Visitor Information This brochure gives information on the Liability Welcome to farOpen Studios 2019 farOpen Studios Trail between The organisers of farOpen Studios 2019 Artists and makers from the ancient and 6 and 14 July 2019. Please check cannot accept liability for any loss, beautiful Forest of Dean, and along the individual entries for opening days and damage or injury sustained by any Severn and Wye rivers, invite you to visit times, or ring artists directly. member of the public visiting any Open them. Studios, events or exhibitions. A map gives a general indication of We are delighted to showcase a wealth of studio locations (it is not to scale). Disability Access old and new members, with many varied It is advisable to ring venues before you and inspiring talents. So let me encourage An interactive map and digital brochure visit to check access. you to take the time to follow our Open are available on farOpen’s website at: Studios Trail, to see the art, talk to the On Art and Artists artists, see where they live and create, www.farOpen.co.uk and where they get their inspiration “Creativity is contagious, pass it on”. from. And while visiting enjoy the glory of Social Media Albert Einstein the forest. Join in the conversation by following and liking us on: Christine Waygood, Chair farOpen (Forest and Rivers Open) facebook: farOpen instagram: farOpen1 INDEX BY DISCIPLINE Book Binding &bookish books -Kit Tyrrell Ceramics Camphill Village Trust - Priddis Pots + Paint Grange Pottery Digital Art Ian Gorton Galleries and Exhibitions Creates Gallery & Made in Ross Taurus Craft farOpen Wobage Makers Coffee Shop Taster Exhibition farOpen at Dean Heritage Middletown Farm The Secret Gallery Group Museum Show Glass and Enamelling Anne Bulley Black Cat Glass Design Claire McKnight Leigh Sladen Glass Jeanette Hannaby Jewellery and Metal Work Nicole Iredale Designs Sohphie Harris Metalwork The Little Gallery in The and Restoration Forest Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Anne Bulley Carmen & Stuart Rooksby Jane Foot Patricia Homewood Encaustic, Mixed Media Art and Soul Leah Robinson Charlotte Keating Abstract Jo Scott Pigsty Studio Art by Karie-Ann Art Lisa Dear Artworks Rebecca Thomson- Art by Maryanne Hawes Claire McKnight Louise Penny Art Weissbort Art by Monique Oliver Ditka Art Judit McLoughlin Mariette Voke Sara Ulyatt Art by Philip Stockley Graham Wilde Mary Edwards Victoria Norton Art@Oaktree Issi Lammas Melanie Clarke Watercolour Puddles Photography Art on the Wye Impsandthings John Hickman Sculpture Deborah Harrison Sculpture Furzie MissFire Sophie Harris Metalwork Impsandthings and Restoration Textiles Annie Tyhurst Furzie Garden Shed Textiles Sara Rickard Christine Waygood Gaby Devitt Woven Textiles Lyn Clarke Wood and Furniture JamesWrightWood.com Paul Hannaby Turning Contemporary Studio Artist Studio Artist Studio Artist 1 Anne Bulley farOpen members 39 Patricia Homewood 18 2 Annie Tyhurst Dean Heritage Museum Paul and Jeanette Art and Soul Leah 19 Furzie & John Hickman 40 Hannaby 3 Gaby Devitt Woven and Lyn Clarke Robinson 20 4 Art by Karie-Ann Textiles 41 Pigsty Studio 5 Art by Maryanne Hawes 21 Garden Shed Textiles 42 Priddis Pots & Paint 22 Graham Wilde 6 Art by Monique Oliver Sophie Harris Metalwork 43 7 Art by Philip Stockley 23 Ian Gorton & Restoration 8 Art on the Wye 24 Impsandthings Taster Exhibition at 44 Taurus Craft by farOpen 9 Art@ Oaktree 25 Issi Lammas 26 JamesWrightWood.com trail studios 10 Black Cat Glass Design The Little Gallery in the Camphill Village Trust – 27 Jane Foot and Kit Tyrrell 45 11 Forest Grange Pottery 28 Jo Scott The Secret Gallery Group Carmen and Stuart 29 Leigh Sladen Glass 46 12 Show Rooksby Lisa Dear Artworks and 47 Turning Contemporary Charlotte Keating 30 13 Sara Rickard Victoria Norton at the Abstract Art 48 31 Louise Penny Art Garden Cafe Christine Waygood 14 32 Made in Ross Watercolour Puddles Contemporary Textiles 33 Mariette Voke 49 and 15 Claire McKnight Sara Ulyatt Creates Gallery & Coffee 34 Mary Edwards 16 50 Wobage Makers Shop 35 Melanie Clarke Ditka Art Judit 51 Deborah Harrison 36 Middletown Farm McLoughlin 37 MissFire 17 Sculpture and Rebecca Thomson-Weissbort 38 Nicole Iredale Designs farOpen Studios Trail Guide Please note these maps are indicative only For accurate information visit individual brochure pages or the interactive trail map on the farOpen website, faropen.co.uk/2019-brochure-pdf-and-trail-map Studio 1 Anne Bulley Annie Tyhurst Studio 2 Glass, Textiles, Painting, Print Textiles Making Rose Cottage Yew Tree Farmhouse 1 New Road May Hill Aylburton Common Nr Gloucester GL15 6DS Gloucestershire GL17 0NP Contact Details Contact Details 01594 840869 079 321 822 36 [email protected] Description Description My work is predominately stained glass, from windows through Annie creates beautiful felted landscapes, stitched textiles using hangings to screens with mixed media panels. The paper I make is found materials, and a small range of traditionally upholstered used in different ways including book making, reconstituting it to be furniture with Welsh woollen fabrics. incorporated in mixed media work. The print making ranges from pictures to embellishment for other work. The jewellery and the Directions weaving also get incorporated into other work – if they are not Follow signs to Aylburton Common from the A48. Proceed along standing on their own! Sandford Road, for about a third of a mile. Shortly after the small chapel on the left, there is a steep right hand turning, signposted Directions Upper Common. This is New Road. Rose Cottage is the first house at Off A40 between Longhope and Huntley. Take road signed Cliffords the bottom. You may park next to my car on the gravel hardstanding, Mesne and May Hill. Past 3 houses on the right, over a little or along the bottom road crossroads then hug the hedge on the right till you find the entrance to a round about drive with cattle grids. Signs will be up. 6-14 July Opening Hours 6-14 July Opening Hours 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 11-6 11-6 11-6 11-6 11-6 11-6 11-6 11-6 11-6 11-4 11-4 11-4 11-4 11-4 11-4 11-4 11-4 11-4 Studio 3 Art and Soul Leah Robinson Art by Karie-Ann Studio 4 Painting, Drawing, Mixed Media Painting and Drawing Collage Fernmeadow 2 Tump House Dancing Green Lower Soudley Pontshill Cinderford Nr Ross-on-Wye Glocestershire Herefordshire, HR9 5TE GL14 2UB Contact Details Contact Details 07789 007547 07708 900946 [email protected] [email protected] www.portraitpainter.co.uk www.artandsoulleahrobinson www.artbykarie-ann.co.uk Description Description Paintings, drawings and mixed media collage. Leah is inspired by the strength People, pet portrait, wildlife art and tuition in pastels and charcoal and beauty of the human form and the creative connection between body, from photos. Using archival artist quality materials I produce highly mind and spirit. Most of her work is yoga and meditation based, but she has detailed portraits to commission for clients worldwide. other works on show, described as 'creative discovery' pieces. Commissions Undertaken. Directions HR9 5TE Sat nav is incorrect. At Hainement Cottage with the cattle Directions grid IN FRONT of you, turn right then immediately left down into the Travelling from A48 Blakeney, follow brown tourist signs to Dean Heritage centre, after aprox 3m, see sign for Soudley, after the bridge, turn right, wood. You will see a log cabin with signs on through the 5 bar gate. follow road until it turns to track, keep going, take left hand fork drive. Signage will be out or follow Google map Coming from Littledean, enter Soudley village and trun left at the White https://goo.gl/maps/3AHVmT2P2ao Horse pub- (Leah restored the pub sign!), From Cinderford, drive through Google coordinates: 51.882459, -2.537521 Soudley Village with pub on RHS, Continue past the Dean Heritage Centre on RHS. Take next left. And continue as above in bold. 6-14 July Opening Hours 6-14 July Opening Hours - Other times by appointment 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 10-6 10-6 10-6 10-6 10-3 10-3 10-3 10-3 10-3 10-3 10-3 10-3 10-3 Studio 5 Art by Maryanne Hawes Art by Monique Oliver Studio 6 Painting Painting Uplands Units 7 & 10 Itton Road Collier & Brain Yard Chepstow The Cross NP16 6BQ Drybrook Gloucestershire GL17 9ED Contact Details Contact Details 07966376490 01594 372223 [email protected] [email protected] www.maryannehawes.com www.moniqueoliver.co.uk Description Description My bold, abstract paintings appeal to the intuitive and open minded. All of Monique’s work is created by pouring paint from cups, jugs They encourage you to pause, and experience the calm of being and bowls directly onto a substrate. She rarely uses brushes. Layers present in a moment. Largely a self-taught painter, my process is are then manipulated using a variety of tools and signature intuitive and meditative, an unfolding of thought in shape and techniques. The result is unique, vibrant and energised abstracts colour; decisions are made where brush meets paint. fusing organic shapes with intricate patterning. Directions Card payments accepted. The Studios are located at Uplands, Itton Road, Chepstow; Directions Take the Itton/Devauden Road (B4293) from the roundabout at the At crossroads in centre of DRYBROOK, the studio is set back from bottom of Chepstow Racecourse. Uplands is the first house on the the road directly opposite “The Shop on the Cross”. left, on the brow of the hill.