 This year we again aim to reduce, reuse and recycle to keep costs down and do our bit to help protect the environment whilst putting on a good art trail.
You can take part in your own house/studio or in one of our public venues. Private houses/studios
Public venues
The Museum of Bath Stone has been refurbished and unfortunately is not available as a venue for artists this year. If you have enjoyed exhibiting at the Museum in the past please think about trying the Community Centre this year or let us know if you have other ideas for venues. Village gallery
Website
FEES We have kept the fee at £30 which covers the costs of the posters, items we have to buy, advertising and the charges for the art trail website. We will reuse as many lanterns and venue numbers saved from the last art trail to keep costs to a minimum. What to do now
Follow and following Follow us on Instagram @CDArtTrail and we’ll follow you back. You might also like to follow @bathopenstudios who promote all the Bath art trails. Thank you to Kathy Pearce for her help with submission flyers! Closing date for applications: Thursday 22nd June
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Thank you to everyone who took part in the 2022 Combe Down Art Trail! Gorgeous sunshine, lots of happy visitors, and amazing artwork, it was as always, a great community feel-good weekend. Below are photos of the trail as well as links to a couple of videos. 
 We are open for submissions to our art trail until 22nd June! Follow the link to read our submission guidelines.
The Combe Down Art Trail takes place this year on Saturday 10th - Sunday 11th September, 10am - 4pm. It’s a great community event full of ceramics, paintings, prints, sculpture, craft, photography, cards and music. The village is abuzz! Mostly artists open their own studio doors but there are also a few local venues where artists can exhibit their work. If you’re a local artist who would like to know more, get in touch. Or if you have a local venue you’d like to offer for the weekend, please let us know. We’re always keen for fresh ideas so get in touch if you think you could offer the trail something different! Thank you to everyone who came along and supported this year's art trail! We hope you all had as good a time as we all had. We were certainly blessed with fantastic weather that allowed our visitors to explore each venue - around 250 visitors in all! It was lovely to see everyone wandering around with maps and deciding where to go next. Here is a collection of snapshots from the weekend! Thank you too to all the artists who took part and especially those who did demonstrations, as well as those who helped put up the banners, posters and maps - and, just as importantly, took them down again!
The voluntary art trail team worked very hard to ensure the trail could go ahead safely so thank you to Sally Jefferies, Catherine Beale, Shuya Cheng, Vikki Yeates, and Ele Nash. We couldn't do the trail without the support of the community so thanks too to Miranda at the Museum of Bath Stone, Gill at the Peggy Dodd Centre, Lizzie at the Hub, and Christina at the Jewish Burial Ground. Many thanks for making it such a successful art trail this year. We're off to produce artwork ready for the next one (after a good lie down!)
Today as well as ceramics, sculpture, paintings, prints, embroidered art, soft furnishings, photography, cards for sale direct from the artist over 14 venues, there is: Clay demonstrations from 12 noon at venue 2 (18 Porlock Road); The Bath Jewish Burial Ground (just by venue 6, Greendown Place), open to visitors from 11am - 4pm as part of Heritage Open Days; Relief print demonstrations at venue 8 (RT Framing, Combe Road) from 10am - 1pm; Cream Teas at the Peggy Dodd Centre (Summer Lane), venue 10, 11am - 3pm; Cakes from Roasted Lemon at venue 12 (edge of Firs Field) from 11am - 4pm…  We had a great day yesterday, with lots of visitors all enjoying the dry weather and community spirit, as well as being inspired by the demonstrations, sketchbooks, artwork on show. Thank you to everyone who came and we hope to see more of you again today!
Clay demonstrations from 12 noon at venue 2 (18 Porlock Road); Free family events at the Hub (Mulberry Park), venue 3 from 11am - 4pm, as well as music workshops 2pm - 4pm; Relief print demonstrations at venue 8 (RT Framing, Combe Road) from 1pm - 4pm; Cream Teas at the Peggy Dodd Centre (Summer Lane), venue 10, 11am - 3pm; Cakes from Roasted Lemon at venue 12 (edge of Firs Field) from 11am - 4pm… Wow! So much to do and see. We look forward to seeing you! And if you take any photos please link us on Facebook or Instagram @cdarttrail or use the hashtags #cdarttrail #cdarttrail2021
Venue 12 (5 The Firs) is home to one artist, and just opposite on the Firs Field, you'll be able to enjoy a slice of cake too! David Wood's eclectic work is based on the world around, particularly people and the environment. His venue is open Saturday only. New to the art trail this year, local family-run business, Roasted Lemon Cuisine, will be open on both the Saturday and Sunday, 11pm - 4pm, selling from their bicycle (on the edge of Firs Field) delicious cakes! Roasted Lemon are proud to use only local producers and farmers. And, as an added bonus, Mike Service (next door to David) plans to have easels of his wonderful oil paintings up in the front garden area (weather permitting!)
Sarah Turrell makes finely thrown stoneware pottery from bowls to plates, jugs to mugs, all in various sizes. Strong and durable, every piece is suitable for use in ovens and dishwashers. And new to the art trail this year is Steve Lovering, who draws in charcoal. The Village Poster TrailSome of our artists who were unable to take part this year, are still involved with our poster art trail! Dotted around the village, you'll find an array of artist posters that form a kind of outdoor gallery. To see the poster trail in its entirety, head over to Combe Down Primary School from Tuesday 5th September. The school have very kindly allowed an outdoor gallery along the railings of their upper playground, seen from Church Road!
Venue 9 is the wonderful Museum of Bath Stone, a great community hub that celebrates our village's important role in Bath's history. Catherine Beale is a highly accomplished watercolourist. She specialises in family portraits and semi-abstract landscapes. Penny Richards uses acrylic and inks, often on a pre-textured surface. She depicts diverse, evocative subjects from figures to quiet landscapes.
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