Venue number: 1

Malmesbury | Caerbladon

A quirky, dark yet engaging collection of multi-media artworks exploring the notion of identity in response to self, people and place.  Narratives depicted through poetic, performative and playful collage, drawings, photographs, paintings, prints and journals, with contemplative stitched textiles, totemic memorial and figurative artworks. 

Jill’s exhibition will be at Caerbladon throughout September - 18 October.

Venue number: 2

Malmesbury | Kings Arms

Working with clay has been a delightful journey of experiment and discovery.  Having previously studied and worked in archaeology, I take inspiration from traditional forms and the eroded and patinated surfaces that result from long use or burial in the ground, but looked at through a contemporary eye. 

Venue number: 2

Malmesbury | Kings Arms

I create art in acrylic and enjoy painting abstract and impressionist landscapes. I like my painting to be fun and often include humour particularly in my greeting cards. 

Venue number: 2

Malmesbury | Kings Arms

I love to create 'colour poems' using embroidery thread and woven tapestry. Each one represents a different landscape aspect or mood, or can just be a mix of gorgeous colours to enjoy.

Venue number: 2

Malmesbury | Kings Arms

Mosaics in many forms! For the garden, for the home, also unique jewellery pieces. Intensely hued dichroic glass, opaque stained glass. Metal, shell and opals. 

Venue number: 3

Malmesbury | Warden & Freemen Office

Elaine is a graphic designer and artist working on a new series of linocut prints inspired by UK wildlife. She has particular focus to bring attention to creatures dwindling in number, threatened by extinction.

Venue number: 3

Malmesbury | Warden & Freemen Office

I am completely enamoured with the beautiful animals both wild and domestic that dwell in the British Isles.  I focus on capturing the emotions of my subjects, their inner beauty and quirks that makes them unique to themselves, from a cow's wet nose, a horse' strength and beauty, a stag's majesty to the mysticism of a hare. 

Venue number: 4

Malmesbury | John Bowen Gallery

Nature and wildlife inspire my work. Particularly birds, bees, butterflies and the odd fox and some domestic creatures.

Venue number: 4

Malmesbury | John Bowen Gallery

I was inspired to get my paints out again when the veg garden was producing loads during lockdown. I experimented with various styles and subjects. I love the familiar and everyday. Whether this be fruit and veg, storecupboard staples or the occasional treat.

Venue number: 4

Malmesbury | John Bowen Gallery

Humour and playfulness are recurring motivations for my work; you might notice a cross reference of influences such as Gothic fairytales and Folk Art, theatre design, cartoon characters and Abstract Expressionist painting. 

Venue number: 4

Malmesbury | John Bowen Gallery

I am usually inspired by nature, by a shape, a sense of place that has personal meaning, history or often it's a flower, connecting me to my first ever memory, age 3  of  being at  Birmingham flower market with my mother. 

Venue number: 5

Malmesbury | Cranmore House

Miranda creates atmospheric paintings inspired by the feeling of being in expansive landscapes. Her work contains suggestions of watery valleys, misty horizons, and hills veiled in soft, glowing light. She is particularly drawn to the twilight hours and the threshold where land meets sky.

Venue Number: 6

Malmesbury | Cosy Cone

Painting matters, to me. It’s meaningful, providing a sense of self-worth and value. I love creating beautiful paintings, it’s fulfilling and enjoyable. I aim to create and inspire paintings that uplift environments and people.

Venue number: 7

Malmesbury | Ratcliffe’s Yard

Annie Kevans’ paintings reflect her interests in power, manipulation and the role of the individual in inherited belief systems.  She looks at alternative histories and how they relate to current issues and creates what she describes as ‘anti-portraits’ that may or may not be based on real documentation.

Venue number: 7

Malmesbury | Ratcliffe’s Yard

I produce all kinds of decorative and functional ironwork with a focus on traditional hand forging wherever possible. I hope that everyone would find a piece that speaks to them personally among my work.

Venue Number: 7

Malmesbury | Ratcliffe’s Yard

I draw or paint what comes out of my hand

Venue number: 8

Malmesbury

Andrew is an abstract wooden sculptor based in.the southern Cotswolds. He is self taught over the last 30 years with no formal training in woodworking or the arts. Andrew has produced pieces that have gone as far a field as Texas, Perth and Cape Town, to name just a few. 

Venue Number: 9

Malmesbury

Bespoke, personalised illustrations, no two are ever the same! They’re completely personalised and are all hand drawn from photos you send me. From favourite vehicles to pets and hobbies, I include every personal detail.

Venue number: 10

Malmesbury

My artistic passion is storytelling through oil painting on various surfaces, focusing on innovation in technique and style. Recently, I've become fascinated with landscapes' narrative potential and their ability to evoke thought with each brushstroke in a composition.

Venue number: 11

Sherston | British School Room

Our group show includes two members of the Embroiders Guild, who also paint, two artists, a woodworker and a jeweller - in fact something for everyone.

Refreshments available.

Venue number: 12

Little Somerford | Village Hall

We are a friendly and inclusive group meeting on Tuesday mornings at the Village Hall.  We welcome all artists of any ability to join us.  We arrange workshops and demonstrations periodically.  Come and see us to find out about joining us, view our art work including greetings cards.

Support Macmillan Cancer Relief by enjoying home made cakes and hot drinks throughout the weekend.

Venue number: 13

Little Somerford

I enjoy exploring pattern, texture, and colour through various techniques, layering the glass to create interactions within the shades, resulting in pieces which are captivating and detailed .

Venue number: 14

Little Somerford

Visit textile artist and tutor, Janice Botterill, in her fabric-filled studio to see how she uses traditional techniques and processes of embroidery and darning to make drawings, collages and quilts.

Venue number: 15

Little Somerford

Being endlessly fascinated by all the possibilities and the processes of transforming clay into something more permanent,  I make wheel thrown stoneware pots.

Venue number: 16

Charlton

Alex’s work captures the essence of places that inspire stillness, reflection, and calm. Contemporary sea and landscapes in acrylics and oils.

Refreshments available on Saturday.

Venue number: 16

Charlton

All of my work comes from my constant immersion in nature and plants, whether it’s pressed flowers, oil and watercolour painting or hand built ceramics. The studio setting in the garden means I’m surrounded by my inspiration. 

Refreshments available on Saturday.

Venue number: 17

Charlton

Melissa works intuitively to create distinctive abstract art inspired by her connection to nature. Paintings evolve organically through layers of gestural brushstrokes and expressive mark-making using a combination of media.