{"title":"OPEN Sunday 18th July","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"amanda-gosse","title":"Amanda Gosse","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a background in graphic design and print, Amanda’s work is intricately detailed with a focus on the often overlooked nuances of a subject. Painting most often in gouache and also acrylic, her subject matters include birds, jewellery and nostalgic objects. Amanda has been actively creative throughout her life, and a professional artist since 2015. She has exhibited in Sydney, Australia and the UK and was a finalist in the prestigious Australian Gallipoli Art Prize in 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marlborough Open Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53627930509578,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0963\/4529\/3066\/files\/Gosse-4of6_0fa573fe-db91-4eae-81fa-67fff97a1f1c.jpg?v=1788531326"},{"product_id":"robin-gregory","title":"Robin Gregory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is my second year exhibiting at Marlborough Open Studios. Last year was a bit mad, Im hoping this year will be the same.\u003cbr\u003eWe all have a label these days, mine is 'Creative Photographer' I love to talk about and show my photography. Over the last few years Ive given many Talks\/lectures to photo societies, camera clubs here in the Southwest, it's been a blast!\u003cbr\u003eInspiration can pop up from anywhere. When an idea comes I take the snaps to create it. Producing an idea can take sometimes an hour or up to a week. My pictures are only made from the photos I've taken\u003cbr\u003eThis year again I’m in the shed at the bottom of Cathy’s and Nick Pearce’s garden, which is brilliant as I get to enjoy Cathy’s Pastel landscapes and Nick’s amazing pottery! Studio 9 will be buzzing...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marlborough Open Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53628488253706,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0963\/4529\/3066\/files\/Artist-Robin-Gregory-2398-Crop.jpg?v=1788779185"},{"product_id":"hannah-cantellow","title":"Hannah Cantellow","description":"\u003cp\u003eHannah 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 \u0026amp; Connective Practice at Oxford Brookes University in 2018. It was during this time that she explored other ways of being in and with the natural world, which enabled her to deepen her artistic sense of self and pursue her impulse for storytelling.\u003cbr\u003eSince moving to her studio at The Mind Tree Cafe in Rowde, Hannah now offers printmaking memberships for local artists and print enthusiasts. The studio is well-equipped with professional printmaking equipment, including the 1869 Albion relief press. She specialises in creating artworks inspired by ancient landscapes and geology, as well as creating prints that tell their own stories. A multi-disciplinary printmaker, she works in woodcut, linocut, wood engraving, monoprinting and collagraph, sometimes combining print techniques.\u003cbr\u003eHannah prints using her Hawthorn etching press and lever press, as well as using hand burnishing techniques. Walking informs much of her practice and she draws upon these connected experiences to create printed images that tell their own unique story, which she calls token of place. Inspired by Wiltshire's rolling hills, stone circles and the iconic clumps of trees, wherever she walks, the landscape brings continuous inspiration through its patterns of enchantment and magical charm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/a890aecb29e7\/hannah-cantellow-studio\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Studio updates from Hannah Cantellow\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStudio updates here\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marlborough Open Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53628519153930,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0963\/4529\/3066\/files\/Artist-Hannah-Cantellow-2642.jpg?v=1788541652"},{"product_id":"nettie-baskcomb-brown","title":"Nettie Baskcomb Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003eNettie Baskcomb Brown is a botanical artist using primarily her home grown bee-friendly flowers, or wild foraged flowers, in her art.\u003cbr\u003eBas-relief Botanical Art comprises of intricately detailed 3D textured, tactile, plaster or concrete panels made from fresh seasonal flowers.\u003cbr\u003eBotanical Mixed Media art, using the same source of flowers, introduces a whole new dimension and technique to her floral art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNettie's latest bas-relief works include new collections of 'Botanical Intaglios', 'Bee Hives' and a complete 'Botanical Braille Alphabet'. Nettie encourages you to 'touch' these tactile casts. Her Braille Alphabet has embedded braille in each flower cast making them inclusive and accessible.\u003cbr\u003e'Close your eyes and feel every intricate details of a plant - almost like a fossil'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo make her botanical casts, Nettie presses a selected collection of fresh flowers into clay in a way to re-create their natural movement and drama.. She carefully removes each leaf, seed and petal by hand to create a negative impression, into which she pours a plaster mix to make a sculptured botanical design. These casts are then cleaned, dried and sanded, and can be left natural or tinted with watercolours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year Nettie is also exhibiting her new mixed media botanical art. Using her large pressed flower collection, Nettie incorporates both these and mono-printed real flowers in unique designs and collages, using acrylics, inks and pastel medium. These original pieces range from vintage pressed flower bookmarks and cards to larger framed floral paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNettie offers private botanical workshops, personalised garden casts and special occasion flower preservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year Nettie is sharing her home with Anya Hope Medlin - a new MOS member - who is an incredible photographer displaying powerful yet sensitive images of local forests and landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe studios: On entering through double coach house gates, customers will be able to browse the latest concrete casts on the outside walls. Through the main front door there is a vaulted gallery leading to an office gallery on the left and upstairs to a 'wet' workshop where there will be several works in progress to study. Anya will be taking over the 'front room' (at the far end of the stables) overlooking the garden she has helped to pimp up for the Open Studios in her 'garden designer' hat! This will be accessible through the main door or further along the building.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available:- Workshops, Garden commissions and wedding bouquet preservation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marlborough Open Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53628541763850,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0963\/4529\/3066\/files\/Artist-Nettie-Baskcomb-Brown-2424.jpg?v=1788542251"},{"product_id":"mary-thorne","title":"Mary Thorne","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary’s ceramics continue to illustrate and be inspired by the Wiltshire landscape.\u003cbr\u003eShe makes a variety of decorative bowls and a range of functional stoneware with the distinctive “trees on a hill”, motif.\u003cbr\u003eHer porcelain and silver jewellery will also be on display.\u003cbr\u003eCommissions welcome.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marlborough Open Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53628553101578,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0963\/4529\/3066\/files\/Artist-Mary-Thorne-2624.jpg?v=1788542747"}],"url":"https:\/\/marlboroughopenstudios.co.uk\/collections\/open-sunday-18th-july.oembed","provider":"Marlborough Open Studios","version":"1.0","type":"link"}