B3163 Beaminster 39 A356 B3165 B3164 35 40 Welcome to Bridport & West Dorset Open Studios 2014 Stoke B3163 Dear Visitor, Abbott 34 In recent years Bridport has become the leading arts community in the West Country and our annual Open Studios Launch Night Netherbury Open Studios event celebrates this vibrant Visual Arts Scene over the three days of the August Bank and 'Six by Nine' Exhibition Broadoak Melplash Holiday weekend. Follow the seven maps in this Guide to eighty artists in dozens of studios, galleries and 33 36 even some artists’ homes. We encourage you to explore the great wealth of talent in the towns, villages and hamlets across West Dorset - where you’ll find a wide variety of art on display, from well-known West Milton names to emerging artists and keen new-comers. B3162 37 A3066 Open Studio events are designed to bring the public into the studio or workplace - to help you to experi- Mangerton Morcombelake 38 ence the creative process first hand and maybe even get a glimpse into the mind of the artist. So whatever Bridport your taste in art, we're sure you'll find something to enjoy. 32 Symondsbury A35 1-26 30 Please also join us for the launch of Bridport & West Dorset Open Studios from 6 - 8pm on Thursday 31 Askerswell 41 21 August at the Chapel in the Garden! The Chapel also hosts the 'Six by Nine' exhibition of small works by participating artists. Open from 22 - 25 August, 10am - 6pm, apart from Sunday when it is A35 29 42 closed between 11am - 12.30pm for morning service. Eype 27-28 Shipton Venue 20 - 22 Chapel in the Garden B3157 Gorge Have fun! BRIDPORT and West Bay 49 East Street, Bridport WEST DORSET DT6 3JX www.bridportopenstudios.co.uk 43 Kit Glaisyer Megan Dunford @bridportOS OPEN STUDIOS Puncknowle Director Event Coordinator facebook.com/bridportOS B3157 2014 David Brooke Wendy Poole Neil Barnes Isla Chaney Jennie Hanrahan Venues 1-43 Photos above by Brendan Buesnal DORSET NECTAR BRIDPORT Proud to sponsor the launch of Bridport Open Studios ARTISAN CIDER AND ORCHARD PRODUCTS Award winning artisan ciders, naturally fermented from sun ripened and whole crushed West Country cider apples. Try our delicious range of organic ciders, juices and vinegars. experience seven generations of dorset grown gardening passion since 1866 GARDEN CENTRE NURSERY CAFE PET SUPPLIES Winners of The Greatest Garden Centre team in UK 2014 DORSET NECTAR ARE PROUD Pictured: Charles W Groves, founder in 1866 TO SPONSOR THE LAUNCH & Eliza May Groves in 2013 OF BRIDPORT OPEN STUDIOS West Bay Road, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 4BA 01308 422654 grovesnurseries.co.uk Bridport - St Michael’s Studios St Michael’s 1 Kit Glaisyer 2 David Brooke & Caroline Ireland Oil on Linen Painting & Drawing Studios Kit Glaisyer is one of a new generation of painters that is reinventing the David – imaginative acrylic paintings with a mythical feeling. Unusual, often landscape genre. He creates immersive paintings that transport the viewer into a quirky and inspiring. Caroline – intriguing and uplifting brightly coloured pastel heightened relationship with the natural environment – an evocative dreamscape and watercolour paintings and drawings. Prints and cards also for sale. Open at Tannery Road Bridport where light, darkness and the transcendent character of nature are embraced. other times by appointment. W St Michael's Studios est He featured in the 2012 Portrait Prize at Bath's Holburne Museum and in 2013 Stree Town Centre 1 Kit Glaisyer t had a major exhibition of 45 paintings in ‘The Cinematic Landscape’ at the Octagon Gallery in Bath. 2 Caroline Ireland & David Brooke 3 Paul Blow & Suzanna Hubbard S 4 Andrew Leppard o u 14 t John Boyd h 5 6 Marion Taylor S t r e S 7 Charles Hallsworth e t t 8 Charlotte Miller St Michael’s M i c 9 Marion Irons Trading Estate h a e Studio in the Attic l ’s 10 Sally Davies & L 1st Floor, Elizabeth Paine Art & Vintage Quarter a n St Michael’s Studios e Caroline Ireland David Brooke Foundry Yard 1-8 St Michael's Trading Estate, 9-10 13 Bridport, St Michael’s Studios 11 Claire Whitfield Gundry Lane DT6 3RR St Michael's Trading Estate, 12 Isla Chaney & 12 On arriving at St. Michael’s Trading Estate, enter studios via yellow door in red Bridport, DT6 3RR Jennie Hanrahan 11 brick building. Parking limited opposite studios or nearby Waitrose. On arriving at St. Michael’s Trading Estate, enter studios via yellow door in red Foundry Lane Church St 01308424582 brick building. Parking limited opposite studios or nearby Waitrose. Plus Bridport Town Centre 07983465789 David: 07791205693 / Caroline: 07792071721 [email protected] [email protected] / [email protected] 13 Chris Neaves www.kitglaisyer.com www.facebook.com/david.brooke.artist 14 Bridport Art Centre @kitglaisyer www.facebook.com/caroline.ireland.artist Open days & times: 10am – 5pm Open days & times: 10am – 5pm 24 25 26 wc 23 24 25 wc www.jackdraper.com Bridport - St Michael’s Studios Bridport - St Michael’s Studios Designer/craftsman 3 Suzanna Hubbard & Paul Blow 4 Andrew Leppard 5 John Boyd 6 Marion Taylor 7 Charles Hallsworth 8 Charlotte Miller BA, MA (Fine Art), FRSA Illustration Oil on Canvas Paintings Acrylics/Gouache Painting Suzanna will be showing monotypes to accompany the short story by Bold, gestural and sensuous figurative Paintings in oil and mixed media Marion’s well known, colourful depic- A contemporary artist and photog- Inspired by West Dorset’s beautiful Bridport Prize winner Alison Fisher, The Woodcutter’s Wife. Paul will be work, leaning towards abstraction with inspired mainly by the coast and tions of Colmer’s Hill and other local rapher producing a wide range of hidden landscape, semi-abstract showing prints and work in progress from the past year. Both have worked a distinctive tropical palette. Classical landscape of Dorset. landscapes can be seen on display in images to challenge, amuse, entertain paintings on canvas and paper using for numerous worldwide clients including the Guardian, Telegraph, Wall Street figure studies, mythological imagery, her studio at St. Michael’s, Bridport. and decorate. oils and charcoal. Cards for sale. Journal and Penguin. landscapes. Broken fields of colour Alongside these are Still Lifes, Giclee are scraped and blended producing Prints of many of her paintings and an ambiguous dynamic to spur the cards. Signed copies of Marion’s book imagination. Previously worked and Colmer’s Hill, One Artist’s Obsession exhibited in London, Edinburgh, USA, will also be available. the Caribbean, Brazil and Indonesia. furniture on display @ st. michael’s studios Studio 6, 2nd Floor, St Michael’s Studios, St Michael’s Trading Estate, Studio 6, 2nd Floor, St. Michael’s Bridport, Studio 6, 2nd Floor, St. Michael’s Studios, St. Michael’s Trading DT6 3RR Studios, St. Michael’s Trading Estate, Bridport, DT6 3RR Suzanna Hubbard Paul Blow From South Street take Gundry Lane Estate, Bridport, DT6 3RR On arriving at St. Michael’s Trading at end turn right and then left into St. On arriving at St. Michael’s Trading Estate, enter studios via yellow door Studio 6, 2nd Floor, St. Michael’s Studio 5, St Michael’s Studios, Michael’s Trading Estate enter studios Estate via Gundry Lane, enter studios in red brick building. Parking limited Studios, St. Michael’s Trading St Michael's Trading Estate, via yellow door in red brick building. via yellow door in red brick building. opposite studios or nearby Waitrose. Estate, Bridport, DT6 3RR Bridport, DT6 3RR 2nd Floor Parking limited opposite studios or Parking limited opposite studios or 07768 476603 Enter studios via yellow door in red Parking directly outside Studios St Michael’s Studios nearby Waitrose. nearby Waitrose. [email protected] brick building. Parking opposite limited. John Charlesworth 01308 456820 St Michael's Trading Estate, 07784 942979 07881 805510 www.hallsworth.org 07443516141 www.johncharlesworth.co.uk suzannahubbard.blogspot.co.uk Bridport, DT6 3RR [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.paulblow.com [email protected] www.johnboyd.org www.dorsetpaintings.co.uk Open days & times: 10am - 5pm www.charlotte-miller.co.uk Visit his studio in Machynlleth, (Charles Hallsworth will be open from Wales. Call: 01654703989 Open days & times: 10am - 5pm Open days & times: 11am - 5pm Open days & times: 10am - 5pm Open days & times: 10.30am - 5pm 20 August - 5 September) Open days & times: 10am-5pm to make an appointment 23 24 25 wc 23 24 25 wc 23 24 25 wc 23 24 25 wc 23 24 25 23 24 25 wc Bridport - St Michael’s Studios Bridport - St Michael’s Studios 9 Marion Irons 10 Sally Davies & Elizabeth Paine - Studio in the Attic 11 Claire Whitfield 12 Isla Chaney & Jennie Hanrahan Painting Digital Art & Painting Jewellery Designer/Maker Sculpture Expressive semi abstract paintings re- Sally Davies explores and enhances her own photographs of plants and the Every piece I make is unique and Isla - Royal College of Art graduate, intriguing contemporary sculptures. Thought flecting the changing light and natural environment using digital techniques and painting: cards and gifts available. evolves organically, inspired by my provoking and deliberately ambiguous. Works range in scale from the domestic Art & Vintage Quarter rhythms of the Dorset coastal land- Elizabeth Paine’s vibrant acrylic portraits contrast with her commercial beached combed finds. Handcrafted, to outside installations. Broad practice from Commissions and Exhibitions to scape. I love to build up my images illustrations: commissions welcome. tactile, quirky and bold, often with Public Art Installations. Jennie - Applied Arts Graduate. Hand-built bespoke tiles Come and explore Bridport’s popular Art & Vintage with collage,texture and other mixed moving parts.