Art Features
Somerset arts week - Art for Everyone
August 26th 2010
Over 300 local artists and makers will be showcasing their work in about 200 venues during this year’s Somerset Art Weeks. Taking place between 18 September and 3 October, the event will focus on individual artists and creative processes.
Presentation Gifts - Wiltshire - Advertisement Feature
July 16th 2010
Presentation Gifts, in the pretty Oxfordshire market town of Faringdon, is everything you expect of gift shop, plus a little bit more.
Bluestone Gallery
July 9th 2010
Janice and I set up the Bluestone Gallery in 2000. I had been a studio potter for over 20 years. I had worked out my seam of creativity pretty thoroughly, was tired of working alone and needed a change.
Somerset-born-and-bred Emma Rose creates her contemporary paintings from an idyllic setting
June 21st 2010
Somerset-born-and-bred Emma Rose creates her striking, contemporary paintings from an idyllic setting in her Wellow studio, which is a regular haunt for the local schoolchildren, writes Sarah Ford
For Art's Sake - Art in Glass by Somerset-based artist Gillian Hulse
January 29th 2010
Inspired by land and seascapes and the natural world, Gillian Hulse creates some gloriously colourful and sometimes quirky works of glass art in her Somerset studio
Robert Hesketh talks to artist Kate Rattray about her life and work of mosaics
July 21st 2009
How Italian architecture, a love of storytelling and an inspiring art teacher played their part in the life and work of mosaic artist Kate Rattray. Words by Robert Hesketh.
Robert Hesketh meets Pauline Rook rural photographer whose intimate understanding of her subjects
July 2nd 2009
Pauline Rook is a rural photographer whose intimate understanding of her subjects allows her to create moving and powerful images, says Robert Hesketh.
Meet Judith Peasland, a Weston artist who uses local inspiration to create her remarkable paintings
April 28th 2009
Meet Judith Peasland, a Weston artist who uses local inspiration to create her remarkable paintings.
Robert Hesketh meets Kate Lynch, an artist who immerses herself amongst her Somerset subjects
March 18th 2009
Robert Hesketh meets Kate Lynch, an artist who immerses herself amongst her subjects to get to the heart of Somerset's rural life.
Rosemary Trestini An Abstract Somerset Artist
January 26th 2009
Robert Hesketh meets Rosemary Trestini, an abstract artist who cites classical music as one of the influences on her work.
Meet Somerset Sculptor Anna Gillespie talks to Robert Hesketh about the journey to find her artistic
January 6th 2009
Sculptor Anna Gillespie, known for her emotional representations of the human form, talks to Robert Hesketh about the journey to find her artistic expression.
Art and Acting with Somerset Artist George Winter
November 19th 2008
Taunton-based artist George Winter talks to Robert Hesketh about his move to art from acting, and the persistence needed to excel creatively.
Art for the People - Robert Hesketh talks to Somerset sculptor Jeff Body
October 22nd 2008
Jeff Body's iconic sculpted sheep graze happily on Cannards Grave roundabout in Shepton Mallet. These sculptures have almost become his hallmark and have been bought by visitors from all over the world. It was a black day in 2005 when the Cannards...
Robert Hesketh meets Somerset artist Peter Brown at his Bath home.
September 18th 2008
Capturing the changing light of English skies, Peter Brown's paintings convey the atmosphere of place, with people amidst traffic and shopping bags, bicycles and lamp-posts, scaffolding and signs, the clutter of everyday life but in settings of ar...
Countywide Culture
August 20th 2008
Formerly a biennial event, Somerset Art Weeks has gained such momentum it is now held annually. Every year, Somerset's artists join together to bring a vast array of exhibitions and demonstrations, working studios and activities in a celebration o...
Somerset, Willow Woman, Serena De La Hey talks to Robert Hesketh
July 11th 2008
Best known for her 40ft-high sculpture 'Willow Man', which stands out boldly against wide skies beside the M5 near Bridgwater, sculptor Serena de la Hey has made willow her medium and the Somerset Levels her home. This August she talks about worki...
Somerset landscape artist Moish Sokal chats to Robert Hesketh from his Norton Sub Hamdon home
June 21st 2008
From his home in Norton Sub Hamdon, artist Moish Sokal looks over an English idyll of low hills, green fields and gambolling sheep. Moish's watercolours skilfully capture the tranquillity and gentle hues of the Somerset landscape, but his interest...
Robert Hesketh talks to Somerset landscape artist Kathryn Thomas at her Bristol home
May 22nd 2008
Kathryn Thomas established her reputation with richly coloured oil paintings inspired by the meeting of land, sea and sky. She builds her work layer on layer, giving it depth and translucency, the colour and tone changing with the light and angle ...
Robert Hesketh meets Somerset glass artist Will Shakespeare at his Taunton studio
April 25th 2008
Glass artist Will Shakspeare talks candidly about a life in glass and inspiration from the Somerset landscape. Working from a studio overlooking the River Tone in Taunton, Will Shakspeare is one of only a handful of professional glassblowers in Br...
Somerset illustrator, Richard Briggs, chats to Robert Hesketh at home in Portishead
March 17th 2008
Richard Briggs's vivid scenes, many from Somerset and Devon, others from his travels in Britain and around the globe, are instantly recognisable. Painting in watercolour and ink, his illustrations have a freshness and spontaneity, his bold pe...
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