Save the Date: 7th - 8th September!

Before everyone possibly starts going off on their “summer” holidays, make a note for the weekend of 7th - 8th September for the Combe Down Art Trail!!!! We are so excited about the wealth of artistic talent taking part this year with 46 artists taking part, including many new to the trail. 

As well as paintings, prints, photography and ceramics there are sculptures, wire and wooden animals, pottery, jewellery, box art and textiles. This year visitors can have a portrait photo taken, watch demos of stone carving with Bath Stone Carving Group, and sculptures with Bath Sculpture School, watercolour technique with Catherine Beale and collage with Karen George. You can also enjoy refreshments including lunch at the Peggy Dodd Centre.

There are venues throughout the village, with artists at the St Andrew’s Community Centre, the Museum of Bath Stone, and the Peggy Dodd Centre, as well as in their own studios and homes in the village. The street gallery on railings and in windows shows off artwork created by Combe Down schoolchildren and toddlers.

Combe Down Art Trail aims to encourage art across our community and to do as much as possible to protect the environment by reusing and recycling the red and green lanterns, venue numbers and arrows along the route.

The Combe Down Art Trail website is currently being updated (thank you Ele Nash!) and will soon have all the details here including the brochure and art trail map (thank you Hilary Strickland for the beautiful design work, including the image here!)

The art trail relies on a lot of volunteers so thank you too to Sally Jefferies for tirelessly organising the event, and to Vikki Yeates Catherine Beale, and Kathy Pearce for helping to keep everything running as smoothly as it should 😊