Venues 7, 8

The Combe Down Art Trail. which will be taking place on Saturday 11th - Sunday 12th September, 10am - 4pm, is going to be a great community event. We've already seen how venues 1 - 6 (blog posts here and here if you missed them) are set to showcase artwork, craft, ceramics, firing demonstrations, music workshops - not to mention the free family events at the Hub on Mulberry Park on the Saturday. So let's now see what will be happening at venues 7 and 8!

5 Combe Road

Sally Jefferies, The Red Room, Acrylic

Hilary Strickland, Bringing Nature Indoors

Four artists will be showcasing a variety of work in venue 7 (5 Combe Road),

​First up is Sally Jefferies, who is the head of the volunteering committee that make the art trail happen each year. Thank you for all your hard work, Sally! Sally enjoys painting any subject in almost any style, depending on her mood and inspiration, using a wide variety of media, including acrylic, collage, ink and oil pastel.

Hilary Strickland uses watercolours to create paintings and illustrations of birds, insects, flowers and landscapes. The delicate washes are then printed onto linen fabrics where Hilary turns them into gorgeous cushion covers, lampshades, table runners, and tea towels. 

Bertie Nash, Head, Charcoal

Ele Nash, The Old Schoolhouse, Collage

New to the art trail this year is young artist, Bertie Nash. Bertie is currently studying an Art Foundation and enjoys drawing in charcoal, creating sensitive and often surreal pictures.

Ele Nash has been on the voluntary committee since the art trail began back in 2017 with Jeni Wood and Vikki Yeates. Ele designs and updates the website and this year she created the map and village poster trail. In between times, she creates collage paintings of Bath architecture as well as ink cat sketches.

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RT Framing, Combe Road

Paul Wilkins, Somerset, Woodcut

Kevin at RT Framing may well be taking a well-earned break from picture framing, but he's very kindly allowed us to use his workshop as our venue 8!
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​We're delighted print artist Paul Wilkins will be offering relief print demonstrations on Saturday 1pm - 4pm, Sunday, 10am - 1pm (all ages welcome).