Pastel Drawing - Demonstration Getting Here Venue 11: Creative Retreat High St Studio. Gardenstown is a dramatic and unspoiled fishing village 8 Time: Saturday 2pm to 3pm (ish). Cost: Free miles east of Macduff. The B9031 goes past the road into Bryan Angus will show you ways of using soft pastels to the village. For 273 bus times from Banff (not Sundays) get fresh and lively effects in your drawing, looking closely please go to www..gov.uk/publictransport/ at colour relationships and ways to apply the pastel. You’ll timetables. also get a chance to try some yourself. Image credit: Caledonian Images Please note there is no parking on High Street. Drop-off for those with mobility problems is recommended. A weekend of arts and crafts exhibitions and demonstrations in Gardenstown Friday 7th to Sunday 9th Parking Parking is available at New Ground, to the east of August 2015 Gardenstown beyond industrial units and at the start of the footpath to . The traditional nature of the village means that parking is limited, but you will find spaces elsewhere - please be aware of access for residents. Some ‘Above Crovie’ Pastel by Bryan Angus parking is possible on the roadside down from the Church and by the harbour, particularly near Harbucks and the Oil Painting - Demonstration Harbour toilets. If you are new to the village we suggest Venue 11: Creative Retreat High St Studio you do not drive along the sea-front to Seatown, it is Time: Sunday 2pm to 3pm (ish). Cost: Free narrow and difficult to negotiate. Please be aware that both Bryan Angus back again, this time with oil paints. A classic Main Street and High Street are cul-de-sacs with limited medium that can be applied in a thousand different ways. parking. Be prepared to get your hands dirty, you can try it for yourself too. Disabled Access Please note there is no parking on High Street. Drop-off for Due to the traditional nature of the village, and the those with mobility problems is recommended. buildings, few venues are very access friendly. However, volunteers at the venues will try their best to assist visitors where possible. Please note that some Venues are approached only by stairs - Venues 6, 7, 9, 10, 11

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WELCOME Venue Key Welcome to the second Gamrie Creatives event. Please note, not all venues are showing exhibitions, some are for timed demonstrations or are for food Everyone listed here either lives, works or and drink. Have a look overleaf to see what is going on where. holidays in Gardenstown and the surrounding area, and we are all inspired by the beauty of 1. New Ground Gallery the land and sea. You’ll find artists, designers 2. Harbucks cafe and makers showing a hugely diverse range of 3. Bambi-by-the-Sea creativity. 4. Cloud Cottage Crafts 5. Goose Path Cottage Arts Food and Drink 6. Cranna Creations Note - opening times are for 7th to 9th August, they may 7. Garden Arms Hotel vary beyond those dates. 8. Lorna’s Pop-up Shop 9. Creative Retreat Gallery Venue 2. Harbucks Opening Times: Thursday and Friday only, 2 to 4pm and 6 to 10. The Lookout Studio 9pm, both days. 11. Creative Retreat High St Studio Venue 8. Garden Arms Hotel 12. Teapot 1 Opening Times: Fri 12pm to 12am. Sat 12pm to 12am. Sun 12pm to 3pm. Tel: 01261 851260 www.gardenarms.co.uk E: [email protected]

Venue 12. Teapot 1 Opening Times: 8am to 5pm. Tel: 07903 429458 Brochure Design - Bryan Angus. Map & logo Andy Sturdy Venue 1 Venue 9 New Ground Gallery 1 on 1 Imaging Opening times 10am to 5pm, Fri The Creative Retreat to Sun Gallery, end of Main St, We are pleased to be exhibiting Gardenstown art works from Yvonne Dolloway, Opening Times: 10am Helen Woodside Harrison, Douglas to 4pm, Fri to Sun. Irvine, Alita Porter, Jenny Meyer A fresh approach to and Andy Sturdy. In addition, a riot studies of animals of locally made art and crafts will through specialist be on show at the gallery including A weekend of arts and crafts in development of Fine handspun yarns, jewellery, bags, Art Photography cushions, scarves and more. Gardenstown invokes that ‘Wow’ Hand spinning and simple weaving will be demonstrated factor. “How do you do that?” or “Is that a painting?” is throughout the event; come and have a go if you’d like. Friday 7th to Sunday 9th frequently asked. Commissions booked during Gamrie Tel: 01261 851339 Creatives earn 20% discount off the list price. A selection of August 2015 prints also on sale. Venue 3 Telephone: 07826 599 267 Keep up to date and follow us on Facebook at Email: [email protected] Bambi -by- the-Sea Web: www.1on1imaging. 55 Denside, Gardenstown, www.facebook.com/gamriecreatives AB45 3ZS Opening Times: 10am - 4pm, Fri Venue 9 to Sun Venue 7 Jane Bayliss ‘Bambi-by-the-Sea’ is the label The Garden Arms The Creative Retreat behind a collection of up-cycled Gallery, end of Main St, and re-cycled textiles for you and Hotel & Gallery Garden Arms Hotel, Gardenstown your home. All items are produced Opening Times: 10am to from vintage linens, embellished 69 Main Street, fabric, re-cycled yarn and woven Gardenstown 4pm, Fri to Sun. Jane designs and makes tartans. Items include bunting, Opening Times: Fri stained glass windows for patchwork throws, cushions, dog collars, baby and toddler 12pm to 11pm. Sat 12pm private houses, Churches wear, scarves, gloves and bags. Prices from £5 to £150. to 12am. Sun 12pm to and other public buildings Please note all items are original, nothing can be repeated. 3pm. from her studio in . Jennifer-Jane Stained When purchasing something by ‘Bambi-by-the-Sea’, you are A friendly, contemporary Glass Ltd. just celebrated its 30th birthday. purchasing an original treasure of the future. showcase of local artists www.jenniferjanestainedglass.co.uk Email: [email protected] & craft workers which Tel: 01261 851846 will include textiles, multimedia items, art, photography & hand made jewellery. Venue 10 Venue 4 Web: www.gardenarms.co.uk Gunnar Olafsson - The Lookout Studio Tel: 01261 851260 Lorraine Toal Paintings Goosepath Cottage Venue 8 Arts Lorna’s Pop-Up Shop 22 Seatown AB453YQ Main Street Opening times: 10am Opening times: 10am to 4pm Fri to to 4pm, Fri to Sun Sun My paintings are A pop up shop for this weekend inspired by local only. There will be Lorna’s knitwear Lookout Studio, High St, Gardenstown (below countryside and coastal views. Most paintings are acrylic and crochet plus some drawings of Creative Retreat High St Studio). and some contain sea glass and pebbles. This year inspired local wildlife. Other guest artists’ Opening Times: 10am to 4pm, Fri to Sun. by the beauty of Gardenstown I have painted several work will also be on display. Gunnar’s rich and dramatic paintings and pastels aim to acrylics of local landscapes, Crovie, Gardenstown, rural elicit an emotional response from the viewer, the ever and sea views also highland cows, thistles and a few ink changing atmosphere of Gardenstown providing limitless sketches of local streets. In some of the boxed canvases Venue 9 opportunities for inspiration. His passion for painting was I have used sea glass and pebbles to create a vibrant 3 D re-awakened by a class with Irish artist Philip Gray, who effect. Bryan Angus - Paintings and Prints encouraged Gunnar to work in a free and fluid way, playing Tel: 01261 851337 The Creative Retreat Gallery, end of Main St, Gardenstown with light and colour. Opening Times: 10am to 4pm, Fri to Sun. Tel: 01261 851588 Venue 5 Bryan is showing painting, Cloud Cottage Crafts pastels and prints, many of which are of the local Venue 12 Cloud Cottage, Seatown area which is an endless Opening times: 10am to Teapot 1 source of inspiration. 139 Blairmore Villa, 4pm, Fri to Sun Some artworks come Gardenstown A collection of crafts inspired from his weeks teaching in Opening Times: by the coast. Driftwood Gardenstown throughout 8am - 5pm that’s broken by a storm, the year at The Creative Enjoy breakfast, shaped by jagged rocks and Retreat. lunch, afternoon the sea to beauty whitened Web: www.bryanangus.wix. teas, homebakes by the sun. Collected along com/bryanangusart and ice creams, the shore here in Gamrie www.creative-retreat.co.uk and see a selection Bay, a selection of driftwood Tel: 01261 812276 of art and crafts on display. art and crafts ranging from Tel: 07903 429458 mirrors and trees, to pots for the garden, candle sconces, shelves, bird feeders, cards and much more to create a unique gift or something special for Venue 9 Venues 1 and 12 your home and garden. Wenna Crockatt Andy Sturdy – The Creative Retreat Pastel and Acrylic Gallery, end of Main St, Venue 6 Art Gardenstown Cranna Creations Andy’s paintings Opening Times: 10am and pastels are 65a Denside, Gardenstown to 4pm, Fri to Sun. Opening Times: 10am to 4pm, inspired by the A selection of the small architecture of the Fri to Sun. sculptural ceramics and coastal villages, Cranna Creations offers a colourful bowls, which Wenna Scottish Castles and and eclectic collection of crafty makes at her workshop/ the surrounding art. Come and choose from tea- gallery on Troup Head, countryside. On display will be images of Gardenstown cup candles or crochet brooches, are on display here as Seatown and harbour, Crovie and . hand-painted chairs, cupboards well as some of her and cabinets, greetings cards and recent mono–prints. More of her work can be seen at her comfy cushions. Of course not workshop/gallery as well as cards, photographs of the area If you would like to be involved with Gamrie Creatives next everything starts with a “C” but by Laura Crockatt and poetry by Ian Crockatt. year, just get in touch, we’d love to hear from you. Message nearly everything is inspired by the seaside! Web: www.salixgallery.com us on Facebook, or contact any one of the members you see Tel: 01224 482032 and 07515 857764 Tel: 01261 851693 listed here.