FREE ART TRAIL BROCHURE Wylye Valley Art Trail 1St - 9Th May 2021
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2021 #WVAT’21 wvat.co.uk SCULPTURE CERAMICS TEXTILES INSTALLATION GILDING PRINTMAKING Saturday 1 - Sunday 9 May RECYCLED ART PAINTING JEWELLERY CONCEPTUAL MOSAIC PHOTOGRAPHY 48 VENUES WOOD 140 + ARTISTS ILLUSTRATION DIGITAL ART EXHIBITIONS ARTIST’S BOOKS OPEN STUDIOS FURNITURE METALWORK GALLERIES GLASS WORKSHOPS MIXED MEDIA DRAWING A celebration of visual art in South West Wiltshire FREE ART TRAIL BROCHURE Wylye Valley Art Trail 1st - 9th May 2021 Welcome to the 11th Wylye Valley Art Trail, a 9-day festival of visual art and craft in south west Wiltshire. Visit open studios and workplaces, group exhibitions and galleries. Meet and talk to artists & craftspeople, maybe purchase a piece of original art! Following the Trail This map gives an approximate location of each venue. All listings in this brochure have directions from a main road. Look out for the yellow trail marker signs as you get close to each venue. It may also be helpful to have a road map or sat nav. Venues are open daily from 10.30am - 5.30pm from 1 - 9 May, unless otherwise stated as ‘OPENING VARIATIONS..’ Admission to most venues is free (If there’s an entrance fee, it is stated). Virtual venues There a few venues which are open as virtual (online) events, indicated by this symbol. Some of them will open to visitors by appointment only. Buying Art Much of the art is for sale and many artists and craftspeople will work to commission. However, not all of the venues take credit cards, so if you’re planning to purchase, it’s advisable to bring a cheque book or cash. If you’d like to follow the trail by bike, much of it coincides with, or is close to, the Wiltshire Cycleway. Details from Tourist Information Centres and online. Covid 19: Please help us to ensure that your visit is as safe as possible by wearing masks, social distancing and taking notice of stated maximum numbers in studio spaces. Venues showing this Details are included symbol are accessible if there are any by wheelchair. access difficulties. Venues showing these symbols offer refreshments. Look out for this symbol for demonstrations, talks workshops and hands on activities. NB you may need to book and pay a fee for some activities. Enquire about classes, workshops & courses taking place beyond the Art Trail period where you see this symbol. Main cover image: www.wvat.co.uk Everything in this brochure is also on the Wylye Valley Art Trail website. You can follow links through Jennifer Stokes ‘On the wing’ Textile art (venue 47) to our social media pages for updates and lots more images. Images on the back cover (from top): Ruth Dresman ‘Octupus’ Glass (venue 26) Liability The organisers of the Wylye Valley Art Trail, participating Jennie Gilling ‘Horizon iv’ Mixed media (venue 6) venues & artists cannot accept liability for any loss, damage or injury sustained by any member of the public while visiting any Fairfield Farm College Student ‘Black Bear’ Acrylic (venue 11) Wylye Valley Art Trail venue. The public do so entirely at their own risk. Stephanie Gilbert ‘Gold Pendants with Moonstones’ (venue 7) Map not to scale Liza Saunders ‘Passionflower’ Silkscreen print (venue 1) West Woodlands 20 years of the Wylye Valley Art Trail St Algars Yard “I hope you enjoy following the 11th Wylye Valley St Algars Yard workshops and beautiful Art Trail. I can’t believe that it is 20 years barn gallery shows ceramics, painting, since the first event in 2001, when 34 studios, glass, printmaking and metal sculpture. workshops and makeshift galleries threw open St Algars Yard, West Woodlands BA11 5ER their doors, stretching a vibrant trail across this beautiful corner of Wiltshire. Since then it On the B3092, Mere to Frome road. 2 has taken place every two years, growing in miles north of Maiden Bradley. Parking size and bringing a wonderfully colourful and in farm courtyard. varied patchwork of visual creativity across the Slight step on door. landscape to the attention of enthusiastic and Level pathway art hungry visitors. Masks to be worn at the venue Please observe 2m social distancing The first art trail very nearly didn’t happen, though. The early months of 2001 saw the Preview Evening: Friday 30th April. outbreak of the worst foot and mouth epidemic 6.00pm - 9.00pm. All welcome. this country had seen, closing off much of the British countryside to visitors. We came so Amanda Bennett close to cancelling but thankfully, by late spring, many of the restrictions had been lifted and we Amanda Bennett simply had to ask visitors to follow precautions Painting and keep away from farmland and livestock. An eclectic collection of atmospheric paintings inspired by colours in the That experience has resonated only too clearly landscape. throughout the planning and organising of T: 07907 824719 this year’s event (but amplified greatly by the E: [email protected] catastrophic effect that the Covid pandemic has wrought on many people’s lives). We John Bennett have had to steer a delicate and twisty path Metal Sculpture between that urgent desire to bring visual art A unique collection of fauna exhibits and craft out of lockdown and into the open constructed from found metal objects. again, and the important considerations for T: 07739 626694 the safety of visitors and exhibitors alike. And a E: [email protected] number of times we have come close to calling John Bennett a halt. But, having decided to go ahead (albeit Russell Coates in a more limited form), our hope now is that Ceramics WVAT’21 will be seen as an uplifting glimmer Hand-painted underglaze blue porcelain of creative light in the cultural life of this dishes, plates, vases, boxes, jugs and area and, as long as we continue to mugs, enamelled with birds, animals follow guidelines and take all and sea creatures. necessary precautions, something T: 07745 477135 that will bring much enjoyment E: [email protected] and stimulation to everyone visiting + taking part.” Nick Andrew WVAT co-ordinator Russell Coates West Woodlands continued.. Maiden Bradley Liza Saunders Fine Art Prints Gillian Flint I work with printed mediums, including silk- Pastel painting screen and lino printing. I work with bold and beautiful colour using images of flowers and A collection of still life and local birds. landscape pastel paintings. T: 07908 419210 T: 07538 405135 www.instagram.com/liza.saunders E: [email protected] Jim Whitty Tonia Gunstone Painting Contemporary abstract painting Beautifully wrought, pared down landscape An exciting collection of gestural and water paintings, with a meditative quality. abstract and illuminated paintings Gillian Flint T: 07748 511851 exploring our connection to place. www.jimwhitty.com T: 07818 094313 Liza Saunders www.instagram.com/jimwhitty_artist www.toniagunstone.com www.instagram.com/toniagunstone Steve Gunter Photography A collection of my own original landscape and wildlife photographic images available as fully framed prints, mounted prints or blank greeting cards. T: 07850 102828 www.imagesbystevegunter.co.uk www.facebook.com/imagesbystevegunter Jim Whitty The Old Chapel, Church Street, Maiden Bradley BA12 7HW Hiro Takahashi Tonia Gunstone Ceramics Take B3092 to Maiden Inspired by the natural world, textured, Bradley. Venue is located narrative and spiritual ceramics, sculpture between the pub and and functional ware. All Saints Church and T: 07803 732510 is set back from the E: [email protected] road. Limited parking www.hirotakahashi.co.uk Hiro Takahashi available at back via Kingston Lane. Sonja Klingler One way system, Glass max 6 visitors at a time. Please Blown glass tableware and art pieces made and designed by Sonja Klingler wear face covering. in the glassworks at St Algar’s Farm. Hand sanitiser provided T: 07837 733461 www.sonjaklingler.com www.facebook.com/SonjaKlinglerGlass www.instagram.com/sonjaklinglerglass Steve Gunter Maiden Bradley / Kingston Deverill Monkton Deverill Susanna Lisle Bridget Beattie Painting Painting Pattern seeking: work exploring how the garden, Animal, still life and local landscape landscape and organic world plays together paintings and drawings. with the geometry of the eastern world. Ongoing demonstrations of still- T: 01985 844806 life and landscape painting www.susannalisle.com www.instagram.com/susannalisle T: 01985 844884 E: [email protected] 41-42 Church St, Maiden Bradley BA12 7HW Virginia de Chenecey The venue is on the main road, behind the Jewellery red telephone box; on the right coming Gem-set jewellery, signet rings, earrings from Frome, on the left arriving from Mere. and necklaces. Redesign advice and Parking on road. commissions taken. Studio is in the garden. There are 4 T: 07900 214641 steps to the garden, 2 to the studio www.decheneceydesigns.co.uk Please wear a facemask in the Monkton House, Monkton Deverill, studio Warminster BA12 7EX From the Deverills road (B3095) through Monkton Deverill, take one of the turnings. Monkton House is at end of the lane. Please park on Deverill Valley Art Group road. Disabled parking only in yard. (Formerly Look & See Group) Affordable Gravel yard to be crossed paintings and drawings with a variety of and one step to the garden subjects and media. Delicious homemade Dinah Barnes – Painting soup & cakes. Garden with ducks and chickens Jenny de Sausmarez – Painting Mary Hickling – Painting Please follow current guidance Rosemary Knott – Painting Drawing and beginners Charles Lane – Painting painting workshops Pamela Lea – Painting Marianne Marrs – Painting Hilary McFarland – Painting Hilary McFarland Isobel Naughton – Painting Norma Payne – Painting From Monkton Deverill on B3095 the hall is on the Christina Phillimore – Painting right. From Mere it is is on the left with sharp turn in through gateway. Park carefully on the field. T: 07725 404665 Visitor numbers may be restricted E: [email protected] at times.