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The following studios are open to visitors during the days and times above, look for the yellow Open Studio signs. Come and meet these local artists in their creative environments: it’s a chance to learn about some of their ideas and working methods, to buy work directly from the makers and perhaps even commission a personal piece.
1. DAVINA LOVERIDGE
Stained glass: exploring light and colour with the fragility of glass which, when combined in a leaded structure can become a robust architectural panel for a door/window. I work from my original designs drawn mostly from the natural world. In my garden, there is a wall mosaic produced during lockdown.
Also my Studio, displaying smaller panels showing the use of silver stain and paint on glass. Alongside ongoing work, I'm happy to demonstrate the process of creating stained glass.
The Laurels, 6 The Street, Horsley, GL6 0PU
Directions: entrance through green side gate, on right hand side of house. Please DO NOT park on neighbour's drive. ///seabirds.liver.liberated
2. GILL HACKETT
Exhibiting in Maxine Relton Studio Gallery, 4 The Street, Horsley, GL6 0PU; em: gillian.hackett@btinternet.com;
www.gillian.hackett @btinternet.com, mo: 07976 596045. Directions: terrace next to Horsley School in centre of village.
Papier-mâché vessels inspired by the forms and textures of the natural world. Using mainly recycled materials, my aim is to create unique vessels that are decorative, sometimes functional but always surprisingly robust and often mistaken for ceramic.
3. MAXINE RELTON STUDIO GALLERY
4 The Street, Horsley, GL6 0PU; email: maxine.relton@tiscali.co.uk; tel 01453 832597. Directions: terrace next to Horsley School in centre of village.
Three-storey Studio Gallery of Maxine’s work is open any time by arrangement: paintings, prints, photographs, cards, handmade books and drawings, plus a selection of original sketchbooks to browse through. Current theme: “The World We Share” is focused on nature, landscape and wildlife, including Horsley and environs.
4. DAVID WILSON
3 Wormwood Hill, Horsley, GL6 0PP; email: omnivorist@gmail.com. Directions: from Horsley Village car park, take the lane to Washpool (Wormwood Hill). Exhibition is in third cottage on the right, near the top of the lane.
I use computers to create digital pictures, working with shapes, geometric transformations, materials and lighting. My commitment to the medium is driven by a fascination with the mathematical patterns that lie at the heart of the natural world.
Starting with the challenge of modelling flowers and other natural objects, my first pieces were inspired by traditional Spanish and Dutch still-life painting. In more recent work I have started to explore spaces that exist only in the imagination.
5. JO HOFMAN
3 Byways, Washpool, Horsley, GL6 0PP; email: johofman2@gmail.com; mo: 07753 228942. Directions: from The Hog pub, walk towards Nailsworth past parish car park; turn right down Wormwood Hill. Past car park by river. On up the hill past 7 houses. Last of 3 terraced cottages on left. Log pile on garage wall.
My work explores place through a range of media: boxes, books, frames. The inner and outer sense of space and place as experienced over time, during lockdown or while journeying through. Plus a surprise piece that fits its own box.
6. MAY HOFMAN JEWELLERY (Rosie Hofman)
3 Byways, Washpool, Horsley, GL6 0PP; website: https://www.mayhofman.com. Directions: as for Jo Hofman above.
Timeless, ethical, all-gender jewellery that infuses intricate yet bold, minimal design. Rosie was born and grew up in Washpool.
7. RUTH LIENGAARD
Marsden Studio, c/o Marsden House, Horsley Hill, Horsley, GL6 OPW; email: rsliengaard@gmail.com. Directions: studio is located down below Marsden House, accessed by narrow, uneven steps to left side of house.
A dig in the archives, a timeline of a creative life with sketches, ceramics and prints for sale.
8. JOHN FORSTER
Marsden Studio, c/o Marsden House, Horsley Hill, Horsley, GL6 OPW; email: jstarrock66@gmail.com; mo: 07976 587727. Directions: studio is located down below Marsden House, accessed by narrow, uneven steps to left side of house.
Slip-decorated domestic pottery. The designs and shapes are informed by function and everyday use. The pots made include mugs, cups, various sizes of jugs and bowls, plates, store jars, teapots and coffee jugs. All the ware is durable and hard-wearing and is dishwasher and microwave safe.
9. RUSKIN MILL GALLERY
Ruskin Mill Gallery, Old Bristol Road, Nailsworth GL6 0LA; website: www.rmt.org/ruskinmillcollege, tel (c/o Sue Smee, Cultural Development): 07977 174729 / 01453 837537; em: sue.smee@rmc.rmt.org. Directions: The app what3words will bring you to the front car park at Ruskin Mill ///foot.school.framework.
A group exhibition of art and craft by Ruskin Mill staff exploring the interconnection of each other’s art and craft practices with the significance of place in the provenance of materials, the processes of making, and the utility of both art and craft objects to individuals and the community. The exhibition runs 10am – 4pm daily, 19 January – 24 February, but is closed 9am – 1pm 25 January and 22 February: ware where wear.
10. VIVIANA ROSSI-CAFFELL
The Nutshell Studios, Old Market, Nailsworth GL6 0DU; email: viviana@rossicaffell.com; website: www.rossicaffell.com. Directions: near Mortimer Gardens, by the Old Warehouse.
A selection of kinetic sculpture, prints, assemblage and readymade, inspired by an exploration of balance and fluctuating weights. The work focuses on the meeting point, the place where one thing ends and another begins, how different entities or beings occupy the space alongside each other, how they lean on each other in order to gain stability.
Nina Loveridge