#forgeopenstudios

🎬✨ Meet Sandra Smith at Forge Open Studios 2025! ✨🎬 Sandra’s latest twin paintings blend architecture and nature in cinematic style. One casts the Shredded Wheat factory as a Kubrick-inspired protagonist against the High Welwyn skyline; the other layers stencilled grain silos with chalk-ground pigment for a sculptural, organic flow. 🌾🏭 📅 21–22 June 2025 📍 The Forge, Hertford Road, Digswell 🎟 Free entry – drop in anytime! Discover how domestic interiors, grand structures and verdant motifs come together in her immersive landscapes. 🔗 Full details: https://digswellarts.org/forge-open-studios-2025/

🌿✨ Explore the crossroads of nature and creativity with Katy Cook at Forge Open Studios 2025! ✨🌿 Katy’s practice weaves together drawing, monoprint and collage, gathering fragments of the natural world and reshaping them into poetic compositions. From the very first year of her Digswell fellowship, she’s been fascinated by how simple shapes can evoke complex stories—and her latest series pushes those explorations into new dimensions. Every line, texture and cut reveals a dialogue between mark-making and material. 📅 When: 21–22 June 2025 📍 Where: The Forge, Hertford Road, Digswell 🎟️ Entry: Free! Drop by Katy’s studio to see her process in action, chat about her journey and take home an original piece that speaks to the harmony of art and environment. 🔗 Full details: https://digswellarts.org/forge-open-studios-2025/

🌿✨ Meet printmaker Heather Ellis at Forge Open Studios 2025! ✨🌿 Discover Heather’s stunning original prints—monoprints, collagraphs, drypoint etchings, relief prints and even innovative tetrapak pieces—each one inspired by the wild beauty of the UK’s landscapes and the tiniest details of the natural world. Currently, she’s exploring the intricate patterns of Trametes versicolor (that remarkable bracket fungus you often spot on woodland walks with your four-legged friend!). 🐾🍄 📅 When: 21–22 June 2025 📍 Where: The Forge, Hertford Road, Digswell 🎟️ Entry: Free! Pop in to chat with Heather about her process, pick up an original print for your home and immerse yourself in her nature-inspired world. Find out more: https://digswellarts.org/forge-open-studios-2025/

🎨✨ Discover the art of Sue Jarman at Forge Open Studios 2025! ✨🎨 Sue’s work captures those still, emotive moments—whether it’s a candid figure sketched to the hum of everyday conversations (her “visual eavesdropping”!), or a landscape shaped by memory and mood. She then brings these scenes to life through printmaking, experimenting with narrative, composition and colour in lithography and beyond. 📅 21–22 June 2025 📍 The Forge, Hertford Road, Digswell 🎟️ Free entry – drop in anytime! Swing by Sue’s studio to see her latest prints, chat about her bursary-funded lithography projects and pick up a copy of Alternative Lithography featuring her work. 🔗 More: https://digswellarts.org/forge-open-studios-2025/ 🌐 Portfolio: www.suejarman.co.uk

✨ Step into the mesmerising world of Caryl Beach MA at Forge Open Studios! ✨ This 21–22 June, join us at The Forge, Digswell to experience Caryl’s art—an exploration of landscapes, time and memory that reveals beauty in impermanence. 🎨 Why Caryl’s work captivates: • She weaves past and present landscapes into every composition. • Themes of time’s flow and the echoes of memory underpin her practice. • Her pieces celebrate the simple integrity—and fleeting nature—of our world. 📚 Multi-disciplinary practice: photography, drawing, printmaking and film—each medium invites you to reflect on hidden narratives in places often forgotten. 📍 Find Caryl’s evocative installations and chat with her about the stories behind each work. Full event details 👉 https://digswellarts.org/forge-open-studios-2025/

🎨✨ Calling all art lovers! Join us at Forge Open Studios 2025 on 21–22 June at The Forge, Hertford Road, Digswell. Wander through sunlit studios, chat with talented artists, and discover unique pieces you won’t find anywhere else—all with free entry! Bring family and friends for a creative weekend exploring painting, printmaking, ceramics, textiles, sculpture and more. 🌟 Full details here: https://digswellarts.org/forge-open-studios-2025/