Chichester Open Studios Blog

If you don’t know about Love Where You Live, it is just the sort of resource that Chichester artists, the Art Trail and its visitors need! To all artists reading this, do look at the message below from...

The great thing about teaching a creative subject, is you get to learn so much yourself! Nancy Goodens runs Artworks a studio in Aldsworth that offers a wide range of creative classes and workshops. Fused glass is one of...

If you are like me, you will be busily working away in your studio, or garage, or at your kitchen table, deep in your creative world, making wonderful art of all shapes and sizes…all the while filled with...

I always imagine an artist’s studio as a wondrous vessel, especially kitted out as a transport into unknown dimensions…whence miraculous things shall be retrieved! So, to be invited by the artist into such a special place, feels like...

Hello, I am the one standing there, ready to run, with the newly passed Art Trail baton just entering my hand! After 8 years of running, and growing, Chichester Open Studios Art Trail, Malcolm Macdonald has handed it...

This is the first year that furniture designer Edward Johnson – venue 30, is exhibiting as part of the Chichester Art Trail. Edward is an award winning contemporary furniture maker, whose outstanding design, craftsmanship and engineering skills are...

It is the first time that Shirley Scott – Venue 59, is exhibiting with the Chichester Art Trail. Shirley is the founder of Handprinted Printmaking and Dyeing Shop and Studio based in Bognor Regis. Shirley, along with her colleague Holly...

Kirsten Burke – Venue 21 – is one of the leading lettering artists working in the UK today. Maybe you’ve seen her vibrant creations adorning a wall at a museum, gracing a beautiful wedding invitation, or capturing the...

Sandra Bidmead – Venue 82 – specialises in modelling animals of all shapes and sizes, in stoneware clay. She is able to capture a special humour in her work and at the same time utilise and express with a creative...

Please make every effort to visit the 2016 Preview Exhibition at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts.    This year’s exhibition is undoubtedly our best yet with 150 artists contributing, It is definitely one not to miss especially if...

Kate Passingham – Venue 119 – works in pastels – one of the most difficult mediums to master. She produces fabulously rich portraits with a verve and sparkle. “My work has always been inspired by people…portrait and figurative...

Sculptor Vincent Gray – Venue 86 – has produced a proposal for East Gate Square.   Keats lived in Chichester for a brief period in 1819 and it was here he started work on the poem ‘Eve of St...