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#sitefestival Open studios coming to a dignified c

#sitefestival Open studios coming to a dignified close... Some great sales - a couple before the first weekend, (swipe to see the paintings) plus ink drawings, lino prints and little sketches. Lots of lovely people, great conversations - especially with the very young artists, who asked thoughtful questions.
Thankyou to everyone who came to Piccadilly Mill, and up the steep stairs, who bought work or said nice things, it's hugely appreciated by all of us taking part.
@helenfoxart
@heather.coleman.jewellery
@deborahrobertsphotography
@caspianvadib
#anitabrayfordenamels
#openstudios
#artsales
#stroudartists
#piccadillymill
#pullacorktime

The door is open, the paintings are here, the vega

The door is open, the paintings are here, the vegan lemon drizzle cake is cut. We're ready! @sitefestival Open Studios weekend 2 has begun! We're open from 11am to 6pm today and tomorrow. There is a lot going on;
@atelierstroud is busy in the yard
@heather.coleman.jewellery has beautiful work on the first floor
@helenfoxart has wonderful little paintings in the studio next door to mine.
Never mind the Farmer's market, come and see us!
#sitefestival
#originalart
#meettheartist
#stroudartists
#openstudios
#painting
#jewellery
#cake

#sitefestival open studios Day 2; really lovely vi

#sitefestival open studios Day 2; really lovely visit today from 5 GCSE-art school students out to see the approach of different artists. We talked about laying down a coloured ground, using a concertina sketchbook, using different materials - drawing with Indian ink and a stick from the hedge, adding colour, maybe using a non-dominant hand; I could see ideas firing up and fizzing! They were intent and serious, interested and asked brilliant questions.
@helenfoxart
@sitefestival
#gcseart
#mixedmedia
#concertinasketchbooks
#chalkmarkers
#indianink
#potential
#teenagers
#inspiration
#encouragement
#lovelypeople

Site Festival Open Studios Day 2! Piccadilly Mill

Site Festival Open Studios Day 2! Piccadilly Mill has lots to see: the door is open, the bridal bouquet is holding up well, the sun is shining again! Swipe to see the bouquet in all its full glory on Friday with the newlyweds - such a wonderful day!
@sitefestival
@danibowkettwilletts
@georgey_bbbb
#openstudios
#bridalbouquet
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#originalart

The door is OPEN! Studio shot, with newlly offici

The door is OPEN!
Studio shot, with newlly official Daughter in Law's bouquet, from my son George and Dani's lovely wedding yesterday. Come and see it, and some original work here in Piccadilly Mill in Stroud, where you will find @helenfoxart
@heather.coleman.jewellery
#anitabrayford
And in the Atelier building
@deborahrobertsphotography
@caspianvadib
#openstudios
#originalart
#meettheartist
#buyfromamaker
#paintersofinstagram
#stroudartists

Amateur video, but here we are! All hung, all labe

Amateur video, but here we are! All hung, all labelled, pretty tidy for once; Stroud Valleys Open Studios, I'm ready! 🤞 Studio 9b in the Site Festival brochure, at Piccadilly Mill, along with @helenfoxart
We're on the top floor of the building with the black stairs; come and see us!
#sitefestival
#openstudio
#meettheartist
#originalartwork
#warmwelcome
#explore
#stroudartists
#

Thrilled that this little Plein air landscape pain

Thrilled that this little Plein air landscape painting has jumped the first selection hurdle for the @bathsocietyofartists open show.
Fingers crossed for the next stage, and thanks for the generosity of @helendavisonart for delivering it on my behalf on the 25th as I have to be in my Open Studio all weekend!
#bathopen2021
#pleinairpainting
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#exhibition

One of the larger paintings in my studio from Satu

One of the larger paintings in my studio from Saturday as part of the #sitefestival Open Studios weekends.
Wellspring is painted in oil on board.
Come and see it at Piccadilly Mill, where you will find the studio of @helenfoxart and on the floor below, jewellery by @heather.coleman.jewellery as well as enamels by Anita Brayford, beautiful photographs @deborahrobertsphotography
and the doors of @atelierstroud will be wide open.
#openstudios
#SiteFestival
#stroudartists
#meettheartist
#originalart

Washing day, Owlpen Manor. Update: SOLD! Such a be

Washing day, Owlpen Manor. Update: SOLD!
Such a beautiful place.
Painted en plain air from across the valley. I loved the topiary and the blue sheet!
You can see it on the wall of my studio next weekend when I open my door as part of the Stroud Site Festival Open Studios.
@sva__
@owlpenmanor
@thatcotswoldlife
#pleinairpainter
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#openstudios
#bethereorbesquare

Just a few of the paintings I'll be showing in my

Just a few of the paintings I'll be showing in my studio on the 18th/19th and 25th/26th September as part of the SVA Site Festival Open Studios event. Pick up a brochure, come and say hello. You'll be most welcome!
@found.gallery @hadfieldfineart
@springcheltenham
#openstudios
#meettheartist
#originalartwork
#prints
#drawings
#oilpainting
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#everybodywelcome
#hiddenplaces
#stroudartists

Seven Sisters in seven minutes! - at that point we

Seven Sisters in seven minutes! - at that point we realised that the parking would run out in under half an hour and it was a two mile walk on a shingle and flint path back to the car park. We made it with two minutes to spare!
Drawn using a brilliant Pentel white chalk marker and neocolor2 wax pastel crayons, in 7minutes flat.
#fastwork
#concertinasketchbook
#sevensisters
#cuckmerehaven
#coastalerosion
#holeystonesbeach
#neocolor2
#pentelchalkmarker

Stroud SITE Festival Open Studios is less than two

Stroud SITE Festival Open Studios is less than two weeks away! It's been a long 18 months for the artists of the Stroud Valleys, so come and meet us in our working spaces, find beautiful things to enhance your walls, explore parts of the five valleys you didn't know about. Our doors are open - and we've tidied up!
#openstudios
#stroudvalleysartspace
#studios
#artistsofgloucestershire
#oilpainting
#watercolours
#charcoal
#drawing
#linoprints
#meettheartist
#explore
#adventuresinart

A wonderful afternoon walk from a lovely welcoming

A wonderful afternoon walk from a lovely welcoming pub, @the_lyon_westbury in Westbury on Severn this afternoon, looking at the river with @walking.the.land
Very quick #neocolor2 studies of low tide views of the river bend and the view upstream from Garden Cliff, a sheer wall of red and grey mudstone reaching up from the foreshore. The foreground colour is genuine Severn mud. 🤭 The final image is the view from the top. Thanks to a very friendly group of artists, @kelarrowsmith for organising and @angiespencerpaintings for her company.
#landscape
#environmentalart
#walkanddraw
#concertinasketchbooks
#foreshore
#rivermud
#wadingbirds
#herons

Another little Plein air painting from Rough Bank

Another little Plein air painting from Rough Bank butterfly reserve on Thursday morning. Brought back to the studio today for a final tweak.
Thicket path, Rough Bank. Oil on board, 8 X 10"
It's drying now. It will be on the wall for the #SiteFestival #OpenStudios event in September.
Another of my little Rough Bank paintings is part of the #stroudyardtrail pop up show in her studio with @deborahrobertsphotography
alongside work from @kelarrowsmith
@nadine_james_artist
@angiespencerpaintings
tomorrow Bank Holiday Monday. If you're following the #yardtrail do come and see!

#roughbankbutterflyreserve
#pleinair
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#stroudartist
#wildflowermeadow
#footpaths
#gloucestershire
#conservation
#specialplaces
#walkingtheland
#openstudios

I'm really pleased to have a painting in this sho

I'm really pleased to have a painting in this show in Deborah Roberts' lovely studio at Piccadilly Mill. Everyone contributing has been working at Rough Bank butterfly reserve, so beautiful, and so precious. The show is open as part of the Stroud Yard Trail on Bank Holiday Monday 30th August and by appointment during the following week.
@deborahrobertsphotography
@nadine_james_artist
@mcdonnell_rachel
@kelarrowsmith
@angiespencerpaintings
#stroudyardtrail
#paintings
#photography
#naturereserve
#roughbankbutterflyreserve
#butterflies
#wildflowermeadows

I've been starting off a new A4 concertina sketchb

I've been starting off a new A4 concertina sketchbook this morning, drawing on the side of Cooper's Hill, looking along the wonderful green tunnel of the Cotswold Way. There are 'VistaVision' views across as far as Bredon Hill from there, but getting it all in to a painting and/or editing is a problem for another day!

#Inkandstick #neocolors2
#concertinasketchbook
#coopershill #gloucestershire
#woodland #pathways
#beechtrees #cotswoldway
#scribble
#markmaking
#stroudartist #artistsofinstagram
#hereforthestills

Sorting through the portfolios ahead of the Open S

Sorting through the portfolios ahead of the Open Studios in September, this charcoal drawing emerged, drawn on location in a local farm orchard, when I was looking at beehives a few years ago. I love charcoal; it's so expressive, and there's the grubby-fingered joy of it, too. I hadn't seen it for a very long time, and I'm quite pleased with it, even in its unfinished state!
#charcoal
#beehives
#orchards
#monochrome
#drawing
#stroudartist
#gloucestershire
#appletrees
#oldvarieties
#hereforthestills

A studio sort-out throws up some forgotten stuff!

A studio sort-out throws up some forgotten stuff! About 10 years ago I did a lot of drawing looking at my family, using old photos as they weren't around to sit for me. This is a drawing from a photo taken by my dad, early on a sunny morning, of me aged four. I am utterly absorbed in one of my two favourite books, my mum and dad's exhibition catalogue (I think) of paintings of angels in Renaissance art. I must have pored over them every day, nearly. Sadly the book hasn't survived, but the other was a hardback National Gallery guide with colour reproductions from the 1950s which I still have. The art seeds were sown very young...!
#oldphotos
#angels
#drawing
#graphite
#familyportraits
#bookworm
#filthyfeet

I had a plan for today in the studio, but having s

I had a plan for today in the studio, but having spent the entire morning in the town Minor Injuries Unit with a very painful knee, I limped out to pouring rain, and a rethink. Plan B resulted in a little apple painting (7: x 5 "). The phone camera doesn't properly capture the blue, which is sharper in reality. The palette was limited to Cobalt Blue, Permanent Rose, Yellow Lake and white, with the addition of a spot or two of Manganese Blue to make the sharp, bright blues. I like this reduced palette lark. Makes me think harder!

#savethenhs
#brilliantstaff
#kindness #empathy #skills
#singingreceptionist
#limpingalong
#studio
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#limitedpalette
#smallpainting
#apples
#colourmixing
#stroudartist
#hereforthestills

Concertina sketchbook drawings from Rough Bank res

Concertina sketchbook drawings from Rough Bank reserve this morning. Trying to get a sense of looking up the steep slope towards the trees at the top. Such a beautiful place - and the sun came out for the second pic.
#neocolor2
#roughbankbutterflyreserve
#gloucestershire
#specialplaces
#sssi
#sketchbooks
#concertina
#pleinairpainter
#hereforthestills

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