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Cotswold Open Studios: Hidden Treasures 2011 25th and 26th June 2011 Artists, designers, craftspeople and sculptors open their studios to you each day, 9.30am-5pm
Welcome to Cotswold Open Studios, your chance to discover the 'hidden treasures' in and around Cirencester. The Arts and Crafts movement is as alive today as it was in the 19th century. This year, we had an extraordinary range of creative talent - 19 exhibitors displaying the huge diversity of the visual arts, from textile specialists to master craftspeople and from artists and printmakers to sculptors.
This was a wonderful opportunity to see a working studio; to meet and talk to artists, designers, craftspeople and sculptors; to watch them at work; to find out about what they do; and to invest in quality home-grown art and design. It is so important to preserve these unique skills and support our rural economy. Many of the venues were in stunning locations with beautiful gardens.
This year, we were pleased to be working with Alexcars of Cirencester. 29 lucky ticket holders went on a magical mystery tour of venues 1-15 in a 1950's vintage bus.
This was the line-up of talent for you to discover: Joanna Walker and Stephanie Cushing (Preston), Paul Spriggs (South Cerney), Richard Kenton Webb (Siddington), Dorothy Reglar, Loco Glass, Katherine O'Connel and Daniella Wilson-Dunn (New Brewery Arts), Corinne Renow-Clarke (North Cerney), David and Ali Thistlethwaite (Woodmancote), Vanessa Arbuthnott (Calmsden), Tin Odescalchi and Karen Camkin, Hugh and Sophie Blackwell, Kitty Garland (Chedworth), Donald Cordery (Compton Abdale), Jude McKenna (Ampney St Mary), and Fresh Air: Quenington Sculpture Show. Management Team Tessa Webb (director), Richard Kenton Webb (selector), Vanessa Arbuthnott (publicity), Janet Parkinson (vintage bus tour and education) and Chris Smith (accounts).
2011 brochure Click here for a pdf of the 2011 brochure.
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Cotswold Open Studios is proud to be associated with FreshAir 2011
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