South Bristol Arts Trail 2024
We are very excited to be hosting 7 local artists over the weekend, who will be showcasing and selling their beautiful work, inspired by nature just like us.
Explore the trail on the 14th & 15th September!
What is the art trail?
"The South Bristol Arts Trail is a free event, open to everyone, and takes place once a year in venues across Southville, Bedminster and Ashton.
Each year over 100 local artists exhibit in venues across BS3. Artists open their homes and studio spaces, as well as exhibiting in community venues from schools and shops to cafes and community centres. Wander through our streets and discover new artists, favourite local venues and creatives that might just surprise you.
From performers, painters and papercraft to ceramics, sculptures and sketchers, the Trail celebrates the breadth of creativity locally, with something for all to enjoy."
Find out more on the South Bristol Arts Website
Come visit - Venue Number 1!
See a sneak peak below and all of our artists' links
Abigail Smith Studio
@abigailsmithstudio | @potteryby.abigailsmithstudio | abigailsmithstudio.com
Abigail is multi-disciplinary artist specialising in puppetry, model making and ceramics. From a background in illustration, she uses these mediums to create curious illustrations inspired by folklore, nature, and hidden stories. Here you will find models, prints and more!
She will also be open for ceramic home commissions for a special Christmas gift! Chat with Abi about the home/shop/memorable place you’d like to capture in ceramic.
Lucy Lawrence Artwork
I am a linocut printmaker and painter based in Totterdown and I use oil-based inks, acrylic paints watercolour paints and textiles.
I take my inspiration from places such as allotments, garden plots and wild flower meadows. I am an archaeologist by education and I specialised in prehistoric landscapes and the first farming communities in Europe. This has influenced the way I view humans within the natural world and is reflected in my artwork.
I have a particular interest in how humans connect with what they grow and how plants can become incorporated into a household by fulfilling the role of food, medicine, decoration, spiritual representation and tokens. In preparation for a piece I like to conduct research on my subject, so when I depict a plant, for example, I like to draw upon any related folk stories or its uses in traditional medicine or its mythological associations.
D.J.Hudd
After spending many years creating oil paintings, Daniel decided to combine this passion with a new one; storytelling.
Along with his newfound desire for more freedom in his work, Daniel began experimenting with different ideas and mediums which eventually led to his discovery of zines.
Daniel's variety of zines have a rough and handmade feel to them and ooze with wit and personality.
Not wanting to completely abandon painting, Daniel has also created a series of mixed media oil paintings that are designed as if they were album covers and paired original lyrics. The series revolves around social media and the way people consume it.
Mary Flora Hart
@maryflorahart | www.maryflorahart.co.uk
Mary Flora Hart is a digital illustrator specialising in highly detailed and colourful storytelling! She sells her illustrations as prints, ranging from A5 to A2, with framed options available too, as well as stickers, tote bags, bookmarks, and a pack of playing cards!
Ingrid Eva Studio
@ingridevastudio | www.ingridevastudio.co.uk
Born and raised in South Africa, and with British and Austrian heritage, Ingrid Eva has been proud to call Bristol her home for 11 years. After a career in recruitment she decided to leave the corporate world behind in 2019, swapping the office for the studio to follow her dream of becoming an artist.
Practicing predominantly in acrylic on canvas, Ingrid creates large abstracts with a textured underlay, often using gold leaf. Although her work is entirely open to interpretation, it is largely inspired by the sea, sun and horizon.
She also produces miniature sequences, something she began whilst on maternity leave at home after the birth of her son, when she wasn’t able to get to her studio.
Prints of most of her work are also available in various sizes.
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Diane Broadley
Images of local buildings celebrating their heritage,architectural detail and that we love them.
In the lockdown, I started to draw my house. It began with ‘Our house, in the middle of our street.’ I’ve come to appreciate the attention that was paid to these buildings in the beginning and want to draw people’s attention to that; showing through paper renovations, how they were and still could be.
When I first lived in Bedminster, each house in the street had a Christmas tree in the bay window. Lights on, curtains open. And inside, a little family.
I like how people love them - adding their plants and ideas to make them their own. They are all united in their similarity, but each is its own person.
The artwork is made digitally and printed as giglee prints in archival inks on beautiful 100% cotton paper that gives a lovely matt finish.
Karen Scrase Glass
@karenscraseglass | www.karenscraseglass.co.uk
I have always made and created in one form or another from the moment I could hold a crayon. I studied Printmaking at university and have since taught art in secondary schools. Having undertaken stained glass, fusing and stained glass painting courses, I have this last couple of years really immersed myself in experimenting and developing my work thorough hand painted and leaded stained glass panels . I aim to capture precious moments in nature that I have experienced.
Listen to the voice of nature, for it holds treasures for you. | Huron proverb
Through recording these moments I can celebrate them and hold them more permanently in the glass, sharing them with others. As Sir David Attenborough said articulately, if we don’t know or understand nature we will not protect it. I hope to know it better and to share this.
