Sally Tyrie and Helen Terry have been at Fenners Gallery & Project Space this week based at Fenners Studios in Letchworth, with their Installation titled Illuminations. They have been installing, greeting visitors and working in the space since Friday 19th April and will have a special Meet...
Reflecting on Community – an Installation by Forge Fellow Bob Spriggs, April 2019 “I exhibited my largest work to date, ‘Community’ an array of 100 pendulums each four metres long, at Wycombe Arts Centre. The centre used to be St John’s church but was deconsecrated a...
Digswell Arts Fellow Kirke Raava has been working with year 6 students at St John’s Church of England Primary School and will be curating a pop-up exhibition this Friday, 29th March 2019 that will reveal the work produced during this project. Digswell Arts is piloting a scheme called “Artists at...
1) How would you describe your current practice (e.g. materials, techniques, themes, key questions, approach)? I have started using the print room at The Forge and exploring monoprinting technique. I have found my way back to sewing, after years in the fashion industry. I had lost the passion for...
Digswell Arts Trust is an arts and educational charity offering low cost, well-maintained studios in our two buildings in Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City providing studios for approximately 26 emerging artists. A number of our studios in Letchworth will be coming vacant during 2019,...
Whilst we have had a few Print workshops ticking along in the Autumn, in Spring 2019 we will be stepping up a gear or two and introducing some new Weekend courses. Inspired by her adventures in Australia, working with Fibre Arts Australia, Sally Tyrie will be running a Print and Stitch weekend...
Around 30 artists and Trustees gathered in the University of Hertfordshire architecture studio for our annual development day. The day was focused around Fellow’s showcasing their recent work, an update on the work of the Trust and a look forward to participation in Hertfordshire Year of Culture...
Digswell Arts Ceramic Fellow Ruta Bartkeviciute is taking part in the 22nd Art in Clay Pottery and Ceramics Festival in Farnham over the weekend of the 17th and 18th November 2018. Fresh from showing her work at Art in Clay in Hatfield during the summer of 2018, Ruta has been invited to show at...
Current Digswell Arts fellows Allistair Covell, Liz Harrington and Katherine Roberts have been invited to exhibit their work in the group exhibition ‘Paper Cuts’ at the Saatchi Gallery in London, from 16th – 18th November 2018. Curated by Kristian Day, ‘Paper Cuts’ is an exhibition...
December 1st is the date for our Lino printing Workshop at Digswell Arts Print Studio and we still have places available. This festive workshop will give you the opportunity to design and print your own Christmas cards through the character filled medium of linocut. This process gives a lovely...
Last Saturday it was the Group Lino Print workshop at the Forge Studios in Digswell. This workshop, hosted by Sally Tyrie, was led by guest Artist Katharine Green who brought lots of her own work in, as well as autumnal flora and fauna, to help inspire and provide ideas to the class. Katharine is...
As the nights start to draw in and we start to think about getting cozy by the fire, it’s good time to look back to the successful spring summer that the Digswell Art Fellows have had. Digswell art Fellows held their annual open studios in June this year. The open studios are a great opportunity...