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THANK YOU to everyone who took part and came to our 2024 Combe Down Art Trail over the weekend!! Wasn't it great?! If you missed out, or didn't quite get around to every one of the 23 venues, fear not! Here is a taster of photos from each and every one - thank you Ele Nash for the 15,000 steps it took to complete the trail!
The wealth of artistic talent taking part this year was awe-inspiring. As well as paintings, prints, photography, and ceramics there were wire, stone, and clay sculptures, glasswork, pottery, jewellery, box art, cards, and textiles. Visitors had their portrait photo taken, watched demos of stone carving with Bath Stone Carving Group, admired sculptures by Bath Sculpture School, learned watercolour techniques with Catherine Beale and collage with Karen George. All of that excitement meant the refreshments including lunch at the Peggy Dodd Centre were very welcome! Venues this year were spread throughout the old village, to the new addition of Mulberry Park, and out into the Foxhill estate. Artists could be found 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. The street gallery on nursery and school railings and in windows showed off artwork created by Combe Down schoolchildren and toddlers and was an excellent addition as always! The art trail relies on a lot of volunteers so thank you Vikki Yeates, Catherine Beale, and Kathy Pearce for helping to keep everything running as smoothly as it should, to Hilary Strickland for the beautiful posters and map, and to Ele for the walk, website, and our Instagram 😊 And a final very special thank you to Queen Organiser, Sally Jefferies, who has been in the role of herding artistic cats for the past six years. This was her final one as chief and we can all agree it was the best yet!
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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 😊
Please follow the link to our submissions page for more information and how to apply. The closing date for submissions is Sunday 30th June. Any questions, feel free to drop us a line via email [email protected].
We look forward to hearing from you!
Please go to the BOS website for more information and for the submission form if you would like to enter. Submissions close 14th June.
Don't forget, May and June are packed with other Bath art trails and open studios! Larkhall: 4th - 6th May, Newbridge: 18th - 19th May, Bear Flat: 25th - 27th May, and Widcombe: 22nd - 23rd June! Keep a look out too for information coming soon about our own Combe Down Art Trail on 7th and 8th September!
Bath Open Studios"Bath Open Studios (BOS) is delighted to be exhibiting artwork at the RUH, in support of Art at the Heart. On show is a lively and eclectic mix of paintings, prints, photographs, ceramics, sculpture, and mosaic by talented artists across our great city. BOS is a voluntarily run group representing seven art trails and open studios that take place annually in seven areas of Bath: Bath Artists’ Studios Batheaston Art Trail Bear Flat Open Studios Combe Down Art Trail Larkhall Open Studios Newbridge Arts Trail Widcombe Art Trail Bringing together many of the established and emerging artists who take part and organise these community events in one exhibition is a fantastic opportunity to shine a spotlight on their work, as well as on the trails themselves. Find us on Instagram @bathopenstudios or head over to our website bathopenstudios.co.uk for more information about any of the art trails and open studios, and the artists involved." Artists taking part from Combe DownPaul Wilkins Catherine Beale Linda O’Gorman John Simpson Penny Richards Kathy Pearce Sally Jefferies Josie Bahar Wenda Bartlett Robert Lee Pat Betts Richard Ford Rosemary Simmons Apoorva Raghav Ele Nash The exhibition runs from now until mid-January 2024.
Thank you to everyone who came to our 2023 Combe Down Art Trail on Saturday 9th - Sunday 10th September, 10am - 4pm! And to all the children who created our fabulous street galleries, and to the artists who opened their studio doors and joined in venues to showcase their glasswork, ceramics, craft, paintings, prints, jewellery, photography, and sculpture. It was amazing - even if the weather was a bit hot! Here is what happened... See you again in September 2024!!
 There's just four weeks to go before the 2023 Combe Down Art Trail! The map of venues and list of artists is now printed, with 34 artists taking part in 22 venues, including 7 street galleries where children's posters - from nurseries, toddler groups and primary schools - will be hung on the railings around the village. This is our most inclusive art trail yet, including art at the Peggy Dodd Centre where the oldest client is 103! Artists' posters too will be hung on railings as part of the vibrant street scene. As well as including more artists than ever, we also have the largest artwork in the history of our art trail! Noah's Rainbow, made by Rosemary Simmons, is created from recycled hot-air balloon fabric, with each panel measuring a whopping 2.7 x 1.5 metres! The artwork represents the rainbow that Noah saw after the Great Flood and which he understood to mean that better times will come. Artwork in our community reflects this optimism as well as the joy of creating all the paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, jewellery, textiles and photographs that you will find on the trail. In addition, we're delighted that one of artists and hard-working team volunteers, Catherine Beale, has a book out titled "Capturing Light'. In Catherine's words: "It is my guide to creating radiant landscapes and, as part of Search Press' Innovative Artist series, taking a very personal look at how I like to push the boundaries of watercolour methods and materials. Its 500 colour illustrations include many of my recent landscapes, over 176 imaginative pages." Published by Search Press, it is available to buy through them, as well as in bookshops, and many online retailers such as SAA, Artcoe, WHSmith, Bookshop, and Amazon. Congratulations Catherine! "Capturing Light is a must for artists who wish to investigate the subtle qualities of light with an emphasis on creating dramatic, imaginative landscapes." We will start hanging the street gallery artwork from Tuesday 5th September - on railings outside the schools, churches and nurseries and on walls. The venues themselves will be open during the art trail weekend Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th September, 10am - 4pm. 
Introducing this year's map and venues list, beautifully updated this year by artist, Hilary Strickland - thank you, Hils! With 22 venues, including seven street gallery venues, our 2023 art trail really captures the spirit of our creative village. Taking place on Saturday 9th - Sunday 10th September, 10am - 4pm, make a note in your diary. It's not to be missed!
Combe Down Art Trail opens its studios and venues on 9th and 10th September for another exciting weekend of artwork, from paintings, prints and photographs to glass, ceramics, textiles, sculptures and many other examples of local artistic talent. We are especially delighted to include the newly refurbished St Andrew’s Community Centre in Hawthorn Grove where several artists will display their work. Hands-on events at the Centre include art sessions and music workshops for all to join in.  Altogether 33 artists are taking part, several new to the trail. Children’s nurseries and toddler groups, Combe Down Primary School in and around the streets, creating a village gallery. Peggy Dodd Centre is displaying artwork as well as selling tea, coffee, and cake. Textile panels will hang on the wall opposite the entrance to Mulberry Way.
Head of the art trail committee, Sally Jefferies, said “This year we have artwork from all age groups in the village, from 2 to 103 years old, which gives us the broadest and most inclusive art trail ever. Ideas and themes encompass endangered species, fossils, clouds, and the environment. As well as encouraging art across our community we also aim to be environmentally aware by reusing and recycling as much as possible, from the red and green lanterns at venues to numbers and arrows along the route.” It's set to be another great year for the Combe Down Art Trail!  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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