NEARLY 40 artists people will be opening their studios and workshops to the public as part of the Marlborough Open Studios weekends starting last Saturday and Sunday and continuing over the next two weekends.

Visitors will be able to see a variety of arts and crafts in progress by painters, sculptors, furniture makers, jewellers, illustrators and blacksmiths, like Melissa Coles, who has just moved her studio to Puthall Farm near Marlborough.