#openstudios2025

🎬✨ 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/