Helpful Holidays is sponsoring the event for another year and has again funded
five places through the Emerging Artist Bursary initiative, which aims to
nurture and encourage new talent to take the next steps in their career.
Adrian Innocent, our marketing manager, met the bursary winners at Lee
Wood Small Holding - a centre linking people with the land through art. The
winning artists’ work covers many disciplines from furniture and print making
to painting, ceramics and installations.
Watch Adrian talk about our involvement with Devon Open Studios here:
Each winner has also prepared a video. Shelley Castle takes
inspiration from her workspace – an extraordinary hexagonal game larder on the
Flete Estate in south Devon, where she is artist in residence. Birds and
feathers feature heavily in her work, as she explains.
Stephen Bennett
is a writer, poet and potter. He incorporates text in his ceramics and the Devon
Open Studios will showcase his expressive ceramic heads.
Fi
Smart hopes to increase public awareness of printmaking when they visit her
studio in west Devon. She is particularly interested in the different processes
involved in producing various types of prints and the endless ways they can be
combined and modified.
Peter
Lanyon combines traditional fine furniture making skills with modern tools
and technologies. The shape of the bench you see in his video gives an
indication of the resulting style.
Hilary
O'Dwyer will hold her open studio at Bicton eaRTH Centre. The wood used for her
sculptures undergoes a burning process for preservation.
Take a look at our Devon
holiday cottages available during the event, and then use this map and the free event guide
to plan which studios you’d like to visit.
Bookings made via the Devon
holiday cottages link on this blog or via the link on the Devon Artist
Network website will help fund the Open Studios event next year.
