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June sees the welcome return of Suffolk Open Studios. Every weekend, artists will be opening their studios to allow visitors a unique opportunity to watch them at work and quiz them about their creative process. This year’s programme runs over all five weekends, commencing Saturday 1st, with over 100 artists and eight galleries. Studios are open 11am-5pm and entry is free.

Participating artists come from every corner of the art world and will be showing work across a wide choice of mediums. This year sees a number of changes in response to feedback: simplified maps make it easier find members’ studios, while a new “Meet the Artist” section highlights the finalists who competed to be the “face” of Suffolk Open Studios on this year’s posters, flyers and directory. Two features which have been retained are the well-liked members’ trails and hubs: full details appear on the website and in the 2019 directory.

Visitors can learn about artists, view their work, check times and plan their route by visiting the website at www.suffolkopenstudios.org. They should also look out for posters, flyers and the pocket-size directories in galleries, libraries and tourist information centres everywhere or download a copy from the website. They can also follow Suffolk Open Studios on Facebook and Instagram: search for @suffolkopenstudios.

As part of Harleston & Waveney Art Trail Nicky Stainton, Chair of W&BA, will be opening her studio to visitors this coming weekend (including Bank Hol Monday) from 11am to 6pm each day. She is one of four artists with studios in London Road, Harleston, who are taking part as members of HWAT.

“It is fantastic to have this cluster of creative people and it certainly helps to attract visitors. Lisa Henshall, Kath Wallace and Nick Holmes are all close by and we each have  our own particular interests and very distinctive styles.  We had a very busy first weekend with loads of visitors, and some sales, too. Wonderful to meet so many interesting people. And the cakes and scones at Lisa’s got 5* rating from everyone!”

To complement the HWAT Open Studios there is a guided Art Walk around the town on Sunday, starting from The Swan Hotel at 2pm, organised by  Harleston’s Future. It starts with a presentation about some artists who have studios out of town, and which can be visited later, and will then take in visits to some HWAT artists’ studios, including Nicky’s. Tickets £4.00 per adult, children under 15 accompanied by an adult go free.

Nicky’s studio is at 65 London Road, Harleston IP20 9BN

https://nickystainton.artweb.com/ | www.hwat.org.uk 

As part of the Suffolk Open Studios programme, Easterly Artists collective of artists along the East coast of Norfolk and Suffolk and in-land to Norwich and down to Halesworth. The studios will be open every weekend in June from 11am to 5pm.

Join Mark an ‘award-winning artist’ 

at his Open Studios for three weekends in June  

Open 1^st & 2^nd, 8^th & 9^th, 15^th & 16^th, June 2019, 

 11am-5pm, or by appointment. 

Open Studios  

is held at 42 Melbourne Road, (opposite car park) 

Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 1SS 

Mobile: 07961297460 

Email: [email protected] 

Website: www.markburrellart.com 

http://easterly.org.uk/mark-burrell/ 

Artists Sally Mills and Marion Stuart are exhibiting their artwork together at Craftco, Southwold from 1st to 30th June. Sally Mills will be showing glass and ceramic wall pieces, and Marion Stuart will be showing porcelain ceramics. 

There will be a private view of the show on Saturday 1st June, 2pm to 4pm.

At the end of the 19th Century, three North Europeans outsiders – Van Gogh, Gauguin and Munch – placed a new emphasis on medium and its power to displace convention with raw connection. Fiona will discuss this shift from “pretty pictures” in the context of burgeoning possibilities for travel and communication.

This Talk relates to the British Museum Exhibition; Edvard Munch – Love and Angst.

Wednesday 5th June 10:30 am, at The Cut Halesworth, £8 – Book: http://newcut.org/events/entry/8884

Fiona Fitzgerald is opening her Norwich studio on 25th and 26th May, and 1st and 2nd June, 10am to 5pm.

Take a look at stoneware ceramics – slab constructed, using coloured clays, engobes and slip. 4-14“ tall, and bowls and
 double handled pots.

At: 1 St Bartholomews
Close, Norwich, NR2 4DX

To get here: From Dereham Rd, heading
out of town, go down Nelson Street, last turn on Right before Heigham Road.

Artists Martin Battye, Mark Goldsworthy and Katarzyna Coleman are exhibiting at PearTree Barn, Ilketshall St Andrew.

The exhibition opens from 1st to 16th June, and can be visited 10am to 5pm from Thursday to Sunday between these dates.

Chris Wheeler will be taking part in the Three Photographers Exhibition at the Halesworth Gallery from 25th May to 12th June. The exhibition will feature a range of his work including a selection of mosaic prints of leaf and bark details.

Members will be warmly welcomed at the preview party on Friday 24th May from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.

Chris’s studio will also be open as part of the Harleston & Waveney Art Trail on the weekends of May 18th & 19th and the holiday weekend 25th to 27th May from 11am – 6pm.

Harleston and Waveney Art Trail features 29 open studios and 33 artists working in a wide range of styles, genres and media – contemporary abstracts, traditional landscapes, textiles, original prints, sculpture, handmade books, photography, and even rag rugs. The artists will show wonderful new artwork to suit all interests – to view and purchase in the very places where the work was made. We collaborate to form a 15 mile wide gallery during the last two weekends of May – 18th/19th and 25th/26th/27th (bank holiday Monday) – all within cycling distance. With good food and drink available at several locations from Brockdish to Bungay, the Trail offers a real treat for the senses with high quality art at its core. This year, we present our first “Emerging Artists” show – four new “names” exhibiting together at Holbrook Barn Studio at the centre of the Trail in Alburgh. Look for our distinctive, orange brochure for full details of each artist and location. A companion exhibition is currently at The Fisher Theatre, Bungay until the Trail starts and a “taster” show is at The Farmer’s Kitchen, Alburgh throughout May. Catch the special “textiles” day at selected studios on Friday 17th. www.hwat.org uk