Grange Court, built in 1633, has been adapted throughout its life to suit its function, and is an icon of Leominster.
Today, Grange Court tells its story though interactive and tactile displays, and an innovative tablet tour.
Grange Court is entirely accessible for people with disabilities.
Coming up in June and July…
Forest and Rivers Open Studios, farOpen, is a collective of diverse and talented artists who work, sell, exhibit and run art workshops in the Forest of Dean and along the Wye & Severn Rivers.
The annual farOpen Art Trail provides a unique opportunity to meet artists in our working studios, see work in progress and buy completed artwork across a variety of disciplines including painting, sculpture, ceramics, jewellery, metalwork, glass & enamelling, printmaking, photography, digital art, textiles, wood and furniture. farOpen also hosts group exhibitions to showcase our artists and sell our work.
Saturday 29th June - Sunday 14th July: farOpen group exhibition
Venue: Dean Heritage Centre, Camp Hill, Soudley GL14 2UB,
Open 11am-3pm daily. Parking. Café.
Click to follow link - www.deanheritagecentre.com
Saturday 6th July – Saturday 14th July: Open Studio as part of farOpen.
Kathy Priddis Pots & Paintings is located at: Round Oak Cottage, Hoarwithy Rd, Bridstow HR9 6QJ
Tel. 01989 218503 Mobile: 07436 540949
½ mile off the A49 near the A40 Wilton roundabout at Ross-on-Wye
POTTERY: High-fired stoneware jugs, mugs, bowls, cacti pots, decorative owls, butter dishes, teapots, cheese bakers, hardy robins, etc., decorated with my own unique reactive glazes and local clay slips.
PAINTING: landscapes from Herefordshire and the Welsh Marches in oil and acrylic.
Open: 10am – 5pm daily. Parking. Refreshments. All welcome.
Click to follow link - Open Studios 2024 Trail Map + Brochure
In September…
h.Art Week has become part of Herefordshire's cultural calendar, with a huge variety of art forms on show in Open Studios, Group Exhibitions and Gallery Events.
With the vast majority of venues offering FREE admission to visitors, h.Art Week promises a good day out in one of England's most beautiful counties. Both for serious art lovers and the casual visitor, h.Art Week promises personal encounters with some of the UK's finest artists and makers in the intimacy of their own homes and studios. Discovering new work, being able to buy or commission works directly from the artist results in a high quality, memorable experience.
Saturday 7th – Sunday 15th September: My Open Studio as part of h.Art
Venue: Round Oak Cottage, Hoarwithy Rd, Bridstow HR9 6QJ
½ mile off the A49 near the A40 Wilton roundabout at Ross-on-Wye
Tel. 01989 218503 Mobile: 07436 540949
POTTERY: High-fired stoneware jugs, mugs, bowls, cacti pots, decorative owls, butter dishes, cheese bakers, hardy robins, etc decorated with my own unique reactive glazes and local clay slips.
PAINTING: landscapes from Herefordshire and the Welsh Marches in oils, acrylics and pastels.
Open: 10am – 5pm daily. Parking. Refreshments. All welcome.
SPECIAL EVENT: Watch a throwdown - How to make a jug, bowl or plate on the potter’s wheel.
Event date: daily from Saturday 7th September at 11am.
Booking Required: Yes. Limited space – booking essential
Cost: donation. Suitable for adults or accompanied children
Booking contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / mob: 07436 540949
Event type: Formal demonstration
LATER… Try it yourself? 2 hours of personal tuition by arrangement - £60, inclusive of glazing and firing. Best pot free; further pots £8 each any size – collection later
Lastly…
h.Art for Christmas - 2 Open Studio Annual Charity Weekends.
Every winter I open my studio over two weekends prior to Christmas, when I donate 100% of my profits to a charity of topical need. Since 2014, this has resulted in a donation of around £1,000 each year.
This is a wonderful opportunity for visitors to help those more needy than themselves
but also to buy unique, handmade Christmas presents
Please support this venture.
Friday 29th – Saturday 30th November – Sunday 1st December
AND
Friday 6th – Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th December
10am – 4pm daily.
Round Oak Cottage, Hoarwithy Rd, Bridstow HR9 6QJ
½ mile off the A49 near the A40 Wilton roundabout at Ross-on-Wye
Tel. 01989 218503 Mobile: 07436 540949
Parking. Mulled wine and mince pies. All welcome.
Our local countryside of the Welsh Marches is infinitely inspiring for both the potter and the painter. For me, the artistic experience is simply a close encounter with the environment, above and below ground, with what I can see and touch, so the earth colours of my painting palette echo my glaze colours.
Art Classes
Art Group at Round Oak with Kathy Priddis
Hoarwithy Rd, Bridstow HR9 6QJ
Mondays 1pm-3.30pm
For beginners and the more advanced
Still Life, landscape & portrait
Cost - £12.50 per session
PLACES LIMITED
For more information please contact me:
Telephone: 01989 218503
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
POTTERY
I specialise in wheel-thrown domestic and decorative stoneware. At college, while training for a B.Ed, I met David Leach, the eldest son of Bernard Leach (known as the ‘father’ of English studio pottery).
David inherited his father's intuitive, evolutionary development of forms and how they were glazed. He taught me to make my own glazes, rather than buying them, and how to use organic material rather than chemicals. Since then I have always sourced local clays, and most of the clays I now use come from the Forest of Dean and Herefordshire. From them I make slip-glazes which interact with my organic celadon glazes to create Chun effects in blues, greens and purples.
My pots are designed for everyday use, their shapes a collaboration of natural forms with their ultimate purpose or function. Further decoration is with small ammonite sprigs, wax or leaf resist, and sgraffito.
PAINTING
As a portrait painter, I generally work to commission. I work either from life or good quality photographs and use acrylics, watercolour, pastels or oils, aiming to find character and story as well as likeness.
As a landscape painter I am inspired by our local countryside with its hills and mountains, rivers and streams, old buildings such as disused or converted mills or country churches, and the clear light and wide
skies. I work on canvas or heavy paper using acrylics, oils, watercolours, pastels and soluble pen, relying on sketches and photographs taken in all weathers and finishing the work in my studio.
