Almost 60 artists within a 20 minute drive of Marlborough will be opening up their inner sanctums to the public for four weekends in July for the annual Open Studios event.
The 59 artists will welcome visitiors to their studios over four weekends from July 4 to 26. The studios are spread from Chiseldon in the north to Wilsford in the south, and from Lambourn in the east to Devizes.
Some of the studios are in Marlborough itself including Jacqui Melhuish, a ceramicist and illustrator; painter Annie Monk and architectural illustrator Colin Palmer, who all have their studios in the Wagon yard in London Road.
The work of the artists to be seen in their studios ranges from jewellery to wood turning; stained glass to textiles and glass sculptures to photography.
Architectural illustrator Colin Palmer is well known for his detailed depictions of local street scenes.
He will be sharing an exhibition in the Wagon Yard Studio in London Road in Marlborough with two other artists, ceramics maker Jacqui Melhuish and abstract painter Annie Monk.
He said: “Jacqui and I share a studio with six or seven other artists but just three of us will be exhibiting in the open studios event. It is better for the artists to share a space because it offers the visitors a much wider selection of works.”
Open studios chairman, and photographer, Mark Somerville will be sharing a studio with sculptor Melissa Cole at Puthall Farm, near Great Bedwyn.
One of the new exhibitors is Mexican abstract painter Normandy Barcelo Soto, at the old school house, now called the Truant House, in Froxfield.
A list of artsts is at www.
marlboroughopenstudios.co.uk
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