
Jane spends the winter months designing, cutting and carving intricate designs in lino: individual petals, leaves, wings and shells. As spring arrives she takes these into the studio to create ceramic lights in hand made paper porcelain, arranging the man ...
My artwork is loose , often colourful , impressionist inspired. I enjoy experimenting with marks, texture and different subjects.
Jeannette founded The Clay and Glass Studio, at Wagon Yard, London Rd, Marlborough, shortly after completing the Ceramics with Glass BA Course at High Wycombe in 1998. She then built her Studio is at Ogbourne St. George, where she teaches and creates her ...
I paint in Oil on canvas. For the past few years I have been inspired by pattern, colour and texture of plant growth. I love using bright colours and looking at the negative spaces formed by the tangles of stems and flowers. My present collection of pa ...
Light and colour infuse my work at a small scale (iridescent titanium jewellery), medium scale (indoor LED light sculptures) and large scale (perspex garden sculptures). This year I'm showing new multi-colour titanium jewellery developed for an internatio ...
The studio is a modern light and airy space overlooking the garden. It is a wonderful addition to our family home and is a haven full of paint, easels and sketches. The garden and environment provide most of the inspiration for my work which draws on th ...
I continue to develop my work inspired by the Wiltshire landscape and the S.W. coast exploring weather moods and atmospheric light playing on land and water. My newly published, full colour, hard back book of the South-West coastline from Poole to Lands E ...
I am primarily a glass artist, but also incorporate some additional skills in my mixed media pieces. These include metal work, pyrography and painting. My glass work is all created in an open flame and is a mixture of solid and blown hollow work. All colo ...
STUDIO OPENS NEXT WEEKEND 13/14th July and 20/21st July - however, it will all be set up and ready to go by Monday 8th July. I'm there most mornings between 9.30 and 1.30pm, so if you're passing, please do pop in! For the first time this year I'll b ...
Kim discovered stone carving purely by chance 20 years ago on completion of a Degree in Drawing for Fine Art Practice. She fell in love with the medium and can totally loose herself in the process of creating a sculpture.. All pieces are made using tradit ...
I’m interested in the juxtaposition of man-made and nature, and of feeling my way through the lines of road markings, bright orange barriers, telegraph poles and pylons within the huge space that comes from hills, water and sky. Recently I've been particu ...
Libby @Bloemen & Blue is a Cyanotype Artist using the alchemy of non-toxic Iron solutions reacting with sunshine to produce photographic Blueprints. Invented in Bath over 180 years ago Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic processes sometimes known ...
Angles, geometric shapes and diverse phenomena from science and mathematics make a bedrock of inspiration for my work. These elements are often incorporated as clashing monochrome into fields of apparently random colour. Some more recent works, still cla ...
Mary loves the process of throwing on the potters wheel. Watching a lump of clay grow into the desired shape, and then decorating and carving the surfaces with images of the Wiltshire countryside. In the last year she has been developing her range and e ...
Melissa Cole is an established artist blacksmith with over 30 years experience. Her work is inspired by the traditional making techniques of her craft and designs are combined with playful interpretations of natural forms. Alongside her commissioned wor ...
In silver-work sitting between sculpture and adornment, Meryl Ainslie explores ideas through small endeavours. ‘I rise, I rise’ is a gathering of flower pieces that become counterbalances to teetering towers of soft formed building blocks. The title of th ...
Living high on the Wiltshire Downs provides an ideal environment for watercolour landscape painting. I have explored other media but always return to watercolour. I love the beautiful unpredictable interplay of pigment with water. I paint mainly landscap ...
My studio is in the heart of Pewsey Vale and has wonderful views towards Fyfield Down and Pewsey Hill. I paint predominantly in acrylic and enjoy working in other mixed media also. I love working with colour, experimenting with light, shade, texture, cont ...
'Close your eyes and feel the detail of every leaf, seed and flower of the plant - forever preserved in plaster - like botanical braille.' Nettie's collection brings a different perspective on the ephemeral beauty of our flora, not through colour, but t ...
My work on more sculptural pieces continues to develop as time allows although my first love in ceramics has always been throwing at the wheel, so satisfying when it goes well! Surface texture and colour through use of glazes has, to some extent, taken ov ...
In January of this year, Nigel was asked by Jacqui Melhuish if he would like to join the artists at Wagon Yard in Marlborough. He was delighted to accept and this will be his first year as an MOS artist in this lovely studio. Nigel's a photographic artist ...
With a background in landscape design, Normandy’s affinity with nature is captured by his use of earthy tones and natural colours. The visual aspect of the formation of rust and verdigris inspires his powerful, abstract work. Normandy uses a specialist pa ...
I am pleased to be sharing the studio once again with the photographer Richard Draper. Following my show at the White Horse Bookshop and Gallery, I am exhibiting some new work. I will have for sale original paintings in various media and signed and mou ...
Paul is lucky enough to have a studio in a former cricket pavilion, which looks out across the Pewsey Vale and the hills of the Marlborough Downs. On display this year at the Pavilion Studio are a collection of his oil paintings. Alongside local landscape ...
I am a designer maker working in wood. I am fascinated by the extraordinary variety of woods in the world and the stories they have to tell. I specialise in making carefully crafted bespoke wooden boxes to house treasured items.
Joyful art fills Rhianon's home and studio. Creating colourful art in either mosaic or paint, her love of working with such varied media is evident. The dynamic interplay of colour and texture features throughout, whether a stained glass panel, a mosaic p ...
I'm very pleased to be sharing a studio space with Pascale Stacey again this year. I'll be showing my latest project called Tessellate. It is inspired by Islamic tile work, geometry and artists like MC Escher, and involves rotating, flipping and repeating ...
I joined Wagon Yard Artists in November. My recent work has been influenced by the sights, sounds and memories of the landscape, in particular the Pewsey Vale in Wiltshire. My paintings are abstract, but at times they have become very slightly more repr ...
Following my MOS ‘debut’ last year I have continued to make stoneware ceramics and will have around 40 new pieces, plus some others on display this summer. All hand built using coils or slabs, in differing clays, forms, glazes and decoration techniques al ...
Roy is a Wiltshire based sculptor specialising in copper to create unique two and three dimensional pieces inspired by nature. Roy’s sculptures are created using traditional methods and techniques that bring the stunning colours and textures of these meta ...
Sally is excited to be exhibiting again at Pavilion Studios along with Paul Oakley. Her elegant unique ceramic wall sculptures, hand-crafted from stoneware and porcelain clay, are distinctive original works of art, combining texture, form and colour. Comb ...
Sarah works with copper, iron, aluminium and galvanised steel wires and incorporates details made from beads and colourful tin cans in her freehand sculptures. Taking inspiration from gardens and the countryside Sarah aims to make her art unusual and play ...
Glass has been special to me over many years. Over time I have developed a particular interest and passion for kiln formed glass. I predominantly make vessels and small decorative objects as well as small items of jewellery.I also do some glass casting. ...
If you would like to get an idea in advance of the kind of work I do please follow the link to my website simonquadrat.co.uk and instagram page @simonquadratartist
After a busy year and a successful solo show in Malmsbury, Simone looks forward very much to welcoming you to Rabley where she will be sharing Studio space with Meryl Ainslie. (see separate listing). Weather permitting (and even if it's raining) you ar ...
Sue continues to explore the vibrancy of coloured glass in her work, making pieces that add a real 'pop' of colour to any environment. As well as her plates, you will see hanging decorations, framed dragonflies and glass cacti. During lockdown, she also r ...
Susan produces work in a wide variety of media and subject-matter. She has an etching press, and shows original prints as well as paintings. She has exhibited widely in the West Country, and in London. Her 2,5 acre garden will also be open. Visitors ...
Susanna has been an art tutor for many years demonstrating to art societies in the West Country and Wales and was resident artist at the National Arboretum for a number of years. She is a prolific artist, working in all mediums, be it traditional or abst ...
I work mainly with soft pastels, loving the vibrancy and immediacy of this medium. I enjoy experimenting, trying different paper surfaces, methods and subjects and tend to focus on capturing the colour and atmosphere of what I see around me. My colourful ...